“Couple was extra-judicially murdered because…”

There is no way to conclude that sentence that anyone should give a rat’s ass about. If you buy this sort of post-facto justification for the Brown Shirts murdering people, you’re a Nazi.

Thank you for sharng this. I really needed to see an example of being decent and growing today.

There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to a descent into fascism.

There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to massive wealth inequality.

But sometimes history comes along and says “too bad.” There is no historical precedent for fascism or extreme wealth inequality being corrected by electoral politics.

If you’re able to comfortably sit on the fence, recognize two facts: One, that’s a position of entitlement (Plenty of people are already having their lives destroyed by what’s happening). Two, being passive is choosing to allow authoritarianism to win.

To reiterate, I’m not a Tankie. I don’t whitewash the heinous history of revolutions, upheaval, and failed government systems. And I am positive that I’m screaming into the void. In every historical example I’ve studied, the comfortable middle class eventually sides with elite authority and not the peasants. And the peasants always lose. But the alternative is too awful to surrender to. Centralized techno-fascism and eventual catastrophic conflict with China are what’s in-store.

Thank you.

Because being a passive centrist while the world slides towards authoritarianism, global conflict, and environmental holocaust is not morally acceptable.

You don’t have to be a Tankie to want to fight these fascist fucks and their suicidal agenda.

In tennis, I’m pretty sure it’s a lime.

There was a study years ago about American TV ownership. Size of television inversely correlates with income.

“NOOOO… women can’t be Space Marines™️!” /s

When we’re still asking the question “why?” we’re stuck in disbelief and denial about the reality we’re in.

1/3 of the country is aware and cares, but is too atomized and disempowered to act meaningfully. 1/3 are too comfortable and attached to their slipping consumer entitlement to take risks for the sake of anyone else. 1/3 have channeled their entitlement and/or immiseration into enthusiastic support for what’s happening.

I’m with you, but the reality is that the majority of the country would shake their heads and go back to watching Netflix rather than do anything while you’re being dragged to the camps.

I visited Switzerland just after the vaccines dropped. The Swiss COVID response far surpassed the response in the United States. They rolled out a nation-wide app for vaccination attestation, and any museum, restaurant, etc. could scan a QR code on someone’s phone with a phone. But do they have a scary, socially reactionary subset of their population? Yes.

In some harmful ways they are fanatically culturally conservative. But they also care about community, sustainability, health, the well-being of children, environmental preservation, organization, and self-reliance. Being a small, rich, homogeneous, topographically-isolated country drives these characteristics.

Surveillance State developments are depressing but not surprising.

Yes, it’s literally a pointless cash-grab that they can bill to insurance.

Last time I was at my primary care, I was handed a survey as part of my pre-appointment paperwork. I started filling it out before I read the fine print at the end: It was optional. It would be billed to my insurance, and “most patients’” insurance covered the charge. I refused to complete it. Just one more tiny outrage as part of the massive scam that is the American medical system.

No just any shit, shit that helps everyday people living in their country.

I’m just thinking of the major cities in my U.S. state where the public transit map, before and after, looks like Chengdu in 2010. So as unfortunate as the circumstances are in Toronto, they can be even worse.

“NERVOUSNESS”

Licking Lead is only “not a great idea?” I think it’s squarely in the “Please don’t do that” territory.

#1 and #9 are the same dude: Saint Thomas Beckett, getting his brains stirred.

I’m being downvoted for pointing out an obvious discrepancy, one that needs to be recognized and reckoned with?

In WW2 the full federal might of the United States government and armed forces were aligned against the Axis.

Which side is the administration on now? Against whom were the National Guard and Marines deployed against this week? Reality check time.

Does it make you feel better to lash out and rage against people who agree with you, who are on your side and opposed to the bullshit we’re all facing? Slipping into a comfy fantasy, where we imagine the “good guys” have the guns and power this time, isn’t productive, unless it’s motivating you to arm yourself and build solidarity. Do you have your rifle and bayonet? I do. Are you supporting people who are with you, or are you just sitting in your chair screaming at the wrong people on the Internet?

“There isn’t a genocide happening…”

Do you mean besides the one in Gaza, where U.S. money and munitions have been facilitating the bombing and starvation of children for over a year?

My question is rhetorical. If you have a response, I’m not interested in hearing it.

The trouble is: the poster misrepresents the situation. The guy wearing the red hat is the one holding the rifle and bayonet this time.

“No, no we meant just all the brown people after us.”

Dudes were ripped too.