DocWatts

Hitler was in no way, shape or form a Leftist. This is a profound misunderstanding of literally everything about Hitler and the Nazis. The Socialist part of National Socialism was there purely for marketing, the same way that the world Republic is used in The People's Republic of China. The reason for this is because Socialist Parties were popular at the time, and the Nazis cynically used this in their bid to rise to power and then end Democracy. The number of people with no knowledge of history who believe that Hitler was a Leftist is stupefying.

He was using what's known in politics as a Dog Whistle : It's political shorthand for a phrase that may sound innocuous to some people, but which also communicates something more insidious either to a subset of the audience or outside of the audience’s conscious awareness — a covert appeal to some noxious set of views. https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/7/13549154/dog-whistles-campaign-racism So basically if you want to communicate something insidious (such as racism or violence) but want plausible deniability, you use Dog Whistle language to accomplish that.

@Marten@Marten The higher ups of the Capitol Police didn't take the threat of violence from Trump supporters seriously, and thus didn't prepare, making it impossible for even the police who wanted to do thier job to contain the mob. Democratic lawmakers are calling for Investigations for white supremacist ties within the Capitol Police, as it seems very likely that the fiasco came as a result of sympathies between Trump's coup aims and the Capitol Hill Police, beyond just simple incompetence. Beginning to sound like a broken record here, but the FBI has been warning about ties between Police Departments and far right extremist groups for years...

D.C. National Guard to be mobilized for 30 days, including for Biden inauguration https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/national-guard-mobilized-for-30-days-including-biden-inauguration.html

We literally just saw a reenactment of the beer hall putsch happen at the behest of a sitting President. Calling for his immediate removal is not an over-reaction.

CNBC : Pelosi and Schumer call for Trump’s immediate removal from office for ‘insurrection’ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/chuck-schumer-calls-for-trumps-removal-from-office.html

Still doesn't excuse the Capitol Police for not taking the threat of disruptive MAGA mob violence seriously and taking the necessary precautions, since the possibility of something like this happening was painfully obvious for quite some time now. Where were the rows of police in Riot Gear that were standing in front of the Capitol during the BlackLivesMatter protests? The police budget for defense of the Capitol building is something like a half a billion dollars a year, they obviously had the resources (if not the willingness) to prevent this from happening. This is far from the first time something like this has happened, with Trump's Cult trying to force thier way into government buildings to disrupt electoral proceedings. Did these people just forget the recent violent riots in DC by the Proud Boys, or armed MAGA protesters forcing thier way into the Michigan Capital building, or the recent foiled plot to kidnap and execute the governor of Michigan? Trump was explicitly encouraging this kind of behavior, it has not been a secret. Negligent failure to make necessary preparations for an obvious threat is still a form of complicity, and it's more than evident that the Capitol Police were sympathetic to the aims of Trump's Coup attempt. Otherwise the threat of violence from the far right would have been taken more seriously.

And as evidence for what a precarious situation we now find ourselves in, 'moderate' in this context seems to mean 'agrees to abide by basic democratic principles' and 'is not a fascist', two things that should be a given in a democratic country.

The reason that the MAGA rioters were able to get into the building is because the Police in charge of guarding the Capital building were sympathetic to the aims of the Trump's armed mob, and literally let them walk into the Capital Building. The only reason that was able to happen is because Police departments sympathies lie more with White Supremacists than say Civil Rights protestors. Not to sound like a broken record, but the FBI has been warning us about this for years. https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/ks0bu1/police_letting_trump_rioters_into_capitol/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/police-response-black-lives-matter-protest-us-capitol/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2f6azSV6xG5JbvApofVVtYIQwAyjzwsyNVuPtXo5XtIPuYFXuTsMPWm2c

Yup, well said.

Notice how countries plagued by crime are also countries with high levels of Income Inequality (just look to the United States, South Africa, or Russia for example). That's not a coincidence, the two are correlated.

Or a far more reasonable and likely explanation is that the USCP Officers guarding the building were sympathetic to the MAGA Rioters, and just let them in. The FBI has been warning for years that far right extremist groups have had ties with Police Departments, and what is QAnon but a far right extremist group?

So apparently the United States Capitol Police (USCP) has a budget of around $500 million ...to protect one building. To put that into perspective, that's larger than the budget for some cities. Yet a bloated budget doesn't translate into effecting policing when its evident that the organization's (or at least some portion of its officers) sympathies lie with domestic terrorists. After all, it was the USCP that let the MAGA Rioters into the damned Capital Building.

Also: Trump blocked by Twitter and Facebook https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-55569604

Trump acknowledges end of presidency after Congress certifies Biden win https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/533066-trump-acknowledges-biden-win-after-congress-certifies-election

Yeah, but it's already to the point where Trump supporters are storming the Capital, and a majority of his supporters believe in thier bones that the election was fraudulent. Seems like we're already past that point, no?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/pence-not-trump-activated-the-national-guard-report.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/06/politics/25th-amendment-explainer/index.html Not sure how much credence to give this, but I'm hearing talk of the 25th Amendment being invoked and Trump being removed from Office for the few weeks he has remaining. Pence, not Trump, was apparently the one to call in the National Guard tonight, which is highly unusual because under normal circumstances only the President has the authority to do so. Not really sure what to make of this in all honesty.

I actually like this one quite a bit. Of course the challenge is to come up with a memorable phrase that conveys the spirit of what the movement is about, while simultaneously making it harder for that phrase to be used as ammunition for right wing propaganda

Some alternatives, then : #DemilitarizeThePolice #CommunityPolicing #PoliceAccountability

I'll agree that the marketing and optics could have been handled better, but defunding bloated police budgets in favor of chronically underfunded Social Services is not the same thing as advocating for abolition of the Police (though right wingers will of course try to spin it that way as a fear tactic). The FBI has been warning for years that far right extremist groups have been making inroads into police departments across the country. The restraint with which the police have responded to white militants storming the capital building (and closer to home, for armed Trumpists storming into the Michigan Capital building earlier this year), vs the numerous violent responses of police to the largely peaceful BlackLivesMatter protesters is perfect evidence of this. Perhaps #DemilitarizeThePolice might have been a better marketing slogan, but having a bloated police budget including access to military gear for institutions that have in-roads in many cases with White Supremacists is just asking for trouble.

United States has literally reached the status of a Banana Republic. Literal fascists storming the Capital to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a Democratic election. What a sad and frightening state of affairs we've descended to, even if it's not a surprising one...

From what I understand, a person has something like an %80 chance to survive a single gunshot wound if they receive immediate medical attention. It's fortunate that our highly trained police officers in America almost never unload an entire clip into someone, then fail to get them medical attention until it's too late ...oh wait, that's exactly what's happened to Breonna Taylor, and also in other high profile cases.

I believe 'less than lethal' is the more accurate technical term. A rubber bullet that hits someone at close range, hits someone with a medical condition, or in the wrong place such as the head, can absolutely kill someone.

Video is a few years old, but David Pakman had by the far the best take I've seen as far as Jordon Peterson. In it, he goes into some of the problems with Jordon Peterson without demonizing him, and gives due credit to the helpful aspects that people have latched on to, while also highlighting the problematic ways that his academic work and self help advice have become entangled with a Conservative, religious worldview (and how Peterson is not honest about the fact that he clearly subscribes to a Conservative ideology).