Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today

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From a VA employee:

This is destroying the Agency. People come to work terrified every day. I don’t know a single competent and qualified person who isn’t actively looking for work elsewhere and the only people who will be left to serve our Veterans are those with no other choices. The amount of sheer experience, knowledge, and brainpower being lost is irreplaceable, and the trust is already broken. We’ll never get it back. I am heartbroken that so many Republicans deeply, deeply hate us for doing our best every single day to serve Veterans. I will never forgive them for this.

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I don't know what you think despotism looks like, but this sure as hell isn't democracy nor is it a republic. This has nothing to do with losing an election, this has to do with some people's fantasy that Trump will ever give up power. I guess we need to wait until evidence surfaces, and then only iron clad evidence that the worst is happening will possibly motivate them, maybe.

I disagree with your overall assessment that we are experiencing "light" or "transient" causes for general revolt.

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Anytime I talk about these things to folks outside the US, it’s always some reply about “your country chose this!” And how, regardless of how I voted, I still somehow let this happen. It’s super frustrating and disheartening.

The way i see it, the current disasters unfolding were predictable as far back as the 1960s. Unhinged greed is a disease, and letting it run free and calling it "progress", "economic liberalism", and channeling it to make it your main way of doing economy, is a disease. What's angering me personally is that it seems to me that Americans are so extremely short-sighted, that as long as it worked for them, everything was ok in their eyes, and now that they're hitting the wall, they suddenly want to get off the vehicle. Good planning takes a long time, and even if we wanted to help you, we couldn't, because there's not enough preparation time.

Now, it is the cool thing to be super anti-American.

This isn't news. Different than what americans might think, they're not necessarily looked at as the "big heroes" everywhere. There's a lot of countries who have made a lot of bad experiences because of them, and really, the USA isn't popular, on average, world-wide.

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light and transient causes

dude... they're making concentration camps. This isn't just a "candidate"

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Oh they'll come.

The US will have to go to war to keep down unrest. Whether Trump makes good on Canada / Greenland / Poland, the world will have to form a coalition against us, and it's likely China will take the lead.

There will be Chinese bombers over Washington just as there were Russian and American bombers over Berlin. Not that we'll be around to enjoy it, and those that remain will suffer as collaborators (whether they were or not).

We really don't want to let it get there. But then we really didn't want it to get here, and we knew in the early aughts with George W. Bush's administration this is where we were headed if someone didn't chance course. Obama, who promised to change course, did not.

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Yeah, this reply is a perfect example. It's a generalization of over 340 million individuals.

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This is exactly why I've always maintained that the 2nd amendment against tyranny is complete and utter horseshit. There will never, ever, be a case in which civilians can take up arms against the US government and have any remote shot of doing anything. Any tyrannical government will get to where they are with such significant support they will be so ridiculously protected you'd have to take on the entire military and legal branches of the USA.

In 1814 when every has a flintlock pistol? Sure. Now? Have fun getting remote drone striked before you even step foot into Washington D.C.

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This is apt for the situation

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The Taliban won and they don't have advanced technology.

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The hero thing is not a mindset of most Americans. It seems like you're considering everyone in the US is an ignorant conservative. While there is definitely a large group that is very ignorant and naive, there is a different large population that do not live in a fantasy world and understand what their country has done on a world stage.

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They did it here in Canada to the trucker protestors. While everyone cheered it on, those of us with an eye for the future noted that what can be done to them can be done to us.

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Yeah, let's just organize 100,000+ people right under the nose of the US government, on the damn homefront, to overthrow a tyrannical government, all the while being spied on via every backdoor on Earth by the NSA. Good luck and have fun having your house burned down.

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Learn in this order:

First Aid
Gardening or Farming
Food preservation
Shooting
Electronics and Radio

Also stop supporting anti-gun orgs ffs.

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yeah but if you give out civilized healthcare, how will you bully your people into working hard so they don't end up in the trench abandoned?

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Yeah idk man, once they start putting IEDs on I-90 things are gonna change real quick.

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dumb sentence without any meaning or content, except to make people shut up when they actually have something to say

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Then just move.
I know the current administration is happy you are spreading propaganda that states to roll over since there's nothing to do.
You are the maga hero.

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Look, you've got good intentions and the right general idea, but you're not thinking this through.

Yes, the US is genuinely under attack staging a genuine coup right now, I'm not going to deny that. This is reality, this is happening.

But, unfortunately the American people are largely letting it happen. Real talk, if NATO tried to step in right now right via force, while correct, there is just no way that wouldn't be perceived as an enormous overstep and effectively a hostile action on the part of NATO against a sovereign nation.

The reality is perception matters. It's one thing if NATO steps in to stabilize a country that is being shaken apart with unrest and sounding the cries of outrage against tyranny - that's easy optics for NATO to swoop in as the heroic liberator. But until we're at that point, genuinely at that point, NATO is handicapped and any action they take is just throwing gas on the fire.

Again, it comes down to me and you.

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When CW II kicks off some people will be caught, some will be thrown in prison, and some people will be killed.

Remember it's "home of the brave", not "home of the chicken shit cowards".

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I hope that you are incorrect, but fear that you are closer to correct than not, sadly.

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Look, I'm not saying to just roll over, but wtf are we supposed to do. The second amendment is there, I don't see anyone utilizing it, and I don't think they ever will.

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Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today