I love how you’re scrolling around to see if people are talking about you.

There are some really great hobbies out there that will give you a sense of accomplishment without having to feel connected to the toxicity of politics, I highly recommend taking a break.

Some people and animals learn they can get attention with negative behavior as much as positive, and just get stuck there forever.

if it means supporting someone like this guy I’d rather be rotating on a spit tyvm

That’s just utterly insane hyperbole that most likely has the opposite effect as you might think. I hope you grow more.

That’s a pretty 1-dimensional perspective. If you understand both the shitty reality we live in AND that nothing is black-and-white, you will be a lot more effective at actually pushing the needle towards progress, like so many actual great activists have done which has gotten us to a world where your chances of being murdered and raped and eaten by bandits has fallen dramatically low.

Being against military service is a far more honest criticism, but also utterly unrealistic. We just don’t live in that world.

If you’ve ever been in or known anyone in the service, you would know that it’s massively overblown and doesn’t “mean” anything. There are thousands of different varieties of skull and crossbone out there, you would have to be really deep in the nazi sauce to use that particular design as a signal.

This is pretty much a “hasan’s dog” thing, it’s being overblown because of the desperate need by media personalities, including youtube streamers, to harvest money from reaction content, driving up everyone’s black-and-white thinking.

We have actual nazis in office and running for office, people who don’t even hide it. We have to stay focused on what the actual dangers are.

This includes local police as well as anyone claiming to be “ICE.”

Or anyone ever claiming to be an authority. Call 911, make it a state/city issue to untangle. Say “I have strange men with guns at my house claiming to be law enforcement/ice but they won’t show their ID’s or a warrant, I am scared for my life!”

Also, even if you think it’s totally fine and you’re not in trouble, do not let cops into your house or car. Don’t let them search, if they ask if they can come inside or search your car you are in your rights to say “No” without giving explanation. Shut the fuck up, say NOTHING, admit NOTHING, if you get arrested ask for a lawyer before giving ANY statements, even if you’ve done nothing wrong. Don’t believe their lies when they say shit like “You know, asking for a lawyer makes you look guilty” they are liars by profession.

As an aside, it’s estimated cops kill over 10,000 pet dogs a year. If your dog annoys a cop, barks at them, looks menacing, etc. that cop is LIKELY to just execute your dog on the spot and go on like nothing happened. THIS HAPPENS EVERY DAY. I want to reinforce this point and I want others to spread this information, because as sad as it is, people broadly care more about pets than people and this is far more likely to increase outrage and efforts to defund police.

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I’m sure this time they’ll win, they just have to crack down much harder, driving the value of drugs up even MORE, no way that will have consequences.

I have a close family member who visited North Korea back when they were still mostly closed-off to tourism from America, he managed to get in on a special tour.

The tour consisted of things like giving tours of “normal North Korean grocery stores” and shopping malls.

He came back and was enthralled. He said “Wow, our media got it all wrong, they have everything! They have food and produce and phones, they’re not being held back, they even had kids playing in the hotel lobby where I stayed!”

I said to him “Are you dumb?” and he got mad.

Turns out, he was in fact, very dumb. He fell hard down the alt-right pipeline and then the conspiracy hole where he never came back from. I haven’t talked to him in a long time because he straight up lost his mind. This is not a rare occurrence, most of America’s conservative movement has been powered by this breed of people, they are also the entirety of Trump’s political capital, a fiercely loyal voting group that supports anything their leader says, and they are violent and armed. You can’t buy that kind of power.

he said the president has full and unmitigated authority

Again. He said it again.

The man has said all of this before, he just had some mental “event” happen this time that got too much light to shine on the nonsense he babbles, so now liberal America is suddenly looking at this weird little freak. I mean, I guess it’s good, but I feel like I’m taking crazy-pills here, when I heard Miller saying YEARS AGO that the president has “total authority” and the “power to do whatever he wants.”

They will make up a variation that sounds imposing, like “High Chancellor of the White House” or “Master of America.”

What the fuck do people think “scorched earth” even means.

You don’t declare “scorched earth” unless you already have overwhelming victory and have left no opposition or chances of further opposition.

It comes from the act of burning your enemies’ towns and fields to the ground, a barbaric, murderous tactic in war to weaken your enemy’s infrastructure and demoralize its people. There’s usually a lot of rape of women and children in there too, but for some reason we don’t include that in the speeches.

Comey was never a friend to progressivism and has been playing politics for a long time. I’m not particularly interested in this while there are real injustices and life-threatening budget cuts happening daily.

They got exactly what they fucking bargained for, they made off like bandits with vast sums of wealth for capitalizing on the stupidity of millions of Americans who bought into the Trump “we need a king” grift.

The only thing that changed is now that the guy has had plenty of chances to deliver his promises to make america “great” again, and didn’t, the people have gotten bored with the narrative, and so the grifters who follow popular sentiment are moving on. That’s all, there’s no regret, there’s no “leopards eating faces” there’s NOTHING FOR US TO BE FUCKING SMUG ABOUT. We are still in real danger of losing rights, benefits and democracy broadly, but now the administration has a greater chance of getting away with it, because the media hosts like Rogan are tuning everyone away from the mess he rode in on.

I despise this “satisfaction porn” that both sides indulge in within spaces like this. It’s not a good thing that the only people who had access to Trump’s circus are now moving onto cover new things because people are bored with it. It just means now they can do worse things without anyone watching.

What? they’re making millions and will continue to do so.

Grifting on Trump’s popularity with a dumber population got them huge sums of wealth, and now that the dumb population is getting bored with the Trump/king narrative they are moving to new attention-grabbing grifts.

This isn’t regret, this isn’t leopards eating anyone’s faces. Can we PLEASE stop acting like we got any kind of justice or satisfaction here, it’s worse than the pandering that the right does with each other in their dumb spaces, because at least they’re dumb and don’t know better. We should know better.

Conservatism is broadly, almost entirely, a form of kink play.

Almost every social issue they support or prop up can be dismantled down to weird sex games and/or taboos. Most of the shit they hate is also tied to sexual hangups they have and are repulsed by themselves for being curious about - IE: look up pornhub keywords alongside right-wing vernacular and other leading issues. It’s not a coincidence that “cuckolding” porn became immensely popular the same time that they started using the word “cuck” as an insult against people they don’t like. You can see it in many other issues going back as far as gay rights and the current obsession with trans people.

I don’t understand what you’re going on about, I am talking about politics as it’s happening, and didn’t even frame it in a left/right way, I am talking about the administration and media’s framing of bailouts for “farmers.”

Are you a bot?

No, but middle-class liberal america are still the country’s actual breadbasket, and the ones who are most easily influenced with simplistic imagery and narratives, so that’s who these stories are designed to appeal to. It would really, really twist official narratives if America broadly realized that some industries get socialism and others don’t.

Liberal America still envisions old dudes in overalls growing carrots in a small field, a single tear rolling down their cheek as their 6 children look on with empty bowls.

Rather than almost completely industrialized corn factories producing the raw materials for overseas ethanol production.

Wait, so you’re telling me speaking breathily in hushed but very deliberate tones like an NPR interview doesn’t automatically make you a great person deserving of respect and accolade and substack subscriptions?? 🤯