Kent State certainly didn’t improve the electorate’s opinion of Vietnam. Oh, look … there’s the National Guard again.

It’s not like I’m adminning any of them. You don’t have to run something to meet people.

But the banner says they’re “experiencing data issues”! I’m sure it’s just a mistake! /s

Next sprint, we’ll nail the Constitution! It’s all these changes to the text, you see?

In fairness, Irene does have the best flowers.

My route was meeting one person offline. It took several months, but now I’m on like five Discords. Keep your eye out … your tribe may show up at the oddest of times.

Communities that reject these notions exist. But they don’t find you … you have to put in the effort to find them.

What have you done to bring down the junta? That you don’t like my opinion doesn’t give you the right to go to personal attacks. That’s not how we do things on Beehaw.

Citizens are chasing ICE away in California.

Yeah, but not shooting at them.

People across the country are preparing themselves for armed conflict.

This has been the case since before the Declaration of Independence.

It’s “when” not “if”.

That’s tautologically true. No empire lasts forever.

There will be a flashpoint. There will be bloodshed. It’s going to happen real fast when it kicks off.

I tend not to try to predict the future, mostly because I suck at it (see also: two ex-wives), but also because the more elaborate one paints a hypothetical future, the less likely it is to be accurate.

None of those things is a given. The ICE/National Guard situation in L.A. shows that succinctly, with multiple flashpoints yet not a lot of bloodshed. This set of propositions is just doomerporn.

He’s pro-prose about the po-po.

Not crazy about the hed here. There’s a strong implication that this is A) full replacement and B) everyone terminated is just going to say, “sure, I’ll come back … surely, there’s no chance something like this could happen again.”

The net result is fewer positions held by less experienced people. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with entry-level jobs (god knows I’ve had way more than I should have), but NWS is – much like a newsroom – on a set schedule. Education is important, but there’s no substitute for experience.

I’ve been assuming I’m under surveillance each time I drive for decades at this point, starting with red-light cameras. The trend was never going to be toward fewer cameras with everything being sandboxed and tight restrictions on sharing.

First off, the civilians with shittons of weapons like where Trump is going. So the Second Amendment won’t do what it says on the tin.

Beyond that, what’s your plan for getting local police, county sheriffs, state troopers, ICE and the National Guard to all stand down in the face of citizen revolt? You don’t even have concepts of a plan here, but you’re happy to complain that others aren’t doing enough.

The government will always have more ammo than you do, no matter how large a group you can organize.

Millions having taken to the streets in protest since Trump retook the throne suggests otherwise. What else are we supposed to be “acting like”?

Several organizations have decided to focus on brainstorming for 2026, which honestly makes the most sense. The Supreme Court won’t strike anything down, and we have prior art on whether the GOP would ever impeach and convict Dear Leader.

Police are known to use any excuse to escalate to violence, so there’s very little that can be done beyond showing up with some signs, which may go somewhere if shit gets bad enough, but for now, it’s not moving the needle. And we saw the L.A. situation where ICE and the National Guard were deployed against the wishes of state and local leaders.

Being aware of what’s wrong and being able to do anything about it are wildly different propositions. Call your industry-captured representative to complain? That’s gone really well so far. Meanwhile, we have plainclothes Gestapo working around to clock to silence dissent.

So again, I ask: How should we be acting in such an environment?

The people have no power at this point in the decline; the tech-corporate-military-industrial complex is the only constituent Washington cares about. Maybe if U1 shoots up to where U6 is now, the calculus changes, but that presumes accurate data going forward, which the recent sacking of the BLS statistics head suggests is unlikely to be the case.

Regardless, the environment now is “how far can I push without getting whisked away to CECOT?”

Oh, for fuck’s sake … another land war in Asia?

I use IPAs to forget about work crap. (Former linguistics major; I know the other meaning, but it doesn’t come up much at bars.)

I understand the nub of your gist, but historically, the net result of this is a new generation of oligarchs.

Wouldn’t setting up shop as the arm of a nonprofit solve this?

I spent the past several minutes looking over Printify. Seems dead simple, and as someone with a graphics-arts background who needs work, I’d be willing to take this on.

Apparently, we could do Beehaw-branded supplements in case shirts, hats and mugs prove insufficient.

Seems like a simple solution, then. I much prefer that one anyway. Not a lot of “haw” without the hat.

Who has the rights to the Discord bee with a cowboy hat? That could easily be vectorized.