Tucker FitzGerald

One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

(1) If it’s a statutory challenge: convince Congress to pass a law.

(2) If it’s a constitutional challenge: try to amend the Constitution.

(3) If that fails: rally voters to elect politicians to do (1) and/or (2).

(4) If that also fails: question whether he is wildly popular.

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

I'm convinced! I will never go to a dealership or have anything to do with a Tesla! Ever!

Everyone’s too polite to say it in their “what Democrats should do to win elections” posts but the obvious answer is lie and make a bunch of crazy promises because most voters are morons

When I said I was worried about Tyranny I meant the government doing mild health insurance reform. I have no problem with them illegally snatching and disappearing people

Radiohead announce their next album will be their most accessible yet. “We were really onto something with ‘Creep’,” says singer Thom Yorke, “but we got scared of success and disappeared up our own asses for 30 years. Now we’re finally ready to rock stadiums like we were always meant to”

if we would actually turn up like this we'd be getting somewhere

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

hey if you aren't american i'd strongly reconsider traveling to the US for any sort of convention

John Yoo wrote the torture memos and is now a professor of law at Berkeley. Gina Haspel oversaw torture, lied about it, destroyed the tapes it was recorded on, became CIA director and now works for a law firm. We're a country that's just been waiting for people like Trump and Musk.

“i disagree with everything Khalil was saying, and how he was saying it. im glad the nypd bashed all those kids’ heads in last year and he should maybe be expelled. but the important thing is…wait what was i saying?” we’re truly watching the rhetorical masters at work with these kinds of statements

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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Musk suffers from the same delusion as his fans: he imagines he knows things because he has money. This has caused him to repeatedly embarrass himself publicly, and the humiliation makes him more resentful of criticism instead of triggering self reflection. He shouldn't be anywhere near government

The Ides of March 44 BC is notorious as the day that Roman senators wore pink to protest the actions of Julius Caesar

Azalea pink shirt with Bikini Kill written in turquoise and white alternating letters.

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Bro's got that stable equilibrium call him Homie O'Stasis

In case you didn’t know, the flow of fentanyl and other illicit drugs from the US into Canada is significantly higher than the flow from Canada into the US.

It’s clear that the next Democratic administration must:
1) reverse all the cuts to federal agencies
2) protect the agencies from future cuts by giving each agency its own private militia

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

As a kid watching Red Dawn in the 80s, I definitely though the Russian takeover of the US would involve at least *some* tanks

You: Oh my god the house is on fire!

Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,

realized while emptying the dishwasher that Yoda is precisely wrong. not malevolently so. but there is no do and there is no do not. there is only try. this is clear to a man in his mid-fifties and so should be clear to a 900-year-old Jedi knight

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

Being in constant survival mode sucks ass 😔