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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 17h

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 1d

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#ShowMeYourHellhole

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 1d

To help keep America dictator-free, sign up for your local #NoKings rally and join us on October 18th as we demonstrate peacefully in all 50 states to preserve the government "by the people, for the people," as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Register here: www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 1d

Our Constitution was written to expressly prevent anyone from ever taking that kind of control over our country again. Dictators have absolute power and answer and answer to no-one. America has no dictators and America has no kings. #AmericaIsAntifa

hls.harvard.edu/today/brilli...

'Our original Constitution was both brilliant and highly flawed' - Harvard Law School

Harvard Law Professor Alan Jenkins discusses the U.S. Constitution and its treatment of race, how to guarantee fundamental rights, and why lawyers should be better communicators.

hls.harvard.edu

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 1d

Our Declaration of Independence freed us from being ruled by a king, which is just a dictator who inherited the position.

teachingamericanhistory.org/document/dec...

Declaration of Independence

Read the full text of the Declaration of Independence, signed July 4th 1776.

teachingamericanhistory.org

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 1d

Fascists are, by definition, pro-dictatorship.

By openly opposing "Antifa," Johnson and others are openly supporting changing the United States of America into a dictatorship. This is the opposite of what America was founded to be.

theconversation.com/trumps-trage...

Trump’s tragedy: the US becomes an autocracy and the presidency, a dictatorship

Blood-and-soil style violent nationalism infuses everything the Trump administration is doing.

theconversation.com

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 1d

Fascists are anti-Republic (against the people's right to have representatives in government), and anti-Democracy (against the people's right to vote for who is going to represent them). www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/demo...

Democracy or Republic: What's the difference?

And which is the United States?

www.merriam-webster.com

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 1d

The word "fascist" was first used to describe a dictatorship in Italy during World War 2, but is now applied to dictatorships, in general.

www.dictionary.com/browse/fascism

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 1d

Remember: The opposite of "Antifa" is "Pro-Dictator."

"Antifa" is short for "Anti-fascist." Anti-fascists are people who oppose dictatorships.

If you want to continue to be able to vote to choose your government representatives, you are anti-fascist.

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 4d

Just as we shouldn't comply in advance to authoritarian policies, we should not fall into the trap of vilifying our fellow citizens when they have done nothing wrong.

The Regime wants a civil war. Let's NOT help create one.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Trump’s private army’: inside the push to recruit 10,000 immigration officers

As Ice expands and standards are lowered, advocates and former US officials warn that misconduct may increase

www.theguardian.com

Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 4d

If they start acting with malice and brutality like the pardoned insurrectionists who joined ICE this year, my opinion will change.

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 4d

I want to believe that they will uphold their oaths to the Constitution and refuse to carry out illegal orders. Us acting hateful to them will only make it harder for them to see us as their fellow citizens.

apnews.com/article/nati...

National Guard members from Texas are in Illinois in Trump's latest move to send troops to cities

National Guard members from Texas are at an Army Reserve center in Illinois. It's the most visible sign yet of the Trump administration’s plan to deploy troops to the Chicago area despite a lawsuit an...

apnews.com

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 4d

I don't see these guys as the enemy, and I don't want to weight-shame them. I'm sure they joined the National Guard long before they knew they'd be deployed by a wannabe dictator against their own people. They are being ordered to Illinois and are not coming here as volunteers.

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 14d

Stochastic terrorism relies on guys like this.

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 14d

The line graph on the right is what the bar chart on the left is "adapted" from.

The White House apparently thinks pasting the left wing bars atop the right wing ones and making the left ones "caution yellow" will be enough to fool their base. I think they're wrong about that.

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 17d

Please spend 12 mins watching this video, (from ~4 mins to the 16 min mark). What message is Hegseth trying to send by reinstating the medals honoring the U.S. soldiers who conducted this massacre? Those soldiers have been dead for over 100 years, so who benefits from this?

youtu.be/m6K4ar1nm5A?...

500 Nations - The story of native Americans - part I

YouTube video by Arian LopqiCanaen (Of Lothlorien)

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · 21d

Reminder: WW2 was won by ANTIFA.

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · Sep 6

Fixed it.

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · Jul 26

Sage advice

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · Jul 26

The people of Scotland prepared personalized greetings for America's Scunner-in-Chief.

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · Jul 8

Apparently they stoked fear in a children's summer camp that was taking place in the park. To the rest of us, they look like a bunch of dorks cosplaying as GI Joe characters.

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · Jul 8

A friendly reminder for the rest of us. Feel free to download this image and post wherever laughing fools have been spotted.

#LaughingFools
#UnintendedEffects

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · Jul 6

Children will drown in swamp prison cages because dehumanizing one group of poor people makes it easier for the rich to manipulate the rest of us into doing their bidding. 2/2

Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · Jul 6

This is what happens when societies decide that some lives have value and others don't.

Kids will die preventable deaths because low billionaire tax rates are more important than poor families' access to health care. 1/2

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Unintended Effects @unintendedeffects.bsky.social · Jul 6

I hate to be an alarmist, but I have a really bad feeling about this. There are nowhere near enough criminal immigrants to require a budget this big. So, what other projects are they planning to use this new, masked army to conduct?

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