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   djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 10:36:39 JST djsumdog

   • redwhitebluedude

   So tell my why this doesn't violate the Posse Comitatus Act?

   It's so cute all these conservatives and embracing blanket authoritarianism that they'd all be shitting themselves over if it was Biden.

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 10:44:03 JST djsumdog

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     • Matt Hamilton
     🤔 ... No, what's that other one .. not Libertarian .. not Commie .. what's the one that wants giant meteor?
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 10:44:05 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @djsumdog @redwhitebluedude what are you, a Demonrat?!

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:00:41 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @djsumdog @redwhitebluedude You can tell people it's a uniparty. You can tell them it's all corrupt. You can tell them the two parties exist for each to do things the other can't (without resistance).

     They will agree with you.

     Then the executive will dream up some "emergency" shit to deploy domestic military forces "against leftists" and the "Conservative" seals all clap in unison.

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:01:11 JST Matt Hamilton

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     • LostInCalifornia

     @LostInCalifornia @djsumdog @redwhitebluedude > promised [to] the states

     My friend, the States lost all say after 1865.

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     LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:01:12 JST LostInCalifornia

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     @eriner @djsumdog @redwhitebluedude If the Guard can be taken over by Washington whenever it wants, then the “militia” that the Second Amendment promised the states — and the people — isn’t really there. That undercuts not just state sovereignty, but the deeper principle that the people themselves should have a defense outside of federal control.

     https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really-controls-the-national

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     LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:01:51 JST LostInCalifornia

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     @eriner @djsumdog @redwhitebluedude Hardly, hun. If you make that argument it would be 1792 or the Whiskey Rebellion, but the confederacy that ended there was barely creaking along.

     If you think the federal government is the problem, I'm sure you're outraged about the federal government taking stock in private corporations, and installing hall monitors at news stations?

     No? If not, hypocrisy is your brand (and most states's rights argument are just that.)

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:01:51 JST Matt Hamilton

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     • LostInCalifornia

     @LostInCalifornia @djsumdog @redwhitebluedude

     > it would be 1792 or the Whiskey Rebellion

     Sure, but the Civil War (and puppet installment during reconstruction) was the death knell. I mark the beginning of the end at Marbury v Madison (1803), but it was a sure thing by the end of Civil War.

     > I'm sure you're outraged about the federal government taking stock in private corporations

     I'm against nationalization, yes. https://noauthority.social/@eriner/115075825651102373

     > hall monitors at news stations?

     What?

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     LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:25:29 JST LostInCalifornia

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     @eriner @djsumdog @redwhitebluedude He installed a political officer at CBS to monitor their news as a condition for the recent merger, and is threatening to do the same at ABC and NBC. (Also, as an aside, we know he watches MSNBC).

     You have an interesting argument with Marbury. Jefferson thought it should be Congress that makes the decisions, but Jefferson was not involved with writing the constitution other than holding it hostage for a bill of rights. Judicial review is not undemocratic. Hamilton is your guy if you want to understand intent.

     The states do have some rights. The Civil War death knell was for the idea that states could ignore human rights the federal government recognized (that's the original purpose of the 14th). Federal law supercedes state law, except where the state law is more liberal. That's a legal concept that has been upheld repeatedly.

     They can maintain a militia at the governor's command, and not the president's for their statewide defense (and wildfire or hurricane response is a defense outside of the federal government's control, especially now that he's gutted federal coordination).

     OTOH, the federal government is expressly forbidden from using the military for law enforcement. EXPRESSLY forbidden.

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:26:28 JST djsumdog

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     • Matt Hamilton

     "There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

     -2000s Battlestar Galactic

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:38:31 JST Matt Hamilton

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     • LostInCalifornia

     @LostInCalifornia @djsumdog @redwhitebluedude > He installed a political officer at CBS

     Corporate news is indistinguishable from the State.

     > The states do have some rights

     How's that 10th amendment doing?

     > a legal concept that has been upheld repeatedly

     Lol. Like I said, 1803. Marbury v Madison.

     > the federal government is expressly forbidden from using the military for law enforcement

     You don't understand, it's an *emergency*. Kind of like Iraq. Wait, I mean Iran.

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:41:33 JST djsumdog

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     Recent "emergencies" have included .. Fentanyl? (which allows for international sales tax / a.k.a Tariffs / also love how conservative love federal sales tax now), a Scamdemic of a "virus" that may or may not have been rebranded flu (it literally doesn't even matter if SARS-CoV-2 was real, does it?), whiteness/blackness ... I mean the term "emergency" is used so much it's literally lost all meaning.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:45:35 JST djsumdog

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     • raintrees (ancap in nw-cali)
     There's a Dobb's Town joke in here somewhere
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     raintrees (ancap in nw-cali) (raintrees@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 12:45:36 JST raintrees (ancap in nw-cali)

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     @djsumdog @eriner @redwhitebluedude Heaven's Gate?