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Wittenberg University is currently taking precautions following an email sent Saturday, Sept. 14, that threatened a potential shooting on-campus today, Sunday, September 15, 2024. The message targeted Haitian members of our community. Wittenberg Police are cooperating with the Springfield Police Division and the FBI as they continue to investigate the threat to campus and monitor the situation.
 
Have we had this yet?

Election officials across the country are ramping up their security measures at polling places with voting underway in the presidential race, from beefing up law enforcement presence to donning bulletproof vests to deploying drones for surveillance amid an increasingly hostile environment.

The once-routine business of running elections in America has become much more fraught with risk in the wake of the 2020 campaign, with poll workers facing harassment, violent threats and chaotic protests. It's a dynamic that has forced many election officials out of the industry, while those who remain have taken in some cases dramatic steps to protect poll workers and voters ahead of Election Day. Some poll workers are also receiving pay bumps as incentives to stay on through a stressful voting period.


(From NBC)
 
That's pretty standard rhetoric for them no? Talking about it like a sports game. The context he's talking about them needing a landslide not just winning. It's not great but hardly on its own proof of fascism and probably counterproductive to claim it is.

no it isn't fascism, but that author's focus is fascism and she tends (i've read other stuff by her) to view everything through that lens. however, there's no doubt in my mind that they're playing with language in a winking way, going back to when someone (i can;t remember who) put out a map with "targets" on districts where they wanted democrats to lose, using, not stars or dots, but gun targets. they know what they're doing.

you can also buy this. it's just a image.

 
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That's pretty standard rhetoric for them no? Talking about it like a sports game. The context he's talking about them needing a landslide not just winning. It's not great but hardly on its own proof of fascism and probably counterproductive to claim it is.

I watched part of the rally live. Go look at the footage on Youtube. It goes beyond "sports game rhetoric" to outright racist tropes and threats. I'll leave whether its Fascism or not to the academics, but it was some pretty heinous stuff.
 
I watched part of the rally live. Go look at the footage on Youtube. It goes beyond "sports game rhetoric" to outright racist tropes and threats. I'll leave whether its Fascism or not to the academics, but it was some pretty heinous stuff.
I only watched the 30 second clip from petee screenshot that contained the slaughter clip.
no it isn't fascism, but that author's focus is fascism and she tends (i've read other stuff by her) to view everything through that lens. however, there's no doubt in my mind that they're playing with language in a winking way, going back to when someone (i can;t remember who) put out a map with "targets" on districts where they wanted democrats to lose, using, not stars or dots, but gun targets. they know what they're doing.

you can also buy this. it's just a image.

Yeah, that's been going on for years.

I was just annoyed as several times in the last week I have clicked links expecting more than what I have got.
 
That's pretty standard rhetoric for them no? Talking about it like a sports game. The context he's talking about them needing a landslide not just winning. It's not great but hardly on its own proof of fascism and probably counterproductive to claim it is.
The fucker and his acolytes are out and out fascists. No nuance, no equivocation. They are fascists.

Another powerful reminder today from the LP. His every fucking action screams fascist.

 
your twice-daily reminder


"A key ally to former President Donald Trump detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest, defund the Environmental Protection Agency and put career civil servants “in trauma” in a series of previously unreported speeches that provide a sweeping vision for a second Trump term."
 
I only watched the 30 second clip from petee screenshot that contained the slaughter clip.

Yeah, that's been going on for years.

I was just annoyed as several times in the last week I have clicked links expecting more than what I have got.
Probably being pessimistic but I suspect this time round Trump's coup will succeed. Even if the military are not on board everything else is, primarily all the elements required of a false democracy. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/20/trump-overturn-2024-election-plan-00184103
 
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