Kellum Dander

Excellent news.

Good on you. Don't be bummed. There's no law against resubscribing later.

That's a follow

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors

Exactly, which is why Will was right to keep filming.

my objection is logical: how can a group believe they can take over a whole-ass nation when they don't believe they can take over one of the two dominant political parties that is/should be primed with sympathizers

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

i suppose it’s fitting that the model the billionaires have in mind when they want to destroy a journalistic institution and make it a reactionary slop machine is The Free Press

They think being anti-fascist is bad.

Or authors.

I mean he's doing fine. He doesn't need WaPo as a profit center.

is today your first day on the internet brian

> @governor.ny.gov

There shouldn't be billionaires. It's like Adam Smith's Invisible Hand only one person gets a hand the size of an Earth-destroying asteroid.

Three rules in FBI firearm training:

1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot

Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

it means that the ultra wealthy are the enemy of the people

my objection is logical: how can a group believe they can take over a whole-ass nation when they don't believe they can take over one of the two dominant political parties that is/should be primed with sympathizers

when I hit "the authoritarian system called 'democracy'" in any text stream that's a window-closing event for me, whatever else that person might have to say, I sure am not here for it

it's not like there's a cheat code on page 482 of The Rise and Fall

this isn't me saying you're wrong, I'm just not sure how being more aware of the historical similarities has made me better off, if anything it's more frustrating and depressing

Ok you read about Weimar Germany, me too, now having read about it are you able to meaningfully change or stop what's happening? Me neither.

Good time to reup this post from last month.

Ok but let's all agree the property destroyers are automatically and categorically not on our side and they deserve to be filmed and shamed and ostracized.

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I stand corrected. Four out of 5 Democrats want to abolish ICE.

Any elected Dem asking for less is outside the mainstream of their party.

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.

Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

A guy with a decade of training is holding his phone in one hand while shooting a woman in the face with the other and you think the solution is to give him another camera?!

Whaddya think he needs more camera angles for his socials?

A free hand so he can aim at the face better?

actually it's easier to flunk the cop test for being too smart

I can’t believe how stupid everything is. I just hate the stupidity.

These people are terrorists. Full stop.