This is significant, especially the bodycam and ID requirements.

we are witnessing historic backpedaling here

I think this opinion piece is quite emblematic of what we around these parts have come to call "Woke 1", i.e social justice practiced primarily as an extension of left-wing academic discourse, with all the issues and limitations that implies. It's a relic of bygone age, unfit for the present moment

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve." This oughta buy The Atlantic a week or two of grace.

I call this dynamic "having a high cape swirl-to-reveal ratio".

I knew a very nice guy around my age on the hellsite who had a full sleeve tattoo of Hogwarts. It's largely memory-holed now, but a lot of millennials were all in on Harry Potter to a degree that is impossible to picture given Rowling's current cultural status of "sitting at Satan's left hand".

Wooooooow they really are unconditionally surrendering. Incredible.

My wokes are hungry

Every girlfriend I've ever had has overestimated my height by 2-3 inches, and this is why.

TACO undefeated.

The median American voter is a dumbfuck who wanted "mass deportation except anyone sympathetic and with no collateral harm". You don't have to like or respect the median voter, but horrifyingly, the median voter will still be the median voter next election. People should act accordingly.

After Careful Thought, I Have Decided That Our Ship Actually Is Being Attacked by the Kraken For a long time I resisted the idea that the multiple tentacles tearing at the thin wooden planks of our vessel represented some kind of 'sea monster' threat. But when the facts change, I change my mind.

I don't think this incident is going to be a moment of enlightenment for the entire right wing, but I do think this is driving a wedge between 2A traditionalists and fascists.

The Good killing had the vaguest nub of a justification that MAGA people could latch onto. Pretty went to help a woman who was being assaulted and then was beaten and executed for doing so.

This is not going to age well when ICE comes to Philly.

Much like the Geneva Convention, nonviolence is often mistaken as a product of naive idealism when it is in fact very very much the product of clear-eyed pragmatism.

One thing Dems in Congress can do is demand that all ICE agents immediately be equipped with body-worn cameras. It's a failure of progressive politics that they don't appreciate the immense value of BWCs.

We in Poland have defeated the Communists without using guns at all. The people who advocated armed resistance in the 70s and 80s turned out to have been communist secret service collaborators (Moczulski).

If you don't understand by now, post-2020, the effect that property damage has on the median effective voter, you belong nowhere near strategic political decisions. Firebombing a liquor store turns you into public enemy #1.

they murdered Good, they murdered Pretti, and if you are on the streets of the hero twins and your surname is Kind, Loving, or Strong please be extra careful because apparently the writers are not being subtle with the symbolism this season.

Walz: "You kill a man, and then you just leave? You're law enforcement -- you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not gonna clean up our mess?'"

under most circumstances a gun will not make you safer. it will be used as evidence that your death was justified.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

The left has had a serious problem with tankies and anarchists gleeful at the prospect of accelerationist violence for a long time. That said, if the attitude this time around is "all arsonists are traitors to the cause", that's a distinct improvement and I don't care how people arrive at it.

The guy who shows you infographics with bad tear gas remedies and how to properly do black bloc is functionally identical to the guntuber who posts a video called "how to be lethal in the mountains" where they spend 20 minutes talking about shit they bought from Spiritus Systems

This really is the leftist version of the Cult of the Operator

This is a good time to remind people that Black Bloc types aren't so much protesting as engaged in an extreme sport. Supporting Minnesotans does not require supporting anonymous jerks smashing up businesses and lighting a city on fire.

it really is the final form of Wilhoit’s Law

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

Right wing 2A people are never compelled by images of non-white or left wing people being murdered for the mere fact of having a gun. Their desire to be able to resist state power by force of arms is in the context of a broader view of ideological warfare, not a principled commitment to a right

I'm not sure what the guy in grey is doing, but what's unquestionable is that he exits the melee *before* the first shot is fired. IMHO he likely either sees something or does something relevant to what happened next.

Two things are simultaneously true - (1) peaceful resistance is the only option right now, and (2) if this madness continues there will be a violent reprisal. It’s just how these things work, and the reason people are begging the Democrats to change tactics is a last ditch attempt to avoid it.

we made a twitter lolcow president in 2016 and any claim that the internet was not real life since then is desperate cope, verging on delusional in its disconnect with reality

You really can’t avoid this, unless you think that rapid responders need a fake license plate, burner phone, face mask, which means we’d have far too few to even do the job effectively. As someone said, your safety comes from DDoSing them: making the list so huge it’s useless.

without meaning the slightest bit of disrespect to the No Kings protests, the sentiment on the ground here is less No Kings 2025 and more Leipzig 1989

The specter of Alberta separatism is not real. It's polling at 19% in favor, 75% opposed. Alberta's idiot premier is a former radio host with an affinity for those 19%, which is why they're getting a big megaphone, but this is IRL a total non-issue most Albertans find deeply cringe.

All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days

I feel like this is a really unfair characterization, given that US support got the SDF multiple extremely generous offers from the Syrian Transitional Government and the SDF (under orders from PKK higher leadership) rejected all of them.

This is politically powerful stuff. It never occurred to me that ICE has been racially profiling and fucking with off-duty cops. I mean, of course they are on a moment's consideration, but it simply hadn't crossed my mind. The anti-ICE coalition is *vast*, and cuts across typical interest groups.

if the board game nerds don't make "Littoral Commander: Greenland," they are all cowards.

It is funny that the current FBI director treats the job like it's a trip to Entourage Disneyland, but bear in mind that for us this is probably the best possible outcome. I do not want Trump's FBI director to actually care about the job

welp

i think that the people claiming "the Court was always going to immunize Trump" are failing to distinguish that from "the Court would immunize Trump if failing to do so would leave the Republicans without a candidate in the 2024 election."

It's just not the same without reading Peter Molyneux's fantastic lies about how he has constructed a fantasy realm the size of Venus down to the subatomic level in your dog-eared copy of Game Informer.

I just thought everyone should see this

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays