Disguising yourself as a civilian in order to carry out a lethal attack is called perfidy and it’s one of the most serious of war crimes. The usual punishment is execution.

yea this is also a (though not the only) reason for the complete lack of energy in the democratic party elite. like. we had a giant referendum on whether or not anything matters, and the side that said nothing matters but treats won pretty resoundingly.

And to be fair, given their campaign messaging...I kinda get it? They kept telling people over and over what they were about

They really thought a slim electoral victory based on 50,000 or so sheltered idiots who were mad about egg prices was a mandate for a Thousand Year Reich

They are going to try to bully and intimidate Good's friends for daring to be buddies with an enemy of the state who had to be summarily executed by our daring Gestapo agents.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was lead by geniuses who got the brutality of Bull Connor in the media instead of the "genteel" pap of the William Buckley racists. Every single member of the GOP is a Bull Connor. None of them can do genteel. Everyone sees what they are.

i think fascism has maintained a constant low key presence in our society that’s heightened in some contexts and for marginalized groups for decades by keeping broadly out of sight and manipulating institutions to be cruel in the shadows it’s really good at that. normally. but not now

this isn’t typical “copium”/“hopium” because i have basically zero confidence in the average person’s inclination or willingness to learn about horrible things if they’re out of sight but as soon as the narrative about the horrible things keeps it in sight, they’re boned

i think the reason that this whole situation with fascism is not affecting my mood the way it does some other people is that i’m very strongly of the opinion that the way conservatives win is by keeping their cruelty low salience and now that they’ve failed at that i just don’t think they can win

the service unions and the teacher unions are the strongest soldiers and i am super tired of them being taken for granted in favor of machinists with trump hats

i don’t really want to argue about which unions are good or which aren’t, in the private sector, they’re all degrees of good, but dems have got to stop chasing the wrench turners and start catering to the sheet washers, that’s the fucking base

biden made what should have been a good bet on the unions and it turned out to be a bad one, though i think dems can make the same bet on better unions in the future; they’re just not going to be dominated by white men.

i love how there's a small but non-zero chance the president may nuke consumer credit in 8 days simply because he's so fucking stupid

I’m skeptical about how much revenge we will be able to inflict but it’s important to remember these people acted with such impunity because they expected a “forgive and forget” treatment at the end of the line.

Ya know back when I was a kid I got an in-depth lesson in precisely how to treat strange men trying to force me into an unmarked van

I think the key difference is her take is not "all of this is a distraction from the price of your eggs" It's "what they're doing is all connected and you're suffering so that they can do horrible things"

“They can’t afford to kill you unless they steal from you first” goes down pretty smooth.

so this is pretty clearly “tying what’s happening with ICE back to kitchen table issues” but in stronger, less fusty language, which I actually think is fine. sometimes that’s what you need. it’s a funny game.

It's so real. I am helping a church pull together a community meeting about preparing for ICE and everyone I'm reaching out to "yes-ands" me. I am 40 and I have spent my entire adult life organizing, and I have literally never experienced this before. It's wild. People are DONE.

it is ever thus

With that said, if you're SURPRISED I'm out here, I'm just going to point you to my old campaign site. I wasn't lying. I meant all of it. No compromise with these thugs. www.willstancil.org/priorities1

This is true for a normal regime but I think brutalizing someone where it would Make Content is a feature, not a bug, for these people.

some of these chuds have probably watched that fucking AI Will Stancil show

Will your humilty here is something else but the Content Regime would love to get you, stay safe man

Guys I appreciate all the support but I want to be clear that there are thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of Minnesotans doing what I'm doing right now. Most are just everyday neighbors, nice old folks, college kids, baristas, who cannot abide what they're doing to OUR CITY and OUR NEIGHBORS.

I'm proud to live in Seattle. Today we said no to ICE and no to fascism.

I refuse to give these people credit for this. None of us were born last night. They fought like hell against the people they're now praising. Mocked them relentlessly. Wrote endless think pieces about how following their lead would be disastrous. There's no "we" — there's you. Own it. Grow up.

“we will bring Elon back into the Dem fold” no break him

the opinions of rural voters are one of those things that's exactly like the government being run by fascists who believe actual fascist things: the truth is extremely obvious and out there and easy to find, but it is Impolite to Speak

maybe the people who buy giant trucks and voted for mass deportations and transphobia are actually bigots, whodathunk (other than them, they will tell you)

IQ bell curve meme with the dumb answer and the smart answer being "they buy trucks to stay atop society's hierarchy" and the idiot middle of the road answer being "they want to express a deep connection to the physical world"

this ain't a goddamn video game there's no victory screen that disables the politics mechanic

there isn't a 4D chess game here they are trying to break Minneapolis for Content

the worry here is really, really not "martial law," a thing the Trump administration would be forced to a) legally justify b) deploy military units, not the national guard, to enforce

The “wars are for porn” thesis remains undefeated

new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up

I still can’t get over the logic of “we don’t care what China and Russia do” paired with “we will invade Greenland and destroy NATO in order to stop China and Russia”

fire them and they’ll be robbing corner stores or racking up DV charges within six months. this country has ruined far larger groups far faster who deserved it far less than these bastards.

i think this is a problem, but one that personnel as policy solves for by having a DOJ that isn’t afraid of prosecuting law enforcement. these guys aren’t WWI vets being dropped back into the general population, they’re undisciplined, unemployable chud shitheads who can barely read.

he literally tilts at windmills while monologuing that he is satisfying a psychological need for control by trying to conquer the world

no editor would ever allow a fiction writer to just have a president who goes insane and wants to conquer the world for his self aggrandizement and also include the detail that he hates windmills, you know, like Don Quijote

a whole bunch of the worst, most violent, and dumbest fucking men in america got sucked into the trump ICE pyramid scheme and when they inevitably and obviously get fucked over, i am going to laugh at all of them and elect politicians willing to put them in prison

all these stupid meathead criminal motherfuckers are going to want to riot when they learn they’re getting a $10K/yr pay cut five years from now anyway, cut out the middleman and press the max sentence on the DUI convictions and DV calls they’re gonna get in the intervening years, strip the pensions

it's January 2026 and Abolish ICE - not defund - Abolish - is polling at -2 bsky.app/profile/mero...

it's a strange micro v macro thing but I think we will be at a place in our politics by 2028 that is unlike anything we've experienced before bsky.app/profile/toms...

Trump's already around 40 percent approvals, Republicans are worse, and the economy hasn't even crashed yet

all of us are used to Republican administrations crashing and burning in their last year, benefiting Democrats temporarily before thermostatic reset happens. none of us have experienced this happening several years before the next presidential election for this to set in

my anti-doomer take is that there are three years of this left

Laughter is an incredibly potent antifascist weapon for it's ability to nullify their main weapons of fear, pain, and pretense

i can understand *some* democratic members of congress who don’t want to say this aloud yet, but any that don’t understand they’re going to need to say it by 2028 (and that it will be a majority opinion by then) will need to get out of the way