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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)
 
CNT36 said:
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.
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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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CNT36 said:
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.
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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.
 
Yuwipi Woman said:
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.
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I only watched the 30 second clip from petee screenshot that contained the slaughter clip.
petee said:
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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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.
 
CNT36 said:
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.
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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

www.propublica.org

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
www.propublica.org www.propublica.org

"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."
 
CNT36 said:
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.
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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
 
petee said:
first item here.

www.rooster.info

Rooster in Review: Your brain on right-wing media

The penalty for wishing death upon half the country is a written reprimand, according to the Clark County Sheriff's Department.
www.rooster.info www.rooster.info
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"Rodgers said that he sometimes takes a prescribed sleep aid that can cause him to make “out of character” texts, phone calls or other forms of communication as a side effect"

Of course he does. :facepalm:
 
The CEO of a healthcare company has been assassinated:
www.theguardian.com

Manhunt under way after ‘brazen’ attack that killed UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York City

Police are searching for a masked man who shot Brian Thompson, 50, outside a hotel in midtown Manhattan
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
A taste of things to come?
ETA: sad for the family n that, but I chuckled darkly to myself when I read that the target of the shooting was a ‘good person’. He was the CEO of a US health care ffs.
 
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Orang Utan said:
The CEO of a healthcare company has been assassinated:
www.theguardian.com

Manhunt under way after ‘brazen’ attack that killed UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York City

Police are searching for a masked man who shot Brian Thompson, 50, outside a hotel in midtown Manhattan
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
A taste of things to come?
ETA: sad for the family n that, but I chuckled darkly to myself when I read that the target of the shooting was a ‘good person’. He was the CEO of a US health care ffs.
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No justice. Just us.
 
so suspect can be narrowed down 1/4 of the US population

don't worry once trump and RFK jr get their will be less of this kinda thing as less people will have medical cover
 
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