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  • Helpful to understand how these systems of power work. More often than not, the people making these reports will be members of the local republican party, a local church, or a similar conservatively aligned trust organization. They'll organize these stings in partisan club meetings and partner with law firms and file in courts with friendly professionals.

    You can certainly clog up the primary intake line. But shy of knowing the right Signal chat to join or just surrounding Ken Paxton's DAs with mega-phones blasting "I saw your mom in the men's restroom", you're not going to interrupt the back channels.

  • Can I go back to the 90s Matrix?

    I've g̵o̴t̴ ̷ s̴̗̺͕͝o̴̜͐̊̇m̷̨͍͍͠e̴̹̕ ̵̡̿ ę̷͕̣͂̆̅r̵̡̪̈͂́̄̔͠r̶͍̲̤̀̏͋͑í̵̹̼̮̩͈̰̊͌͂b̴̯̎̎̅̕ļ̶̘͓̍ē̶̥̺̥̓̉̈͆͘̚n̸͚̳͉̫̪̣͔̬̈́̀̄̉̂̊͆̾̍̀͝ę̴͚͔̺̮̤̺̰͈̖̉̀̃̄̏̾͛ŵ̶̪͓͓͇̥̮̠̩̼̙̻̰͠s̸̼͖̬̦̟̝͊́̓́ ̷̡̨̢̫̖͔͚̻͙̩̈́̆͛̾̿̓̏͑̀̊̈ ̵̺̹͙̼̮̹͍̗̱͇̪͈͑͛̅͜͜f̶̣͊͂̾̾̈͝ǫ̶̛͇̥̖͓̦̳͇̩͙̩͑̇̾̇͊̋͌̇̍̃̏̈́͛̕ͅr̶͚͇̄ͅ ̴̌̋̓̄͊͂͋̈̀̇͐̀͘̕ ̷̡̨̖̺̫͈̪̫̲̩̘͉͚̗̳̖̜̗̣̭̩̩͕̙̯̦͔̟̠̝̣͎̝͍͇̝̅ͅỳ̷̨̛̛̤̹̖̞̙̺̮͇̳̙̤̟̘̦̙̃̄́̄̂̃̊̂̈́̿͛̇̍̀̌̍̎̊͑͗̆̔͘̚̕̕͝ͅơ̴̢̛͇͓̗͍͙̮̲̣̳͖͉͕̳̹̤̩̜̥͔̲̘̩̳̱̩͙̹̝̾͋͐̿͋̀͗̏̀͂͊͗̋̽͐̀̕͜͜͝ǔ̵̡͚͎̗͈̞̱͖̖͎̬̱̜̲͖͈̳̼̥͎́̊̊͐̀͑̈̀̍̂͋͐͆͒̚̕͘͘ͅ.̵̨̨̢̢̨͍̦̻̼̖̩̮̱̣̭̲̼͈̱̭̭͇̺͈̠̲̬̭͍͎̝̮͕̳͕͙̳̺͔̗̪̖̳̙̯͖̥̈́̿͌̌͊̽̈́̈́͛͋̏́̉̊͂̑̄͂̄̈̌͐͆̍̐͒̿̂͘͜͝͝ͅͅͅ

  • Burger King employees are known for throwing food and punches at people.

    Wait, what?

  • The ones leaving tend to be the professional class with the excess income and transferable job skills, typically with family abroad who can take them in once they depart.

    The ones left behind tend to be the young and unemployed, the pensioners, and the minority-majority working class who can't afford the bureaucratic cost of updating their citizenship.

    I don’t think they owe anyone shit.

    Flies in the face of Contractualism as a theory of civilization. I hope you're not a big fan of Rawls, Locke, Proudhorn, or Kant.

    At some point, we each have a moral debt to one another that is within our capacity to fulfill. I might argue that people who feel the urge to expatriate are driven by their belief that they can no longer productively benefit their communities.

    Are we telling someone "you have an obligation to feed your children"? Sure. Reasonable. But what if they've been banned from entering the grocery store?

    I don't think anyone is obligated to martyr themselves in the face of a murderous paramilitary. Certainly not when both major parties appear happy to extend this American Gestapo a blank check for materials and manpower. But, at some point, we gotta fight them over here if we don't want to fight them over there.

    Fascism doesn't end at America's borders, as anyone in Cuba or Venezuela or Iran or Gaza can tell you.

  • Anyone who has been following the liberals' hostile attitude towards the Russian exodus is laughing up their sleeves at this.

    But also, the whole theory that you're a prisoner of your national origin and should... idk... Rambo your way to freedom, because the "Half a Genocide" party lost a few swing states to the "Full Genocide" party? Feels like we're echoing the same fascist talking points of the MAGA crowd.

    Might as well tell a bunch of Jews to stick around Germany and fix the Holocaust.

  • So, you’re theorizing

    Yes. I'm theorizing Elon Musk bought Twitter

  • Every day the US gets closer to becoming like Afghanistan

    You mean the country we conquered and ruled with an iron fist for 23 years?

    Brother, we're already there. All we can hope for is a kind of grassroots insurrection to get occupying paramilitary out of our neighborhoods

  • The governor vetoed the bill and then the legislature overrode it.

    This is entirely due to gerrymandering of state legislative seats. A savvy liberal party would organize a constitutional amendment to protect civil rights and put that on the ballot in November.

  • Cat 06:43: "Hey!"

    Cat 06:45: "Hey!"

    Cat 06:48: "HEY WAKE UP!"

    Me 06:49: "Sorry, just saw this message, what's up."

    Cat 15:23: "I love you."

  • US and Europe could use to resist Russia

    Grizzlies owner Robert Pera's tech company linked to Russia in war, per report

    Telecommunications equipment made by the company of Memphis Grizzlies owner Robert Pera is being used by the Russian military in its war against Ukraine, according to a report from Hunterbrook Media.

    ...

    In the report, Hunterbook Media revealed video where Wi-Fi equipment made by Ubiquiti is being shown on the front lines in the Russia-Ukraine war. The equipment reportedly has helped Russia use drones that have targeted civilians in Ukraine.

    "Without Ubiquiti, these drones in Russia, the ones leading to massacres, would not work," Hunterbrook reporter Sam Koppelman said on the "Pablo Torre Finds Out" podcast on Jan. 27. "They would be flying blind."

    The US and Europe are profiting massively off this conflict. They don't want it to end.

  • Like, it’s not just international law he violated, US law too:

  • Just need to apply some cunning linguistics.

  • for no benefit

    The benefits are primarily political. Wealthy reactionary donors reward elected officials with more money. Church groups reward state legislators with votes. Fascist vigilantes reward the government with cheap snitching.

    Kansas must breed a very special kind of stupid.

    There's a whole book on it.

    What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

    At the same time, these laws have created their own kind of blowback. As the conservatives pivot to appease an extremist minority, they've shed their populist mandate and needed to lean harder and harder on gerrymandering, misinformation, and terror campaigns to keep control.

  • Free Market strikes again

  • CRTs are getting very hard to find now and people smash them for fun.

    :-/

    Surely you see the contradiction

  • Israel already tried this with their 12-Day War and ate shit when their David's Sling and Arrow system got riddled with ballistic buckshot.

    Do they have an appetite for another active engagement? Idk. Seems like they prefer to go after softer targets

  • Meaning you have a little manners and know social codes.

    College Dorms, famous for their strict social codes and etiquette.

  • Texas used to be an R+30 state and now it's an R+8, with '18 bringing it to an R+2.

    Harris County used to be the beating heart of the state party going back to the 1960s when Pappa Bush took over the organization. In '22, a Republican wave year with millions sunk into the county and Abbott jamming his thumb on the scale, Dems still swept every local race. Republicans retreated from multiple winnable swing districts - TX 7 and TX 29 - by packing them with Dems rather than splitting them up, resulting in a meager R+1 for the state as a whole in what should have been a GOP landslide. The surrounding suburbs were also stubbornly blue - from Tom DeLay's old stomping ground of Sugar Land to Katy, Texas and Clear Lake. Dallas keeps flipping blue. The Austin blueberry keeps growing larger. And the enormous South Texas Hispanic population is still uncommitted to either party.

    More recently - just three weeks ago - the Democrat Taylor Rehmet flipped a Texas Senate seat in deep-red Tarrant County by a decisive 14-point margin. This is a district Donald Trump won by more than 17 points in 2024.

    You can poo-poo the idea that Texas will go Blue in 2026. And there's plenty of historical evidence to suggest you'll be right. But the idea that Texas isn't in play is absurd. The Republican majority in Texas is being kept afloat in large part by the 2006 off-year gerrymandering (and repeated off-year re-gerrymandering) initiated under Rick Perry and repeated in the face of thinner and thinner margins. They have spread their voter base thin and run an increasingly unpopular mix of state level candidates for far too long.

    And, as the state pivots towards a profitable investment in renewable energy and battery technology, even the old O&G bullwark is slipping. This has been a miserable year for historical GOP mega-donors. The state's big investments in bitcoin mining have flopped. The Hispanic population (a historical tipping point demographic that has leaned Republican since Bush was governor) has been targeted by ICE raids for the last six months poisoning them to the Republican brand.

    Tons of headwind in a state that's an absolute must-win for Republicans. Dems would be stupid not to try and flip it.

  • I mean, maybe? How many majority leaders can you name prior to Mitch's reign of terror?

  • They don’t make vhs players or CRTs now do they?

    There's an enormous inventory of New Old Stock and refurbished units that more than meet demand.

    You literally cannot buy a non smart TV any more

    That's absolutely not true. The real limit on Dumb TVs is the size. Emerson and Westinghouse both make dumb TVs, but they cap out at 50".