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They need an AI that can fellate Trump for them.
Goodthink at its finest.
Someone thinks he understands sarcasm.
"Look sending troops into cities with Black, Democratic mayors, in violation of posse comitatus, and ignoring red cities with much higher crime rates isn't a political thing. Not at all political."
Yeah, credit where it's due. The likeliest outcomes is more than 1,000 pink slips, so they went ahead and took that risk.
*accidentally posts "Nate Silver was right!" on main*
Those poor fishermen. đ
To the moon, one supposes.
It even destroys conscience in people who had one.
Just imagine if they covered police shootings that way. Juxtapose every headline with the number of people shot that day, weekend, or week by police.
* killed in self-defense.
IIRC, a "missionary" tried to visit an uncontacted group on some island, and he was shot dead with an arrow before hitting the beach. Perfectly legit FAFO in my opinion.
Now I have a powerful urge to try a taste of Malört.
Total immunity prompts the question, "Or what?" So OK, it's illegal. What if he keeps doing it? * The answer is, "Better watch out that the Republican legislature doesn't impeach your ass!"
The softball there is that we can even disagree what constitute the "works of Satan."
FWIW I received the "feedback" that I need to stop talking about politics at work, and was put on a pip....
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Clean up the wet spot.
I hate that kind of chatter because I have real trouble picking one voice out of the hubbub -- specifically, the person who's talking to me.
* We get that most people wonât recognize genocide as such if it doesnât involve gas chambers. We also know that theyâre wrong.
TIL that being against genocide is âself-righteous anger.â
Can confirm. Had a girlfriend explain the difference between gender and sex to me in 1994. So it not only existed, but WAâs recognized as distinct from sex, at least in college feminist circles.
Tilting at windmills, but in a golf cart. The man HATES windmills.
You understand what "terminating research" means, right? It means we KNOW not to listen to him--but the ones we WOULD listen to have been silenced.
"Ungrateful" here is code for "uppity."
I hear one of them said, "We're going to wipe out this fascist regime like I wipe out the homeless in California!"
Hands are wringingâŠ
You know that joke about, âitâs not that youâre lying to me: itâs the disrespectâ? In Stephen Millerâs case, it amuses the hell out of him, knowing that you know heâs lying to you. He takes pleasure in knowing that you are well aware of the disrespect.
How do we know they canât win on principle? It would be nice to see them try at least.
This latest example comes from the guy who started out making a website for people to rate the fuckability of women at Harvard.
No need to get insulted. But if you have a province banning books, then you have a fascism problem. I don't think it really matters how small a minority [you think] they are.
If even Canada is trending fascist, It really does seem to be a global phenomenon. This would seem like Bob Altemeyerâs time to shine. What the hell itâs going on? Can those researchers into right-wing authoritarianism tell us?
Black and brown people must always be grateful and white people do not. They only have righteous grievances.
Yeah they never say that when the deceased was white. Only black people "should have complied with a lawful order."
Can we get her back? Iâll gladly trade 100 ICE goons for her.
Lord love a beaverduck.
IT DOESNâT IT DOESNâT DO THAT AT ALL IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
one that annoys me is that what these people think is cutting edge new political thinking is just warmed over slaveholder ideology
I stopped listening after a few minutes, but it sounded like they were also proposing to repeal the 14th Amendment. I didn't listen long enough to hear whether their issue was with birthright citizenship, or the banning of slavery.
So basically we have our very own Gaza in the works, except our Hispanic population hasn't been moved into ghettos.
TIL that I've been a rebel all my life!
100% this. Having been a right-winger prior to 2003, I could honestly say that the right left me as much as I left it. The bits I agreed with them on are all long abandoned.
I honestly think it's a plus that Dear Leader is literally the dumbest man alive. It reassures the others that being white is literally the ONLY qualification necessary, and that the dumbest white man is the equal of the smartest black man.
According to research like Bob Altemeyer, authoritarians can be made as well. But I agree that this shit was born that way.
They since opened the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter in a church basement, which provides space for 24 of the estimated 500-600 unhoused people in Cambridge on any given night.
I'm glad "warming centers" exist. Back when I was in college, I remember reading about Harvard blocking access to steam grates because the unhoused would huddle around them trying to get warm.
Nobody said your name. You self-identified. Who are we to doubt your self-knowledge?
The irony being that even if we grant that "not all white people," the ones who take offense and flip out, like you're doing, are definitely not the exception. "Not all white people," but you for sure.
This is the kind of shit that led directly to the aristocracy forcing King John to sign the Magna Carta.
Or misspelling potatoe.
I'd only offer one caveat: fat guys can't easily help it. With plump thighs it's hard to bring one's knees together without a hydraulic jack.
White people don't have to prove anything. That's what makes them "supreme."
Cars around my college in 1989 had signs in the windows that said "No radio." One car had the glass all out of one window, and a sheet of plastic taped in its place, with a sign that said "No more radio."
LeVar Burton's move to Reading Rainbow really was life-changing. He's like the Mr. Rogers of books now.
Ming-gus.
I hope your hypothetical is dead wrong, but I agree that before the worst is over we're going to discover plenty of atrocities. I'll restrain myself from imagining out loud because I'm already too horrified. One thing we can be sure of: the victims will be primarily Hispanic.
In the hypothetical Nuremberg trials after this is all over, most people won't even stand trial. But the people who knew better, or should have, and had a duty of care to act, can and should be charged with some sort of dereliction, at the very least.
I would call people like Schumer and Jeffries either fascists or Vichy collaborators. It's their job to "protect and defend the constitution" and they're not only doing nothing about the fascists in power, but they're actively collaborating with them.
Also the most outrageous aspects of Nazi rule were imposed gradually and then normalized, so what would have outraged them if done all at once became routine. They also blamed the worst excesses on "bad apples." Mayer's interviewees considered themselves decent, law-abiding, apolitical folks.
Well, I think back to Milton Mayer's book, "They Thought They Were Free." Basically if you asked Germans what it was like living under fascist totalitarianism, they'd think you were nuts. For most of them, life rolled along pretty much the same as it always had; they would say things weren't so bad.
One problem with harm reduction is that even under good circumstances, it does nothing about the ratcheting effect. The less harmful ruler does less harm, but seldom reverses the wrongs done by their predecessors. And that's the optimistic scenario.
Frankly revolutions suck ass, and when the dust settles we're as likely to be ruled by Ayatollahs from Tennessee as anything else. There's nothing about revolution that makes positive outcomes more likely than awful ones.
Way too many people are literally fascist. Maybe 1/3 of the country? Or maybe closer to half? I don't know, and regardless it's way too large a minority. But most of us just wish this MFer would die already, and hope that things will go back to "normal" when he does. We don't want a revolution.
It's the difference between what we'd prefer to be, what we're willing to put up with, and what sacrifices we're willing to make to redress our grievances.
I don't think most people are fascist--I just think most people aren't anti-fascist enough to take action. A fascist takeover sucks... in principle. And in practice, at least somewhat. But most people's daily lives are basically unaffected. So their choice is the status quo or massive inconvenience.
It has pretty solid appeal to travelers who want at least some vague approximation of "home cooked" food, some drinks and snacks for the trip, maybe a book on tape to listen to, and little toys for the kids and tchotchkes for the relatives. It was a regular stop on my family trips.
An electable politician at least gives people the illusion of being heard.
She didn't even cultivate the illusion of caring about the plight of the Palestinians. Party leadership as a whole decided not to platform even pro-Harris Palestinian voices; the attendees ignored protesters outside as if they were homeless pickpockets; and Harris pulled her "I am speaking" stunt.
Sounds like cake season!
I don't believe for a second that Jeffries is intentionally acting as an agent of the Republicans in general and Trump in particular. But I do ask myself what he would do differently if that were the case.
Has someone checked on him? He can't raise his elbows above shoulder height. If he's fallen down, he probably can't get up.
And lest I be unclear, one of the things I'm explicitly including is Biden's failure to prosecute the shit out of Trump, possibly including the decision to Gitmo his ass. You don't peacefully transfer power to der FĂŒhrer.
You might be right. And if so, canceling the election or restricting the franchise would only be the final straw. Its roots go back much further, and include significant failures by every living president, including Clinton, Obama, on oh my God including Biden. None of them took this seriously.
In a do-over, my Constitution would include not only ranked-choice voting, an absolute cap on total wealth of any entity, and restrictions on money in politics, but it would do its damndest to make parties illegal.
Also the phrase "the party system" is kind of offensive in and of itself. The existence of parties is arguably unconstitutional. It's an organization that directs the legislators, judges, and executives, non-bindingly but still powerfully, to act in concert, contrary to Constitutional separation.
Because if the political process has broken down that completely, the only option left is basically revolution. It's certainly not voting blue (no matter who!), if the newly-elected will simply proclaim THEIR hands likewise tied.
Indeed it's both a funny and an offensive notion that the office holders' hands are tied by the lack of Constitutional options, while it's our fault in our hovels and hamlets for not rising up and ousting the tyrant. We have more tools than Jeffries? Besides muskets?
Protecting and defending the constitution is everyone's job. There are limited tools provided in the constitution for addressing a complete failure to follow the Constitution--e.g., to impeach a corrupt President--but that's no excuse for inaction.
The line between "populism" and "grievance politics" is basically nonexistent here. All the way back to Goldwater, the pitch has been that "real" Americans -- meaning white ones -- have been betrayed by "elites," meaning desegregationists. Trump hasn't changed the message except to target Hispanics.
I'm still waiting for you to translate your flippant assertion that ordinary voters can somehow take this party, which is cooperating fully with the fascists now, and convert it into a party that will resist, overthrow, and bring to justice the fascists, and now not 60 years from now. Still waiting.
Do you really believe that rank-and-file Democrat voters have the power to replicate a change that was purposely cultivated by party elites in order to exploit white supremacy for political gain? Can you connect the dots for me?
The populism of the GOP has roots back before I was born: it grew out of the Southern strategy and the backlash to the Civil Rights Act. Goldwater exposed it; Nixon capitalized on it; and Reagan gave it a genteel face. It goes back 60 years, and had massive support at the top.
I think thatâs partly true, but I think itâs also a fantasy to say âthe Democratic Party is just all us democrats!â Not all voices are equal. Donors and existing leadership have enormously disproportionate say. There is a machine in place that serves to resist any change toward the left or populism.
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Jeffries is going HARD against Mamdani. He isnât holding anything back. All with quiet âbless your heartâ energy.
It was pitch perfect, actually. He went Uncle Ruckus on Mamdani without going full Uncle Ruckus, which makes the racists uncomfortable. âI tried to talk about NYC and its needs, but he decided to fuck off to Africa to go dance in the jungle or whateverâ is what white people heard.
Jeffries speaks fluent racist, thatâs for sure. Heâs almost a Chapelle sketch.
The only response to that weasely asshole is to press him on the real question: whereâs your endorsement then? Whereâs your âvote blue no matter whoâ now? This âwe havenât withheld itâ is bullshit. Where is it then? Did it get lost in the mail? Did your dog eat it? Heâs such a POS.
âOh, you DID endorse him! I canât imagine how I missed that!â
Now youâve seen that the party itself was saying that in bad faith. They donât believe it; they just say it to make us shut up and accept whatever dogshit candidate they choose to offer us.
You donât give any more of a shit for the Hispanic people theyâre rounding up than you do for the Palestinians Biden helped exterminate. There tokens TO YOU, because you use them to play shell games with human rights.
Weâre simultaneously too insignificant to bother with and single-handedly responsible for Trumpâs election.
Iâm talking about you. Youâve demonstrated that youâre willing to sacrifice the civil rights of trans people. Youâre who I meant.
âŠyouâre just happy to throw trans people under the bus because you never cared about them in the first place. You never believed that civil rights were for everyone, and you never cared when someone ELSE had their rights stripped away, as long as it wasnât you.
Remember all the people who heard us warning about Biden, who told us to hold our noses, âvote blue no matter who,â and then âpush him leftâ after the election? Where were they when the time came to âpush him leftâ? Thatâs how we know that youâre not sacrificing trans people for any âgreater goodâ
Transphobes are fascists. They just disagree which people to send to the camps.
Why do the âvote blue no matter whoâ creeps come out of the woodwork to defend bigots and other pieces of garbage, but never to hound the democrats who wonât endorse Mamdaniâwho is in fact the blue candidate for mayor of NYC.
Once the tyrant notices you, he will hound you to the depths of Hell. It doesn't matter what you did, and it doesn't matter what you do. The only respite from the tyrant is that most people are beneath his notice.
The Nuremberg laws, but for Hispanic people.
"Hi! My name is Nigel, I'm 37, I live in Chiswick, and I'm just very, so very, into 'teen stepsister feet'."