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But it's also a the birthday of George Floyd :-D
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KT_Elwood
Germany1151 Posts
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-moves-declare-conservative-icons-birthday-national-day-remembrance-charlie-kirk But it's also a the birthday of George Floyd :-D | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45916 Posts
On September 19 2025 23:31 KT_Elwood wrote: Maga is about to make Oct 14th, the birthday of Charlie Kirk, into a Rememberance Day https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-moves-declare-conservative-icons-birthday-national-day-remembrance-charlie-kirk On one hand, creating a Charlie Kirk holiday is one step away from creating a Donald Trump holiday and two steps away from creating an Adolf Hitler holiday. On the other hand, if Republicans want us to have an annual celebration for the permanent removal of a vile human being, then who am I to object? | ||
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LightSpectra
United States2576 Posts
On September 19 2025 19:26 KwarK wrote: These people weren't cancelled or pulled or whatever. Cancelled is when the customers or providers refuse to associate with them anymore. There's no government involvement, they alienate their own audience or the commercial foundation upon which they operated. These people were silenced. Censored. It's important to remember the difference because intellectually dishonest conservatives will try to pretend there is no difference. This. Neither Biden nor Obama nor Clinton ever did anything remotely like weaponizing the FCC to yank licenses from people for criticism. The last administration to do anything even remotely similar was Nixon's, and he got away with it because it was private threats. He didn't blab to the press "fuck yeah I'm getting everyone who criticizes me off the air," that would've been so blatantly tyrannical even his own supporters would've turned on him. Also, how much of a thin-skinned coward do you have to be to resort to this? Every president between Nixon and Trump was perfectly able to laugh off their detractors, because they weren't narcissistic idiots. Imagine being such a craven invertebrate that you cry yourself to sleep because you aren't getting North Korea-style hourly praise. I don't remember a single time in my life when America looked so weak and lowly. | ||
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Phyanketto
United States601 Posts
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people | ||
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Sermokala
United States14124 Posts
No one can say that they weren't warned about this or weren't told this was going to happen. This is the choice people made and we have to live with the consequences togeather. | ||
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LightSpectra
United States2576 Posts
On September 20 2025 00:19 Phyanketto wrote: So according to national security sources, trans people are going to be declared enemies of the state. How does this ring for you guys? https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45916 Posts
Years from now, they'll have to clarify which country they're referring to... How the German Nazis targeted transgender people vs. How the American Nazis targeted transgender people. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23949 Posts
On September 20 2025 00:22 Sermokala wrote: Its exactly what I expected would happen if Trump won. + Show Spoiler + Some people wanted to send a message to the dems rather than stop it. No one can say that they weren't warned about this or weren't told this was going to happen. This is the choice people made and we have to live with the consequences togeather. It was more important to Democrats to support genocide than to stop Trump. Go figure. | ||
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LightSpectra
United States2576 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States23949 Posts
On September 20 2025 00:49 LightSpectra wrote: Ah, there's the GH "Dems bad, please bro, do anything but vote Dems bro, I promise bro everything will be okay if we just let Republicans win one more election bro" post. Right on schedule. You guys skip right past expecting your politicians to represent your interests (or you know, not engage in genocide) to "we should let Republicans win". Worse than being pathetic, it's dysfunctional to a democratic society. | ||
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LightSpectra
United States2576 Posts
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KwarK
United States43987 Posts
On September 20 2025 00:46 GreenHorizons wrote: It was more important to Democrats to support genocide than to stop Trump. Go figure. Americans support Israel bud. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23949 Posts
On September 20 2025 00:51 LightSpectra wrote: Kamala Harris did represent my interests when she called for a ceasefire three times over the course of 2024. But Trump won and you got what you wanted, right? Biden called for plenty of ceasefires too right? They were still aiding and abetting genocide though weren't they? It wasn't for votes. It wasn't even a popular position (question 52 pg. 7). Yet Harris made it abundantly clear she was going to ignore her voters and continue aiding and abetting genocide anyway. When you're knowingly/willingly voting for people you know are aiding and abetting genocide (against popular opinion) you've lost the plot on the ostensible point of having a "western democratic society". When you turn and cast aspersions against those that wouldn't support genocide, you've lost the plot on your own humanity. | ||
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Uldridge
Belgium5158 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45916 Posts
On September 20 2025 01:21 GreenHorizons wrote: Biden called for plenty of ceasefires too right? They were still aiding and abetting genocide though weren't they? It wasn't for votes. It wasn't even a popular position (question 52 pg. 7). Yet Harris made it abundantly clear she was going to ignore her voters and continue aiding and abetting genocide anyway. When you're knowingly/willingly voting for people you know are aiding and abetting genocide (against popular opinion) you've lost the plot on the ostensible point of having a "western democratic society". When you turn and cast aspersions against those that wouldn't support genocide, you've lost the plot on your own humanity. Harris's position was far from ideal, and Trump's position was even worse. And for every other issue, Trump was still way worse than Harris. The vast majority of voters were willing to vote for one of these two candidates, making a third option (third-party candidate or some sort of election-undermining revolution or any other alternative) not even close to being as popular as voting for either Harris or Trump. | ||
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LightSpectra
United States2576 Posts
On September 20 2025 01:21 GreenHorizons wrote: Biden called for plenty of ceasefires too right? They were still aiding and abetting genocide though weren't they? It wasn't for votes. It wasn't even a popular position (question 52 pg. 7). Yet Harris made it abundantly clear she was going to ignore her voters and continue aiding and abetting genocide anyway. When you're knowingly/willingly voting for people you know are aiding and abetting genocide (against popular opinion) you've lost the plot on the ostensible point of having a "western democratic society". When you turn and cast aspersions against those that wouldn't support genocide, you've lost the plot on your own humanity. Ah damn, I wonder why the actual people in Gaza wanted Harris to win then? (Second source) It's because their humanity means nothing to you if you can't weaponize them to help Republicans. Incidentally, the same reason you're gleefully happy to sacrifice trans people on the altar of "Dems bad". | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23949 Posts
On September 20 2025 01:32 Uldridge wrote: Is that literally your only talking point though? Of course not (you know that). That the ostensible "opposition party" to Trump still can't even unify over opposing genocide aided and abetted by Trump's administration doesn't bode well for trans people (or the procession of people Democrats will feed to the wolves in an ultimately hopeless attempt to keep themselves safe) though. | ||
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Uldridge
Belgium5158 Posts
I'll be extremely eye brow raised and pleasantly surprised if we actually have some real pushback for once, not like some Newsom bloviation with some huffin' and puffin' that they'll gerrymander the fuck out of California. | ||
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decafchicken
United States20160 Posts
Admitting that they had been working for several years without any discernible success, FBI agents confirmed Wednesday that a local left-wing political group was too disorganized to infiltrate. “We’ve had a few guys in there posing as members and trying to manipulate them into committing acts of violence we can arrest them for, but these people don’t ever do anything violent—they don’t ever do anything at all,” an undercover FBI agent told reporters, adding that the agency believed they’d made headway with turning the leader of the Liberation Socialists group into an informant until the guy didn’t show up to a meeting for months. “These people are incredibly disorganized. We try to attend their meetings to get them to unwittingly work on our behalf, but half the time no one shows up but the undercover agents, and the other half of the time the meetings are so confusing it’s impossible to follow what they’re actually trying to do. We also tried to sow division in their ranks to ensure that they couldn’t become powerful, but that didn’t work because these people already all fucking hate each other. They spend all their time arguing about minutiae, and most of the time when we try to talk them into doing something violent to the communal spaces in their community, they don’t even know where to go. They’re just a mess.” The FBI agent added that he was worried the left-wing organization was on to him, as he’d already aroused suspicion by interrupting a meandering discussion of principles with a straightforward plan of action. | ||
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Billyboy
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