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Petal Chatoyance

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Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 2h

Re: The inflatable frog protesters in Portland -

Authoritarianism depends on rigid rules and dire seriousness.

It can be psychologically disrupted by whimsy and silliness. Being ridiculous in the face of a Fascist threat destroys their fundamental premise.

It can be more powerful than any gun.

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Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 2h

Why should he care? This is a coup.

A coup.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 2h

Because this is a violent coup.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 5h

It's a coup.

Nobody respects federal judge orders during a coup. Coups are all about violent encounters.

That judge acts like they never understood what a coup is.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 5h

Opinion | Alive people say they are tolerant. So why are they so intolerant of mass murderers?

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 6h

Rowling and TERFS: "You should not exist. Cease existing!"

Trans people: "We just want to live."

Keira Knightley: "We, Ha-Ha, have to respect differing views!"

No. My existence is non-negotiable. I will not die so you can enjoy your hateful bigotry. That is not going to happen.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 22h

The constitution ceased being relevant the moment the Trump-appointed Supreme Court enabled him to have the powers of a dictator.

Unless you rise up and arrest Trump and his enablers for treason, your complaints are empty and powerless, and we all suffer.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 22h

Burn in flames, Charlie Kirk.

And so also the entire GOP.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 22h

I saw 'Dark Star' and 'Flesh Gordon' for the first time as a science fiction double feature at a drive-in in the Bay Area in 1978.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

This is a coup. What do you expect? It's a goddamn coup, to destroy democracy and create a dictatorship with one-party rule.

How is this not understood? Trump installed the majority of the supreme court specifically to enable him as effective Fuhrer.

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Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

All of them.

Obviously. What use is a coup that does not take everything and grant absolute unconditional power?

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

He isn't trying to scare anyone - the violence is to provoke violence in return, which can be used to justify wielding the Insurrection Act to become an absolute dictator, which is Trump's ultimate goal.

We are one violent photo-op away from dictatorship.

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Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

That PERFECTLY represents the GOP today. This is exactly what the MAGA GOP stands for. The GOP is the American Nazi party. Period.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

You have to be pretty evil to openly excuse Hitler worship.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven't realized this is Nazi Germany 2.0 by now, there is no hope for you. This is a coup. This is a concerted effort to overthrow the US Government and install a Fuhrer, an absolute dictator.

Everything is following the pattern of 1932 Germany. Almost astonishingly closely.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

March! But march peacefully, even if attacked.

Do not give Trump his justification to invoke the Insurrection Act. That is how he intends to become a full dictator with absolute power.

You fight back, even a little, and he wins. He becomes dictator, if you fight, even to protect yourself.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

Is SCOTUS hell-bent in gutting the Voting Rights Act?

Ask yourself what Trump wants, and what the MAGA GOP want, and then know that is exactly what the Trump-installed SCOTUS will do. They bow to Trump. They are corrupt.

The answer is 'yes'. They will kill voting rights. This is a coup.

Coup.

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Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

March peacefully on October 18th, No King's Day - Trump is deliberately provoking violence to justify using the Insurrection Act. That will make him a true dictator, with absolute power.

Don't give it to him!

No matter what, don't fight - even if you are attacked! Think Gandhi. Give Trump nothing.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 1d

I you desire a fascist dictatorship in your coup, that ride truly is frightening.

It opposes everything fascism stands for.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 2d

"Close to accurate"?

Why cannot people use their words?

"Blatant falsehood", "Utter balderdash", "Criminal lie", "Ridiculous assertion", "Rotten lying bullshit", or even "Just a complete lie".

Call a liar a liar.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 3d

Great Britain once fought fascism, now it embraces it, becoming a puppet of the Trump regime. The BBC is now enthralled to MAGA and Trumpism.

The former United States has conquered England. All hail the right-wing puppet nation that bows to Trumpism.

Petal Chatoyance @petalchatoyance.bsky.social · 3d

This is Nazi America. It's here.

Unless Trump and his GOP enablers are arrested and brought to justice, America will become the Fourth Reich. It almost is right now.

We do not have much time left to stop this.

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