Again: this is an elite freak-out over people exercising their free speech rights in perfectly reasonably, peaceful ways.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1523877267264487426 …
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It shouldn't really matter where you stand on abortion. You have to accept that people have a right to peacefully (even if loudly) protest public officials. The move to delegitimize this protest using lies (i.e. Alito's family had to flee) is outrageous
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However flawed & limited USA democracy has been, it's long had one great silver lining: robust free speech culture & right to organize & protest. The pushback against protesting at this moment would deny even that, which makes all the other democratic regressions even worse.
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In retrospect, the mass movements of the Trump era, peaking with the George Floyd protests, freaked out elites (not just the GOP). What we've seen since has been attempt to put the genie back in the bottle.
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The sad part is that if they press down hard enough out of fear of violence, that's almost guaranteed to unleash a lot of actual violence.
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fundamentally, this also allows them to appear *above* it while also appearing to be in *control* of it. This is similar to how before the revolutionary war, the elites spent their time trying to send petitions while colonists spent their time doing 'rough music.'
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"Codifying Roe" isn't going to do anything to prevent that though, same SCOTUS that overturned it will just say feds lack authority under the commerce clause or whatever.
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There has to be a broad-based pushback against courts, which includes laws but also limits to courts power via court expansion and much more robust criticism of court's legitimacy.
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today I learned the term DARVO which is used to describe the tactics of abusers and those who enable them: Deny, Attack, *Reverse Victim and Offender*.
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are they calling Chevy Chase antifa? yes it is on my 2022 bingo card.
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