Basic Glitch
Researcher in the U.S. trying to stay informed and help others stay informed. I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: https://pimento-mori.ghost.io/
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Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservationEnglish2·4 days agoIdk why I’m asking this, but I’m genuinely curious why you think reservations exist?
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•White House responds to California city terminating contract with ICEEnglish2·5 days agoThis is the beginning. He wants an excuse to declare martial law.
He’s still holding back and being strategic at this point, once he establishes a permanent military branch to oversee California that’s when shit really hits the fan.
Getting all blue states and jurisdictions to start withholding federal taxes until we have a federal government who is actually representing us again, is a much better plan than telling a bunch of civilians to go fight the military. You are literally sending people to be slaughtered and kick off a second civil war, but I’m pretty sure you’re probably fully aware of that.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•White House responds to California city terminating contract with ICEEnglish203·5 days agoAgain where is the actual show of support from the rest of America? This should not be California’s fight, it should be all of us fighting as America against authoritarianism.
Where are the people telling their local government they need to following the example Glendale just set for the rest of us.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•White House responds to California city terminating contract with ICEEnglish71·5 days agoWhen you’re left with no other alternative, then yes. Why not try to form a coalition of Americans that will stand together against Trump before we dissolve into a second civil war where individual blue states are going against the entire U.S. government?
How about some support from other blue states and jurisdictions? Where are the calls for blue states senators and representatives to vocally stand with California, where are the mayors and city councils willing to follow Glendale’s example?
Sending people into a suicide mission without actually backing them up, is like supporting a war you’re not fighting in (yet). When it’s your turn, you will hope that others will stand with you instead of remotely egging you on to be David against Goliath.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health researchEnglish2·5 days agoI’m not arguing it’s the core of science, I’m arguing it shouldn’t be dismissed completely bc these people want to weaponize it.
Science should always include healthy skepticism and debate. If not, you’ve basically just reinvented religion.
If you’ve worked in science, there is a good chance you’ve met somebody like that. There are unfortunately many people that seem to have a pathological inability to acknowledge when they’re wrong or accept that they made a mistake.
If you have worked in science and believe you’ve never encountered that attitude you’re either very lucky or you’re that guy.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•White House responds to California city terminating contract with ICEEnglish38·5 days agoBruh, seriously…
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•White House responds to California city terminating contract with ICEEnglish901·5 days agoYep, and it wasn’t even the military, it was just a local police force. I believe they killed 11 people and around 5 children. The 40th anniversary just passed.
If a single police force using weapons from 40 years ago could do something like that without a second thought, I hope people consider what the outcome would realistically be today, when encouraging people in California to strap themselves and head into a suicide mission against police, federal agencies, national guard, military, Palantir, and private military companies like Blackwater under a president who has already told them “he who serves his country, commits no crime.”
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•White House responds to California city terminating contract with ICEEnglish167·5 days agoFrustrate and impede, just don’t help them advance their agenda by giving them the physical escalation they’re hoping for.
An “insurrection” under Trump will not be handled the way an actual insurrection was when Trump instigated it under Biden. This has been planned for a long time.
Richard Blumenthal Reveals Trump ‘Martial Law’ Fear
I hope more Americans at city and state levels will start joining cities like Glendale.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•Senator calls LA unrest "anarchy and chaos": Live UpdatesEnglish51·5 days agoProgressive in terms of voters or in terms of the GOP?
If you’re not supporting
the FührerTrump and his policies, the GOP will claim you’re a “progressive” being paid by George Soros. Anyone disagreeing and from California might as well just be wearing a shirt that says “I’m with Soros,” from their perspective.My governor does this all the fucking time, and I’m in Louisiana. Anytime something doesn’t go his way, he claims it is due to outsiders like Soros influencing local politics. Yet he’s literally run televised ads for his own policies that were paid for by a Heritage Foundation affiliate, and somehow that’s ok.
I’ve been very disappointed by people like Newsome, and wasting time trying to compromise/reaching across the aisle to literal extremists bullshit that so many Dems have been playing since Jan, but I have to say, I truly believe he’s handling Trump trying to instigate a federal takeover in the smartest way possible.
Blue states are not winning a fist fight right now, and that’s why threatening to withhold federal taxes is the best strategy. I hope other blue states join him.
What Trump is expecting is taxation without representation. Why should anyone pay taxes to a king? This is America.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•LA riot police shoot protester in the head with rubber bulletEnglish42·5 days agoI’ve been arguing the same thing about organizing, except this is not the American revolution of the 1700s.
Let’s be realistic about what happens next when you encourage people to take up arms and go on a suicide mission right now.
Trump is trying to instigate a Civil War. He wants further escalation, not de-escalation. This does not end with the National Guard and Marines he has already sent to LA peacefully retreating because they face aggression from locals.
Newsome is making the right call here. Threatening to withhold taxes is probably one of the smartest things any blue territory/jurisdiction can do to protect themselves and fight back right now. California is the first, but they definitely won’t be the last. We need America to unite against a coup being led by the Neoconfederates in the White House.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•Senator calls LA unrest "anarchy and chaos": Live UpdatesEnglish6·5 days agoWho considers Fetterman a progressive icon? That dude has been a right leaning “moderate” at bestNVM, you mean Newsome? Probably because Trump is trying to instigate a civil war, and he needs red states to back him against a progressive boogey man.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeto News@lemmy.world•FBI adds LA protester to its ‘Most Wanted’ list for damaging government vehiclesEnglish48·5 days agoThe same FBI that literally just confirmed they wouldn’t be investigating Americans belonging to an international neo Nazi militia until they actually commit an act of terrorism, is now putting people that committed vandalism on its “most wanted” list. Priorities.
Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event
In response to queries about the Base’s latest movements, the FBI told the Guardian that it only investigates people who have or are planning to commit a federal crime and pose “a threat to national security”.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health researchEnglish1·5 days agoHow would you handle expressing dissent to your boss?
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservationEnglish4·5 days agoThose are owned by Native Americans… Not white billionaires
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration RaidEnglish3·5 days agoI don’t have the app, but I do still use my browser account bc it can be helpful still to find stuff like this.
Here is one of the only news stories about it as of yesterday even though it happened 2 days ago
https://www.newsweek.com/la-riot-police-shoot-protester-head-rubber-bullet-2082794
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservationEnglish3·5 days agoI’m not surprised by more of this sovereign state nonsense, I’m just disgusted that they’re proposing building it on a reservation.
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•LA riot police shoot protester in the head with rubber bulletEnglish5·5 days agoSigh… Yes let’s pivot away from the actual point. How about MOVE in Philadelphia?
Telling people to arm themselves and go confront the literal army Trump has just sent to purposely exacerbate this situation because he’s hoping for a confrontation that will allow him to claim there is an “insurrection”
Not to mention all the Red state Governors that are hoping they will be asked to prove their loyalty and send their own state national guard into California to help crack down on that “insurrection”
What could you possibly be encouraging 🤔
Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPto News@lemmy.world•LA riot police shoot protester in the head with rubber bulletEnglish92·5 days agoThis dude is no Malcolm X. You also need people to be smart, and not fall for pretty obvious bait.
You know the sheriff in Florida literally threatened to kill people?