Carmakazi

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because when people write manifestos, they are often trying to convince the reader that they are highly intelligent more than they are trying to plainly explain themselves. They are usually a product of mania.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Plenty of job openings with ICE and related gangs, so you would still end up having to deal with them.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Police officers as individuals are generally MAGA. If they were ordered to take up arms against ICE, well more than half would walk off the job by my guess.

Oh, and the mayor would be branded a traitor and be treated accordingly. So Democratic leaders are not exactly lining up around the block to pull that move.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That is the inevitable outcome. Delaying it only gives them the benefit of more time to prepare and consolidate resources, because god knows we're not cooking up some Machiavellian counterplan to stop them.

Careful appeasement does not work in the end with fascists. People should resist while they still have assets with which to do so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think neatly curated propaganda work isn't quite the same as an internet meme. The Richard Dawkins, Metal Gear Rising definition, perhaps. Internet memes, especially modern ones, have a crude banality if not outright absurdity to them. It's like saying a funny home video uploaded to YouTube is essentially the same as a theatrical comedy movie release.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I'd go with pitiful mourning because it shook the security apparatus awake, and now any action going forward will be three times as difficult to pull off.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I imagine Nazi memes would be similarly humorless to normal people, where cruelty is always the punchline.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (17 children)

There is probably an unspoken rule of geopolitics to the effect of "Don't start assassinating foreign dignitaries and heads of state unless you want everyone else to declare open season on you and yours." And it seems like we're getting closer to breaking that rule by the month.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

MAGA wants this dude gone, badly, so they can replace him with a patsy. The reasoning comes after and is superfluous.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

I was reading it like the big bad government was preventing us from draining ourselves however we please for personal profit, and that's a bad thing. I am not feeling well and my reading comprehension is clearly lacking.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 days ago (22 children)

Is that not for health reasons? Donating twice in a row like that seems like it would take a real toll on you.

I don't know why that's dystopian, if anything what's dystopian is that people are relying on doing this to support themselves at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This is probably one of my bad takes, but here goes.

I imagine for some people at least, saying "I'm asexual" is easier than saying "I've been subjected to some sort of sexual trauma that makes the idea of being sexually involved with anyone incredibly painful and therefore I have no interest."

But I guess someone can come to have no sex drive without trauma? But that's hard for me to wrap my head around too, like someone who doesn't enjoy food, or music.

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