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https://bsky.app/profile/msnbc.com/post/3m2kfp4k3wk2d
Libs get so worked up about typos.
Jesus Christ you're a news organization and you don't know the difference between a mayor and a governor, a state and a city, and who runs each.
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This is a thread - https://bsky.app/profile/juliedicaro.bsky.social/post/3m2kd5v3ebk23
If he knew how to meet this aggression, he should have activated guard troops with state police to block the boarder for incoming feds and evict all ICE but leave the CPB at the ports. All state directed forces get instructed to detain all "ICE" officers "until we can figure out what's going on" because of rogue vigilante gangs impersonation federal agents. Masked groups that are grabbing people get met with "all force necessary to neutralize" and the state's attorney general dismisses all cases of them getting shot by civilians. The governor's office affirms that everyone has a right to defend themselves against these unidentified gangs.
Honestly, sounds like a good premise for like a civil war or some sort of military conflict brewing which, I think the U.S. needs at this point at their homeland but whaddya know I'm not American
Yeah, I think it prudent to do it now to put them on their back foot and give them pause. They would not know how to handle that level of resistance and Trump only picks fights that he knows he can win. Could broker a peace before things get extremely ugly. But these people are civilian politicians, they don't know how wars and conflict are actually won.
More that they are trying to protect their own assess by being weak. They didn't learn from history.
I think your assessment is correct but given how many innocent would be killed in such a conflict I don't think anyone "needs" it
Innocents are already dying without any latitude to defend themselves. Challenging the monopoly on violence is the only hope the Amerikkkan has. The alternative is to aid the Hitlerite state, by action or inaction.
This is true and my above comment was not worded very well. It's just painful and frightening to think of how many more lives the :amerikkka: empire is going to take with it on the way down.
it is very scary for sure, and considering the ongoing history of not caring about really anything but rich white men's profits, i agree and don't think the number of dead innocent will be small by any stretch of the imagination
What good is freedom if you don't have a civil war to defend it with?
"Chicago Governor," if we get US balkanization I could see the city-state model making a comeback.
Newsom's team is in an uproar because half of them are on Team SF and the other are on Team LA. San Francisco Governor / LA Governor - discussions get heated. An aide was trying to be helpful when she said they could create a "bi-city" compromise and now everybody hates her.
real scheming eunuch hours, who up
This is what I see more than any kind of clearly-demarcated conflict. Bastions of local power amid a sea of federal Nazi control.
established power extends out from cities, as these are the places where materiel and the personnel to deploy them are extremely concentrated.
the "sea" would be a place without central control, nominally contested by separate powers with lanes of more intense conflict over logistical channels and nationally critical extractive infrastructure.
the successful cuban revolution--an insurrection against an entrenched settler colonial project older than the US--started and gained power in the "sea", as the numerous abortive insurrections of the city were put down by concentrated deployment of forces and continuously fractured.
the hacienda and litifundio types of systems are the outposts of power, where manorial structures are nominally propped up by the promise of state power in an emergency, but materially expected to control the local labor force using their own mechanisms.
the effort of the francoist regime has been to depopulate whole regions of spain and push those people into highly developed urban contexts, a 20th century update to the enclosure system of proletarianism + accumulation through disposession. we see this economic dislocation and concentration of humans everywhere under capital.
we can pretend like chicago or seattle or wherever will step up to take on DC, but unless they're already building out and stockpiling underground tunnels to retreat their political leadership to when the shelling starts, the contest would be over before it began. DC has all that infrastructure for its leaders.
after that its fighting for airports, seaports, arterial highways, and a "green zone" for the occupational authority (probably north side in Chicago, generally wherever the rich live) and then, the status quo/maintenance of door kicking fire teams just outside the wire.
at a certain point, all most people living in an occupied/contested city is going to care about is drinkable water, electrcity, and being able to heat their homes in winter.
Hm, very interesting, thanks comrade. Any further reading you recommend?
Reminisces of the Cuban Revolution (Che Guevara)
Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict (Phil Neel)
i can't immediately think of a good text on capitalist enclosure, but im sure theres a marxist take on the highland clearances or "accumulation through disposession".
maybe peripherally, a critical geographic examination of resistance to the neoliberal order would be Places of Possibility: Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership (A. Fiona MacKenzie), though that is very academic. a more polemic and entertaining read might be Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South (Shirley & Stafford), which is maybe more of a forgotten history of insurrectionary struggles and contesting of mostly peripheral spaces where the reach of power is perhaps weaker than it purports.
my knowledge of the Empty Spain phenomenon as a historical process of intentional underdevelopment is gleaned from random articles, as its not frequently discussed in anglo media except in those weird promotional-genre articles where you can "buy a village in Spain for $500K" or a "home for $1000", which are completely uncritical and incurious, but nevertheless betray the strangeness of the present. i saw some translated doc once, but the name eludes me.
thank you!
He was hardly fire and brimstone before. But he's not mentioning Trump by name and he's not using one of his go-to words like "authoritarian". My bet is he wants to be seen as more to the right for his 2028 presidential hopes. Dems will never miss a chance to move to the right.
Meanwhile satan’s disciples are forcing ICE out of their communities because Pritzk & co aren't doing their jobs
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A6EP86/
From what I know about gang culture, this is usually a Bad Sign
Texas is invading Illinois lol great things are happening
Why have we not heard at all from Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson? I've heard there is a lot of discontent with him across the political spectrum, but still
All I know about him is this - Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs order prohibiting use of city property for immigration enforcement
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Ninja edit
I thought Johnson used the phrase "ICE-free zones" so I was going make fun of him for that because what he did was pretty mild. I was all wrong. He didn't use that term - the White House did.
The White House responded to the executive order in a statement, saying in part, "Today, in a disgusting betrayal of every law-abiding citizen, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson declared city spaces as 'ICE-free zones.' Johnson's pathetic excuse that enforcing our nation's immigration laws somehow "undermines community trust" exposes his true loyalty: to criminal illegal alien predators, not the terrified families of Chicago."
I remember it was a great moment when he was elected. He has close ties to teacher's unions. I haven't kept up with it that closely since then but I've heard comrades speak negatively about him not long ago.