Thank you

To a degree. It’s also getting the base comfortable with the idea that these policies are normal. “Hey, look, the Dems already tried to take over Texas with the military. Its a good thing we had Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton to protect us. Now its our turn to do it to California and New York.”

It also raises the stakes in every election cycle. The 2015 Jade Helm conspiracy made “Vote Red No Matter Who” this overriding priority for Texas conservatives. Compared to 2008/2012, when conservatives tried to paint Obama as weak and effeminate and easily manipulated, the “Obama/Hillary are trying to take over Texas!!!” panic coverage got far more apathetic Republicans off their asses and into voting booths.

The physical embodiment of Limousine Liberalism suddenly became the standard bearer for the Old South from with the Republicans’ own party, literally months after Cruz, Rubio, and Bush had exhausted themselves trying to smear him into the pavement.

The cunt completely lost it and challenged me for a fistfight on our office’s premises.

I would not be able to resist delivering a pair of boxing gloves to his desk the next morning.

But when I looked behind, I only saw one set of footprints.

They can and do flag and report accounts to an AI assisted administration that will casually permaban whole communities on a whim.

Reddit really testing the limits of Dead Internet Theory

we’re not a dystopia

Wasn’t half your coastline on fire just a few years ago? Aren’t you bleaching the entire Great Barrier Reef with coal mine runoff that isn’t globally marketable anymore? Aren’t you guys on a mukti-century campaign to do eugenics on the Aboriginal Peoples of the continent?

Y’all just like us fr fr.

Everyone needs to start dressing like an ICE Agent

Imagine if JK Rowling would do that last bit for us.

blaming them on using WhatsApp is besides the point

WhatsApp admins are explicitly interfering with a public protest in order to satisfy a genocidal foreign government.

This is at least as big a deal as TikTok censorship of anti-China posters. It’s just on behalf of a US ally, so we’re defending it rather than threatening to interfere in their business practices in turn.

the shame is on the cess pool that is Meta

Who appoints WhatsApp administration heads if not Meta? It’s the same picture.

Anyone from 28 and above will be easly called a boomer by 14 years old

I’m sure there’s some kind of meme to describe this. Or maybe they’re all TikTok dances now, idk.

All I know is that the damned kids today need to get off my lawn.

You mean freedom of speech…

I mean “posting online”.

The freedom to speak truth to power without the goon squad kicking down your door?

Has never existed in a practical sense within the United States. Not under Bush. Not under Eisenhower. Not under Woodrow Wilson. Not under James Buchanan. Not under John Adams.

Americans have a long and storied history of arresting outspoken dissidents, assaulting them, and disappearing anyone who persisted.

Clearly that is being eroded in the US right now

We have more political prisoners in jail today than China has had since the end of the colonial era.

At some point, you gotta dance with who brung ya. If, after over a century of experimentation, you conclude that every single AES state is as evil as the CIA tells us, there’s not much socialism to support.

You also really need to jam your eyes shut and ignore the enormous improvements in quality of life, even in the face of adverse economic headwinds, in the surviving socialist block. “Ah, but I’m not free to shitpost on the Internet the same way!” is such sad metric for a country’s success

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You such an idiot.

Impossible. I always support the person who is slightly to the left of the most far-right candidate on the ballot. Ergo, I am always a genius and it is you who are the idiot.

The old Inside-Outside strategy. Reactionaries aren’t the only ones who can work a ratchet.

Absolutely within the purview of “moderate” leftists to advocate turns to the left and backstop turns to the right at every opportunity. But they do have to do those two things.

Posting this makes you singularly responsible for the Presidency of Donald Trump. Everything is now all your fault.

Israel crossing red lines like a cat going at a laser pointer.

If you were offered the real thing or a pale imitation, which would you choose? Boobs are simply asses on the chest! The Ass is superior!

Americans expressing their decidedly non-tankie tendencies