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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair the first three happen quite often.

Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 2h

France... Too many governments...
Germany... Remilitarizing...
Russia... Losing offensive war to third rate power...
Fascism... On the rise...

Must be... 1939...

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 3h

Y’all need to see this sign.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 3h

Civil wars are often won or lost before they are even started, or don't happen at all because the outcome would be clear from the start. So even if civil conflict is extraordinarily unlikely, we should all prepare for it.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 3h

It's also notable that there is no Constitutional basis for interfering with interstate commerce, so whatever blue states do will be immediately rendered legally moot. This is the kind of thing that you'd think about in a civil war context and that's it.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 3h

Maximizing leverage, by the way, is intended to prevent the worst case scenario by making it incredibly costly for Republicans to pull off.

Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 3h

It's important for Dems to create for themselves maximum leverage for the worst case scenario, IMO that involves more mitigating the sort of risk like military deployments or the decapitation of their state government by said military deployment.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 3h

Gaming this out, Dems can halt pacific trade (say by shutting down the ports) forcing the trade to re-route to the East Coast, where Rs have plenty of ports. Logistics nightmare but hardly a stranglehold.

Meanwhile Trump can turn off water to like half of California? Good game, well played.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 3h

The Dem logic as I've heard it is that we learned Democracy / Rights don't sell well at the polls (compelling IMO, it lost twice) and therefore they should not be talking points.

I could see that for people in competitive elections, but everyone else should know they are on a sinking ship!

Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 3h

The electricity argument is weak IMO. People absolutely experienced hardship when they couldn't afford lamp oil or candles, they couldn't read at night. Living a simpler life without such a luxury was always possible, but it is easier now than it ever has been. The rest is okay.

Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 4h

Horrifying. Yet another Republican innovation I suppose.

19 people dead or missing after massive blast at Tennessee military explosive plant, officials say | CNN

Nineteen people are dead or missing after a massive blast obliterated a building at a Tennessee explosives facility on Friday, authorities said — a “mass detonation” so significant that it rattled ho...

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 4h

Their command is "everyone remain calm" and that will be their final command, or at least the last one we free people will hear. And let them command! They one day will be shocked, upset, disgusted by the truth, and that will be our calm.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 4h

I was impressed by their delegation in the 2020 remote DNC.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 5h

I think a "brief" detention would do?

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 5h

I think we should start lobbying for Pacific Territorial Statehood. Would be a total mess of a campaign given the islands are separated by thousands of miles.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 5h

I was told their country struggled with development in part because they spent so much on making a self-sufficient arms industry b/c they didn't want to rely on the Soviets or NATO.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 5h

I was quite impressed by Yugo history, the efficacy of their resistance against the Nazis was second to none. Giving the finger to Stalin is also a historical W.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 6h

It's the same reason why I would never support the president mailing everyone a free copy of their book, the Hitler/Mao special, just a total defilement of the state.

Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 6h

It's disgusting, I hate it, and I will not live in a country like that! Presidents who do this should be tried for treason.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 6h

If the reason they don't write articles about Communists is because they are too dangerous to the American system, that is not a valid reason, they are platforming a theocrat! They might as well do a think piece about Al Qaeda!

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 6h

I know of some Communists who they could write a similar article about but they never make it in the paper! It's probably a symptom of "nobody important agrees with them," which is really a self fulfilling prophecy when you think about it. If you're platforming him, talk about the Communists!

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 7h

I'm cleaning my AR-15 and prepping the grill.

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Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 7h

Part of the reason why Trump doesn't target New York City I think is that he actually lived there and knows full well it's not a hellhole, maybe he has some special attachment. Either way it's weird he's targeted LA and Chicago but left out NYC.

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