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I think there’s something to this. Most people really do believe that they are the good guys, even when they’re in the middle of doing terrible things, and nothing will pop that bubble faster than realizing that the person you’re taking your orders from is a Stephen Miller-level Nazi.

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LOL, they're so mad that someone made a website where no one cares about them or venerates their opinions.

submitted 19 minutes ago • 1 comment

Now Mark. Diversity of thought isn’t defined as a group of people who want to have the conversations that interest you. And people talk about healthcare on here all day, every single day.

submitted 1 hour ago • 15 comments

I'm trying to reserve judgment because I do understand what the league is attempting to do, but this process really has felt like a gigantic fuck you to the original six fan bases.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

“Hurting usage” implies that the goal is for everyone in the world to use this app. It is not. When you have a busy bar, ejecting Nazis doesn’t “hurt volume” it preserves the place as exactly what it is intended to be. A non-Nazi bar.

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

Oh, you don’t say.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh you don’t say

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 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 10 hours ago • 295 comments

Anyway, it's 7am so I need to start cooking up a big pot of stew to bring for volunteers' lunch at my workplace. It turns out that the world continues turning no matter how many times people online want to tell you that it's stopped.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I am so tired of this shit. If you're so convinced that we'll never have an election again, just go crawl under a rock and do nothing. Posting "lol this guy thinks we're still gonna have elections" every time someone mentions them is such weak sauce.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Literally the last time Americans turned out in huge numbers to oppose fascist law enforcement in the streets, the Democrats swept the ensuing elections.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

My hunch is that, as we saw with Lafayette Park, National Guard troops are not going to be as compliant as this administration thinks. It’s one thing to unleash cops consumed by warrior cop culture on neighborhoods. Quite another to send reservists who are also accountants, barbers, and teachers.

submitted 22 hours ago • 174 comments

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

Fun thing about following a protest online now is I can check Twitter and have zero idea which photos are real, which are from past protests, which are staged, and which are generated on command by a bullshit machine that every user has immediate access to

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Well, this was a less than relaxing way to spend my last true day off until late August, but at least shit got done.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

They passed special laws in America to allow to-go "open containers" of alcohol and directly pointed people to go to public parks to hang out. A literal national "touch grass" moment and most of these books are projections of who didn't like what they found out about themselves in that moment.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

submitted 23 hours ago • 103 comments

QTing a rapist to say this is the cherry on top

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

If the second largest city in the country can’t handle like 400 protestors, how are the police supposed to implement martial law at the behest of the Trump administration? The numbers don’t add up.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“you’re making the gestapo sad” is a hell of an argument

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Just read the "Is It OK to Earn Rental Income From an ICE Holding Facility?" thing in the NYT and I'm struggling to see how this argumentation would prevent someone from justifying taking money from a slaveholding plantation; all you need to do is consider "cotton production" abstractly reasonable

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It's extraordinary how brutal police are willing to be, the lengths to which they are willing to go, the internal solidarity they are willing to show, in order to deliver to U.S. citizens—the protection of whom is their ostensible jobs—the clear message, "we are at war with you."

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

"...planning a new paramilitary training event without fear of local authorities or the FBI, which once dismantled it in a nationwide effort."

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The fact they chose California as the flash point is also an indicator that they don't think these things through LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 224 comments

😢😢😢

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not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, this guy, and fuck ICE. They aren't worried about treating immigrants like real people with real families. Well, turnabout is fair play.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

Finished the laundry, painting, and one of the two breads, then housed a cheeseburger while running errands, because sometimes you uproot your whole life and move to a place where Five Guys is the best self-treat available.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

As much as it pains me to say anything positive about Boston sports, they have been crushing it in the team logo department forever.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Literally the most complete explanation of Minneapolis I've ever read. I extremely miss it/do not miss it at all.

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If I were in charge of a small liberal arts school, I would start thinking about aggressively marketing my institution as a "knowledge-first" college. One where students can escape the intrusion of constant AI and focus on deep learning and engagement.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

"Don't murder Greta Thunberg and half a dozen other people in cold blood with US made weapons" gets a whopping 11 signatures in the House

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments