Thoughts on a Third Reconstruction 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧

We have concentration camps in America and it still has not truly hit public consciousness or the level of discussion we see around other subjects.

This is how these things become normalized. We simply cannot let ourselves become desensitized, we *have* to keep pushing the discussion.

this guy's narcissism knows no bounds, huh

then no one will notice we've turned korea into a slave society

its interesting because historically korea took most things to their extreme logical conclusion, like confucian family/gender hierarchies. but the joseon elites wanted absolute power over everyone else and went with *if we pretend really hard* that we're meritocrats

probably because that's kinda how joseon korea was. The aristocracy conceived of themselves as a confucian elite, despite the fact that they were purely hereditary and mostly stupid. jockeying for power was pretending to be a good clerk or archer.

law and order socialism. the means of production will be collectivized and your boss is going to jail

This is Bucha shit. Abolish ICE.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "I led the effort to build the IL Holocaust Museum. What I know is that in 53 days, Nazis tore down the constitutional republic in Germany in the 1930s. It doesn't take much. We're seeing pieces of that sort of authoritarian activity happening right now in this country."

season three's b-plot features newly-elected prime minister elim garak trying to avoid an interstellar war while managing the end of the cardassian occupation/convince Julian to leave Ezri and be the First Husband of Cardassia

cue four seasons of Commodore George Smiley trying to figure out who is sabotaging the industrial replicators, and so so many spreadsheets

season two, all the stupidity of Picard is retconned: the Bureau of Production and Starfleet are charged with an Undiscovered Country-style rescue of the Romulan homeworld, all the while fighting off the fascists at the Tal Shiar.

meanwhile, the Federation Bureau of Production bravely rebuilds Betazed, Benzar, and the fleet after the war

Starfleet Security isn't involved because everyone's a bit afraid of them, and that they might commit war crimes in pursuit of the Section 31ers

it turns out Section 31 isn't a 'thing' but a rogue wartime operation that got out of hand, and now it's time for the brave bureaucrats at Starfleet Intelligence and JAG to bring the war criminals to heel.

you could pick out the conservative kids on campus the next day, they looked like they had just witnessed hiroshima. between that and the insanity during the healthcare debate, we should have realized what was coming

I was a sophomore in college at the time, and even in the fog of depression memories I can distinctly remember how over-confident they were in the weeks before, and drunkenly sitting on the couch that night as the blow-out became evident

a message; a word.

I'm not trying to be mean, but I'm Pete's age, and I spent a lot of time in mid-90s Indiana, where "God invented AIDS to punish the gays for having sex" was among the milder things you'd hear about Homosexuality. It sucks that he can't see the historical parallels here.

When student newspapers have clearer and bolder moral vision than university leaders.

personally, I've come around to supercharging defamation law. it doesn't cover all the bases/forms of lying, but I do think we'd be in a better place if every elected Republican feared a Giuliani judgement

Pritzker: Neither Texas nor the FBI at the federal level has the authority to arrest these Texas Democrats

They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.

I suspect it's because two of the things they didn't trash in the 1870s were oligarchy and patriarchy

don't tell her that the Dutch exist

It’s Pritzker’s party: Hell yes, he’s messing with Texas, and he’s not sorry So far, Pritzker’s political instincts are paying off.

Texas Democrats had ruled out a “quorum bust” due to cost and logistical challenges, until Pritzker offered to finance and organize the operation. Now they give official press conferences in front of Pritzker’s campaign logo. thehill.com/opinion/camp...

This short thread hits right at the crucial points. We are witnessing a manufactured inevitability because certain actors have already decided to embrace the hype & want to depict their decision to do so as ruled by the laws of historical trajectory. However, there are no such laws.

And if this was a peaceful intervention of some kind, why would the Ukrainian civilian population need to stop them? Even your fantasy is logically inconsistent.

And where the fuck did you get the idea that ‘the tanks’ were somehow stopped by civilians on the streets, when they were very famously stopped by traffic congestion and the Ukrainian army? Hundreds of millions of people witnessed the turkey shoot online/TV ffs.

This is completely made-up bullshit, what the living fuck are talking about? The Russian invasion, like all wars, was a shooting war from the start. Let me guess, you think Bucha was a psy-op? The Ukrainians are dropping missiles on their own cities?

Dem politicians: we uhhh need to secure our border, bipartisanly,
Dem voters: my name is Janet Walker and I live at 2721 Willow Boulevard. I am a semi-retired financial planner and in my spare time I interfere with immigration enforcement

The NYT is nothing but Völkischer Beobachter, but with recipes.