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Resist. Yes. This is what they need to be doing, and not just rolling over and capitulating. More of this please. So. Much. More.
this congress will rubber-stamp whatever ‘substantive rationale’ white house minions can pull out of the diaper, but at least it gives 30 days for ig to come up with a plan to preserve the independence and integrity of the folks tasks with government oversight.
from the wiki:
In the United States, Office of Inspector General (OIG) is a generic term for the oversight division of a federal or state agency aimed at preventing inefficient or unlawful operations within their parent agency. Such offices are attached to many federal executive departments, independent federal agencies, as well as state and local governments. Each office includes an inspector general (or IG) and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating fraud, waste, abuse, embezzlement and mismanagement of any kind within the executive department.
kinda obvious why lord diaper wants to get rid of them.
Do not obey in advance.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy. Perhaps rulers did not initially know that citizens were willing to compromise this value or that principle. Perhaps a new regime did not at first have the direct means of influencing citizens one way or another. After the German elections of 1932, which brought Nazis into government, or the Czechoslovak elections of 1946, where communists were victorious, the next crucial step was anticipatory obedience. Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly toward a full regime change. The first heedless acts of conformity could not then be reversed.
resistance doesn’t look like this, i watched donald trump and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff walk through a peaceful protest while they were being gassed and beaten to a church he’d never been to, to hold up a bible he’d never read. real resistance will only begin once we’ve been hurt enough to start taking out railroads and airports.
Are you… gatekeeping resistance?
How does this make sense to you? There’s worse things happening so nope, not good enough, let’s all go home?
This is not what solidarity looks like. If we don’t start there, we kinda lost already - and they know this. And so do you.
