Alan Burnce
@ab-edits.bsky.social
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Developmental and line editor of fiction and nonfiction books. Book coach. Areas of focus: memoir; literary, upmarket, YAL, and mainstream fiction; nonfiction including self-help, how-to, education, history, politics, society/culture, music.
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Police maybe. National Guard I'm not so sure. There are a ton of people of all kinds in the guard.
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Yes but American Christians who aren't agents of death and destruction need to finally step the f up and take their faith back from these blasphemous pieces of shit. It matters, in America, that they are doing all this with a gold cross on display everywhere they go.
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I think we all have to remember though that the people paying for this coup don't like Trump, never wanted him, and at some point after his death, they will eat that family alive. The mob may eat its own but it remains the mob.
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I think you need to understand the billionaire network that is driving all of this and using MAGA idiots to win elections that empower them to crush democracy and human rights. They want to thin the global population, control food and other necessities, and institute neofeudalism. They're doing it.
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Yup. They punch us in the face, we get mad. They kick us in the nuts, we get mad. They kidnap people with no due process, we get mad. And I'm sure when we're all in concentration camps, we'll be super mad about it. Yes, our response needs to change dramatically.
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Don't rely on CBS News for a single piece of information now, that's one thing that's for sure.
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We sure do keep getting mad.
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I think you may be ignoring the fact that the regime does what it wants and the Supreme Court lets it while underlying cases "make their way through the appeals process." There is no Constitution functioning in the US currently.
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This is an occupation, plain and simple.
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If those were actually the only possible 2 choices, then maybe. But they aren't at all.
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Saying you want blue states to secede is saying that you support abandoning the 40-49% of people in those gerrymandered, corrupt states who do not vote for any of this and have been living in a fascist dystopia in their states for a lot longer than we have. That's gross.
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He's a dictator now. He does what he wants, breaks laws every day, and nothing stops him. He enriches himself while the people starve. He employs secret police and military troops on American streets against American citizens. That's a dictator. That's what he is. America is a dictatorship now.
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Probably a good thing. The only thing that can stop MAGA at this point is a unity party. Democrats are a toxic brand to too many on the left and the right.
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Here comes Schumer, Gillibrand, Booker, and the rest of the capitulationist Democrats to save the day for fascism...
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Either everything Trump ever did that can be rescinded legally will be, or nothing will ever matter again. So, whatever.
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Don't worry, soon we'll be dead or in jail or in prison labor camps and you won't have to hear the laughter.
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I so want to believe things like this aren't psyops. I guess we'll find out.
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You're right, but its protections have been destroyed by the corrupt, fascist Roberts Court. The words are still the words. They just don't mean much anymore. They'll be a shield for the fascists and a cavalry coming for us.
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Anyway my point is that without the rule of law, no one is free in a way they can exercise without inviting persecution. Free in righteous theory, sure. Free to do whatever the fk you want without being threatened with complete loss of freedom? Nope. And in the USA, the rule of law has flown away.
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Not defeatist at all. It can be defeated. Just don't doubt their intentions. Not that you seem to be doing that. ✊️

Fuck your religious nonsense though. Stardust and evolution created me. Assisted prominently by 2 very nice people. My existence justifies my rights. Nothing more is required.
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He's already started it.
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That's a fact. They know their idiot voters don't know anything and the news they watch lies to them. It would be a big unforced error to make red state voters aware of the state terrorism they're inflicting elsewhere. Nothing's really more important than keeping em blind and easily lied to.
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Because this isn't law enforcement, it's war. They have been actively making war against us for months. They want us dead or enslaved and every action they take achieves that. They want to bait us into "justified" repressive violence and eventual martial law. They want to terrorize their enemy. Us.
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All of us or no one