Not really as much as I feel we think. Having read more about Authoritarian mindsets, which includes the rank and file authoritarians, not just the leadership, they’re actually happy to be reinforcing the hierarchy regardless of their position in it. They’re happy to know their place and to ensure the ranks are kept in place. It brings comfort to many people to know that their position, regardless of how awful it is, is being maintained properly.

This means that they’re entirely okay with a dictator and/or an oligarchy as long as the people on the top are “supposed” to be there.

It’s only a crime if you succeed according to the SCOTUS. If you fail it’s no harm no foul.

I’ve seen that name before, but didn’t recall them as a sticker maker. I’ll check them out. Thank you.

I’ll give them a look.

I’m open to alternative options. Sticker Mule made great stickers, but is apparently a fundamentally anti democratic organization under the hood and willing to put Project 2025 in place to destroy the Republic.

Where should I take my business now?

I (US native) was in Amsterdam last week. We saw two Yank Tanks and they were completely out of place. One could barely move down a road since it was so big.

Please keep pushing your EU leadership to protect your cities, safety, and way of life (so much better than the US) from these city destroying monstrosities.

PeVance has chosen to sit at the table with the Nazi. I don’t care what else he espouses. He’s supporting an ongoing coup attempt on the Republic so is unqualified to hold any office outside of a jail cell.

Since it was a Conservative Republican who shot at him. Would they be retaliating against other republicans?

Or (more likely) would they be like the drunk idiots at the bar who just start swinging at anything that moves in their stupidity and anger?

The GOP can get fucked. They foment violence, that energy reflects back.

Trump’s Project 2025 is not changed just because one of their own people was violent one time. The underlying truth of the situation has not changed, just moved closer to the logical conclusion when you try to end civil rights and install a dictatorship in the US. That ensures violence, and everyone will be caught in it at some point or another.

You left out a few things for republicans:

• insurrectionists
• political violence is okay
• book banning
• anti LGBTQ+ rights
• anti personal rights (except guns)
• pedophile leadership
• actively for two tiered justice
• anti voting for US citizens
• anti Women’s rights
• pro family abusers
• pro higher taxes for middle class
• leadership derisive of veterans

This is just a core set of the awful the GOP and its fascist base has openly executed or stood for in PUBLIC venues, much less private ones. Project 2025 is set to encode these into practice nation wide if we allow Conservatives power ever again.

I ran Storm Linux for a short while in about… 2001-2002. Got it on a CD in a misc pack of disks from some Linux distro vendor.

It was supposed to be a server oriented distro, secured more than others, and ran Enlightenment for a desktop. Overall, it was a reasonable distro, but didn’t gain enough general support and devs to keep it up and running. The group behind it folded after a short while.

Fuck you. MAGA is inherently anti Republic and anti American. Get fucked.

Political violence is bad. That’s the reason Americans are still calling for justice against the MAGA mob and it’s leaders in Congress, SCOTUS, and White House at the time to be arrested, charged, and removed from our communities to protect this nation.

You’re enemies of us all, even if political violence is now become the norm under your auspices.

I really don’t care much about the assassination attempt. It’s a natural outcome of putting more guns into a population, stirring up hatred, and then putting everyone in a financial pressure cooker. I’m surprised that we didn’t see something similar earlier than this, aside from the attack on Mr. Pelosi and some other lower profile attacks (at least the ones we found out about due to many being foiled by FBI and other agencies).

The right wing media bubble and GOP politicians have been fomenting this for years…It was done to both build a lone wolf stochastic terrorist pool and to build out the mob that attacked the US Congress on Jan 6th. The attack just happened to turn against them this time.

Based on the GOP approach to school shootings, they should deliver thoughts & prayers then arm the ticket taker event staff.

It’s been a very long time since I’ve been in a class with assigned readings like these books.

I’ve come full circle and now I read both for pleasure and for personal growth.

At the moment my current books are the Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth series) and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. One is for general enjoyment, the other is for self reflection and growth.

This month was a wacky selection for no good reason:

Pastoral Approach to Atheism; Pastoral Theology; Concilium Volume 23

Silver Canyon, Louis L’Amour

Compassionate Satanism: An Introduction to Modern Satanic Practice

Gateway, Frederik Pohl

Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs To Know

Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns, Victor Dover

Babel, Kuang, R.F.

Yes. All too many of our citizens are this crazy.

No. Trump and his Project 2025 has me downright petrified and angry.

Biden is a right wing wedge point for our GOP captured media to lightning rid with.

Hey look it’s the liberals forming subcommittees while the boots thunder down the hall.

From now on I’m going to call these articles and the related actions a “Boots Subcommittee”.

Schumer called a Boots Subcommittee. It wasn’t very effective.

That’s right! The CO2 poisoning. We did all die from that. Just like doctors and nurses do in surgery every surgery.

There were also the ones yelling about their refusal to wear lingerie on their faces.