Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
They were probably trying to provoke him so they would have a reason to arrest him.
Cops shouldn’t be allowed to touch civilians unless they have a reason to make an arrest.
Like if the only charge is “resisting arrest”… Why the fuck were they trying to make an arrest in the first place?
But they’re professionals at making up bs charges. “Trespassing” in public… “Disorderly conduct” is somewhat of a catch-all…
No, the DNC was too intent on taking the high ground and proving that they’re not like maga. They fell into the trap that had been laid. Maga spouts nonsensical accusations, most of which are projection, so that once it comes to light that they’re doing the thing, nobody is willing to accuse them because they already made it sound insane.
They’ve done this about many things, and it’s unnerving how effective it has been. “Weaponization of government,” “targeted political prosecutions,” etc.
Now when you call it out they say “You didn’t mind when your side did it.” That’s because the other side wasn’t even doing it to begin with!
They effectively created the “both sides” -ism, because it obfuscates all the ways in which they’re demonstrably worse.
I honestly think it’s a downstream effect of putin’s hybrid war against the west. FSB trolls aren’t only focussing on radicalizing right-wingers (cause that’s what Qanon was, let’s be honest). They’ve stoked both sides, deliberately promoting discord and escalation, and they’ve effectively created an unmendable rift straight down the middle of the body politic.
So yeah, they seed all this divisive and violent rhetoric, using bot farms to promote it. Then it catches on and like a virus propagates itself throughout the collective conscience. All of the sudden safe online spaces for wholesome debate are rare, and everyone’s at each other’s throats, and even people on the left can’t seem to agree on a course of action because these provocateurs and accelerationists are dominating the narrative.
It fools half the left into following that narrative, and it fools the right-wing into viewing the entire left as unreasonable and violent. It’s kind of mirrored on the other side too. Growing up, I remember not every republican/conservative was a bloodthirsty racist. Surprising, I know. But now so many of them have caught the maga mind virus, and all the sane ones if there are any left are invisible. There certainly are anti-maga republicans, but they’ve lost control of their party.
Reactionary, sensationalist, and dehumanizing rhetoric is just too easy for people to fall into. It must have some deep-seated appeal to the reptilian parts of our brains (the limbic system, that is), because it defies all reason and empathy.
And there are adversaries with decades of institutional knowledge in psyops (disinformation, propaganda, and radicalization) who have been patiently exploiting this vulnerability for years. It’s scary to think how this will impact the long-term evolution of the human psyche…
Fucking asshole gets in the dude’s face and then tells him to back up. Fascist.
These people don’t want to hear about reality, they just want to complain while proposing no practical solutions, and call anyone a coward who doesn’t express uncritical willingness to immediately resort to escalation.
The moment they get a figurehead, they’ll tear him or her down, because they’re allergic to any semblance of authority. They keep talking about a revolution, but they’ll never organize effectively because they’re allergic to the ideas of discipline and hierarchy.
I believe in leftist socioeconomic policy, but man is there an over-representation of imbeciles who seem to be dominating the narrative. It’s no wonder the right-wing thinks we’re all MLs. Any leftist who’s not an ML is either afraid to speak up, or gets trashed whenever they do.
It’s fucking hopeless, I fear. And then they get upset when we say our only hope is to vote in a lukewarm Dem. I’d love to see more progressive candidates winning, but the left shoots itself in the foot every time because they’d rather have reasons to complain than actually work on solving any problems.
I don’t know what their long-term plans are. Anarchy? As if that would be any better for women and vulnerable minorities?
Keep blaming people for doing nothing while you’re also doing nothing. It seems to be working for you.
Except this time there’s actually some evidence of tampering worth looking into, and there’s been no investigation. Whereas investigations were conducted last time and there was no evidence.
Election data was uploaded over starlink, and Elon Musk bragged about winning the election for trump. He also openly paid people to vote republican.
And there were some weird requirements in some districts for wifi-enabled surge protectors, whatever that was about.
And Dominion voting machines were bought by a trump sycophant.
And there were multiple districts in swing states that voted blue down the ballot except for the presidential election.
All in all, these are anomalies at least worth investigating, especially since some bs claims of fraud warranted investigations in 2020. But no, there was no investigation in 2024.
So you’re saying “there’s no proof,” but how would there be “proof” if an investigation was never conducted?
That isn’t even a remotely accurate comparison. More like some assholes in the neighborhood are burning people’s houses down, and someone from a completely different neighborhood is saying “burn their houses down or you’re a coward!”
It would have been nice if they had published this before the election. It might have made a difference.
I kept trying to tell people Biden’s policies were intelligent, but it would take time to see the quantifiable result. It’s hard to cite sources that haven’t been published yet. Science moves too slow to keep up with a four-year electoral cycle.
And now all this progress will be undone and worse due to anti-intellectualism taking the helm. Typical…
Oh, so this isn’t your country? Then it’s none of your business. Go be a provocateur somewhere else.
If the person I voted for had won, we wouldn’t be in this mess. So it’s not my responsibility. Stop victim blaming.
Nothing I could possibly have done today would have changed that.
What did you do today? Why didn’t you stop them from shooting those people? And why are you blaming me, when you didn’t stop them either?
You’ve got that backwards, I was calling someone out for talking down to people for not doing things that the person was also not doing. Their response was “don’t talk down to me.”
I’m only calling out the hypocrisy. I couldn’t care less how some internet stranger talks to me in particular.
In other words, people are so butthurt that they think my ass is sore.
Note that my response was to someone talking down to someone else…
People don’t like having what they dish out dished back to them. Figures…
I think people should take realistic action, while being aware of feasibility and limitations
“Don’t break the vase.”
Breaks the vase… “…so are you gonna help me clean this up or what?”
I also like how you act all aghast at being talked down to after… checks notes… talking down to others.
Rules for me, not for thee. Same old worn-out story. But go on about how I owe you for a situation that I did everything in my power to prevent while you were daydreaming about it coming to fruition so you would have an excuse to be violent.
This could have all been avoided if people had made better decisions on election day. I did my part. We warned you what would happen in a second trump term. Apparently over a third of registered voters were okay with that.
Every one of the 70+ million who didn’t vote are part of the problem. Is that you? If so, this is your mess. You clean it up.
Wake me when you’ve done anything about it. Until then, quit virtue signaling.
Honk shoo 💤 wake me when the fascists are gone.
That’s not my responsibility and a really nice cop out on your part.
“Oh, I can’t do anything about it, because some random stranger on the internet didn’t pay for my flight. But it’s not because I’m a coward, no not that. I’m brave. I would totally overthrow the fascists if only that one stranger would have bought me a plane ticket.”
Get a load of Chesty Puller over here.
I said it hasn’t clicked for them jackass. Knowing something as an abstract concept is completely different from knowing it in your bones. Have you ever had bullets fly over your head? Cause I have. Real bullets, not pixels on a screen.
But if you know more about it than I do, by all means, go ahead and overthrow the fascist regime. But if you’re gonna sit on your ass instead, then at least stop acting brave on the internet. You’re embarrassing yourself.
Yup, they deliberately try to provoke anxiety because if you have a panic attack they can book you for disorderly conduct. It’s really cruel, especially for people with PTSD like you pointed out. A lot of veterans get arrested that way.