Kansas City keeps getting rated in one of the most dangerous cities.
Want to know something neat about it? The city doesn’t have control over its police.
Nope, instead the police is controlled by a 5 person board 1 is the mayor, the other 4 picked by the governor. So Republicans have had control of the police force in the past decade, you think that’s been going well?
I mean to be fair, the police did crack down on the street racing thi- oh, wait, right, it’s because one of them got ran over by a 4 wheeler, otherwise the governor(s) have been ecstatic to talk about how bad “liberal cities” are while fucking them over.
So everyone! Prepare for this on the national level! Have fun!
You know if he’s not able to rig the election this shit is going back fire on him.
They’ll be rigged even if he has to station troops at every voting location in the country.
Never forget, he promised everyone that they’d never have to vote again.
You mean to tell me he may be biased against his political opponents?
Yeah, no shit.
It makes sense because he’s a criminal.
nhaa, he’s a criminal, but it makes sense because the troops are supposed to threaten the opposition into submission, and if they don’t, their orders will be to get rid of opposition. It has nothing to do with him being a criminal, and everything to do with him being a dictator.
Are dictators not criminals?
I suppose they can be, but it would be pretty stupid since they can rewrite the laws themselves.
I read headlines like this and my only reaction is;”:
“Fucking duh”
If anyone from any corner wanted to do anything real about crime or drug use they could. It’s an easy fix. It just takes investing in the people. Raising wages. Giving people a decent quality of life. Make it so every day isn’t a scrap. A struggle for survival.
But then wages go up. We hate that here.
Yeah. Take a look at common social media. It’s literally flooded again with right-wing BS justifying trump’s actions. Outright lies made over and over. There’s no way these aren’t paid troll farms doing this. The volume is overwhelming.
To this day, my Fox News addled dad insists that Minneapolis and Seattle burned to the ground in 2020. I’m sure there are a ton of bots, but there’s also a ton of brainwashed people out there.
This is why Facebook banned me. I relentlessly reported people for hate speech and then started telling people that Jesus will likely spit them out when they go to heaven. They got triggered and mass reported my comments. Facebook is a shit hole of Ai accounts posting psychotic bullshit.
Just get off the service. Back up your pictures. Everything will be better once you’re gone.
Good reason to get banned.
Not all snowflakes need to hear the hardcore truth, the internet has become too fucking sensitive. Fuck your feelings.
Not at all. It was in response to a group of people who threatened to burn down a youth center for a rainbow flag.
I wonder if the left will have to embrace paying …untroll? farms
The problem is how do you troll with the truth? “Well akshully climate change is manmade!” Vs “Climate change is a New World Order Jewish Plot!!1!”
Stupid extremist lies win pretty handily when you’re trying to hook the racist and easily ragebaited uneducated.
Good question. Maybe some sort of similar mind games but with the goal to get towards the truth. For like a commercial, maybe put Trump on a throne and show how he sees the working class. Make him say stuff like “okay see if we can make them believe in Jewish space lasers next!” While laughing at some gaudy party. Then have some totally normal looking guy look up from a tweet and be like "they really think we are that dumb? Weird ". Maybe internet trolling could be just accounts that say things like “no one is believing this bullshit anymore. Can’t they think of something more clever to try to fool us with? My insurance rates are skyrocketing with all these hurricanes and fires from the whole damn world getting hotter. If they don’t want to give up profits at least make a believable lie for us.”
Maybe that’s too many words but basically make fun of the messaging the right is sending and try to put everyone on their own side by pretending they themselves, and anyone agreeing with them, is smart. It’s the exact same brainwashing format the right is using. Just use it back.
He wants a conflict to happen.
Any protest of this will be framed as violence and be used to justify more troops. I’m sure we’ll get to a point where federal agents are “protecting” voting sites and intimidating minorities.
The Heritage foundation and the other fascist groups have been planning this for decades. The midterm elections are going to be tampered with in some way, this is just the initial stages of the project.
Guess we’ll just have to stick to throwing sandwiches at them.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
*Trumpstein
I kind of wonder what that would change. It has been known for years that he was best buddy whith the most notorious pedo of the past 50 years. We have tapes, letters, etc. He clearly his a pedophile, if people didn’t realize that before, they’re stupid
The right wing alternate reality machine has been hammering their brain with “The Epstien files are nothing/a plot by the democrats/fake/don’t say anything about Trump (according to Maxwell)/etc”
Anybody can succumb to propaganda, be angry at the people who are intentionally misleading people. Attacking your own class is playing into the hands of the fascists.
Ha ha if you believe this is about crime then you probably believed DOGE was about saving you money. 🤣
Does anybody even pretend to think this is about fighting crime?
Yes. The way this always works is through useful idiots. There’s a core group that knows it’s bullshit, but they want to use it to pursue some other agenda. They then filter talking points to their media contacts. Those people may or may not believe it, but their paycheck depends on convincing masses of people that it’s true.
The random MAGA guy on a Facebook post? He probably believes it. He’s two degrees removed from the people who don’t. The Enlightened Centrist who tries to mix both sides into a resemblance of an ideology is three degrees removed.
This is also why the only “journalism” outlets that aren’t financially struggling are conservative podcasters and YouTubers.
I have a reasonably conservative brother but it’s hard to tell what he actually believes vs what he wants to troll with
Most recently he got me with Harvard. Apparently it’s a hotbed of racism and harassment, so the federal government needs to step in. wtf? Does he really believe that’s anything more than a pretext to control “woke” education?
I have several Republicans in my circles that do, it’s surreal.
Time for a new circle
Just act like normal people and they’ll find their own circle eventually
Your enemy isn’t the other people of your class who are uneducated, ignorant and being manipulated.
Your enemy is the people who are educated, rich and intentionally manipulating the most ignorant people in our society.
I’m not saying you need to socialize with them, but recognize that the actual enemy is the people using billions of dollars to pour poisonous lies into the minds of the uneducated masses in order to grab as much power as possible.
People get too lost in dunking on MAGA voters that they don’t focus on the people making MAGA voters.
By “acting normal” i literally mean speaking plainly about everyday issues like the fascist takeover of our country, giant child sex trafficking coverups, abuse of military, etc. instead of pretending this is just “politics” and so we need to censor ourselves to avoid offending Trump supporters. They certainly don’t.
I’m not suggesting “dunking” on any Trump supporters in the group, but they will likely take it that way, and if they can’t maintain adult discussions about it they will run from the truth just like most of the MAGA supporters who still haven’t gotten a clue after 8 years of this. If they don’t though, maybe they aren’t so hopeless.
I don’t hate Trump supporters in general, but boy did they fuck this one up… If they feel bad when someone points that out i really don’t care
That the class traitors have been deceived doesn’t stop them from being your enemies as they actively support the regime.
Yeah, but the difference is that they are possibly redeemable, contrary to the elite pushing that crap.
- Elite that know what they’re doing? → Gulag → Forced work for the rest of their miserable life, IDGAF.
- Person who was manipulated in being an angry fascist through lies and fear? → rehabilitation → back to a happy life
Exactly.
I’m a leftist living in a rural southern area. I encounter these people every day. The vast majority of people have had their sources of information deliberately poisoned and their views are rational but they’re built on lies (which, again, are deliberately created to have this effect).
Yeah, there are definitely bigots and people who would support this crap even without the massive disinformation campaign. But, most of them are ignorant and being misled.
Those people can have their views changed if the firehose of bullshit is interrupted. This is impossible if you’re creating an environment where you’re attacking people who are redeemable.
Your enemy isn’t other poor people, your enemy is the elites who are deliberately poisoning people’s perception of the world in order to obtain power.
It feels good to write angry, self-righteous crap online and be showered with upvotes. But, choosing to target other people in your class is a tactical error.
Easier said than done
The news seems to be
boughtconvinced
All major cities are blue cities. The most dangerous cities are in red states because red state governments dont let blue cities run their cities without interference and beat them up to score political points. They want their cities to remain dangerous because harping on the cities for being dangerous is 85% of their political appeal to rural hicks
St Louis voted to legalize weed, for a $15/hr minimum wage and plenty of other things that would have drastically improved life for residents and reduced crime over a decade ago now. The state government took it away every time. More recently, the state government took control of the police department away from the city. All of this shit makes the city worse off, even though it has been steadily improving for the last decade in spite of the fuckery
Home rule should be a federal policy for all cities over a certain size
Missouri State government is so awful.
Vote for sick leave passes, state government shoots it down.
Vote for abortion rights passes, same deal.
We have politicians openly going against the will of the people as certified by majority vote and I’m so damn frustrated I don’t know what more I can do. I normally like to start with sensible options but we can’t even get what we want by voting for it!
The oligarchs are prepping for collapse and upheaval, and the Democrats will “go along with it” (work in concert) to implement the authoritarian police state, just as they have always done.
Well, yeah. Because the “danger” is not the crime. It’s the people thinking “wrong”.
