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Comment by aebtebeten

12 days ago

If I understand correctly, this is to say the Soviet Union was more responsive* to its people than the United States is?

If the people wished to, could they not make it clear what the results of a primary would be, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio...

If legislators are afraid of the President, should they not be more afraid of their constituents?

* in the event, it looks like it took them 4 years as well, 1988-1991, but somehow I doubt they were just telling themselves they'd sit around and wait for 2028...

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gsf_emergency_6  11 days ago

soviet mil was a representative slice of soviet demographics. US civilian enforcers: not so much. (Elsewhen- the antiVW movement "worked" because the same was true of the US mil)

That's mostly it I think.

Edit- "anti-Kissinger" movement

  • aebtebeten  11 days ago

    I know/knew people who marched first in the CR and then in the antiVW movement.

    One important piece of advice from their experiences: have plenty of people during your peaceful demonstration who are ready, willing, and able to eject provocateurs from your midst.

    A related lesson from Airstrip One: just because someone is sleeping with you doesn't mean they're not an informant. Of course, if all you're doing is peacefully demonstrating, as you should be, even if they're looking for dirt as hard as they can, you can still screw their brains out with a clean conscience.

    MLK sermon on nonviolent resistance: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/dra...

    Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9VqfVQ9c

    • gsf_emergency_6  10 days ago

      Reminds me of..

      (The site may be triggering..)

      "Grothendieck got angry when they started pestering him. Justine recalled in an interview with Allyn Jackson: “The next thing we know, the two policemen are on the ground.” Grothendieck, who once practiced boxing, had single-handedly decked two police officers."

      You had a chance here to disambiguate the strategy :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530990

      It's luck for everyone that the Latin side of classics is ideologically less controversial (+fertile in symbolism)??

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  • aebtebeten  11 days ago

    Question for anyone still living in the home of the free and land of the brave:

    Does the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act still apply? Or is it now a case of "except where void or prohibited by law"?

    Or are you all at the tender mercies of DHS? Are they at least under something resembling UCMJ? (NB: the Geneva Conventions only apply to uniformed* combatants, not internal matters)

      separated at birth?

  Department  Ministerium
  of          für
  Homeland    Staats-
  Security    sicherheit

    * with a command structure. Just wait until someone tries to AI-wash command responsibility!

    (note for gsf: sorry, I hadn't understood what you meant by civilian enforcers until now! BTW, something Linebarger has that's missing from what I've skimmed of the current PSYOP FM series: a lucid description of the bright lines [at the time?] between war and murder, and what the requirements are for an insurrection to count as uniformed combatants for the purposes of Geneva Convention protections ... will get back to you later on Katyusha's descendants)