James says abolish ICE (he/him)

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I think “Bernie Bro” is a made up concept. Rogan apparently liked Bernie, and that’s a good thing. We should want people with poor judgment to vote for us. We shouldn’t want people with poor judgment in power or making decisions, but success looks like dumb people voting for us.

I’ve never seen a person that looks more like a flaccid penis playing dress up in his dad’s suit than Stephen Miller.

Hahaha, 5’10”! SHORT!

I actually think it’s pretty clear that Sanders worked harder than anyone in the country, and probably more effectively than anyone in the country, to support Harris. I don’t get this immigration statement.

I can only think of one person in my life who didn’t vote for Harris quote unquote “from the left” and he’s also a weird anti-vaxxer. All my friends who are Sanders aligned did everything we could to change his mind.

And the rocket’s red glare,
Bombs burst in mid air,
Gave proof through the night,
That our flag was still there.

Bronze statue on its way.

Holy shit.

Meanwhile the only bravery left is on the bench and in the streets

(Like, I don’t think that’s what this guy actually thinks, but it is funny to think about how the fascists just take stuff with such alacrity that it leaves us speechless. We’re reaching for McCain Feingold to try to deal with it.)

Look at how quickly we’ve moved into “mercenary death squads would be acceptable if we had proper reporting guidelines”.

Tired: Decolonization of Russia

Wired: Decolonization of the United States

@pastoralpunk.bsky.social @openrecordsnerd.bsky.social

When we were kids I got out of the water at the Jersey Shore and threw some gum in the trash. My mom said, “Just throw it in the water. People pee here.” Friendly argument ensued. My cousin, standing right next to my little sister, said, “Yeah, Jimmy, I’m peeing right now.” And my sister juuuuumped.

I’m peeing right now.

It should also scare us a little that Matt Yglesias is backing him. You have to wonder how leftist he could possibly be if Matt Yglesias is behind him.

The other, bigger problem is that he should have the humility to understand that he made a tremendous mistake, apologize for it, and step down to back one of the other progressive candidates in the field.

I’m on team Platner should drop out, but the tattoo is the least of our problems. He could well have gotten the tattoo innocently, and if that was the only issue that would be less of a problem. He didn’t “accidentally” make rape jokes online.

This is silly because as anyone that thinks about it for a minute will know, you have to first have the thought, “Hmm, I wonder if this skull is a symbol of the SS?” to do that search. If you never think that thought in the first place, you don’t find out!

They should be hanged on a short rope, so that they kick and struggle as they go. Everyone should know what the penalty for fascism is.

And we can’t neutralize them by imprisoning them, because they are demagogues whose whole basis is fomenting coups. They have to be put on trial, duly convicted, and put to death. It’s what we should have done to the Confederacy, and we shouldn’t make the same mistake twice.

But these people are not disordered. They make cold, rational decisions about how to control and abuse others, and they should be put down like Kristi Noem’s dog.

And the death penalty is also generally unjust because if you’ve captured a person who has murdered others, they’ve been neutralized. It makes no sense to kill someone whose danger to society has been neutralized.

The death penalty at large doesn’t work to prevent crime because the people doing the things it’s supposed to prevent are disordered, and there are better ways to prevent their disordered behavior.

I didn’t think I believed in capital punishment, but I do. When people take over your country with fascism, the punishment should be hanging. We need to put these motherfuckers on trial, and the penalty should be that they never breath another breath.

Maybe Bluesky will give me a sweet release from this hell and ban my account, but my standing belief is that all of the people involved in this administration should be tried for capital treason and hanged.

I currently live in Brazil but my usual homebase is Philadelphia. And my hometown is an immigrant heavy town on the border of Philadelphia.

I think saying abstractly, ”There should be some type of control at the border” is fine, at least debatable. But I don’t understand why @sanders.senate.gov thinks it was a reasonable thing to say that Trump is doing a good job at it. That’s pretty cringe.

All our lives we’ve been told we have to offer respect to the people who sign up to help bomb a brown country, but if you’re an actual patriot, your country is being invaded *now* and some things are work dying for.

At some point, someone’s going to have to realize that the right tool for countering these assholes is a baseball bat, not a cell phone.