Will Stancil

Oh apparently I also got him sent to prison bsky.app/profile/lame...

There's a small, extremely toxic population of users on here who kind of ruin the vibe for everyone else, and it's precisely the people responding to this

Also, if you want to fix bluesky, you should just ban every single person dunking on this tweet, which would eliminate about 90% of the weird hyper-aggro pseudo-lefty harassment squad that makes this site so frequently unpleasant to use

I don’t think you’re helping your side’s case here

lol the Steven Universe meme is Steven Universe saying “I think we’re going to have to kill this guy,” which, when directed at you, does feel rather like a death threat, even if you’re being reassured it’s just a meme and you have no sense of humor

Yes

I dunno if they’re Libs of TikTok but they did concoct some fake story about me getting them fired, and use it to launch a patreon, which is extremely cringe behavior and definitely not someone who should wield any kind of social influence

there’s a whole cliche in sci-fi is where people enact violent and sociopathic fantasies against robots, whether or not that’s bad or healthy doesn’t really turn on whether or not the robots have feelings

The use of irregular goons makes everything both more and less dangerous.

I wish Dems would PLAY INTO IT: highlight the abuses, describe what Trump’s doing as specifically a war against Latinos, and demand protections for Latinos in the law and Constitution. It’s all upside - it shreds Trump’s coalition and it’s a powerful vehicle for resistance

It’s like the scene from Spider-Man where regular New Yorkers start pelting the Green Goblin. It’s a bad sign for you when you’re on the wrong side of that!

What’s amazing about this is that it’s not activists, it’s random people in the street, dudes in trucks. They know who the villain is.

I think MAGA has a bigger problem here than they realize

No things didn’t go up an average of 11% a month

The end goal is retweets. It’s all to produce killer footage of fascist troop deployments crushing dirty hippies so Noem and Miller and Patel and Trump can tweet it out and get 150k likes from their neo-Nazi audience. That is their core desire: likes and shares. bsky.app/profile/alex...

They’re doing fascism for the social media content. They’re doing fascism for the social media content. They’re doing fascism for the social media content.

Stephen Miller has turned rabid. It’s reaching a point where the judiciary and police force really have to step up and protect the citizens from constitutional abuse and misuse of the military. Unregulated, politically motivated ICE is the tip of a very broad weapon once military are involved.

I’m worried about how this idea changes Democratic and liberal behavior, not how the voters in question react to the idea

No, I don’t care if Dems think they’re stupid. I care that Dems think the way to talk to these people is to retreat to rhetoric about material self-interest, since it’s presumed to be all their simple child brains can handle

you’re describing someone with very elaborate political views that are simply incorrect

Sure! I mean I just think it’s important to clarify because the most straightforward reaction to what you said is “and that’s why Dems should run on grocery prices and nothing else”

Yes, the unique liberal condescension where we tend to say “swing voters are simply incapable of higher-order thought about things like ‘is dictatorship bad’” is extremely self-sabotaging in my view. Low-info voters aren’t, like, subrational animals. They’re people who aren’t paying attention

One is solved by reducing yourself to a monosyllabic vocabulary and explaining everything in self-interested terms for their child-like brains, the other is solved by taking the same ideas that are effective for other people and being extremely, incredibly loud about them so they’re hard to miss

I know that sounds like nitpicking but I think “people who haven’t reached the level of mental development necessary to have political beliefs” is a different problem than “people who are only weakly and indirectly exposed to information about politics,” with different solutions

I don’t think this is really true, swing voters have beliefs, they just don’t pay attention or know what is true so those beliefs are super scattered and easily changed

I have heard that MAGA people who are attached to the hip of 3/4 star generals, a a la commissars, report directly to Miller.

So, do not underestimate how much power Miller has.

I still don’t get how this is basically a non-story but Biden being old and diminished was a generational scandal. You worry about a president losing their faculties in large part *because* it might empower some lunatic like this! That’s the concern!

I firmly believe that if they’d just called it Customs and Immigration Enforcement instead, they’d be a moderately funded government agency mostly concerned with stamping passports at the airport

Fun to wake up every day and wonder “Is today the day ICE opens fire on a crowd of protesters?”

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,