Routinely pissing off bona fide spooks … seems like a way to wind up mysteriously disappeared

Fair point. There used to be a distinction.

To quote the great Peter Sellers: “Not anymore!”

A guy like Holsey has incredible strength of will. Has surmounted challenges that I know would have caused me to give up shrink in fear and/or just die.

What the fuck is he so afraid of ?

And it is a death cult

Look at their churches everyone praying to the nailed-up dying guy pleading for their Savior to come back and end the world

Christianity is sick as fuck and Christofascists are in charge

There are no longer any rules

NYT just ran an article today, interviewing academics who study countries that have slid from Democracy into Authoritarianism

Quote from Prof. Sean Westwood :

The most permanent damage, however, is the precedent. With these guardrails shattered, the temptation for a future Democratic administration to launch its own campaign of retribution — using a weakened system for its own ends — becomes immense. This is the grim, iterative nature of democratic backsliding: each transgression lowers the floor for the next, creating a cycle of political revenge that, once started, is nearly impossible to unwind.

please accept this Lemmy Gold

what happened to all the pre Rand Paul libertarians

I was one of them. I was in deep. I’ve met Ron Paul multiple times. I know some of his former staffers.

I will tell you what happened:

• They were right that in fact the Government is spying on everyone, and bald-face lied about it (Clapper)
• They then assumed that the Government can only lie, and that everything official is by definition untrue
• A supermajority of them are religious faithful. They can be super educated but they still believe in Bronze-Age fairy stories and “personal Truth”
• … which made them easy targets for Russian disinfo

It’s so banal. But it’s the truth. I know because I watched my former friends turn into people who intentionally spread COVID, to “show up the hoax”

I am older; my Dad was an older guy when he had me. He fought in WWII.

Growing up he always told me: “I fought the jackboots. One day it will be your turn.”

In the current environment it’s wise to clearly note where artistic license has been taken

Fact check: the original vid this is from was about insomnia, not fascism

But Hitchcock was a huge anti-fascist and made anti fascist films https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-26-ca-50581-story.html

Be the change you wish to see in the world

And tens of millions of us will pay to see his content even if we aren’t huge fans of Kimmel … because we are huge fans of pluralistic liberal democracy

Can we vote on next? Because I really want to nominate Tucker

His bro DJT says the same thing about what will happen if his tariffs are blocked

The end of the world, to these guys, is someone not agreeing with them

Justice was just millimeters away, in a field in Pennsylvania

Well USA is not the only NATO member with nukes, maybe Trump needs a reminder

America needs the same denazification that turned Germany and Japan into tolerant diverse democracies.

Somebody start monitoring GOP members for trips to Spain

May need to get one of these

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