ICE is the Gestapo, confirmed.

I did NOT know that's they there were protesting the church. It makes so much more sense now. They had every right to be there. I woke up to my roommate watching FOX complain about this. One commentator said "try that at my church!" These people are so bloodthirsty.

Do.... do Conservatives need someone in power to tell them what to think and they assume we do the same? Because no one told me to feel that way about ICE. I've felt that way for a long time because I have this pesky thing called empathy and I don't like bullies who kidnap people and zip tie kids.

Tyrrany is when the grocery store asks you to pretty please wear a little cough shield inside or get curbside pickup bc there’s a dangerous pandemic virus, not when masked secret police are murdering people in the street for incredibly mildly mouthing off to them

I will never understand why people will believe his blatant lies and then think him speaking honestly is just in jest... I think she knows how bad it sounds. But I guarantee you. If he decides to go down that road, she will act like it's the greatest thing in the world. Because she has no spine.

One of the eye opening things for me about why I should leave my ex-church was some of the people there were comparing Covid restrictions to "men with guns coming into the church to stop us from worshiping." I just wonder what they think of what's happening in MN right now.

Uuuuuh... I just got an ad for Rumble while watching YouTube featuring Steven Crowder saying how Rumble is so much better because you can say slurs and be openly bigoted. Yeah, no thanks. Fuck off. "We're so much better because we are fine with hate speech!" Keep your Nazi shit away from me.

Something I'll hear a lot from apologists is that morality points to god. That there are objective morals we all agree with and it proves (somehow) that a god gave us those morals. I look around at the world and I see people okay with murder. Justify genocide. Think what Hitler did was good. ...

Logging on 😘

Rightwing influencers are so bad at interpreting source material that they can only do it correctly by accident, when they're trying to make a joke

The sad thing is, I don't have much hope. But I *want* to. I don't want to give in to these horrible people. In the past, this type of constant horrible news would make me want to not live anymore. Now? I want to live out of spite to the people who want me gone. I'm working towards having hope.

So, when are we going to talk about the fact that all of the anti-trans supposed "women's rights" activists do the vast majority of their political organising on the CSAM and nudification app?

It's honestly funny to see Conservatives complain about Star Trek. Because it's been "woke" ever since its inception. Not sure why they never noticed before. The original had a very diverse cast, mostly based on gender and race. It had one of the first Black women in a leading role. That was huge!

In the face of such horror, I want to try my best to stick to my morals, my values, and to be a kind person. It's scary right now and tensions are high. People have been and will be hurt. I refuse to fall into the mindset I have to be just like the opposition. I refuse to be a bully.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

It's honestly pathetic seeing FOX News attempt to gaslight people. "You sure you trust your own eyes rather than our lies and propaganda? You sure you want to trust your own senses and not believe whatever narrative we want to spin?"

…Probably the least vague vagueskeet ever… but just a thought. Rarely has a writer’s famous thesis been proven so true, in so brief a series of images: “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”

unfortunately, most of my political beliefs come from a deep-seeded desire for humanity to thrive and people to be allowed to exist that I primarily inherited from a 90's tv show with a bald spaceship captain who really likes earl grey tea

I see this as a test for what they want to do everywhere. Why MN? Im not entirely sure. But I know they hate Walz and it seems like a lot of people there stand against fascism so maybe it's an attempt to break them. Solidarity with all those in MN right now. This is all so horrific.

I've had a fear of law enforcement for a while now. I'm a law-abiding citizen who's worse crime was a minor traffic violation and the cop who pulled me over made me feel like shit for having an old car that caused the issue. People have told me I'm irrational for fearing cops. ....

I try my best to understand where people who think differently than me are coming from. We all have different views, walks of life, values, etc. But I can't for the life of me understand where Conservatives are coming from. I can't get into that mindset that thinks everything going on is acceptable.

Exactly. It's not to show the ICE officer was in danger—the video he took himself shows he obviously isn't—but to show their supporters that the victim deserved to be murdered. And to show their opponents they can and will murder them in cold blood and with impunity.

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I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats" people are blatantly lying about all this. But it really just feels like they are spitting in our face when there's video from multiple angles thanks to neighbors in the area recording. We have eyes.

Wasn't it just a few months ago they tried to shame us for not caring that Charlie Kirk was murdered in broad daylight? Trying to get people fired for not showing enough respect for him and his grieving family? We all knew they never actually cared. They went right back to their sick ways quick.

hiding the child porn behind a paywall just means you've officially turned the child porn into a business, babe.

Louder for the people in the back! It wasn't all that long ago when Conservatives were joking about immigrants thrown into the Florida concentration camp being eaten by alligators. ICE has been evil since day one and so are the people supporting them. They are pro-death and anti-human.

I will never be able to get into the mindset of people who think it's okay for the public to have to play a deadly game of Simon Says with law enforcement every encounter or else they are justified in murdering us. Do those people even hear themselves? We aren't a free nation if that's the case.

This reminds me when we first learned Elon changed the name of Twitter to something that sounded very much like a porn site and we all made fun of it. Well, it's certainly not funny anymore...

I've been meaning to get back into creating things and making things with my hands, like drawing and painting. I've seen others point out how important making art is right now in the face of such destruction. The hard part? The destruction is burning me out to where I don't feel up to creating.

You know that scene in Wicked: For Good where Elphaba writes "Our Wizard Lies" in the clouds and Madame Morrible uses her weather powers to change it to read "Oz Dies?" That's how it feels right now seeing how this regime is handling the events of this week.

I keep thinking back to when my mom told me my brother-in-law tried signing up for a government law enforcement position, but he didn't tell her which one. Turns out he medically didn't qualify... but I still wonder which agency. Did he try joining ICE?

Black people have been telling us white folks for decades that this is the treatment they received from law enforcement since it's inception. We need to believe them, and we need to face our own complicity in it all. All law enforcement is like this, root and branch. ACAB, forever.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

i keep thinking about how my parents and church taught me stories about tyrannical governments and how important it is to stand up to them and put our lives on the line for our neighbors, only to turn around and vote for a fascist and then express happiness when those fascists murder civilians.

Beyond the big lie that this was self defense, taking it at face value, it is incredibly stupid to shoot the driver of a car supposedly pointed at you. It will not stop the car and can actually cause them to accelerate after being shot as we saw in the video. The claims of self defense are bullshit.

Great thread all around about how GC's slid easily into full on MAGA support and far Right ideals. I've been off Twitter for about a year now, and I do not miss seeing GC "arguments" at all. They are just obsessive bigots and have made friends with the far Right.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell Make Dystopia Fiction Again

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

I don't care if she didn't follow directions; I don't care if she was disrespectful; I don't care if she was noncompliant; I don't care if she spit in his face, called him ugly, and smacked his mom - "immediate execution by the state" was not warranted; jfc, this isn't complicated.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

Hard not to think one reason they lie, and lie so blatantly, is that they have learned that by doing so, major news outlets will feel obligated to report those lies as legit interpretations of facts rather than calling them what they are: Lies.

It's one thing to process this tragedy seeing a mother murdered in front of her wife. It's another to see our government blatantly lie and smear her. I'm filled with so much rage seeing these people be so openly evil. They are absolute monsters.

So, it's already bad enough Grok is making CSAM based on user's requests, but people are also using it to generate Nazi shit as well and undress public figures and other women. It's time for everyone to speak out against Elon and this website. Stop using it. Leave it to the creeps and Nazis.

The whole trans women in sports "debate" ultimately boils down to people thinking cis women are innately inferior to anyone who happens to be born AMAB, no exceptions. That cis women are weak and pathetic. Truth is, many cis women athletes beat cis men athletes several times. It's just sexism!

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

The Good Place and Parks & Rec.

I'm so sorry, world. I'm sorry we unleashed this evil on you. I'm sorry so many of my fellow Americans thought this was okay. I'm sorry our leaders are only egging this on and not bothering to take nessassery actions to stop it. I'm sorry we are getting the whole world involved in our huge mess...

Miller has some gall calling America the leader of the free world in the same rant as he is saying there won't be elections in the country whose leader we kidnapped and which he claims we will now run.