People are asking a lot “how is this happening?” It’s happening the way abolitionists have warned you for decades it’s happening — you can’t dehumanize whole groups of people, pay for their brutalization & not expect for more bounty hunters to come.

If you're to the right of Bill Kristol on Abolish ICE. man couldn't be me. Lol

my perhaps puritanical opinion is that this stuff is brain poison and exposing yourself to it makes you stupider. I'm sure there are right-leaning historians and classicists who contribute worthwhile research to the commons but right-wing political theory is ex post facto practically by definition

We are dealing with Trump 2 because of this. Dems are always all "awww we know you made a mistake it's OK we forgive you just don't do it again" to white supremacists and every one of you looks like a goddamn idiot. They're done. No hope. Fuck em

being anti-trans is highly correlated with supporting right-wing ideals, fascism, and also being a gullible fuckwit it fucking matters who the blue is if you're gonna vote blue

Chat is it good when the guy you elected to represent you in Congress who decides how your hard earned tax money is spent says "I don't know what I'm doing" out loud

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

I love when people who are professionally wrong for a living describe it as being really into "nuance"

we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.

More and more people are saying that the center-left political elite has its own omnicause reactionism problem centered around personal grievances against pro-Palestine students and transgender people.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time

I actually think it's pretty easy to explain. Younger people didn't buy into an older neoliberal elite's prejudices, the older neoliberal elite absolutely lost their shit at the notion that they might be called on to change, and fascists exploited that reactionary moment

So NOW can we have that conversation that the United States having the world's largest carceral state, the most (and most heavily armed) cops, the most prisoners, and the most cages, has never been about safety and always been about institutional racism and suppressing dissent?

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

Every lie told by this regime, no matter how brazen, shocking, or dehumanizing, makes perfect sense when I think about their claim that immigrants were eating pets in Ohio. It's not about evidence or credibility, it's about pushing narratives to facilitate ethnic cleansing.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Yes, that’s exactly it. The whole reason they’re there is they want revenge for the George Floyd protests

they summarily executed a fucking nurse in the street and the best i’m hearing from our senators is “get ICE in check”

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

I guess I am a bit of a chaos bisexual but it’s in less of an Ilya Rozanov way and more of a “Beaker from the Muppets” way

We’re gonna need to set aside an entire year to Nuremberg all these people

Anti-vax rhetoric should carry the same legal consequences as death threats. Because that's what it is! It's a threat to spread deadly disease!

every so often there's a parent who decides their kid doesn't need insulin and when the kid dies we put the parents in jail

honestly if we're talking structural flaws of america i think having oppositional defiant disorder be a key part of your national identity kind of works against the concept of governance

"Guuuuuuys, you're making us look baaaaaaad."

It is 100% a culture war. There is no value in this dogshit. None. Look, the WORST people want you to use AI. Corporate America. CEOs. Management types. Republicans. Trump. No one you respect or admire is saying it's good.

The people who insist democrats are fighting Trump as hard as they can are more delusional than Trump

“They’re terrified of seeming unwilling to kill their own voters”

Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.

given how important science fiction has been to the direction and ambitions of big tech, i don't think we talk nearly enough about the fact that all science fiction (yes, even the mathiest hard sci-fi you can name) fundamentally relies on the existence of magic

A big element of what feels broken is that when Trump floats something that is polling 10% support to 90% against, his admin knows the Democratic Party pushback will be weak, if it happens at all.

Why is something happening? Well, what is it that someone who review bombs a Tomb Raider game for being too woke would want their government to do in this situation? That's probably why

This is the poster administration and it helps to understand who they're posting for: essentially, the biggest scumbag Steam forum trolls in the world

Look I don’t know if we’re gonna get this guy charged before he has to be kidnapped from Argentina in 2031, but it’s gonna happen

It’s vital to understand that this is not new behavior from US law enforcement. Absolutely vital. The only thing that’s changed is that sometimes it has affected white people and many more white people are paying attention as a result.

I've heard from people within DHS itself that no one really thinks Trump is calling the shots

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia. It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.

They must be SO mad watching Renee Good become the murdered folk hero they wanted Charlie Kirk to be

I’m sorry, when Noem is repeating the justification that wiped out Poles and Czech villages for vengeance for SS officers, no amount of “training” can fix DHS. So maybe, just maybe, our elected officials should stop acting the fools and/or cowards. We are past dogwhistles.

This is going to be a crucial moment for Democratic voters.

listening to third way democrats for what ails the democratic party's electoral issues is like taking ivermectin and apple cider vinegar to treat aggressive, metastatic pancreatic cancer

The reason for all those moralistic lefty "purity tests" was that each and every concession made to these people gets them closer to their goal.

GOP: We will come to your home and kidnap you. We will kill you if you object. We will cleanse the streets of you. You are like rodents. We laugh as we squish you beneath our feet. You are not even human. Ours is the Fourth Reich. Democrats: Ignore that, we are only talking about the economy.

Man this guy really was just profoundly unequipped for the moment. The average wine mom liberal that comprises your base is to the left of Mao and this is the best you can do?

Liberal pundits are everywhere in the MSM talking about how MAGA voters are angry because they feel that Liberals do not like/respect them. There is no equivalent version of this where Conservative pundits talk about how the rest of the country feels about whether they are liked/respected.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

THE WHOLE ASS POINT

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