Taboos aren’t just intended to uphold individual moral integrity. They exist to prohibit social harm.

You can’t say those words. Those are Tankie words

Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.

No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.

Maduro’s grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation.

All the “Maduro cheated to win the election” stuff comes from the same people insisting Biden cheated to win in 2020 and Obama cheated in 2008.

Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched “Operation Tun Tun” (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as “state terrorism”.

Were these experts affiliated with Elliot Abrams?

Conservatives do love self-owning with the anti-Castro rhetoric

Most people aren’t cheering that we are rearming, but they understand that it is a necessary evil.

Plenty of people are chomping at the bit for a Glorious New War we can all watch on the TV.

Russia is right at our doorsteps

That hasn’t been true in over 40 years. And even when it was true, Europeans suffered far more under the paranoid police states of their own governments than any cross border conflict.

Personally I prefer the first option.

Not like any of us have a material say, but enjoy conscription I guess.

Eh, if you run away from fascism instead of fighting against it, it will simply eventually find you as it spreads like a disease.

The goal of war is not to die for your country but to make the other fucker die for his.

The Ukrainian military has done a far better job getting it’s people killed than killing fascists. There’s no benefit to getting dragged into an army that won’t train you, arm you, or deploy you to maximum beneficial effect.

You can’t ask bullies politely to stop making you suffer, because they never respected you in the first place.

This isn’t a schoolyard brawl, it’s a high tech killing field. If a neighborhood bully fires a cruise missile at you, there’s no benefit to standing your ground.

Biggest global rearming since WW1 and people are cheering about it like they don’t understand what happens next.

But what about those on the left?

Idk about the rest of y’all, but I’ve been volunteering with the Houston Chapter of Food Not Bombs at every opportunity.

There’s far fewer of us than cops, and we’re more focused on keeping our impoverished neighbors alive than getting in gunfights with the police.

But maybe that’ll change. I guess we’ll see.

Who wants to be the first to martyr themselves getting turned into Swiss cheese after firing the first shot?

Thomas Matthew Crooks tentatively raising his hand

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Is a regular hater and chronic pot stirrer. You’ll get used to them.

Where are the bearers of arms who bear arms in case of government tyranny?

They’re the guys in the ICE uniforms, more often than not

She could file charges attacking a member of Congress

Against whom? They were masked and otherwise unidentified.

her bodyguards

Did she have bodyguards at the scene?

Then use your powers in Congress to do something about it!

Is she not doing exactly that?

People care. That’s the truly bizarre thing.

They’re deeply invested in Evil Foreign Brown Man as someone they can hate and Wise Righteous Western Liberal is someone they can cheer for.

At this point, I’m amazed he hasn’t simply had Obama’s award confiscated

shrug

“Congressmen should just be able to profit off fluctuations in the market based on their legislative insider knowledge” seems pretty nonsensical and easy to dismiss outside of the US Capital Building.

But inside the building, its wildly popular.

Whatchagonna do?