This reminds me of my ex-pastor who literally blamed any tech issues on Satan trying to sabotage our church service... same type of conspiracy-minded BS.

Let me understand this correctly... the people calling for the de-escalation for political violence want to BOMB the UN because *checks notes* the escalator Trump was on malfunctioned? Did I read that correctly? Reminds me when my ex-pastor literally blamed Satan whenever there were any tech issues.

One of the reasons why the FBI is supposed to be apolitical is because Americans need to have trust that investigations into atrocities like this morning are competent and removed from politics. Instead, now that the FBI is highly politicized, half the country will not trust anything they say.

I don't think I'll ever forget just how quick the Right blamed a certain demographic and gave a motive to the person who murdered Charlie the other week, and now they're doing it again in this instance. They only care about narrative, not truth. They aren't willing to wait for more evidence.

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters

I'll stop calling this current administration Nazis and fascists once they actually stop acting like Nazis and fascists. Ball's in their court on this one.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

FOX News likes to keep their audience ignorant and doesn't usually give them all the context of certain notable stuff going on. This is honestly a minor instance of that compared to a lot of other topics. FOX News viewers live in a whole other reality from the rest of us.

I'm glad Jimmy didn't just let it slide & used his privilege and his voice to speak out of what's going on. But really, I think part of what's going on is Trump saw how the media treat the leaders of North Korea and he wants that here. Because his fragile ego matters more than the Bill of Rights.

I'm glad Kimmel is coming back. However, "free speech" where you can reverse government-coerced corporate censorship but only if your supporters make stock price influencing noise would be like a healthcare system in which you need a GoFundMe to go viral to afford treatment. ... wait.

Ah, the memories of Christian summer camps.... it never sat well with me that they REALLY encouraged us to witness to non-Christians and even asked us if any of us felt "called" to be an evangelist or missionary. Thankfully I never felt "called" to do that. I was a "live and let live" Christian.

I will never, ever get over the fact there are SO many people out there, including the president, who'd rather children die of now preventable diseases rather than be someone like me... and continue to peddle debunked pseudoscience on top of all of it.

Isn't it lovely living in a country that wants to eliminate people like me because I'm both part of the trans/non-binary community AND on the autistic spectrum? Oh, isn't it just great? I'm also anti-fascists, so I suppose that also makes me a terrorist now. What fun.

I'm one of those people. Because I grew up being told gender is a binary, I thought I was a trans boy until about a year or two later when I realized I was neither a boy or girl and started referring to myself as "gender neutral" till I found the non-binary community a few years after that!

Here's what Saint Charlie said about Crockett a few months before he died. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

I was just thinking about how is SNL going to handle what's going on, because they have made fun of every president and administration since its inception, doesn't matter the party. The current president definitely has thin skin. He can't take a joke at all.

Dearly departed little angel

Evangelicals wonder why so many people are leaving the church within the last few years all while celebrating the life of someone who spread bigotry and hate and claim he was a great example of what it means to be a Christian... gee. I wonder why so many of us left the church. It sure is a mystery.

Respectful debates

MAGA wants Americans to be more outraged when someone says "Charlie Kirk sucked" than Americans were when Charlie Kirk said "MLK sucked". This is how white supremacy works.

I would not at all be surprised if part of the reason the Right wants to say anyone who calls them fascists is inciting violence is because we said that the orange menace incited violence, especially what led up to Jan 6th. I think it may be retribution, not realizing it basically confirms he did.

I have to say something... while I still can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoqz...

I guess a company printing one beer can with the photo of a trans woman and sending it to her is a far worse offense than the president of the United States getting to decide who has freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Priorities, I suppose.

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

If it's a call to violence for calling Conservatives "fascists," then isn't it also a call to violence to claim trans people are gun maniacs who want to murder your children? Again... asking for a friend.

One of the reasons Conservatives gave for voting for the orange menace is because they thought other countries would see him as a strong man worthy of respect... That did not exactly play out in reality. They see the US and him as one big joke. And rightly so.

If it's considered violence to call Conservatives "fascists," does that also mean it is considered violence when Trump calls Democrats "Communists" and "Marxist?" Asking for a friend.

Overheard my roommate watching FOX News, and the people who love to call us slurs, dehumanize us, demonize us, and call for our eradication are really, really upset that we call this administration fascist. Calling it the "f-bomb." Claiming calling them fascist is violence.

"I'm very strong about free speech. Except when people are mean to me! I won this election, you know! Oh, it's fine when I speak bad of the people who won their elections, like Biden. But how DARE anyone say anything mean about me. That's illegal." Not a real quote, obviously. But it's pretty close.

Small bit of joy I found out the other day. A set of colored pencils I really liked that only had 24 colors was recently announced to be coming out with 48 more colors! They're really nice colored pencils and we had no idea they were working on this. I was hoping for more colors!

The enemy is simultaneously weak and strong is definitely a fashy view of things...

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Seeing Conservatives, especially on FOX News, claim that what happened to Charlie last week was an attack on free speech but what happened to Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel aren't an attack on free speech all the more confirms to me they just see free speech as saying openly bigoted things.

This is why AOC is basically one of the only politicians I trust now. More of this, please.

Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated." Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us." Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."

AOC: All in the name of Charlie Kirk, Trump and the FCC are now cynically threatening to shut down ABC and any outlets who give air time to the administration's political critics. This is a disgusting attack on the American people and the very first amendment rights that define us as a country.

I think when the right starts "accusing" people of being Antifa, we should respond by spelling out the term for them: "Am I Anti Fascist? Is that what you mean? Why yes, I am. " Every time they say antifa, say anti fascist. End by asking if they are, conversely, Pro fascist

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

If anyone wonders why I'm so anti-LLM/AI, this is a pretty good reason to be against it. As someone who struggled with SI for most of my life, this story hurt me deeply. Please do not watch if such things trigger you. But if you have the stomach for it, it's worth the watch. My heart broke...

These are two I stopped shopping at a while ago, and I have not missed them at all. There's far better chicken places and art stores. I was curious once and went into HL to see what they now have, and it's mostly decor and their own brand art supplies, Master's Touch, which isn't great quality.

I was recently reminded of something about a major thing Evangelicals believe and maybe something some people don't know, and it honestly shapes how they view politics and the state of the world. Many, if not most, Evangelicals believe the world will constantly get worse until Jesus comes back. ...

Oh, boy. Do I feel this after finally talking to my mom about this. And it just confirmed to me that... the reason her and many Conservatives don't have a problem with the things he said is because they agree with him. It's really eye opening. I guess I should have seen it coming, but still.

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

It’s so cool how nothing is as bad as we thought it would be in this administration because it’s all actually significantly worse

I need to remember this... I want to survive long enough to see a better country and hopefully a better world. It's horrible that so many people want to drag us back to the dark ages. But I want to have hope things will be better. Just have to survive this...

Do not use “for you” social media feeds. I’m so serious. Use a reverse-chronological-following feed, leave any sites that do not allow this, and follow independent journalists.

Could I survive on receiving almost four times the salary I'm receiving now, you ask? I wouldn't just survive, I would thrive. I could finally get my own place and not worry.... Also... I have to wonder... does OG think $7,500 isn't a lot of money? That's about what my dad made, and we did well.

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs