William Gillis 🏴

"most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense"

is basically the entirety of the present situation on every front

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

Today's version of The Colbert Report would have to be a parody channel of all the "investigate the radical left" Andy Ngos of the world: breathlessly taking gopros into goth bars or farmers markets and acting shocked and horrified about the existence of longstanding subcultures. "Hello, FBI?!!"

The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter.

They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

honestly it's insane that we still let people bring up the bible as a source in debates. okay well I don't believe in that and this is the real world

They believe they will never be out of power and relatedly, even if they eventually are, there will be no accountability.

Refusal to openly, credible, emphatically threaten them with it isn't just a failure on the principle of the matter for what should happen then. It worsens the situation now.

The outrageousness of this tempts me more towards the evil of Cascadian nationalism than I have been in decades.

Something truly galling about jackbooted foreign invaders somehow being allowed to eat our local food.

The only way that you can break out of this losing game where the wife is expected only ever focus on deferential persuasion-from-below is by the wife getting armed and breaking the husband's confident monopoly on available force.

The entire political spectrum is patriarchally coded:

"the left" is a whiny nag that tries to leverage conscience an empathy by sucking up to "the right," which is a big strong alcoholic brute who can't be expected to think and always has the available trump card of just beating/killing his wife.

Keep in mind that many people who initially claimed he wanted protests so he could militarily occupy cities quietly adjusted that narrative without admitting he did what he wanted, regardless. No “excuse” was necessary. Fascists don't need a reason or excuse.

An elderly German Jewish man was arrested for comparing Gaza to Auschwitz.

His relatives were killed by the German state in Auschwitz.

Talk to me about how Germany was denazified

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first of all, fuck gandhi. But secondly.

WE SPENT MONTHS IN 2020 WATCHING COPS BEAT AND SHOOT AND RUN OVER AND EVEN KILL PROTESTERS, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GAVE THEM $100 MILLION AFTER ALL THAT

After Reconstruction, the media refused to believe that white supremacists were massacring entire towns of Black people attempting to claim local sovereignty over their own lives. It is not true that violence, even when it's "plain as day," necessarily moves public opinion.

I haven't listened to the new Swift album yet, but I *love* the discourse.

There's something reassuring about one of the most coldly talented people in the world completely fucking up her entire schtick by being comfortable in love and just writing cringe "his dick is big" drelk.

cn: domestic violence
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your partner can beat and torture you leading to you fleeing them
then they can just call the police and get them to track you down and investigate you for a "crime"

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

All I'm reading is that Portland is the center of a conspiracy to make the mice trans, and the Swedish are funding it!

Pretty much every public statement made by this administration about military and police force has been an announcement that they’re abandoning the strategic benefits of counterinsurgency in order to cull the population and project a patriarchal warrior fantasy.

Okay, look, the slogan "we support the accused, even if they're innocent" exists for a reason.

You absolutely do not have to try to "shape narrative" by claiming that all protesters have always been timid uwu babies who have never tagged an ICE building or chucked back tear gas.

If only we had defeated not only the Nazis but also nationalism...

I write about this in my article, "Postcolonial as the governmentality of immigration controls."

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This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

again this person once got so mad that the kids on his dorm floor were circulating a birthday card for a janitor that he wrote an entire column about how college kids should not be forced to "touch the animals" who live in the towns where schools are located. he is utterly triggered at all times.

similar to the point william gillis makes about why liberals are often eager to devote all their anti-carceral energy to the one guy who explicitly promises that he will definitely murder his rape/stalking victim rather than to 100 kids who got caught with weed or stole a backpack

WOW....👀👀👀

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Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

Tyranny stops when people decide to stop it. #jurynullification

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

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If you're among the small minority of libs armed, good for you! But unfortunately you didn't convince tens of millions of other libs. And now the fascist scum see that as weakness.