K2kel

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AI-generated emergency responder wearing a helmet with a Celtic knot as identifying insignia
Faced with an angry public but committed to a rigid agenda of nativist brutality, the president and his coterie of ideologues are playing the only move they seem to have: wanton violence and threats of further escalation. They think this will break their opposition. But looking at the ironclad resolve of ordinary Minnesotans to protect their homes and defend their neighbors, I think the administration is more likely to break on their opposition and learn, as the British did in Boston, that Americans are quite jealous of their liberties.
Malicious compliance (also known as malicious obedience) is the behavior of strictly following all orders, laws, and rules to the letter; ignoring things that go without saying and doing things only by the book, reducing efficiency. This usually involves going to work on time, leaving on time, and completing lawfully ordained yet unnecessary and usually ignored safety checks. Malicious compliance is a common method by unions when they cannot strike and puts emphasis on the unpaid work laborers do for their companies. A form of passive-aggressive behavior,[1] it is often associated with poor management-labor relationships, micromanagement, a generalized lack of confidence in leadership, and resistance to changes perceived as pointless, duplicative, dangerous, or otherwise undesirable. It is common in organizations with top-down management structures lacking morale, leadership or mutual trust. In U.S. law, this practice has been theorized as a form of uncivil obedience, in contrast to civil disobedience.[2][3]
quarter will be given." The 1863 Lieber Code —the famous U.S. government rules governing military conduct during the Civil War-provides: "Whoever intentionally inflicts additional wounds on an enemy already wholly disabled, or kills such an enemy, or who orders or encourages soldiers to do so, shall suffer death, if duly convicted, whether he belongs to the Army of the United States, or is an enemy captured after having committed his misdeed." And the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons "placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack." The Manual defines "hors de combat" to include "persons... otherwise incapacitated by ….. shipwreck."
cartoon of Trump in a sombrero with the caption “El Pendejo”