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WatDabney

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  • ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader's Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash

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  • It's long been understood that one of the simplest and the surest ways to maintain the loyalty of the violent thugs you hire to oppress and kill on your behalf is to let them loot their victims.

  • Massive ICE Goon ID Leak Halted by Cyber Attack From Russia

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  • Huh... so Russia is coming to the rescue of ICE...

  • Trump Vows ‘Day of Reckoning’ After Deadly ICE Shooting in Dark Rant

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  • He needs a 5150.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • If you can be effectively censored by the banning of a site flooded with CSAM, that's very much your problem and nobody else's.

  • We have all seen the video by now, how come the ICE agent step aside from the car when it was visablly turning away? Even my brother a cop said if he did that he would be fired? Why shoot her?

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  • Because he's an ICE agent, which is to say, a poorly-trained, violent moron.

  • More Than 20 Million Americans Are Set to Lose Health Care Coverage on January 1

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  • Yes - this is not Reddit.

    Which is exactly why I'm not going to stand for a poster trying to saddle me with some asinine strawman version of my actual points.

    The other poster self-evidently believed that I was either so stupid that I actually believed that "this is all the fault of the Democrats" or that I was so stupid that I'd let that ridiculous strawman slide. And in either case fully deserved a verbal smack upside the head, and that specifically because this isn't Reddit. Leave that sort of cheap, intellectually dishonest bullshit there.

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    How do you deal with a person who is never wrong, always suffering more than you, and gaslights (unintentionally) all the time?

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  • I hesitate to post this, but...

    I actually have experience with that.

    And unfortunately, nothing I did worked, and ultimately I had to get away to save my own sanity

    The problem was that she had effectively perfect defenses. In most cases, she could twist whatever I said to further "prove" that she was right and I was wrong, and in the rare cases in which I managed to say something that finally backed her into a corner from which she couldn't spin it back against me, that, to her, just "proved" that I (or, often, "everybody") hated her / wanted to hurt her / didn't care about her / wanted to see her suffer / etc.

    I never once, as far as I could tell, actually got through to her.

  • More Than 20 Million Americans Are Set to Lose Health Care Coverage on January 1

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  • The media was making the democrats out to be the ones shutting down the nations airports.

    So?

    Exactly as I already said:

    no matter how much they tried to dodge the responsibility, the majority of people blamed Republican intransigence for the shutdown

    That's what the polls consistently showed, and notably that was in spite of the fact that so much of the media tried to pin the blame on the Democrats.

    So your claim here isn't just irrelevant - it's actually part of the support for my position. Yes - the captive media tried to blame the Democrats. But the people weren't buying it.

    But Schumer and the Democrats folded anyway.

    and further empower the republicans

    Nobody is empowering the Republicans more than Schumer and Jeffries and the rest of the establishment Democrats, who can't even be arsed to do their jobs

    You might be a russian troll…

    lol

  • More Than 20 Million Americans Are Set to Lose Health Care Coverage on January 1

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  • Of course not. Don't be a simpleton.

    The Republicans rather obviously bear the lion's share of the blame.

    However, that was the Republicans' designated role from the start. Their job was to represent the interests of their plutocratic cronies and patrons by killing a program that spent money to benefit poor people, so they were just doing what they were meant to do and what they were expected to do.

    On the other hand, the Democrats' job was to protect a program that benefitted poor people, and they miserably failed at that job. In fact, they didn't even simply fail - they forfeited. They gave up even trying.

    And they very much deserve condemnation for that.

  • More Than 20 Million Americans Are Set to Lose Health Care Coverage on January 1

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  • Remember when the government was shut down specifically because the Democrats refused to go along with a bill that ended the health insurance subsidies, and they had the Republicans up against the ropes because no matter how much they tried to dodge the responsibility, the majority of people blamed Republican intransigence for the shutdown?

    Then remember how the Schumer-led Democrats just completely folded, passed the bill, then stood idly by as the chance to extend the subsidies vanished?

    Every single one of those stinking traitorous shitbags needs to be primaried.

  • Trump Says Construction of His ‘Triumphal Arch’ Will Begin ‘Sometime in the Next Two Months’

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  • Reminder that the President of the United States is profoundly mentally ill

  • Trump Announces the U.S. Has Bombed Nigeria

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  • I'll go one better - if the DNC hadn't interfered and fucked us over, the people would have elected Sanders in 2016 and we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

  • Trump Announces the U.S. Has Bombed Nigeria

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  • Actually, we got fascism by constantly moving towards it over a span of at least 60 years, with the only difference being that we sometimes moved more quickly towards it and sometimes more slowly.

    We moved towards it under Biden too, and would've continued moving towards it under either him or Harris.

    The only thing that's notable about Trump as far as that goes is how much he moved us and how quickly. But this was always the destination.

    The only way we could've moved away from fascism rather than towards it would've been to elect federal politicians who were actually good instead of just less bad. But we not only haven't been given that choice, but have been indoctrinated into treating less bad as a virtue

  • Trump is not a ‘well adjusted adult who can handle criticism’: Fmr. GOP Communications Dir.

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  • No shit?

    This, to me, is the most significant and most bizarre fact about the current era - the President of the United States is rather obviously deeply and profoundly mentally ill.

  • Trump Announces the U.S. Has Bombed Nigeria

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  • And what you just described is the exact process by which governments descend into tyranny.

    The much better way to deal with the issue, if you actually do care about your fellow humans, is to refuse to support a toxic candidate even if they are somewhat less toxic than the alternative, and make sure at every single turn that the blame is placed squarely where it should be - on the foul, loathsome, corrupt and compromised scumbags who arranged for the nomination of a toxic piece of shit candidate in the first place.

    Less bad is still bad. If you settle for less bad, the best you'll ever get is that things woll potentially get worse somewhat more slowly than they would otherwise. They'll still inevitably get worse.

    If you want things to actually get better, then you have to hold the scumbags' feet to the fire. You have to make sure that it's widely understood that they and they alone are the reason that the best we can hope for is somewhat less bad and things getting worse somewhat more slowly. And you can't do that by meekly going along with them.

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    Musk’s DOGE Failed To Slash Government Spending, Instead Leading To A 6% Increase

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  • Which would be relevant if the goal actually was to cut spending, but it never was

    The goal was to eliminate agencies and purge principled employees from surviving agencies in order to provide immediate benefit to the oligarchy, and to facilitate their longer term goal of institutionalizing their unchallenged dominion over the US. And at that, it was a resounding success.

  • Trump’s Kennedy Center chief threatens jazz musician with $1M suit over canceled Christmas gig

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  • I really think that, from Trump on down, they sincerely just don't have the emotional maturity to act any differently.

  • Trump’s Kennedy Center chief threatens jazz musician with $1M suit over canceled Christmas gig

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  • Well noted, and yes.

    That's just the sort of thing that happens when spoiled, petulant children throw tantrums.

  • Trump’s Kennedy Center chief threatens jazz musician with $1M suit over canceled Christmas gig

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  • “Your decision to withdraw at the last moment—explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure,” the letter, shared to the Associated Press, reads, “is classic intolerance.” And, Grenell continues, “Your action surrenders to the sad bullying tactics employed by certain elements on the left, who have sought to intimidate artists into boycotting performances.”

    Grenell also took personal jabs at Redd in the letter, claiming that his show wasn’t popular. “The contrast between the public’s lack of interest in your show with the success we are experiencing under our new chairman is drastic,” Grenell wrote. Trump’s board elected him as chairman in February. “The most avant-garde and well-regarded performers in your genre will still perform regularly,” he added, “and unlike you, they’ll do it to sold–out crowds regardless of their political leanings.”

    One of the most notably bizarre things about the Trump regime, to me, is how childish they are. From Trump on down, so many of them literally act like spoiled, petulant children throwing public tantrums.

    Truly, the most accurate term for this government is kakistocracy

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    The Alarm - Marching On (1983)

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    A twenty year old essay that's still relevant today: Thinking of Jackasses - The grand delusions of the Democratic Party by Marc Cooper

    www.theatlantic.com /magazine/archive/2005/04/thinking-of-jackasses/303838/