Just as many people died in Sudan in the last two weeks as died in Gaza in the last two years.

How long will you be angry over things in the past while being deliberately ignorant of atrocities that are happening right now?

They couldn’t pass up the chance to simultaneously ban religious freedom and freedom of speech. Double-tap on the first amendment!

How dare you ask people to do some basic critical thinking!

The war’s over, maybe you should find a new hobby LOL.

Accomplish stuff? Look up how many seats the respective parties have. The democrats aren’t capable of accomplishing anything, but they might be able to prevent the Republicans from taking away a few things.

You gotta get out of the mindset that the Democrats are the government. They are not. They can push a little by shutting down the government, but a majority of Americans did vote for the Republicans to be in power. The Schumer doesn’t have a mandate to do anything, just a very narrow area where he can make a case that while Americans voted Republican they didn’t vote for what little healthcare they have to be taken away.

Also having the voters make the final decision on whether healthcare should be taken away wouldn’t be a bad thing.

It’s sad that Americans on both the left and right seem to hate democracy now.

Now if you want to flatten out everything, even the floor under the sea that is then also filled with what has been land before, then we do not even need to know how much the land is. The water will be above it, regardless the height of the land.

But wouldn’t moving the land from the high points increase the circumference of the solid part of the Earth and stretch the water around it a little bit, making the height of the water a little bit less?

No it won’t. That just gets someone either killed by the Secret Service or put in jail for the rest of their lives. And you convince a lot of people that a crackdown is justified.

Where are you from, Russia? Iran? Why are doing this idiotic stochastic terrorism bullshit that obviously only makes things worse for everyone? Maybe you’ve just been influenced by foreign troll farms to talk this way. But it’s stupid and will only get people hurt with no positive political outcome.

Well yeah they called in the military to keep you safe from antifa. It’s like how this rock I have keeps the tigers away. I don’t see any tigers around so its working.

Most fascist movements actually fade away. We tend not to focus on those too much since it’s not as interesting as the fascist movements that started WWII.

It’s not as exciting to do non-violent resistance, but it makes it difficult for authoritarians to accomplish anything and failed authoritarians don’t have a very long lifespan. There are those that respect authoritarians because “they get things done” but when the opposite happens and nothing works as good as it used to they aren’t respected by anyone. Even an authoritarian needs a base of support to have power and through non-violent resistance this can be accomplished.

Violent resistance actually helps a fascist movement in the early stages. See the assassination of Charlie Kirk… it didn’t weaken them in any way, it actually made them stronger. A loner with a gun isn’t going to change anything, even a small armed group can’t change anything. You need to build a significant base of support to accomplish anything and that’s what the No Kings group is doing. Most likely the non-violent resistance will succeed, and even in the case where the fascists use violence against a non-violent movement, there’s actually a framework for a resistance movement to succeed by other means.

You gotta have numbers to accomplish anything and No Kings is building up their numbers. That’s a real movement that can do something more than just whining on the internet.

You haven’t been paying attention have you? The government wants violence to justify them taking away more rights and gaining more power. Everything they’re doing so far is under the made up emergencies because of made up threats. These actions can be challenged in court.

If there were real violent actions they’d have real power not the phony power they have now based on phony claims of violence.

Who’s side are you on? The things you’re saying serve to help the fascists. One unhinged loner does violence and you get what? Another Charlie Kirk kind of thing? What did that accomplish?

Right now it’s a time to organize. Not organize online, that’s bullshit since the powers that be mostly have control over. Organize face to face with people in your community. If only there were some event happening where people could do that…

Abolitionist movements, women’s suffrage movements, and civil rights movements were all successful non-violent resistance movements.

What did violent resistance movements achieve other than getting a bunch of people killed? Oh right sometimes the leaders of violent resistance movements get power and there is the 100% predictable result of putting violent people into power.

On the internet there’s always some foreign troll farm whispering “burn down your own capital” in everyone’s ears all of the time in every country they don’t like. But it’s stupid to listen to them, their motives aren’t to improve anything for you, they just want to create chaos.

Violent resistances don’t accomplish anything. Non-violent resistances have accomplished a lot if you actually study history instead of listening to the troll farms.

Actually, I got the information about China’s handling of toxic waste from processing rare earths from Australian news (ABC).

Where do you get your information from? Some influencer on TikTok? Those people are for entertainment only and consider who’s choosing which content you see.

Yes they will charge you more, because there’s toxic waste involved and it can be expensive to handle in an environmentally friendly way. It’s cheaper to refine rare earths by just dumping the toxic waste on the ground, which is what China does and it’s how they cornered the market.

This is one of the cases where tariffs are good. Produce the rare earths the right way (even if it costs more) and slap tariffs on products that are produced in ways that damages the environment (as China does).

Incitatus was more competent than most of Trump’s cabinet.

The reason your movement doesn’t get credibility is because you can’t recognize that massacring people because of their ethnicity (what Hamas did) is genocide. If you’re claiming that Hamas didn’t commit genocide while also claiming Israel has, that requires some serious mental gymnastics to reconcile. But you’re not even trying to reconcile the discrepancy in how you consider the the actions of Hamas vs. how you consider the actions of Israel. You feel like if you just shout loud enough, engage in harassment campaigns to intimidate people from discussing the topic, you can control the narrative.

And you can control the narrative in small corners of the internet like this. But then what? You support a violent movement that tortures people to silence dissent. Do you ever ask “are we the baddies?” or do you continue down the dark path without questioning anything?

Seems a lot of people here don’t want the war to be over.

Ya know you could get together with your activist friends and be happy? You don’t actually need to meet each over a shared hatred of people.

1200 are not alive, they were massacred in a genocidal act by Hamas.

Netanyahu is an incompetent idiot and I hope he’s removed from power in the next election.

Hamas are psychopaths that torture Palestinians for speaking out against them and prevent elections from happening. They’re genocidal fascists and are the biggest obstacle preventing the Palestinian people from being free. And you’re an apologist for them because you look the other way on their genocidal actions and look the other way on their oppression of Palestinians.

“Hey Batman, I have Bruce Wayne on the other line, he’s got some information, you should talk to him.”

Yes, this is a scene that actually did happen in the Adam West Batman show.

In the movie The Dark Knight, Gordon says Batman often doesn’t show up when the bat signal is on, he mostly turns it on to to remind criminals that Batman is out there.

In the comic The Dark Knight Returns, Gordon says there’s about a dozen different ways Gordon could contact Batman, but he uses the Bat Signal for similar reasons.

So it’s mostly just for theatrics, if it were a real emergency Gordon would phone up Batman. But I guess it’s a way to indicate to Batman “let’s talk whenever you’re not busy”.