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Brendan Best's avatar

I'm just at a loss for words at this point

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X K's avatar
Apr 11Edited

Although not officially declared (not that that matters) but with proud warfighters “revis[ing] our national strategy for what happens inside the United States” we’re now under early imposition of martial law. Integral to this is the role of civilian police forces and their further militarization in this national strategy.

Central to this is Israel (of course) acting through its ADL tentacle whose longstanding operations in the U.S. include surveillance of private citizens and various organizations; intelligence gathering and serving cover for Mossad; and widespread propaganda campaigns. Add to these activities the funding of police training and exchange programs with Israeli police and intelligence for U.S. departments at local, state, and federal levels. (The NYPD’s Counter Terrorism Bureau has an office in Tel Aviv, as well as in other foreign cities.) You can imagine what this means for infiltration of pro-Palestine and anti-Israel demonstrations, arrest and interrogation of participants and other targeted individuals, the disabuse of privacy and civil protections, and such techniques as the fabrication of evidence.

Taken from the ADL’s own website https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/ADL%20Training%20Opportunities%20for%20Law%20Enforcement.pdf is this chilling statement:

“HELPING YOU BETTER SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY - LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SOCIETY (LEAS)"

“In this nationally acclaimed training program, run in partnership with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, law enforcement officers examine the role of police under the Nazis and the implications of this history for law enforcement today, focusing on the core values of the profession. LEAS is offered in numerous cities around the country.”

“… the role of police under the Nazis… focusing on the core values of the profession”…??!!

Yes, I'm at a loss for words too.

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Justin Lewis's avatar

Am I now on the counter-terrorism list for liking The Klip?

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

nah you're cool

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The Blind Squirrel's avatar

Gorka is a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work.

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Mike Miller's avatar

They have itchy trigger fingers but the boogey man they created doesn’t exist.

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Patty Tanji's avatar

It is not real but that doesn’t matter when you think it’s real.

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Clif Brown's avatar

On the street today with my new sign - "1.5 million human beings starving to death - Netanyahu and Trump GRINNING MONSTERS"

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Tom's avatar

Did you catch this one Ken? Now Customs and Border Protection have added "Illegal IDEAS" to their list of banned or policed "imports."

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-illegal-ideas-border-security-social-media-post-2058217

Orwell is gotta be having a nice laugh in the afterlife.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

that's insane lol. Free speech is back, baby!

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Joy in HK's avatar

Why do I get the impression that AI wrote that, since it is not a thinking creature, it used "ideas" as interchangeable with "intellectual property."

This is not an excuse, because it could have been a person, but the likelihood is that this was AI-based, as will soon be the norm. This will lead to more and more sloppiness in writing, including lawmaking, and being untethered from reality, it will undermine whatever remains of reality-based thought.

I refer you to this mind-boggling article:

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/the-cartesian-crisis

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Tom's avatar

Yeah I skimmed it and it's a different topic but so true. I have friends who are pretty smart and well informed on recent (last 10 years, but not much further back) developments and most of them have A) never read a full book not assigned in high school or college and B) use ChatGPT to summarize any article longer than a few paragraphs for them. I've caught them out in many errors when discussing those articles after the fact. It's scary.

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Michael McKinley's avatar

Use artificial intelligence to write and you get artificial writing. Phony. Fake. No life. Unreal. A lie. Faery glamour. Nothing human about it. Mere similitude, the greater the resemblance, the bigger the lie. As my daddy used to say about plastic flowers, “makes the real thing look artificial.” Our fascination with the machinery of artifice is at the root of our alienation from the real, from our bodies, from life itself.

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Tom's avatar
Apr 11Edited

I'll check it out. But nah it wasn't AI that wrote it, even though I'm sure they are using AI to monitor "ideas". They are literally scanning peoples' socials for "illegal" ideas. I think we can all guess what that means in practice. Ridiculous. Fascism is a term that gets thrown around a lot, but we really are getting close to some form of it, regardless which of the Color Teams holds office.

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Michael McKinley's avatar

Close??? Tom, we’re there!

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Tom's avatar

Sure, I don't disagree but with several caveats or modifications. It's Fascism with American Characteristics. Only now it's supercharged by 'AI' and the ability to rapidly collect (surveil), analyze and share data.

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Joy in HK's avatar

Yes, the Uniparty has managed to take over the US political system to such an extent that many do not even recognise that it exists.

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Patty Tanji's avatar

Dang. I’m in Minnesota. Whenever I see Ilhan Omar targeted yet again, I just gotta donate to her campaign. Ain’t no one more brave than her.

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Madeline's avatar

Why isn't domestic violence / family violence in the "Mobilization Indicators" booklet?! That's a huge proven predictor of who is likely to commit mass violence, both imminently and long-term!

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Mark Holden's avatar

This is bad news but I suspect it’s due in part to their fear of being ousted. I mean they are fast tracking everything, so why not their demise?

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Davis Colby's avatar

Remember when this started under Biden with DHS's dire warning about "anti-government/anti-authority," "abortion-related" and "animal rights/environmental" "violent extremists"?

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StanleyTwoBrix's avatar

Under Obama, the only people who went to prison over torture were the people who blew the whistle on it.

I can say with a fair degree of certainty that it didn't start with Obama, either.

The ruling class always wants to control the narrative.

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Sean's avatar

Foucault's Boomerang (again)

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

not smart enough for this joke!

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StanleyTwoBrix's avatar

"The imperial boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens. "

From Wikipedia.

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Sean's avatar

100% - thanks Stanley

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ariane's avatar

I had to read Gorka's quotes in the James Adomian accent because otherwise I would have started screaming.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

I was just messaging with him lol

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StanleyTwoBrix's avatar

Well, they do like 'splosions.

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Joy in HK's avatar

So just what is the plan when Substack goes down? We can't be looking at the fine details of the impending train rushing down the rails while we remain tied to the tracks.

I hope everyone who cherishes liberty, free speech, peace, democracy, and the non-extinction of human life, is coming up with plans, preferably in private. The problem is, that from the outside, there is no discernible difference between plans being made, and nothing going on.

I worry about the seeming passivity of the public in general. The older generations need to be on the forefront of not being the last generation who had a future. The younger generations need to step up to not be the ones with no future.

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Patty Tanji's avatar

I think you nailed it …”seeming passivity”. In my world people are mobilized! the chatter at the community center (where I work out) has moved from polite quiet under the breath comments to verbal arguments with neighbors, the record attendance at handsoff (my husband’s first rally ever that I didn’t drag him to), the foot traffic at the local thrift stores (people like me not buying from oligarchs). Im keeping my eyes and ears open.

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Madeline's avatar

Substack subscriptions are generally also sent out as email newsletters and are not reliant on the app. I assume that Substack creators have the ability to export a list of emails addresses for their subscribers?

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Susan Becraft's avatar

We’re all screwed. Sorry to be so blunt.

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StanleyTwoBrix's avatar

"Warfighters", not soldiers.

Which is funny, because drone pilot nerds dropping bombs on impoverished civilians with drones isn't fighting a war.

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JennyStokes's avatar

My husband was going to a Conference in Miami. He has decided not to go because obviously foreigners are not wanted. He has multiple substack writers on his 'phone and believes strongly that boycotting USA is a useful strategy. He has written to the Conference owners to let them know why he is not coming.

Not good for business or tourism USA.

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Joy in HK's avatar

I'm just speculating here, but I would think for any possible future visits, it might make sense to get a new, inexpensive, phone today, or soon. Do not connect it to any of your normal accounts. Get a pre-paid SIM, set it up with new accounts, a new email address on a different ISP, download anodyne apps, lots of games and mainstream website visits. Family contacts. Use it occasionally, each week before you go, and take that phone with you. If they want to look, there's nothing to see.

If you need to connect with your old Substack, or other, accounts, you can download whatever - after safely past immigration, using mobile data, might be best. If you download anything you feel uncomfortable with, then wipe it, reload generic games on departure. Or, depending on the cost, wipe and sell, or toss, in the appropriate recycling location.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Good idea but neither of us plan to go to the USA.

In many ways it's a good idea to boycott. It might help someone see sense!

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