To say that the Republicans killed democracy is to falsely imply that the USA ever had it. What they’ve killed is vestiges, pretense, and hope that these would turn into something more real. If we want democracy, we’ve got to build it for ourselves.

Every inch of America is stolen land soaked in blood. It is a hungry beast feed on the fat and meat of everyone it's fed into it's colonialist thresher machine from the Appalachians to the Philippines. It's series of endless wars are just what enables that.

regarding sentiments between people in different imperialist countries, the correct feelings to have are the ones that push people towards correct thought and action. if the horizon of someone's action is voting then my biggest concern isn't going to be how they're made to feel. and conversely

absolute whiplash going from "red states FAFO" to "other countries should only hate a specified percentage of us and i'm personally not in that percentage"

it is on me because I am an American. That’s all. It’s on me in the same way that the Reich’s crimes were on every German.

ymmv but i find spending therapy copay on fundraisers of ppl in gaza more helpful to my mental health than therapy rn 🤷‍♂️

one of the main things i think Pitchfork did was help fully commodify the idea of being a music nerd with the way it presented its reviews for the sake of people who didn't have the time/space to engage deeper which i think sent us down this pathway of RYM and the tier-listification of music fandom

the problem with wanting the dems going after ice is that, like ive said before, they do not want to abolish ice because they want it to still be there for them when/if they're ever in the white house again

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

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the threat to greenland should be taken seriously even past trump. he may or may not be able to follow through on it, but as the arctic melts and as political alliances shift there are absolutely parties interested in greenland's strategic usefulness for trade, oil, and military purposes

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not sure if that person with the fox head getting beaten by dhs is an actual furry. but reminder that wearing a uniquely identifiable costume that reduces your visibility and mobility is not a good idea when going up against people who do not care about optics and want any excuse to arrest or kill

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

I don't want “garlic!” I don't want “roasted red pepper!” I want HUMMUS flavored hummus

israelis spend so much time bragging about their genocide that they have lost the support of tons of apolitical centrists who otherwise wouldn't have paid attention. i see posts like this multiple times a day now

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taking the train bound for malewife

based on what im seeing online the US military would enter the Greenland theatre with a significant disadvantage in that those boys do not have a good centre of gravity going on and it gets slippery up there

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oomfs think i'm a princess :) *remembers they are communist* uh oh

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not to take away from the chatgpt part but i am kinda stunned that they write the script in google docs

the top democrats aren't refusing to take a strong stance against ICE out of cowardice; they like ICE and the things it does and they want it to be there when they win the next election so they can use it. if they ever budge on this it will be because they were forced

Its not about identity but this person who is palestinian who had nothing to do with the terrorist attack was asked not to participate. Its just a coincidence promise

it can be useful to see the internal contradictions of ice, taken with a grain of salt. but avoid the temptation to see these contradictions as antagonistic - that is, avoid concluding there is a "good" ice (and law enforcement in general) that can be separated from or turned against the "bad" ice.

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the progressive demands to make about iran are the lifting of sanctions and the end of zionism

meanwhile french diplomacy has quietly acquiesced to Trump's every move, including the illegal invastion of a sovereign state and the abduction of its leader; so it's not all that funny

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american liberals are fine with millions of deportations as long as they happen quietly and the police don't hurt any white people. proud of it, really

Not just the encampments. People like Kristof admire the protests that happen ELSEWHERE. They critique those that happen where they live. This is a feature not a bug.

If you're a young person you have no idea how long we've all been listening to Small Government and Liberty stuff from the right. Nobody at all believed any of it lol

i know this seems impossible to believe but i think if anything the average hitler particles in gamers is perhaps underestimated

not that long ago there were new videos every day of cops maiming and beating the shit out of protesters with gleeful abandon, and not only did “defund the police” get written off as extreme, joe biden got elected and proudly gave them even more money. it’ll easily happen again

seems like those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty?

forgive me for being really stupid but. how do people ensure the video survives after something like this happens? do you have to real-time livestream it

ok well I don't approve of framing fat and bone as "waste products" but it IS really funny that a bunch of True Believers are gonna give themselves gout and scurvy and exploding hearts

i think responding to people protesting the cops executing people in the street for no reason by saying they are "taking the bait" is profoundly disrespectful

not sure how you can expect to have any credibility if your response to murder by federal agents is arresting protestors and telling them the police are on their side. the democrats like to think their role is to be a heat sink for liberal and leftist anger but eventually that's gonna stop working