Important A Note About What Is Happening

[Cristiano]

 

[Free]

P.S. I wish we could say we're sorry, but...

 

[Noodles]

Hey world, you know how the US keeps. Bringing Freedom to oppressed nations.

Please keep that in mind in the future, maybe think about returning the favor. If needed.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Hey world, you know how the US keeps. Bringing Freedom to oppressed nations.

Please keep that in mind in the future, maybe think about returning the favor. If needed.

There is a sharp divide between what might happen, what I'd like to happen and what will eventually happen. We found that out in 2024.

My fondest dream is for the shock of Trump's extreme psychosis on our system to push 20-30$% of MAGA out of the tent. That's all we need - a bare minimum - to put the opposition back into power and finally do all the crap we were never able or willing to do - like court reform, repealing Citizens United, reinforcing voter's rights, women's rights and trans rights. Turn the government so fucking blue all the MAGAts flee to - fuck I don't care where they go . But I also know that I dream a lot.

I was sure Kamala would be our first woman President. Silly me. I'm living in Fuckitallstan.

 

[Soen Eber]

I am at the point where a NATO intervention would be helpful, even if only to monitor polls and the election process. We're OK up here in the upper Midwest for the most part, but a lot of the country has forgotten what Democracy should look like.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Hey world, you know how the US keeps. Bringing Freedom to oppressed nations.

Please keep that in mind in the future, maybe think about returning the favor. If needed.

Marshall Plan freedom or United Fruit Company freedom?

 

[Noodles]

Marshall Plan freedom or United Fruit Company freedom?

At this point I am good with just conquering, maybe Germany or England.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Hey world, you know how the US keeps. Bringing Freedom to oppressed nations.

Please keep that in mind in the future, maybe think about returning the favor. If needed.

Iraq has entered the chat.

 

[Free]

Marshall Plan freedom or United Fruit Company freedom?

They both covered a LOT of ground, huh?

 

[Rose Karuna]

I really wasn't sure what thread to put this in, but this one seemed appropriate. This is really scary, because it's based on numbers, real historical numbers. Also, to me, this seems much worse than it was in 1970 - I was in high school, then college in 1970 and while some of this stuff was going on, I've never in my 70+ years have seen America so divided and our government so divisive.

Professor who predicted 2020s unrest sees US sliding deeper into crisis

Fifteen years ago Peter Turchin warned America was on the brink of a decade of growing political unrest. This is what he says now.

www.newsweek.com

He argues that violence in the U.S. tends to repeat about every 50 years— pointing to spasms of unrest around 1870, 1920, 1970 and 2020. He links these periods to how generations tend to forget what came before. "After two generations, memories of upheaval fade, elites begin to reorganize systems in their favor, and the stress returns," he said.

One of the clearest historical parallels to now, he notes, is the 1970s. That decade saw radical movements emerge from university campuses and middle-class enclaves not just in the U.S., but across the West. The far-left Weather Underground movement, which started as a campus organization at the University of Michigan, bombed government buildings and banks; the Red Army Faction in West Germany and Italy's Red Brigades carried out kidnappings and assassinations. These weren't movements of the dispossessed, but of the downwardly mobile—overeducated and politically alienated.
"There's a real risk of that dynamic resurfacing," Turchin said.

 

[Govi]

And yet, from the professor's list of active leftist terrorist organizations, this is an international cycle of violence, not only America's: the Red Army Faction, the Red Brigades.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I see, so die Rote Armee Fraktion is well known internationally.

Sad to say, but we already had from 2000 to 2007 a right wing extremist group here in Germany, 3 people, who called themself Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund (NSU, not to confuse with the old car company) - or National Socialist Underground would be a good translation. They wanted to do ethnic killing and spreading terror.

They consisted of 3 people, Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe, who killed during that time 9 foreigners and a female police officer, had 43 killing attempts and 15 robberies.

Main difference between the RAF and NSU is that the RAF really was into getting as much public coverage as possible, while the NSU choose to act covertly.

The NSU was the most violent terrorist group in Germany after the RAF disbanded itself.

The trial before the court also was quite long. One of the strange facts around it was that on one time the public ordered defenders of the terrorists where named Heer, Sturm and Stahl, meaning Army, Storm and Steel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground

 

[Free]

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This reads a little (a little?) like a postcard from a boyfriend (let's call him Ray) with Dissociative Identity Disorder, the day after "Todd" beat the shit out of his girlfriend.