The regime got this far because The Base is dumber than dogshit and incredibly willing to act against its own interest over and over again if it means they get to punch down on those they hate. They’re not about to get cold feet or reflect on the possibility of failure now. And to be honest, I don’t think they have a lot of reason to worry.
Israel and its enforcers are operating in a euphoric mental state. For an abuser it’s a rush to be able to abuse people openly and get away with it, rather than having to conceal and twist logic. They know that so long as they have the paid for blessing of the United States and its bloated military, nobody can realistically hold them accountable.
We have IDF soldiers openly admitting to killing unarmed civilians on social media. It’s all euphoria and arrogance.
Without more context it’s hard to pass judgement. Were the victims hit by pass-through shots on the attacker or a wall? Did the firearms officer straight up miss? Were they using their handgun or their carbine?
The real difference will be if they hold the firearms officer accountable, for negligence if nothing else.
Conservatives have wanted to gut the Fed with a bowie knife since fucking Andrew Jackson, so this isn’t a blunder to them.
I can’t decide whether Fox and Friends or The Five is the worst segment on Fox. Seems like they’re in competition for the title. The both of them are technically comedy or even satire segments, but of course they use that as a shield from criticism. “No reasonable person would take this seriously”, just like they argue in court when they get sued for the raw sewage they spew into public discourse.
But “Kill all of the homeless” and “destroy the UN and everyone who’s part of it” are only jokes if you find those actions amusing.
“I would have considered opposing war crimes and general inhumanity, but the opposition was cringe. I had no choice, really.”
Fuck off.
Red Note banned a lot of people for wrongspeak during that exodus. Westerners are used to speaking their minds online for better or worse.
Speaking of banning, saying the “CPC” is awfully authoritarian and all that shit would normally be a permabanning offense in .ml, but I’m willing to bet that the admins will let it slide because you’re disingenuously pushing Chinese influence on the libshit gweilo.
Humans have been ostracising those with aberrant or antisocial traits and behaviors for longer than civilization has existed. That’s just how we work, its nothing new. A lot of the time it’s simpleminded and damaging, but sometimes it’s for the good of the whole.
I think it’s perfectly okay to ostracise fascists and racists. I don’t think it’s okay for them to try to do the same for us. That’s not hYpOcRiSy, that’s how culture war works.
The average person is a follower who will defer to authority when pressed even a little. The average person abhors violence. People turn in their loved ones to please authority and condemn violence all the time, like the shooter’s suspect’s father.
Is the answer lead poisoning?
Seems like it.
“We’ll coup whoever we want! Deal with it!” - actual Elon quote.
I’d imagine there are many ways people might “deal with it”, unfortunately for him.
Look at what the Kirk assassin wrote on their cartridges.
Internet meme culture is just culture now.
Just world fallacy. There is a very real chance that they will all get away with this. Better odds than not, I’d say.
He’ll be 97 when he gets out, if he lives that long.
Good riddance.
Reminds me of when Russia was using shit like line charges and surface to air missiles to blow up Ukrainian apartment blocks. Profound, idiotic squandering of military materiel not out of tactical necessity, but out of a base, abject hatred of their enemy as a culture and people.
I think the most damaging thing someone could tell Trump is that nobody he’s surrounded himself with actually thinks he’s smart, successful, or charismatic. That they’re lying through their teeth when they say all these great things about him. That they all mock him behind his back, that they think he’s stupid and they’re all looking to use him for their own ends.
We know his narcissism, we know he hangs on the words of the last person he talked to, and best of all, all that is probably far more true than it is false.
He’d be deranged beyond measure, like that methed-up moustache man in Berlin towards the end.
My understanding is that they basically always were. The South has historically refused to purchase learning material that is “too harsh” on them regarding the Civil War, and so the companies making said material, in order to make the most money, have modified the material to suit that customer base for a long time.
It says in the article that the number of American requests are still quite low, and are generally denied anyway. They have to prove that nowhere in the US is safe for them, and the high level position of Canada, for the time being, is that the US is not an unsafe country (otherwise they couldn’t defer other refugees here).
My amateur read would be that Trump is far more useful to Russia alive as the credulous creature he is than dead. Letting Vance carry on the MAGA legacy would be risky for Putin’s ambitions, so long as Trump is handily disrupting any hope of Ukrainian self determination, why rock the boat?
More objective evidence that he very explicitly thinks he is above the law, all law. Basically academic at this point in time, but the regime will collapse some day and it will be important to take count.