They claim they were "given permission" to film there. Except it turns out the "permission" was given by the families, who can't actually give permission to film in the cemetery.
Then they claim that there was no altercation, no pushing, and the cemetery official was having a mental health crisis anyway - which will sounds very Narcissist's Prayer of them.
The cemetery official has declined to press charges, saying they didn't want to be targeted by followers of The Orange One.
Then they claim that there was no altercation, no pushing, and the cemetery official was having a mental health crisis anyway - which will sounds very Narcissist’s Prayer of them.
Sound very Soviet to me. “You didn’t sew any grafite on the roof because it isn’t there… This man is delusional, take him to infirmary”
So if I were to announce my candidacy, go there with a professional photographer, then yell and push people I would also get away scott free, right? Or is the permanent backing of an angry, violent prone mob also a requirement.
I hate to say it, but I’m at the point where I’d take being targetted and harassed if it meant I could make a dent in this fuckers defenses.
Sorry, cemetery official, these are fucking Nazis and you’re appeasing them.
No, as an individual, it isn’t your personal fight, but it’s a fight that’s affecting everybody in the USA as it is and if Trump wins even moreso. So ignoring how it affects all of us because you don’t want to personally be affected just makes me think you’re kind of a fucking pussy.
Like I’m just some random asshat, I don’t have a federal law standing behind me and work at a place that is highly respected. This person has way more backup on their team than I fucking do. I’m sick of these people fucking turning pussy in the face of adult bullies.
It’s easy to say that behind a screen but as someone who has been threatened by MAGAs, it’s no picnic. And I have guns.
This is the problem with our current justice system. We have a chilling effect on bringing real consequences to these assholes because their acolytes will threaten if not beat you for going against their Dear Leader.
What we should be doing, instead of blaming this one soldier, is to tell Congress to pass judicial reform to make these kinds of threats punishable by the same minimum sentencing laws that we use for drugs.
is to tell Congress to pass judicial reform to make these kinds of threats punishable by the same minimum sentencing laws that we use for drugs.
I get what you’re going for, and I generally agree, it’s easier to say it than actually deal with it: but if more people stood up to it, these bullies wouldn’t be so emboldened. Everyone backing the fuck down every time is literally part of why they’re so fucking bold about it now. This has been going on for a decade now. Do you think a decade is long enough to let them become more emboldened from people pissing themselves and giving up?
And secondly… Dude congress has gotten jack fucking shit done in 20 fucking years. We would have to completely blow the Republicans out of the water with major majorities in both the House and Senate, and even then at best we’ve got two years to get anything done.
We literally have half of Congress in the bag for the people committing these crimes. They won’t go out of their way to punish them. We have the Supreme Fucking Court tell us that a President is totally immune to whatever as long as his name is Trump.
So yeah, sorry, the only thing we can actually functionally fucking do at the moment is to stand up to the bullies.
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Also, if Trump wins, they will become super emboldened and basically become Trump’s Brownshirts, terrorizing the country at large. Will you still have the same position? That it’s better to turn tail and just give up?
When fascism has already won, will you think it was worth it to have saved your own skins? Because your skins are up for grabs if Trump wins. Everyone’s is. Saving your own skins won’t last forever if he wins, will it?
When the fascist dictator is putting innocent people to death, is the best solution to protect your own and fuck everyone else? No wonder this country is falling apart, nobody is willing to stand up for anyone else. No fucking unity.
EDIT II: Here is some poetry from someone who turned tail and kept his mouth shut during World War II because protecting his own was more important. He was pro-Hitler before the war.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Maybe they have children? It’s easy to say here anonymously when it’s not happening to you but if I felt I wouldn’t be the only one targeted I’d consider making the same choice.
In their statement, officials said the hiker reached the summit on his own at about 11:30 local time (17:30 GMT), but became “disorientated” on his descent.
His colleagues are said to have told him that he was on the wrong route, and suggested that he regain the trail.
Sounds more like he left them, not that they left him.
It’s interesting that they are choosing this, of all things, to double down on. They’re not just contesting what happened at the event, but doing it in a confrontational fashion that guarantees it will remain a story long after the rest of us move on. It would be one thing to simply say “We had a discussion over this, We’re right, they’re wrong”. But they keep pushing it.
How many NPR fans are on Twitter these days, anyway? If Twitter had not chosen to step in and falsely label this story, it might have gotten 10 click-throughs and that’s it. But now, it’s an actual story, it remains in the news, and I’m not sure if that’s positive for the Trump campaign.
I know, it’s just what they do. It’s the crowd size thing, the Sharpie thing, the “alternative facts” all over again. My hope is that every time they push their false reality too far, a handful of voters realize what is happening, and it prevents them from gaining more power.
How many NPR fans are on Twitter these days, anyway? If Twitter had not chosen to step in and falsely label this story, it might have gotten 10 click-throughs and that’s it. But now, it’s an actual story, it remains in the news, and I’m not sure if that’s positive for the Trump campaign.
This is an interesting thought. Is Twitter now useful exclusively as a Streisand-Effect machine?
guarantees it will remain a story long after the rest of us move on.
A story where? On twitter where it is marked as unsafe and full of lies?
This is not the streisand effect. This is demonstrating the power of literally controlling the media to a degree that even rupert murdock gets envious of. Because if your news channel is spewing garbage? Other news channels and “grass roots” efforts will correct it. But if the platform they use to correct it is the thing that is compromised?
Shit like this? The trump story (that was never going to get traction) is irrelevant. What is relevant is musk and his handlers advertising what twitter can do and how long twitter is willing to “hold out” to regulation attempts.
It is the same logic behind apple making it clear they will resist information requests until there is a court order or Proton outright telling its users what it will and won’t give law enforcement and governments. Except this is marketing toward those governments, not the users.
He instead tried to focus on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling Harris “disgraceful” for not firing anyone for the deaths of service members in the terror attack. “She can go to hell,” Vance said.
I like this part because it shows they just want retribution. Lessons learned?* No. Someone needs to be fired.
*Besides that everyone said Trump shouldn’t have telegraphed everything.
As a person who is more than 6 months old, I have enough cognitive function to realize if someone asks me to specifically stop looking so hard into something, I should double the efforts to look because there’s a reason they don’t want me looking into it.
Seeing the person who asked get backed by police not 24hrs beforehand would make me quadruple it and request additional personnel to find whatever it is they’re scared of me finding.
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