Yep /pol/ was a containment board for the Nazis, to keep them out of the other boards. When /news/ was deleted the Nazis were shitting everywhere and it made things untenable
It's based off public health studies where they make the case that more guns equals more deaths by homicide and suicide. That leads public health advocates to argue that guns need to be banned or more heavily regulated.
You could say the same things about cars. The pollution, micro plastics, and traffic deaths are a good reason to ban cars and make public transit the primary mode of transportation (which I want) but they don't do that..the car lobby is far more powerful than the gun lobby (surprising right?)
Perhaps, but they did the same thing with Twitter. Part of the reason why Musk got funding from Saudi Arabia to buy Twitter was because of the Arab spring and how people used Twitter to organize.
Destroying large central platforms to fragment the opposition has been shown to be very effective
The apparent recent ousting of Bovino lends credence to this, however I think it’s mostly Trump’s sixth sense for public relations (“optics”). The admin has been losing control of both the situation and the narrative and need to back off and regroup. I don’t think elections are worth fixating on.
I think this is a great point. I didn't even consider that.
What exactly could his opponents do that Trump wouldn’t just ignore? I think it’s a pretty lib take to think midterms have any valence to the long term strategy here.
A real opposition party, or a party philosophically opposed to what is being done can absolutely use Congress to slow down and gum up the works.
Do I believe it will happen? I'm not sure. I think it's important to separate out what we expect to happen (the Dems being shit) from what is at least enough to make them think about it and plan around the possibility.
The midterm outcome is at least something that Miller and the rest are concerned about. I think it's influencing how they operate. If they weren't concerned they wouldn't be trying to try and put their thumbs on the scales with all the stuff they're doing about voter rolls and trying to keep the pressure up and widening the war against territories they don't control.
I do absolutely agree that they'll just do whatever they want and dare anyone to stop them? Of course. But if they weren't concerned they would just ignore it completely.
Does this mean that the Democrats will do anything to stop it? Lmao no but perhaps they will just slow down the acceleration like they usually do.
Isekai has had some.... interesting takes about slavery since shield hero hit the scene. Maybe there were earlier ones but that was the first one where I was like wait what
Miller, if competent, will take an L, fall into the background, and bide his time until we approach US midterms for another ramping up of domestic repression.
I actually think that this isn't correct. Miller knows that the midterms are approaching, and I think he correctly surmised that he needs to keep escalating, keep attacking. That is Trump's methodology and if Miller were to pull back that would show weakness and would absolutely open room for people to put a stop to this. His succees depends on keeping everyone on the back foot, reacting to his moves. As soon as he gives opponents the room to breathe I think they'll be able to gum up the works and stop him.
After the midterms, the game is either "over" (optimistically) or at least changes significantly where perhaps he will be more constrained, and that's why he's been pushing as hard as he has since Day One.
Yeah that maybe was the "New Black Panther Party" which was just a crank walking around outside a polling place in Philly that Fox turned into a multi year object of obsession
The comment about taking others to the range and having to then constantly be on alert to manage everyone, you made me remember some similar instances to what you had to manage. Wild stuff. It's a lot of work and the best is when it's a public range or state game lands where there are other people that are equally unsafe but you can't do anything about. Lots of hair went grey that day....
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