The army’s duty is to stop this fascist: https://www.aurianneor.org/the-armys-duty-is-to-stop-this-fascist/

#army #aurianneor #conservative #DonaldTrump #family #fascist #honor #norms #republican #rules #traditions
#democracy #king #nazi #duty

One of the peculiar aspects of analyzing America's descent into overt fascism during the second Trump administration is the way frustration with liberal orthodoxy surrounding the effectiveness of "rules and norms" in curtailing governmental abuses of power, and the blatantly unlawful behavior the regime regularly engages in, have worked to tamp down criticism of all the awful things this administration does that are merely morally wrong, while still being entirely legal. Of course it is completely rational to ask why Trump's predecessors in government considered relying on tradition and "norms" to prevent abuses of executive branch power a viable plan in the first place, but that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't criticize the regime for doing objectively fascist cracker bullshit to punish "enemies" of the white American Volk just because it's not strictly illegal. Take for example ICE's recent habit of occupying courtrooms with immigration agents, and coordinating with government lawyers to allow the detainment and expedited deportation of otherwise law-abiding migrants, effectively without due process.

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/ice-agents-courts-arrests-immigrants-deport/

ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests

"Reports began circulating on social media on Tuesday that ICE had begun efforts to get cases dismissed that had been pending for less than two years so that the agency could immediately apprehend immigrants and force them into an expedited removal process — effectively side-stepping the typical immigration court process.

“They’re moving to end those cases so they can move forward with a more aggressive form of deportation without the requirement to see a judge or request asylum,” Mackler said. “They’re basically circumventing due process.”

Although it's not clearly explained in this article, what's going on here is that the Trump regime has revived a 2019 policy that allows them to fast track deportations for migrants who can't prove they've been in the United States for loner than two years. This has then been combined with an ICE guidance issued in January that allows agents to conduct operations near courthouses “discreetly,” and active complicity by government attorneys, to create a cruel but effective trap. Migrants, even potential asylum seekers, can show up in court for their immigration cases, watch the government dismiss the charges, and then be detained for expedited deportation by masked Gestapo goons lounging around in the courtroom hallways for that purpose. Or, they can choose to skip the hearing, which will allow for immediate ICE detention and an automatic deportation order. Either way, the Trump regime gets to deport migrants without anything even resembling due process. Furthermore, just in case you think I'm being uncharitable and this is all just an unhappy accident caused by the interaction of shortsighted policy decisions, recent reporting in The Guardian indicates that this police state bullshit is entirely intentional on the part of the US Government.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/ice-arrests-immigration-courts

Ice arrests at immigration courts across the US stirring panic: ‘It’s terrifying’

"Three US immigration officials told the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity that government attorneys were given the order to start dismissing cases when they showed up for work on Monday, and were aware that federal agents would then be able to arrest those individuals when they left the courtroom.

In the case of Serrano in Miami, the request for dismissal was delivered by a government attorney who spoke without identifying herself on the record, the Associated Press reported. She refused to provide her name to the AP and quickly exited the courtroom."

Unfortunately, as far as I know and as I alluded to at the top of this post, this "tactic" to help facilitate an obviously white nationalist mass deportation scheme is completely legal. In fact, as this very article notes the Biden regime was using a similar expedited deportation process to rapidly deport migrants who'd been in the United States for less than two weeks, so in a round about way this is yet another example of America's long embrace of foundationally racist, xenophobic, and nativist immigration policies paving the way for Trump, a would-be fascist dictator, to circumvent the law and US constitution to do white nationalist authoritarian repression. Of course Biden wasn't sending masked goon squads full of Proud Boys with an immigration badge to trap migrants actively *trying* to obey US immigration law, and therein lies the rub. Just because America's long embrace of fascism, white supremacy, and police state repression allows Trump to do something, doesn't mean we have to pretend that he should do that thing, or that it's perfectly fine when he does so. This is fascism, legal or otherwise.

#Fascism #Trump #ICE #DHS #Courts #Migrants #Immigration #USConsitution #Gestapo #CivilRights #DueProcess #Norms #WhiteNationalism #Nativism #PoliceState

Abrasive Working Practices:
‘IETF working groups are characterized by frank exchanges and robust conversations. […] #Confrontation is a test, a way to guarantee high-quality contributions.’

Dr. Corinne Cath @C__CS https://criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/LoudMen-CorinneCath-CriticalInfraLab.pdf

#standardization #norms #networkPolitics #standards #excellence #internet #internetGovernance #anthropology #sociology #tech #neutrality #STS #techCulture #engineering #ethics #masculinity #reputation #workPlace #workCulture #workCollectives #collectives #IETF

“Similarly, our #individual #bodies and #minds are mere coagulations or decelerations in the flow of #biomass, #genes, #memes and #norms.” - #ManuelDeLanda, A Thousand Years of #Nonlinear #History #philosophy

Lots of #foodforthought about #socialnorms & #social relations.🤔

In #Japan, ‘friendship marriages’ provide #partnership outside societal #norms
" #friendshipmarriages r a "desperate measure" w added practical rewards of #socialsecurity benefits.. 2024 survey of married #couples by Japan #FamilyPlanning Association revealed tt more than 60% of respondents were in #sexless #marriages, defined as having #sex less than once a month, a #trend tt has been steadily increasing"
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/in-japan-friendship-marriages-provide-partnership-outside-societal-norms/ar-AA1DczQX

#Sunday #ontology #norms #normative #lunatics #asylum When they have taken over it strikes me that the above n & n aren't really applicable. A tad #dystopian but you know me by know, lah! ✊ 😎 🤣 💖 🇪🇺

And yes, the #Trump #Regime is dellusional thinking the #USA is irreplaceable when in fact it most certainly is!

• Noone in the #EU wants their gas-guzzling, oversized #SuperUselessVehicles and wannabe-#Trucks because they completely go against any #regulations and #norms in #Europe, being overweight, inefficient, polluting and not even legally #trucks to begin with!

#Manufacturers like "P.R." #China, #Vietnam, #Japan, #India et. al. are quick to #pivot to other #markets like the #EU and the #GlobalSouth.

• Just like penalizing #tariffs and #taxes in #Brazil didn't really get them much #industrialization and instead merely made certain items and products just unaffordably expensive to import and buy.

The matter of the fact is that this ain't 1945: the #US needs the #world more than vice-versa, espechally since the world moves on and both #EU and #NATO will continue to exist, thrive and expand even without the USA!

• In fact, #SouthKorea and #Japan are already #cooperating re: #defense with the EU and most nations bordering "P.R. #China" start to work on contingencies not only re: #Taiwan, but also #Beijing's aggression and #Pyongyang|s continued violations as well as #Russia|n activity...

#EUpol #USpol

#insight #infrastructure #norms #culture

um .. thisa post below 👇 gotta me thinkin' y'all [ 🤔 ] as itsa better to be a "shit-for-brains" ignorant f..ker in the UK than be knowledgeable & sorta see the .. ya know .. "writing on the wall" and .. um .. get fings in focus. Itza "capital offence" almost .. ain't it .. if ya that type of "shithead" ⁉️ Itza an ironic but important distinction ‼️👽

#OwenJones84 #skynews #politics #society #norms #subversive #mainstream #ideas #ironies #paradoxes #hypocracies

💬 " 'Canada will never, ever be part of America', incoming PM says"

🤝Every decent American agrees wholeheartedly.

This is awkward.

We can't really apologize for the idiocy any more than one can apologize for an alcoholic uncle. 🫢

But we can say: we value you and we value your autonomy -- and good folks are working to remove those bad folks from decent society.

All of us deserve better than this nonsense.

🌐https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/czjep2ddynro

#exile #nonsense #norms #fascists

There is a reason that, rather than letting legal codes alone protect expression, liberal societies rely on a robust norm of free speech. The basic processes of democracy require that we all feel free to disagree with one another in the public sphere; without such a norm, it's impossible to deliberate as democracy requires. To abandon that norm is to give up the means by which people in democracies make decisions....Yet thinkers on the left and the right have failed, in many cases, to grapple with this.
-- Fredrik deBoer (Wash Post August 11, 2017)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FredrikdeBoer #Democracy #FreeSpeech #Norms

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Books

@thedailyshow.com called out @maddow.msnbc.com among others for overusing #authoritarian and #fascist when so far all #DumbassJTrump has done is work the system we gave him. Could #TRMS give us an outline for #Project2029 when #Democrats strike back to put pre-2017 #norms into law, please?

Jon Stewart On Whether Dems' "...

Test Your Intuition (57): Are All Norms Nice?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/test-your-intuition-57-are-all-norms-nice/

PsyArXiv Preprints | Inside the Funhouse Mirror Factory: How #SocialMedia Distorts #Perceptions of #Norms
#perception #viral

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/kgcrq

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

«
After a survey of all our civil wars, with a wealth of detail you urged the Senate, while they feared the warnings of the civil wars within their memory, to draw the inference that, as the earlier combatants had shown a ruthlessness hitherto quite unprecedented in the Republic, so whosoever should subseque…
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/35365/

#quote #quotes #quotation #baseline #example #justification #model #norms #precedent

More and more institutionalists are (hopefully) coming to terms with the notion that #norms are not impediments to fascism...in fact, many of them *became* norms for that specific reason.
#supremeCourt #alito https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/supreme-court-analysis-sam-alito-cringe.html

☝️
Rep. Quigley:
I think you've seen the fighting Spirit...I, I think you'll see more of it. I'd like to think there's some #norms that we want to continue that are important, but you don't want to be become as bad...you know, to become the devil to defeat the devil. So I do think there's some limits to how far we will go just to win, uh, a particular battle. And I'd like to think the American people recognize that...

Required watching for Congress' Dems (@12 min mark)
https://youtu.be/HNcmo-K5Xsg?si=DX0FgIgul5ub_2oS

(2/2) Social #norms are powerful. The shift how people think about #sugar drinks shows we could also imagine a healthier #foodsystem. Now people think: Why drink so much #soda? But what if we ask: Why doesn’t the food in our #grocery stores keep us healthy? https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/10/bay-area-soda-taxes-dont-just-affect-sales-they-help-change-peoples-minds/ #meattax

#Soda taxes don’t just affect #sales, they help change people’s minds. #Taxes on sugary #beverages, coupled with #media attention, coincided with real changes in social #norms & attitudes about the healthfulness of such drinks... (1/2) https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/10/bay-area-soda-taxes-dont-just-affect-sales-they-help-change-peoples-minds/ #sugartax #sugar #nutrition