Dems campaigned on restricting gun ownership broadly.

Republicans campaigned on restricting civil liberties for liberals specifically.

At the executive level, he gets to decide how the federal policing departments interpret statute and execute their department objectives.

In the modern era, that means taking a reading of “gun possession” as “physical threat to police” and permitting the police to respond to anyone they think might be carrying with lethal force. That’s not a repeal of the 2nd amendment in a literal sense. But it does make open carrying extremely dangerous in practice.

Of course, this isn’t news to everyone.

Being a Black gun owner in the US comes with a unique set of challenges. The Second Amendment is often not applied to Black gun owners in the same way it is applied to white gun owners. Lawfully armed Black people are often viewed as a threat and met with police violence, in part because of implicit bias that law enforcement is not immune to.

Philando Castille was a registered gun owner in St. Paul, Minnesota, who was shot and killed by police in front of his girlfriend and her daughter, after disclosing that he was armed. Alton Sterling, who was killed by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was legally armed at the time of his death. Black Americans are disproportionately murdered or injured by police and Black gun owners describe being stereotyped and misperceived by law enforcement.

What we have is a white population that’s catching up to the treatment enjoyed by minorities for decades.

It’s 100% weapon’s grade clickbait.

From a country outside of your borders: Fuck you.

I see you, Canada.

We all see you.

Alberta is the beating heart of your corrupt fascist oligarchy. A glorified gas station parked atop a charnel pit. You’re Russians with the serial numbers filed off.

Death to Kkklanada.

May the millions of native peoples trampled by your imperial boot rise up and strangle you.

It goes like this: Trump does the racist thing, Republicans do theater around clutching their pearls. The racism is “retracted.”

Having your cake and eating it, too.

• Republicans in the periphery say they stood up to the president

• Republicans at the center get to say their president is Based

Add in the national media censoring reproducing of the racist quote in mainstream press, while echoing it in talk radio. A very effective inside/outside strategy that deludes normals as it stooks up the reactionaries.

Love to give a President the Nobel Prize inside the first six weeks on the job.

Remember how well that worked out for Obama?

The largely clandestine effort, profiled in a New York Times report and a forthcoming book by Newsweek’s Daniel Klaidman, highlights a remarkable transformation for a man who campaigned four years ago as an anti-war Senator, former law professor and defender of Constitutional due process. He pushed for an end to the use of torture on terror suspects, the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, and for trying detainees in federal courts. For those efforts he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yet over the past three and a half years, Obama has sat quietly “at the helm of a top secret ‘nominations’ process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical,” according to the Times. He personally vetted names on a “kill list” of targets, authorizing dozens of drone strikes even in cases with only vague and inconclusive evidence about who’s really on the ground, according to the report. Neither the evidence against the suspects nor the suspects’ identities is available for public scrutiny.

American liberals spent YEARS fighting anyone who suggested racism was still alive in america.

The standard line was that racism was a Southern trait, while Northern and Western liberals had somehow expunged themselves of the habit. At the same time, you had liberals from the Carter era onward bemoaning failures within the African American and Latin American communities to integrate properly. It was always the minority’s fault for failing to conform. It was never racism among liberals that widened the divide.

Even to this day they won’t attribute racism in explaining ice’s actions. In fact most didn’t care how many people died at ice’s hands until white people got shot in the face.

You can run this all the way back to the LA Riots, easily enough. Nevermind the anti-Muslim racism of the post-9/11 era, the Obama-era backlash to civil rights movements during Occupy and then again during BLM. It’s always and forever the minority’s fault for objecting to oppression. People of Color are never sufficiently civil. They don’t respect the norms. They want special favors. They can’t be trusted to argue in good faith. They’ve got dual loyalties. They’re not real Americans.

Even when you have Obama or Harris on the fucking ballot, you need them or their proxies effectively apologizing for their blackness and denouncing anyone of color who doesn’t agree with their neoliberal politics.

In summary, americans, and yes american liberals are deeply racist, selfish and uneducated people.

I don’t think they’re uneducated. All too often, I’ve seen racism taught - implicitly or explicitly - as justification for the modern social order. They’re educated in bigotry. They’re trained to think like this.

TIL, my grandparents were white.

US power stems directly from its dollar position.

Soft power stems from its ability to cut individual nation-states off from global trade. But if you take a hard look at, say, North Korea or Cuba or Venezuela or Iran, you’ll notice that it’s not simply access to legal international markets that causes their poverty. These countries are physically encircled by US military. Cuba, in particular, is ringed in by US warships with an entrenched beach head at Guantanamo Bay.

And it goes without saying that these countries are constantly under threat of espionage, plagued by disinformation, and periodically sabotaged by US special forces.

The dollar position is a consequence of these interventions, dating back to the Cold War Era.

The longer this goes on, the more systems decouple from the USA and correspondingly the less power and influence they have.

It’s been going on since Truman. Arguably back to McKinley. The US has been a fountain of militant white nationalism for centuries.

Meanwhile, European corporate media seems vastly more paranoid and fearful of infiltration by Eastern adversaries. Muslims coming up through Turkiye or crossing north of the Mediterranean. Russians driving tanks all the way from Moscow to Berlin. Chinese businessmen stealing European jobs, Orientalizing markets, and corrupting the fragile innocent young minds of the liberal intelligentsia.

I just don’t see decoupling happening (in my lifetime). Trump will lose his grip on power, US neoliberals will retake the federal government, and we’ll have another wave of “normalization” that settles anxious Europeans just long enough for Palantir and News Corp and JP Morgan and Microsoft to secure their hooks a bit deeper.

Question is what they’re going to do about it, though.

The EU is just about as integrated with the US economy as any two continents can be. Nevermind the US military presence.

Is that going to change? Or will Europeans just feel grumpy into the foreseeable future?

Liberals loved to insist the End of America is near whenever the nation’s mask slips far enough to reveal it’s true face.

Dirty truth is that the USA will keep on trucking, right over millions more people. Only difference will be that they’re our neighbors this time, rather than colonized peoples on the other end of the Earth.

I believe it was the British that burned DC down

I’m sure the Democrats will have a unified and muscular response that puts the best interests of their constituents first.

I heard Reza Pahlavi is wildly popular in Iran right now and Iranian locals are enthusiastic about seeing the Shah returned to power. Is this true?

What’s the lie about Ukraine?

Yaroslav Hunka scandal leaps to mind. But farther than that, it was the same old “it’s not going to be a quagmire”, “it’s not just about propping up the US arms industry”, “we have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here” line we’ve been hearing in every international theater.

Even the bit about Trump being “Putin’s Puppet” falls apart on any amount of historical interrogation. Trump was selling anti-tank missiles to Kiev as far back as 2018, three years before the Donbas invasion. He’d laid a bunch of sanctions on the country the first year he took office.

Then, as soon as Biden took office, he’s the one weak on Ukraine, according to the GOP.

Both parties egged their own supporters on by insisting the other party wasn’t Pro-Ukraine enough. Both parties insisted the other faction was “Communist”. Both insisted the other was a fifth column, trying to disarm the US from within. It was always and forever bullshit.

Nobel Peace Laureate

Wish that brand wasn’t covered in the slime of the last recipient.

Terrorism

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