Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Get fucked Roger.
“Well, you see, the first amendment prevents congress from passing laws, but under the unitary executive principle, the president doesn’t need authority via congress to suppress free speech” — Stephen Miller, probably.
They are only using the law of violence monopoly.
We really should stop showing up. Stop showing up to work. Stop showing up to buy things. Stop showing up to sign up for the military. Stop reproducing.
It’s bully tactics. Bullies push and push and push with plausible deniability, then when they get a reaction they play the victim.
It’s not just a kids’ problem. It happens all the time in adult life too. Someone can do the most rotten shit to you, but as long as they don’t swear, you’re the bad guy when you finally lose it on them.
Fuck these bullies. Grow the fuck up you pieces of shit.
This is actually a good sign. It's proof that the demonstration is working. The people that need to be are beginning to become exasperated with the situation.
Press on, press harder. They will do more violence before this is over, but they must be given no ground. No safe haven. They must never feel as though they've secured any small victory.
I'm not super happy with this but the only way I ever got bullies to stop was when I hurt them bad enough they didn't want it to happen again
“Just submit to our will! Trust us.”
Or we could all just be a bunch of "tourist" visiting a city - just like all the "tourist" that "just visited" the capitol on January 6th 2021.
I have seriously been thinking about taking all my PTO and getting a bus to just stand in front of the white house protesting. No plan, no organizing, just a hope that I could get people to join me. I'd probably lose my job though.
“People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil,” the Texas Republican told NewsNation.
Protests getting you down, lil' Rog? Going on too long? Getting too loud? Drawing attention you find irritating? Pulling in fence-sitters who don't want to get murdered by no-name thugs with guns and badges? People who actually know and love the Constitution and don't like you shitting on it? Neighbors using your repression to build strong communities for themselves and loudly bringing attention to your murderous ethos to spite you? Protesters not giving into your incitements to riot? Taking too long for an excuse to declare martial law? Don't want to lose your fascist party's power in the midterms?
Glad to hear it! Thanks for letting us know how frightened you are that we might actually get the word to people you want to keep safely in your bubble until you're ready to strip them of everything they hold dear, too, and keep you from building a totalitarian state from the ruins of the democracy you're trying to destroy.
In fact, THANK YOU, lil' Rog. For validating the protests with your public acknowledgement without even the slightest idea that "sit down and shut up" is a nonsensical response for anyone interested in knowing WHY people are not doing just that. You personally may still have a grade school mindset, but many of us who have to work for a living are well capable of looking past the superficial, and find you nothing more than a scared, inconvenienced liar desperate to retain power.
“And until we do that, I guess we’re going to have it this way.”
I goddamn well hope so, you pedophile defending piece of shit. That and more.
Get civil? You first.
Someone should go to one of these protests with a copy of the constitution - preferably in a scroll of some kind - so that when an ICE rapist comes up to them, said agent will tear it away in a fit of anger. Photographers need to be ready to see ICE shredding the constitution physically (to drive home the message they're doing it in general).
Lol they don't give a fuck about the constitution, this is now an era of might makes right to them and they will keep doing worse things until something stops them.
They are preparing their base to accept martial law. It’s amazing how the so called “don’t thread on me” became “please daddy, thread hard on me”
"I'll lick those boots clean so you can tread on me, as long as you tread harder on brown and queer people"
They haven't realize the real in group are the rich fucks and they're the out group.
MAGA Rep Roger Williams, TX, got it.
I agree, let’s escalate!
"[...]And the people that are staying in their homes or doing the right thing need to be protected.”
So about those people staying in their home, 'doing the right thing' getting illegally broken into by ICE without the appropriate warrant...
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
-Frank Wilhoit
Well yeah, by its roots, conservatism is about not rocking the boat. Those who keep their mouths shut are not targetted. My mom kinda has that mindset of just following the authority no matter what. She would be more on the right if it weren't for my father tempering her.
If the Americans had the same amount of holiday and paid vacation time as the 1st World European countries, there would be larger and more frequent protests. Especially now! Roger can F-OFF! ICE is not law enforcement, just a bunch of fucking uneducated thugs that would burn the US Constitution,
A smart man once said, "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me."
Any free speech absolutist who would like to weigh in?
Forgive me, this is the first time I'm encountering that term in a way that challenges how I understand it.
Would you mind elaborating on why we don't expect to hear from them in this case?
It looks like a reference to Elon Musk to me. Around the time of his take over of Twitter, Musk claimed that he was a "free speech absolutist". Once statistics came in, it turned out that Musk's twitter had a practically 100% compliance rate with censorship requests from authoritarian states, far higher than it was before the take over.
USA conservatives also do frequent calls for violence and claim freedom of speech when called out + then turn around and try to censor other peoples free speech when they don't like the message. The last bit was especially noticable after Charlie Kirk's murder. People who quoted Kirk to show what a vile person he was, were harassed and some even lost their jobs.
The slogan for conservative free speech absolutism might as well be "free speech for me, but my rules for thee".
[grasshopper sounds]
Would be interesting to see what happens when a white mother gets shot on video in a major Texas city.
It would be a liberal city like Austin, so it would be treated the exact same way.
Yeah but my point is that mass protests in Austin, likely with more guns per capita would force mr republican maggot here to put up repression where his mouth is. Which might cause more resistance, leading to potentially different results.
Exact same as Minneapolis. They'll justify it and it'll keep happening until they are made to stop.
Let’s call a general strike and stay home indefinitely…
Next 50501 event is a national walk-out on Jan 20th.
We'll see you there, right?
Just stay in your homes, huh? I thought they hated that.
"Freedom is being locked up in your house watching TV"
...where we can feed you whatever narrative we craft about your worlds, regardless of how obviously your eyes can spot the lies.
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