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I think a big problem a lot of American liberals (and progressives as well tbh) have is that we assume our ideological goals and interests to be universal and that’s just not how the world works at all.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Biden gave multiple speeches about the threat to our democracy that Trump represented. Harris built a significant portion of her campaign around that. In no way shape or form did the Biden admin say "let the voters decide if Trump broke the law" but that wont stop pathologically anti-D bsky posters

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

We saw this with Portland in 2020 where MAGA pols and FOX portrayed the city as burning down, and the reality was just normal life for almost everyone. And LA today -- protests, not riots -- is like 100x more 'just normal' so than was the situation in Portland

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

media really did buy into the revisionism that there was something wrong with the floyd protests

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

As much as I’ve urged protesters to show maximum restraint, I’ve seen nothing to indicate this should be generally characterized as a “riot.” What are the “worst things” that happened? A couple of burned cars and some graffiti, and a few kids kicking back tear gas canisters?

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

I dunno guys, seems bad that one of the most popular accounts on this site has been spending the last 72 hours or so completely retconning what Biden did & what Dems are doing. Also, it's not ideal that he's agitating for people to actively confront cops while protesting bc that ALWAYS ends badly.

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

submitted 13 hours ago • 183 comments

LAPD yesterday: Protests in the city have been peaceful… LAPD today: …and we’re here to fix that

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

His fault:

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

leftist police departments like the LAPD

submitted 13 hours ago • 272 comments

i don't want to pick on this poster in particular, but how do some of y'all have this poor of reading comprehension? I'm not saying they're not a bunch of fucking goons, I'm saying that they have lives and are people who experience things like stress and shitty job conditions.

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

Well at least this makes teaching Schmitt easy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Dr. King used nonviolence strategically to dramatize the contradiction. Consider how best to dramatize the contradiction under present conditions.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

This is why it's strategically wise to only be waving American flags and not those of any other nation.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

Good to know someone in my city thinks a legitimate response to Israeli war crimes is “death of Jews in our turf”, that if Israel gov’t kills the flotilla peace activists, “every Jew…will be killed” to protect Canada from “the genocidal kikes” & that doing so will “be a pleasure”.

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

People's take on martial law and the comparative examples they point to all have one real key factor, which is the countries are usually a single major urban area where controlling it all but controls the country. There are dozens of major urban areas in the US, all of them hostile.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

I swear to god these posts are going to actually drive me insane. There is no 4D chess game being played here. No Machiavellian 'distract the masses' play. These people are fucking morons. Trump isn't Palpatine, he's fucking Jar Jar.

submitted 18 hours ago • 34 comments

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submitted 21 hours ago • 493 comments

As with the national emergency clauses in the Cold War era trade laws, the imperial presidency was a mistake. It assumed the existence of two normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties. Total Article I constitutional crisis now.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

i don't want to dunk on any of the people who replied or quoted this with a "well ackshully the national guard will shoot protesters, look at kent state," but my request is to a) remember that kent state was over half a century ago and b) read about the NG's response in its aftermath

submitted 1 day ago • 159 comments

i sincerely think a lot of you believe that the people who join the service are robotic psychopaths who will mindlessly listen to whoever is in charge, and there is nothing i can say to disabuse you of that frankly delusional belief

submitted 23 hours ago • 310 comments

What Jamelle is replying to here is basically just patrician contempt for working class Americans masquerading as political radicalism. Many such cases.

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

I whole-heartedly believe this, to be clear. When you run around playing at being an insurgent, you are, to use the failed Messiah Ken Keysey's words, "being a part of their movie". You can't beat the fascists if you're a part of their movie, because their movie ends with them winning.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Yeah like this is just brown-baiting racism lol, they have no evidence whatsoever that he's insincere, they just think that it's impossible to be sincere if you're brown

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Psst…it’s good to support Ukraine actually

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

One of the things that these guys dont understand is that if colonel and captains are not so committed to the regime that they prepare their troops and order atrocities against civilians - you can declare martial law and lose because the military doesn't want it.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

They'd really love to pull the trigger on the insurrection act but I don't think it works out the way they think it does

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

This is, as I've mentioned before, why "Zionism = white supremacy" is not correct. There are plenty of Black Jews and brown Jews and so on and so forth, and under Israeli law they are all superior to Palestinians on the basis of their Jewishness. This is, therefore, Jewish supremacism.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

it's still wild to me that so many centrists want to triangulate on social issues when half the reason 2024 fundamentals were what they were was the economy www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

it’s incredibly obvious how much of the “we have to move right on social issues to win elections” stuff is based not on any empirical evidence but on the personal views of the people pushing it

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments