rev. howard arson

"person who suffers from paranoid delusions begins to believe in the most historically prolific paranoid conspiracy theory" is actually quite logical

One of my bugbears is people who are “proudly neurodivergent” who say stuff like “well I have ___ and I would never___!”

What part of divergent are they finding difficult to understand

"i am blameless in what is to come because i am not complicit in what has already happened" is a bizarre way to think about causality much less morality

the assaults are punitive. the cops know that their critics have not done anything against the law. but the DOJ is Trump's personal law firm, and broken bones, hypothermia, and chemical attacks do not require a judge's sign-off. so ICE's victims get beaten and gassed and dropped in the wilderness.

the murders have occupied all the attention but the indiscriminate assaults justified by no conceivable law enforcement purpose are another thing

Oh my god lol

you are absolutely hallucinating a quotation

there has been a tendency in the 21st century to insist that the Holocaust was an event so unique that "never again" becomes ontologically impossible: to the right wing, history has only ever had one horror, and it exists only to be used to shield their own actions and bludgeon their enemies

This is why "Woke 1" was an ideological dead-end: with no clear way to achieve an oppression-free utopia, life would default to an endless critical exercise, of both the world and oneself. An endless discourse, fitting for an ideology created by and for academics.

there were more people in minneapolis involved in the struggle, including labor and DSA, than there are communists in the United States

it is incredible that keyboard radicals can look at the martyrdom of people with perfectly conventional politics and imagine themselves the heroes of a struggle which they do nothing but complain about

Ultimately, it is always about a call to reach ever-greater heights of radicality, all in the name of a totalizing end goal that is often explained in nebulous terms. Which is the point, as it can only exist in the realm of discourse, or as discourse itself.

I have seen the same song and dance play out so many times in the last decade and half: the author's objection, always, is that society is rotten, and their "solution", always, is total societal reorganization, with even herculean political endeavors being presented as less than the bare minimum.

I think this opinion piece is quite emblematic of what we around these parts have come to call "Woke 1", i.e social justice practiced primarily as an extension of left-wing academic discourse, with all the issues and limitations that implies.

It's a relic of bygone age, unfit for the present moment

add in there that the last time a Republican Senate majority confirmed a Democratic Supreme Court appointee was 1895

it was a good move while they were above water but brute-force cuts (again, over the budget window) are going to be the only thing that people don't get furious about but fundamentally what we need is to choke their 2026 funding so that we can strangle them fully the fuck to death in 2027.

right now, the OBBB funding is a giant diffuse pool of money which can go to basically anything they need. the increase in $10b (over the budget window, so spent in a way which prevents them from just dumping it one year) capped the expenditures on detention, bottlenecking operations.

one frustrating thing is that we badly need to lock the accounts to segregate funding from the OBBB slush fund but that's going to look like a loss

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Nobody Likes Ice

congratulations to whatever Colbert staffer managed to smuggle a YTP onto broadcast television

i don't see a way around the front-funding.

The so-called intellectuals of American fascism believe that it is impossible to have a high-trust society without racial homogeneity. But Minneapolis is already high-trust, and it is a tapestry of different peoples. It has shown what a farce that whole line of reasoning is.

The fascists thought they could break Minneapolis. They thought they could attack a diverse and multicultural city and the white population would just let them. They can't comprehend solidarity. They can't comprehend virtue. They don't understand that when we say all men are brothers, we mean it.

No fuckin way

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

Bovino: Stancil Must Go Stancil: Who must go? Bovino looking depressed, headline "Greg Bovino Loses His Job" Stancil looking stylish, visual implication he's won

With apologies to the one person in this who isn't the hugest fan of his own memefication, I could not resist

just did a real quick search and lol i will DEFINITELY take your word for it

Exactly right.

Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.

Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.

Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.

Every possible angle.

when i worked on writing these, this was explicitly one of the cases we considered and ruled out
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one of the most destructive things six years ago was the impulse that it was counterproductive to criticize anyone smashing shit. extremely impressive that violent dipshits were mostly kept in check.