Once again, it is not hyperbole to say that Republicans want to kill you.
Once again, if you are physically and mentally able, you should be arming yourself to the best of your ability for the day when they are emboldened to act out their violent delusions en masse. And that day may come sooner than you think, as it has with every fascist milestone thus far.
Even if they aren’t slaughtered on the spot, they would become a most-wanted fugitive and their normal life would be over. Kristi Noem would be proud to announce on Fox that the standing orders for the manhunt were to shoot them dead on sight. They would have to hide in the woods or some other concealed place and at least be familiar with SERE concepts if they wanted to survive another 72 hours.
Idiocracy was a mediocre stoner comedy that I think we’ve come to expect too much of as some sort of biting social commentary.
The people making these decisions are, for the most part, not stupid. Myopic, maybe. But mostly they’re just psychopaths, which is a bigger problem than even stupidity.
They’ll take it as a challenge to their authority and specifically target them, just like sanctuary cities and states. I hope those businesses have funds for renovations after a SWAT entry team has their way with them.
Israel and its enforcers are operating in a euphoric mental state. For an abuser it’s a rush to be able to abuse people openly and get away with it, rather than having to conceal and twist logic. They know that so long as they have the paid for blessing of the United States and its bloated military, nobody can realistically hold them accountable.
We have IDF soldiers openly admitting to killing unarmed civilians on social media. It’s all euphoria and arrogance.
Without more context it’s hard to pass judgement. Were the victims hit by pass-through shots on the attacker or a wall? Did the firearms officer straight up miss? Were they using their handgun or their carbine?
The real difference will be if they hold the firearms officer accountable, for negligence if nothing else.
SOCOM has been doing almost nothing but counterinsurgency for the past 20-something years. Their purpose would probably be to hunt and kill people who do things like shoot conservative podcasters in the throat, particularly if instead of turning themselves in, they headed into the woods and became a fugitive who may have other targets planned.
Evading a police manhunt is one thing, evading a special operations death squad is another.
I seem to remember the secdef from Trump 1 relieving the captain of an aircraft carrier of his command because he made public that there was a COVID outbreak on board and no accommodations were being made. It culminated with Secdef Shitheel getting on the intercom of this carrier and belittling the former captain in front of the entire crew. There’s videos some of the crew took.
I don’t even remember this guy’s name, but I do remember that, like Hegseth, he had little military experience to speak of. Most of his career was corporate management or something.
That’s what this admin loves. Worthless corpos and shitheel influencers belittling and browbeating the people who actually hold things together.
They’ll blame the parents, seriously. For entering illegally and “creating the situation.”
“The rule of law” and the people who carry it out are just forces of nature and have no free will or choice in the matter, let alone accountability, of course.
Maybe not, up to a point where he won’t have a police force anymore. Even then, they’ll quickly get re-hired as white trash Gestapo, and then what?
No. Police across the board are optimistically 70% MAGA, more realistically 80-90%.
So they only even began to realize there was a spill when they weren’t pulling enough product out of the ground, i.e. they weren’t generating the expected profit, am I reading that right?
“I would have considered opposing war crimes and general inhumanity, but the opposition was cringe. I had no choice, really.”
Fuck off.
Right now it’s the legal infrastructure, mostly. The mechanism they seem to most prefer developing is making LGBT+ existence pornographic. They are already trying to ban porn in general per P2025, but leveraging the severity of sex crimes to abuse them in particular is not a giant legal stretch once they have the precedent.
The mental illness angle would give the public the sense that they care, that they’re “helping” those “afflicted”, but may be harder to sell upfront. It’ll probably be a post-facto justification once they’re already rounding people up.
As far as physical structures, they are opening and reopening prisons at breakneck pace for the deportation effort. There will be no shortage of places to stuff anyone they don’t like.
If the topics of discussion are:
There isn’t anything to discuss, really. Fascist “discussion” is a distraction, a charade, an amusement, while they work to undermine norms and institutions and do real harm.
You want to see what MAGATs mean by “open discussion”, look at Patel’s and Hegseth’s Senate hearings. Repeating blatant lies, hollow rhetoric, and when pressed even a little, they angrily accuse everything and everyone in the room of being a fraud and a traitor. Nothing but contempt for the institutions they are forced to abide by, for now. I guarantee they were both thinking “I can’t wait to give the order to throw all these fucking communist worms in a hole” the entire time.
There is nothing to discuss with a fascist. There’s only what you can do to neutralize their influence.
“We’ll coup whoever we want! Deal with it!” - actual Elon quote.
I’d imagine there are many ways people might “deal with it”, unfortunately for him.
Look at what the Kirk assassin wrote on their cartridges.
Internet meme culture is just culture now.
Just world fallacy. There is a very real chance that they will all get away with this. Better odds than not, I’d say.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that the officer was trying to arrest a man who had a history of reckless driving, but he refused officers’ orders and instead drove his car at them. An ICE officer who was hit and dragged by the car felt his life was threatened and opened fire, the department said.
Federal goons tried to disappear a motorist with a post-facto justification of “public safety,” and the motorist chose Door #2.
Remember every single worm who informed on their neighbors.