Dr. Michael T. Paff (he/him)

Imperial Boomerang The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans ...

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Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it

Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

They Love Him Dead A Sunday Sermon on America’s Necrophilic Relationship With MLK and His Dream

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There's a reason conservatives remember exactly *one* thing MLK said. And even then they don't understand it.

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power."
—To the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) board, March 30, 1967.

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
—A Time to Break the Silence, April 4, 1967

MLK:

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
—Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

Chris Hedges: The Machinery of Terror The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.

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It's true. We are. Have been for a while.

And I'd say we should still be considered a pariah state after we get rid of Trump. We also need to hold ALL of his enablers criminally responsible AND implement serious structural reforms AND make amends to our victims.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

We didn't finish Reconstruction in 1877. We gave in to the forces of white supremacy too easily.

We now have another chance to create a pluralistic, multicultural democracy.

Let's not wait another 150 years to do it.

View of the sun setting over the Hudson River, from a Metro North train heading north. Snow-covered tracks in the foreground.

Heading home from the city on this, the last day of 2025. Rough year. May 2026 be the year we start to un-fuck everything, & start to take seriously the idea of rebuilding this country into something better.

Oh now you're just lashing out...lol.

Pitiful MAGA.

That wasn't clever the first time.

It's amusing to be lectured about literacy by someone who doesn't know where to put punctuation marks in relation to quotation marks, or even how to use quotation marks in the first place. There's a certain irony in it that I can't help but enjoy.

Another anon account/bot. Weird how all you fascists hide.

Oof. I'd avoid the word "brainwashed" if I were you. But we've already established that you don't know a lot about a lot, so a total lack of self-awareness absolutely tracks.

Anyway, you're boring. I'm going to bed.

Just remember, sooner rather than later, you'll deny having believed ANY of this.

Lol...not for much longer, Pepe.
Also, you're telling on yourself......

Well, that and lies. You're like a machine that just churns out right wing fantasy and false equivalences. A giant ball of derp and "I know you are but what am I?" level discourse.

Again, none of that is true.

Are you a false equivalences bot? Be honest...lol. That seems to be your only setting.

MAGA is hurting those I love.

And you don't deserve to share this country with me, and mine. You've betrayed everything that made us good.

If you're not losing sleep over what is happening, it's because you have no conscience.

There's probably a small part of you that knows that your hate, the kind you carry around, is defined as the type of indifference you have to the suffering of others when it doesn't affect you (or you don't think it does).

My hatred for MAGA is justified, because MAGA is a cancer on my country, &

Meh. You're deflecting. A sure sign of a guilty conscience.

Then you're a sociopath🤷🏻‍♂️
Either way, justice is coming.
Tick-tock...tick tock...
You've got however long it takes the Big Macs and syphilis to do their work...

You're so weird. I didn't even call you a name in that one.

Wrong again.

But your guilt is showing.

And oh yes, you do. You're ashamed now. There's a part of you that is. And someday, you'll wish you'd never been MAGA. Ordinary Germans experienced this 80 years ago. You'll experience it soon enough.

You'll see.

You already know I'm right.

"Arbitrary textbook definition" grounded in actual history. Your conception of fascism is based on emotion, not reason or fact.

Nah but, again, we've already established that you don't know what these words mean.

Anyway, like I said: someday you'll have always been against this, & your secret shame will keep you up at night, even if you fool everyone else. That's the fate of mediocre quislings. Always has been. You'll see.