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remember, fascists are small men who want to feel big, dorks who want to look cool, simpletons who cant handle complexity
theyre losers who embrace a low effort ideology that lets them win, playing on easy mode to feel like theyve conquered something
theyre losers who embrace a low effort ideology that lets them win, playing on easy mode to feel like theyve conquered something
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the first ever use of mail-bombing, as far as i know, was done by zionists against the british government! the first use of the phrase “free palestine” was by zionists agitating against Britain! this doesn’t make it *good*, but pretending zionism was a close ally of the british is just absurd!
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
the first ever use of mail-bombing, as far as i know, was done by zionists against the british government! the first use of the phrase “free palestine” was by zionists agitating against Britain! this doesn’t make it *good*, but pretending zionism was a close ally of the british is just absurd!
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It's like how when Charlie Kirk was shot, his supporters' first instinct was to send bomb threats to HBCUs.
A majority white state, a majority white college, a sea of white Trump supporters, and yet their gut reaction was to blame Black people for their idol's death. Utah doesn't even have an HBCU.
A majority white state, a majority white college, a sea of white Trump supporters, and yet their gut reaction was to blame Black people for their idol's death. Utah doesn't even have an HBCU.
November 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It's like how when Charlie Kirk was shot, his supporters' first instinct was to send bomb threats to HBCUs.
A majority white state, a majority white college, a sea of white Trump supporters, and yet their gut reaction was to blame Black people for their idol's death. Utah doesn't even have an HBCU.
A majority white state, a majority white college, a sea of white Trump supporters, and yet their gut reaction was to blame Black people for their idol's death. Utah doesn't even have an HBCU.
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If I'm understanding this correctly, the man who shot two national guards in DC was a former Afghan child soldier who fought alongside US special forces and in a CIA-supervised unit and later was granted asylum. The word "blowback" comes to mind.
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If I'm understanding this correctly, the man who shot two national guards in DC was a former Afghan child soldier who fought alongside US special forces and in a CIA-supervised unit and later was granted asylum. The word "blowback" comes to mind.
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Gotta say, I really love how many videos I’m seeing of people (especially white people) excoriating ICE agents. Following them around, cursing them out, telling them the Hague is waiting and so on. Not sure this would have been so quickly adopted not that long ago.
November 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Gotta say, I really love how many videos I’m seeing of people (especially white people) excoriating ICE agents. Following them around, cursing them out, telling them the Hague is waiting and so on. Not sure this would have been so quickly adopted not that long ago.
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Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
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Mad Marge of Georgia is a legitimate Red-Brown. She's Gregor Strasser outraged that Adolf conned him into thinking the second word in National Socialist meant anything. She's Ernst Röhm, ripping open her shirt and saying "if Donald wants me dead he should come and do it himself".
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Mad Marge of Georgia is a legitimate Red-Brown. She's Gregor Strasser outraged that Adolf conned him into thinking the second word in National Socialist meant anything. She's Ernst Röhm, ripping open her shirt and saying "if Donald wants me dead he should come and do it himself".
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Obviously yes! Most Americans speak Spanish, Portuguese, or other languages and don't live in the US so it'd be weird to call them that
If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Obviously yes! Most Americans speak Spanish, Portuguese, or other languages and don't live in the US so it'd be weird to call them that
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The vibe here is really "guy who was part of a U.S.-aligned death squad got told he's getting sent back to Afghanistan to die"
well that tracks
(also should put to rest any bleating about “vetting” but we live in hell so)
(also should put to rest any bleating about “vetting” but we live in hell so)
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The vibe here is really "guy who was part of a U.S.-aligned death squad got told he's getting sent back to Afghanistan to die"
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This dude was vetted six ways from Sunday. Can’t say he wasn’t vetted enough. Vetted by multiple administrations.
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This dude was vetted six ways from Sunday. Can’t say he wasn’t vetted enough. Vetted by multiple administrations.
in addition to prosecutions for the perpetrators there must be reparations for the victims of mass deportation, and there is already precedent in restitution for survivors of japanese internment
Do we find people like this and invite them back?
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
in addition to prosecutions for the perpetrators there must be reparations for the victims of mass deportation, and there is already precedent in restitution for survivors of japanese internment
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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We are, in fact, coming for your way of life. It sucks! For you, among other things!
We are, in fact, trying to turn your children gay/trans/whatever (i.e. to make them feel free to be themselves, which probably includes some degree of queerness)
Etc.
We are, in fact, trying to turn your children gay/trans/whatever (i.e. to make them feel free to be themselves, which probably includes some degree of queerness)
Etc.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We are, in fact, coming for your way of life. It sucks! For you, among other things!
We are, in fact, trying to turn your children gay/trans/whatever (i.e. to make them feel free to be themselves, which probably includes some degree of queerness)
Etc.
We are, in fact, trying to turn your children gay/trans/whatever (i.e. to make them feel free to be themselves, which probably includes some degree of queerness)
Etc.
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As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
The only major faction which does not believe it is the far right, which understands itself to be in a cultural battle for hearts and minds which is only glancingly correlated with economic anything. It’s worked out wonderfully for them
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
blowback strikes again: the state creating via second, third, etc order effects the very terrorists it claims to defend us against to legitimate its authoritarian power grabs
and thats before we get into how the state is the apex purveyor of terroristic violence
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
and thats before we get into how the state is the apex purveyor of terroristic violence
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Suspect in Washington DC national guard shooting had ties to CIA, agency confirms
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, worked with agency-backed military units during US war in Afghanistan
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
blowback strikes again: the state creating via second, third, etc order effects the very terrorists it claims to defend us against to legitimate its authoritarian power grabs
and thats before we get into how the state is the apex purveyor of terroristic violence
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
and thats before we get into how the state is the apex purveyor of terroristic violence
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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we need to democratize womb transplants specifically so we can ask guys like this "well why aren't YOU bearing children then"
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
we need to democratize womb transplants specifically so we can ask guys like this "well why aren't YOU bearing children then"
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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This is always the plan with authoritarians wielding militaristic power. They create their own enemies to justify their power grabs.
Netanyahu loved October 7th for this exact reason. His failures led to it, and instead of being held accountable, he got more power than ever.
Netanyahu loved October 7th for this exact reason. His failures led to it, and instead of being held accountable, he got more power than ever.
Place National Guard in harm’s way for no good reason. Two members are tragically and unnecessarily shot. The reckless regime’s response: We’re sending 500 more National Guard troops! What a disgrace.
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This is always the plan with authoritarians wielding militaristic power. They create their own enemies to justify their power grabs.
Netanyahu loved October 7th for this exact reason. His failures led to it, and instead of being held accountable, he got more power than ever.
Netanyahu loved October 7th for this exact reason. His failures led to it, and instead of being held accountable, he got more power than ever.
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It is also important to keep in mind that one of the first immigration actions Trump & Miller took was stranding the next batch of these Afghan refugees who were approved & waiting to come here. Essentially condemning them to persecution & possible torture or death.
this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It is also important to keep in mind that one of the first immigration actions Trump & Miller took was stranding the next batch of these Afghan refugees who were approved & waiting to come here. Essentially condemning them to persecution & possible torture or death.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
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These people convert to Catholicism for the aesthetic and because they think it's Hard Mode compared to Protestantism. They think Catholicism is the Dark Souls of Christianity
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
These people convert to Catholicism for the aesthetic and because they think it's Hard Mode compared to Protestantism. They think Catholicism is the Dark Souls of Christianity
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Very funny that far-right ideologues have reverse-engineered a preference for Catholic-style hierarchies, obeisance to authority, and timeless tradition, and most of them are too wedded to “Western Civilization“ to embrace Eastern Orthodox denominations, and they find themselves right back in 1520
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Very funny that far-right ideologues have reverse-engineered a preference for Catholic-style hierarchies, obeisance to authority, and timeless tradition, and most of them are too wedded to “Western Civilization“ to embrace Eastern Orthodox denominations, and they find themselves right back in 1520