The thing that worries me....is he's probably doing this to other people. I almost feel that you were maybe his foray into this type of behavior, and as he does it more and gets more confident with it, I worry he may eventually hurt or take advantage of someone (i.e. ask for explicit content, or ask to meet up, etc.)
I mean, according to the history of how conservative news has worked, you constantly need an 'enemy' to be afraid. It's the reason we're attacking their rights, not yours, it's the reason that we're enacting laws to target this specific ethnicityn not yours, etc.
Modern conservativism only works if your supporters are fearful of the 'other'. It used to be "orientals" and the Red Scare back in the mid-1900's. Then the blacks, the 'marihuana', and communism in the 60's and 70's. In the 80's, it was the welfare queens, the moral panic, and AIDS. In the 90's, it was child predators, gays, and the start of many identity politics. Then it was Middle Easterners and Islam in the 2000's. Now it's the Great White Replacement and the immigrant populations. See? The pattern is that you always have to have some target for fear. They don't stick around long before people realize that what they were fearful of isn't as bad as people said they were or that it was never a risk on the first place. It's all just a massive distraction to keep people from targeting the real problem. The ruling class, and they're ability to manipulate our laws, elections, and lives all for their benefit.
In the 1980s, conservatism leaned heavily on fear of the communist threat, the 'welfare queen', and a moral panic over crime, AIDS, and the erosion of traditional family values. By the 1990s, the new 'others' were undocumented immigrants, queer Americans, and the imagined tyranny of political correctness and globalist elites. The conservative movement has often relied on stoking existential dread—whether it’s the red menace, the crack epidemic, or creeping secularism—to unify its base through fear rather than hope.
100% this. There's been resistance everywhere over this. Minnesota drove out a bunch of ICE agents from their neighborhoods, there's been major protests all over the US about it. Like... we're for sure doing it.
Ah yes, the dangerous criminals that are out farming for slave wages. Good job ICE. I'm assuming that ICE is going to punish the farmer that employed these dangerous criminals? ICE has entirely lost the fucking plot...
Major news outlets will not cover the protests. They will happily film the parade though. They will put forth an air of cautious optimism to endear dear leader to their outlet. The only way this gets any MAJOR public attention is if people stop the parade. It will be stopped, there will be a LOT of police action, which will prompt riots, which will prompt more attention. Trump may use it to enact martial law, but he'll do so at his own detriment. It will not look well at all, but the cancellation of his parade, plus the chaos that will be martial law will only spark more civil discourse throughout the nation.
I don't know mate. Standing in front of a tank and shutting down down Fat Boy Hitler's farcical thuper duper birthday parade would be one for the history books. There's not a farts chance in a hurricane that this doesn't go down as a comical clusterfuck.
This whole parade is getting shut down, I promise you.
No, they aren't paying for the no kings rally. This has been planned for months - essentially since Trump declared he wanted his thuper duper special big boy parade.
Just because they paid for an ad to support the movement doesn't mean it's now co-opted by Walmart or any other billionaire.
That's a bad faith argument. No body wants that. Just because it exists doesn't mean I'm defending it. The alternative is letting a paste-brained Putin-wannabe become King.
It's nice to see people standing up to ICE all across the country. They're being painted as criminals by the state (i.e. Trump), but REAL American citizens know that these people are heroes. Fuck ICE, fuck the cops that support ICE, and a very special double fuck you to Trump and his sycophants - hell has a dark hole waiting for all of you traitors.
Approximately 500,000 years ago, when someone made a tiny spear. They just didn't know it was an arrow at the time.
I mean what is an arrow, but a much smaller spear?