Go for your PROOF.
Someone such as yourself advocating for retribution scares me.
Most anyone advocating for retribution scares me.
I can see you going all in on an anti-Steven Miller.
That’s not a compliment.
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Someone such as yourself advocating for retribution scares me.
Most anyone advocating for retribution scares me.
I can see you going all in on an anti-Steven Miller.
That’s not a compliment.
EyeballKid
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I dunno, man.
Trumpism and the unconstitutional white Christian nationalism that undergirds it aren’t gonna just magically disappear in 2026 or 2028.
If/when Dems do gain control again, we can’t just tread lightly and hope to make amends. We’re seeing now that trying to make peace by forgiving Confederates who fought against the union only caused simmering resentment for over a century, which has now boiled to the surface.
I don’t know how to go about preventing another uprising without making examples of those who fought to disrupt our democracy and install an authoritarian regime.
Do you?
lawtig02
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“Our ancestors would be astonished to learn that they were fighting for a ‘proposition.’”
Abraham Lincoln says, “huh?”
Mulberry Heel
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Given that most Trumpers likely think the South should have won the war and that Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were the good guys and Lincoln a villain, they probably just ignore anything Lincoln said.
kickazzz2000
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ahahahahahahaha
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Let them go down there and fuck around in New Orleans if they want to. I think they would find out a thing or three about resistance.
Carolina Fever
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Exactly. What it all comes down to.is racism and bigotry. These people want the US to be like it was before the 1960s. They want it to be only for straight white Christian nationalists. And then you have others who are just rich and greedy and don't care what happens as long as they get richer. You can't reason and compromise with these racists and bigots. There is no playing nice with them.
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I mean, yes, and … they’re absolutely looking for black, brown, and “weird” looking whites to violently resist. Hordes of masked thugs will eventually lead to the violent resistance they seek.
They’re choosing these cities because they’re black, because they’re historically safe havens for marginalized people. They aren’t naive, they’re uncompromising in their cynicism, and brutally dismissive of the safety of civilians AND Guard members. Miller, Himan, Trump, Vought , etc. want guardsmen seriously injured, even killed, imo. In fact, I suspect they don’t care one iota if those folks are well trained, bc their intent is to send in military units the second a guards unit gets attacked.
ETA: the next two places the fascist government plans to militarize:
Portland Sees Decline in Violent Crime; Homicides Down 51% in First Half of 2025
New report from Major Cities Chiefs Association shows promising progress in reducing homicides and other major offenses.
On pace for safest year in 40+
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“…Bondi, 59, told Sean Hannity that Boston—one of the safest major cities in America—is actually “not” safe, citing a trio of grisly crimes. She singled out Mayor Michelle Wu, claiming the 40-year-old Democrat has lost control of the city.
“A Haitian national was charged with raping a child in a migrant center,” she said. “An 18-year-old illegal alien from Haiti molested a 10-year-old child. An illegal from El Salvador, 11 counts of rape against a child ... I could go on and on about the crimes in the Boston area. So, if she’s not going to protect the people of Boston, we are.”
As Mediaite first noted, the alleged migrant center incident took place 20 miles from Boston, the alleged molestation took place 30 miles outside city limits, and the incident involving the Salvadoran national took place on Nantucket, an island about 100 miles south of the state capital.…”
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“… Boston is not suffering from a crime spike. It reported its lowest homicide rate since 1957 last year, and other violent and property crimes are on a “downward trend.”
Bondi refused to let those facts get in the way of her talking point.
“Michelle Wu is one of the worst offenders in the entire country,” she told Hannity. “She says Boston is safe. It’s not.”…”
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'City has never been safer': Boston hits lowest homicide rate since 1957
Investments in police recruitment, officer wellness and community safety programs have led to safer neighborhoods, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says
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“In a public safety milestone, Boston slashed its 2024 homicide rate to 24 killings, positioning itself as one of the safest major cities in the nation, according to officials.
There were 37 homicides in the city in 2023, 40 each in 2022 and 2021 and 56 in 2020, Boston Police Department statistics showed.
“In the entire time that I’ve been a police officer … the city has never been safer, period, when it comes to crime and particularly violent crime,” Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said during a Friday afternoon press conference at Boston Police Headquarters.
Cox added the 24 homicides in 2024 “appears to be the lowest since 1957,” and is “by far the lowest … since the data began tracking reliably in 2007.”
In addition to the 33% decline in homicides citywide since 2023, gunfire incidents have decreased by 14%. Violent crime overall dropped by 2%, said Cox. And arrests have been made in over 50% of homicide cases, he said.
“This is about saving lives, and that is maybe the most important investment of all,” Mayor Michelle Wu said during the press conference.
And while not all crime rates dropped as significantly — such as aggravated assaults and shoplifting, each of which respectively rose by 3% and 30% over the year — the officials emphasized collaboration….”
“Today is not a victory lap, but a report out and a reflection of the type of results we see when we all understand communities’ collective responsibility,” she said.
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OTOH'City has never been safer': Boston hits lowest homicide rate since 1957
Investments in police recruitment, officer wellness and community safety programs have led to safer neighborhoods, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says
“In a public safety milestone, Boston slashed its 2024 homicide rate to 24 killings, positioning itself as one of the safest major cities in the nation, according to officials.
There were 37 homicides in the city in 2023, 40 each in 2022 and 2021 and 56 in 2020, Boston Police Department statistics showed.
“In the entire time that I’ve been a police officer … the city has never been safer, period, when it comes to crime and particularly violent crime,” Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said during a Friday afternoon press conference at Boston Police Headquarters.
Cox added the 24 homicides in 2024 “appears to be the lowest since 1957,” and is “by far the lowest … since the data began tracking reliably in 2007.”
In addition to the 33% decline in homicides citywide since 2023, gunfire incidents have decreased by 14%. Violent crime overall dropped by 2%, said Cox. And arrests have been made in over 50% of homicide cases, he said.
“This is about saving lives, and that is maybe the most important investment of all,” Mayor Michelle Wu said during the press conference.
And while not all crime rates dropped as significantly — such as aggravated assaults and shoplifting, each of which respectively rose by 3% and 30% over the year — the officials emphasized collaboration….”
“Today is not a victory lap, but a report out and a reflection of the type of results we see when we all understand communities’ collective responsibility,” she said.
“… Boston police reported 17 homicides between Jan. 1 and June 30, per the report.
- That's a 143% increase from the first half of 2024, when Boston had seven homicides.
- Boston finished the year with 24 homicides, losing 17 more people in the second half of the year.
- At this pace, Boston's on track to finish the year with close to the same number of homicides it had in 2023 — the year it first set the record for having the lowest number reported since the Boston Regional Intelligence Center started counting.…”
Mulberry Heel
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I just saw a social media post that said "It's important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway in DC." Truth.
