if anything was uniquely damaging in this family, it was probably the hereditary monarchy part

seeing how it's been revealed that essentially the entire US political apparatus is shaped by a network of child sex traffickers and their rapist clients, maybe we need to consider that law enforcement officers of any stripe can't be trusted to take minors into custody

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

all these horrible things are made possible on the back of Think of the Children! rhetoric because parents keep wanting to outsource their responsibilities

I didn't think it was possible to blackpill me, but then I learned that members of the faith healing cult I grew up in were literally recorded on the Nixon tapes designing the modern American health care insurance system with the intention that it would stop millions from using medicine and doctors.

People glaze over the whole “Peter Thiel and his friends literally believe poor people should be turned into biodiesel” thing WAY too often.

Idk if I’ll be able to find the post I’m thinking of with examples, but one insidious form of encouraging this sort of isolationism is when other countries have offered the US aid in the aftermath of natural disasters and the government refused

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

they’re operating off of arbitrary quotas so even having your paperwork in order doesn’t guarantee safety if they decide they need more bodies in detention to hit those numbers

now liberals please gather round, so we can walk you through the alternatives to “just voting.” this here is called Direct Action.

ICE just bought this building in Romulus to turn it into a detention center. In a matter of months, this could turn into a place that ruins lives. All that money should be saving lives—through healthcare, housing, or infrastructure. Why the hell are we spending our tax dollars on this? ABOLISH ICE.

the second amendment was for making it easier for settlers to kill indigenous people and put down slave revolts. no version of the US government wants you to be able to effectively overthrow them

why don't you want to adopt the tech that you using trains it to replace you and land you in destitution?

live your life such that total strangers won’t say this about you to a federal judge

DTE's playbook: Donate to politicians ➡️ Those politicians appoint friendly regulators ➡️ Request a rate hike from regulators ➡️ Get approved ➡️ Profit billions ➡️ Repeat. Definition of corruption. That's why I don't take money from DTE or any corporation.

"Why would the president pursue military action against the country without nuclear weapons instead of the one with nuclear weapons" is a question that answers itself when stated plainly, and also explains why any regime wary of foreign intervention would rationally pursue a nuclear arsenal.

this guy could just be queening out in Mar-a-Lago, listening to show tunes. he’d be happier and maybe fewer people would be getting penned inside warehouses

the “emergency” he was using to justify his tariffs was mostly him not understanding what a trade deficit is

This is actually one of the major turning points that got us where we are today. The infantalisation of the American public ("bloo bloo Americans would be traumatised by seeing a President in the dock!") stunted the maturing of our democracy *just* as we were reforming it root and branch.

I know Gavin fucked her over, but the solution isn’t to become a Stepford wife :/

negative honor in going off to die in a pointless war at the behest of this demented rapist

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

lady thinks autism is worse than encephalitis and has three other kids to potentially murder

A lot of post-WWII apologetics for fascist governments was built on the claim they did not murder millions. The deaths, so the claim went, were due to disease or starvation. Even if it were true of all deaths (it is not), those deaths were still foreseeable and preventable. Still murder.

Explaining Republican politics:

any of the taxation is theft guys decrying this or do they see it as aspirational?

these guys are drawing their crosses on themselves. I have never had a priest make one that looked like a cross, the line was long and they were in a hurry so you’d just get a smudge

Taibbi not taking rape seriously? weird

Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.

the really weird revisionist history aspect of this rhetoric is that Twitter used to be openly hostile to journalists/op-ed columnists too. there would be mass pile-ons and then follow up cry typed articles whose central thesis was "how dare all these plebs point out that I'm kind of an idiot!"

the dynamics of the US going to war with Iran are basically, pointing out that their government is killing civilians, so US troops should swoop in and kill them instead

my radical position on abortion is that women, girls, trans men, trans boys, and any enbies that are capable of becoming pregnant are inherently more valuable than any pregnancy and should always be given priority

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

grinding my teeth to powder every time I had to hear or read some dipshit call this man the anti-war candidate. we don't *have* an anti-war party, that's the problem

With alt text, so everyone can be able to read it

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

a chicken in every pot 🚫 cancer in every body ✅

abolish ICE for their own safety

and it’s only February

love being told constantly how I gotta get in on the psychosis generator because it is inevitable and I have no choice

women hold up half the sky 🚫 women hold up half the Reich ✅

“Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday, the seventh since the start of the year and nearly the 40th since Trump took office. ICE has not updated its website to reflect this latest detainee death as of the time of this writing.”

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't. They won't only be for brown and Black people. The targets will keep expanding. It will not end. The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

Do Americans know that in 39 states it is ILLEGAL to boycott Israel? I wrote about it today because we have a chance in Illinois to right this wrong. But I'm realizing most Americans have no idea Netanyahu spent at least $25M to criminalize boycotts of Israel. www.qasimrashid.com/p/illinois-m...

remember when warnings about not RSVPing to a protest were dismissed as paranoid hysterics?

love getting lectured about how the Left needs to stop alienating men women aren’t allowed to be alienated by this, of course, cause then you’re a mean harpy