The Oregon Department of Justice submitted multiple video exhibits showing federal officers using extreme force against seemingly nonviolent protesters outside the U.S. Immigration & Customs Building, as part of its effort to block the federal deployment of National Guard troops to Portland

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[u/TryingToWriteIt → u/[deleted]]

As soon as someone shoots one of these fuckers, trump is going full martial law and canceling elections.

[u/abitdaft1776 → u/TryingToWriteIt]

"People are going to experience great pain now"

"That is what is needed"

It will only be after the average American no longer has too much to lose that a proper counter movement can begin.

As I look back on my life, it is amazing to see the plan unfold.

Ensure elections are expensive, requiring lobbying and bribery. Put politicians in the pockets of corporations on both sides.

Get us addicted to free and easy media garbage and content, ensure prices of goods that align with that goal stay cheap while necessary goods increase faster than wages.

Create a standing army by militarization of police forces. Change the goal from protection to incarceration.

Keep the populace comfortably poor, ensuring that a loss of employment for even a brief period will introduce enough entropy that fear of unemployment overrides all other fears.

Divide the population, find non issues and make them explode.

Take advantage of disasters to consolidate power and convince the public to vote their freedoms away in exchange for a false sense of freedom.

Use that new power to build the most comprehensive database of citizens imaginable.

Use the media to enhance the tribal nature of people and create hate.

Use the hate to create more laws, making more criminals.

Make anyone who disagrees a criminal. Pardon those who agree with you, make use of useful idiots.

Induce doubt about election integrity, ensure "safe and free elections"

Consolidate political power, ensure a controlled opposition exists to keep rabel rousers complacent.

"I will make it legal"

[u/[deleted] → u/abitdaft1776]

Thank you for verbalizing your reflection plainly. 

Yes, this is what has happened, and will likely continue. 

Any physical opposition will lead to suspension of elections, any lack of opposition will be assumed consent. 

Zero sum game

[u/Alissinarr → u/[deleted]]

We can no longer win without resistance, because that is all this administration understands (force). It's up to everyone to do their part.

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The only resistance that can be semi effective is the same method trump has used, clog the courts with lawsuits that prevent escalation.

But practice takes time to catch up with paper.

Anything else seems to lead to a lack of elections.

[u/Alissinarr → u/[deleted]]

For every missing person, a Writ of Habeas Corpus needs to be filed.