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[ SECRET POST #6689 ]
⌈ Secret Post #6689 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2025-04-29 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)Wondering what it looks like to test and normalize martial law? Just read Trump’s executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens.” Sounds great, right? Protect the innocent. But it’s a terrifying document. It empowers local law enforcement to use aggressive, unchecked tactics and when they cross the line, the big law firms that caved to political pressure will represent them pro bono.
You might wonder what those tactics include. Let’s help you out, these are the kinds of strategies already being used or encouraged:
- No-knock raids: Military-style forced entries into homes, often at night, without warning, even for minor offenses.
- Expanded surveillance: Loosened restrictions on monitoring protests, online activity, and private gatherings, often without warrants.
- Deployment of federal agents in cities: Unmarked officers detaining protestors with no local oversight, as seen during the Portland crackdowns.
- Qualified immunity protections: Strengthening legal shields that make it nearly impossible to hold officers accountable in court.
- Mass arrests and curfews: Blanket curfews and preemptive detentions during public demonstrations.
- Militarization of local police: Encouraging departments to arm up with military-grade weapons, drones, and armored vehicles.
- Pro bono legal defense: Politically aligned law firms stepping in to defend officers accused of misconduct, at no cost.
- Suppression of dissent: Labeling protestors as “domestic threats” to justify crackdowns on speech, assembly, and press.
Now, these tactics aren’t just hypothetical. They’re not “going to be” used, they already have been. Trump sent federal agents in unmarked vans to snatch protesters off the streets in Portland. He’s deployed military-style force to clear peaceful demonstrators, expanded surveillance during protests, empowered ICE to enter homes without warrants, and just signed an order ensuring cops accused of brutality get free legal help from major firms. This isn’t a warning it’s a description.
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(Anonymous) 2025-04-29 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)Ah, that would've been nice. /s
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(Anonymous) 2025-04-30 01:14 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2025-04-30 01:21 am (UTC)(link)Obviously not a healthy way of thinking, but we are burnt he fuck out and frustrated.
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(Anonymous) 2025-04-30 02:04 am (UTC)(link)Not to mention Trump is in awful shape. I was watching his 2016 and 2024 debates and he's going through the same cognitive decline Biden is. He was screaming and shouting instead of constructing an argument like previous more respectable Republicans in past debates. His hands were covered in bruises in a recent photo. Despite the scaremongering about a third term I doubt he'll even make it past 80.
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(Anonymous) 2025-04-30 03:02 am (UTC)(link)Unfortunately, we are in for the long haul. I sure as fuck don't want to lose any more of my years to this narcissistic piece of shit and his fascist regime. So I keep looking every day not just for signs of hope, but for things I actually do to help unfuck the country. I'm seriously considering the best way I can contribute when it comes time for a general strike.
But I get it. It's probably easier to give up, sure. But that leads to subjugation, to no freedom, to that fear that every day you're going to piss off the wrong person who has the power to make you regret it... when they're not busy neglecting your community's needs. That's not a place I want to be. And instead of seeing the country to the ground, it'd be far more satisfying to see a fascist regime toppled. There is a way to speed it up, but more people need to turn out and get engaged with things (including behind the scenes).
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(Anonymous) 2025-04-30 09:21 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2025-04-30 11:28 am (UTC)(link)And honestly, fuck Bernie and AOC at this point. They are part of the problem. They are great at riling up a crowd after the fact but not so great at doing it when it mattered and getting behind the candidates that could have stopped this.
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(Anonymous) 2025-04-30 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)+1000000
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(Anonymous) 2025-04-30 02:37 am (UTC)(link)I don't know if it would've been enough to make people get over their misogyny and racism and egos, but maybe more folks would've turned out.
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