LibertyLizard @ LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net

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Ah yes, we’ll stop the government from repressing people by… checks notes

Having the government repress people. Makes perfect sense.

The senate structurally favors republicans. It’s to the left’s advantage for it to be slow and inefficient. Now that that’s no longer the case it just means more than ever we need a movement with autonomous power that isn’t subjugated to a system that is designed to disenfranchise us.

Are you ready to call it fascism yet Jon?

This is exactly what happened to me and why I joined this com lol

China is a perfect divinely chosen nation that has done no wrong through its entire history even back when it was ruled by bloodthirsty feudal warlords or fascists.

Makes you wonder whether dessalines is paid to have this opinion or if he really believes this lunacy.

I haven’t experienced this either but I’m privileged and have only interacted with this community a little bit. So I was curious if anyone had had such experiences.

Are there similar provisions in this bill? I thought it was more about blocking local zoning from stopping development along transit corridors.

I know. Lots of great boycotts lately I can’t support because that’s just my whole life already lol

Is the mycology community bigoted? Lots of weirdos so I would have guessed they might be more tolerant but I guess it does skew kind of older.

Fired Jimmy Kimmel for refusing to fawn over Charlie Kirk.

Anyone know enough to give a steelman of her argument? Not much in this letter to go off of.

Again, it’s less about what he’ll do and more about what he can get away with and how much backlash there will be. Frankly, I don’t think most Americans know crime in DC is low. This is due to a media ecosystem that manufactures consent for fascism.

You can say this would happen anyway but I think the media’s sympathy for Kirk as a fellow media person also has a big impact on the way this incident has been covered and how they’ll respond to the coming crackdown. Look at how many left-leaning journalists and media people are being fired right now. That will have an impact on coverage going forward at minimum.

Regarding Kirk and his value to the fascists, I’m unsure because these people are all so repugnant to me. I want to say he’s just an empty suit that will easily be filled by the billionaires who funded him but truthfully I can’t say if he had some unique appeal because I wouldn’t see it even if it was there.

At that point, Morales, a 24-year veteran of the Border Patrol, said he thought he needed to step in and de-escalate the situation between his fellow agent and Ramos-Brito. He did so by shoving Ramos-Brito backward into the intersection, according to video played in court.

The brazen absurdity of the arguments they are making here disgusts me. Glad the jury saw through their bullshit.

Shameful.

No money to retain staff but they found money for guns.

There's no clear evidence either way. If you cherry pick certain facts you can paint a compelling narrative of any ideology.

My take is the dude, like most Americans, doesn't fit cleanly into right or left politics but was motivated by violent rhetoric targeting queer people. But we'll see if further information comes to light.

Yeah it’s a cool movie but the message of systemic disadvantages don’t matter if you try hard enough is a little questionable at best.

I mean fence sitter as in prospective supporters. Not people who are neutral between leftism and fascism (there are few such people).

I’m talking about people who will act as supporters sometimes and not at others. These people possess the vast majority of political power on the left.

I didn’t realize the only two options were nothing or pointless acts of impotent violence. Funny, for some reason I thought there were other possibilities but I guess I was mistaken.

You need to wake the fuck up and get serious about political strategy instead of just reacting emotionally to the news. You’re not going to assassinate your way out of this one.

Well, my personal perspective on the two was similar and I got a lot of flak for it.

But from a broader perspective I think the difference is that partisan politics have become deeply associated with a personal, tribal identity. The reaction to Kirk has been different because conservatives feel personally threatened by his death. This fear makes them react much more violently. I think journalists have also amplified this because even if they are not on the same side, they rightly perceive that they could be next if this turns into a tit for tat exchange.

In contrast, while most people didn’t support the murder of Thompson it was more of an academic crime. They don’t identify personally with a CEO in the same way.

Plus Trump wasn’t president and he wasn’t able to fan the flames as effectively back then.

Public opinion matters. You don’t win political struggle without allies, and that means speaking to and persuading people who are not true believers. You don’t have to like it but you are going to have to contend with it.

Or don’t and lose. The left has been great at that for the past 100 years.