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Anyone watching the Handmaiden's Tale? I read the novel years ago and am enjoying binge watching the drama on Hulu (first month is free). Elisabeth Moss is fantastic. Seeing this news remind me of the episode where the religious militia taking control http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republican-...,
Trump's Autocracy is headed toward Theocracy, already we are seeing the roll back on the birth control mandate - allowing employers to opt out for religious reasons, Betsy DeVos decrying public schools and championing religious schools (and for the first time allowing religious schools to be publicly funded), defunding Planned parenthood, Churches now permitted to full immerse themselves in politics...and at least one GOP lawmaker calling for the use of right wing militias.
>An Oregon Republican has suggested bringing in a private militia to defend conservatives against what he called “increasing political polarisation ”.James Buchal, chair of the Multnomah County GOP, said that Republicans need added protection for threats against their free-speech rights.
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This is how it starts...
This is how it starts...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/trump-wants-to-let-your-boss...
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Wait until 2020.
Wait until 2020.
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Wait for what, pool boy?
Wait for what, pool boy?
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A bigger pool...of tears.
A bigger pool...of tears.
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Ah, a saline pool. I hear
Ah, a saline pool. I hear they're more difficult to maintain than chlorinated pools, but worth the effort. perhaps pool boy could shed light on a topic of his understanding,
under his eye
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Wait until 2018.
Wait until 2018.
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Where's the online petition?
Where's the online petition?
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Go ask your Mommy.
Sure, mock people who stand up to the Trump regime by signing petitions, protesting, making phone calls to their elected representatives.. Make your Trump supporting parents proud, Ender.
praise be
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https://www.thenation.com
https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-america-is-like-a-dystopian-nov...
>>But plenty of Trump supporters—whether they’re disaffected Democrats, Hillary-hating independents, or rock-ribbed Republican conservatives—don’t fit such a definition. Some have already become deeply disillusioned by the antics of Donald J. and the demolition derby that his advisers are planning to unleash inside the US government, which may, in the end, batter their lives badly. They can be brought over. This is potentially the biggest of big-tent moments for launching the broadest possible resistance under the banner of a patriotism that portrays Trump and Bannon as guilty of un-American activities.
And it’s here in particular that so many dystopian novels provide the wrong kind of guidance. Trump’s end will not come at the hands of a Katniss Everdeen. A belief in an individual savior who successfully challenges a “totalitarian” system got us into this crisis in the first place when Donald Trump sold himself as the crusading outsider against a “deep state” controlled by devious liberals, craven conservatives, and a complicit mainstream media. Nor will it help for Americans to dream about leading their states out of the Union (are you listening, California?) or for individuals to retreat into political purism. Given that the administration’s dystopian vision is based on chaos and fragmentation, the oppositional response should be to unite everyone opposed, or even potentially opposed, to what Washington is now doing.
As readers, we are free to interpret dystopian fiction the way we please. As citizens, we can do something far more subversive. We can rewrite our own dystopian reality. We can change that bleak future ourselves. To do so, however, we would need to put together a better plot, introduce some more interesting and colorful characters, and, before it’s too late, write a much better ending that doesn’t just leave us with explosions, screams, and fade to black.
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https://www.vivalazone.org
https://www.vivalazone.org/other-stuff/anyone-join-aclus-people-power-mo...
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Nancy fights for Slackers
Nancy fights for Slackers basic human rights and he thanks her by spitting in her face.
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>> Wait until 2020.
>> Wait until 2020.
>> Wait until 2018.
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>>>Oregon Republican has
>>>Oregon Republican has suggested bringing in a private militia to defend conservatives against what he called “increasing political polarisation"
They are going to need some protection when they throw their little rally this Sunday. The counter-demonstration is going to be many, many times bigger than the right wing get together and will feature the Black Block Anarchists. Its going to be a riot.
The "Anti-Sharia" rally planned for the following weekend was just canceled by its organizers:
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/05/organizers_cite_may...
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>>>>>Its going to be a riot.
>>>>>Its going to be a riot.
Dunno if we need that sort of thing 'round here.
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>> Nancy fights Lolololol
>> Nancy fights
Lolololol
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"Trump's Autocracy is headed
"Trump's Autocracy is headed toward Theocracy..."
You people have completely lost your minds. And it's a beautiful thing to watch.
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>> You people Lolololol
>> You people
Lolololol
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As opposed to that
As opposed to that description Thom, how would characterize?
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Damn fine post, ender.
Damn fine post, ender.