6924

they’re definitely an enemy of those communities, and need to be dealt with as such, but I don’t want a Reign of Terror on our side.

That said, the acceptability of marginalized groups to be is something 100% non-negotiable, for obvious reasons.

6925

There’s still time to be fully radicalized, comrade; new positions in the Glorious Revolution are opening daily :)

6926

Oh, I’m radicalized, but I want a good revolution not a failed one.

I want to live as I see fit, not die before I get a chance to do it.

6927

Only post Dark Saga albums. I think I can still separate art from artist on the first 4.

6928

Since Lin Wood is involved, I’ll toss this here:

6929

I hope they mutually destroy each other. Screw all parties involved.

6930

I almost feel sorry for the kid. He’s likely a product of his home environment. I certainly was at that age, and very little of it was good. I was a raging racist and homophobe. I once told my best friend’s mom that if I could push a button and kill every person of color in America, I would do it because in my mind that would’ve eradicated the welfare system, 99% of crime, etc. It would’ve been just a great boon for my country. I was a senior in high school when I said that. And that mentality was absolutely the result of being raised by my parents (my mom to this day at age 84 will say horrible things about minorities and we’ve had some colossal blowouts). That said, I never felt compelled to commit actual violence or engage in criminal behavior, but I didn’t have social media amplifying things, creating an informational bubble of ignorance and confirmation bias either. I just feel like three lives were tossed away that night and it’s a tragedy all around.

6931

Yeah, regardless of his level of personal blame he’s fucked. That he became red meat for the grifting circuit after he was radicalized by the same right wing derposphere into murdering people is sadly not surprising. I wonder decades from now if he will realize how badly he was used.

6932

In a way I hope he gets life with parole, so if he truly reforms and repents ,one day he can come out and be an example of redemption and make up for his crimes.

If he doesn’t, he can be stuck in a hole forever.

6933

I agree. That man spent 4 years undermining our democracy with comments and trial ballons as to term limits and “making america great” etc… His attacks on the press, his renuciation of international treaties, his alienation of our greatest allies, and in the end, his perpetuation of a lie so huge that most of anyone reasonable couldn’t believe anyone believed it.

Classic tyrant moving in to power. I submit to you that democracy only works if enough people buy in. Because everyone assuredly did not.

But yet in the end it did and i thank god for it…

6934

heh i don’t appease anymore. I was (over the last few years) trying to see both sides of everything. I thought maybe Trump is just about craziness and popularism. But i did start to worry as his term went on – he had a lotta people drop out and he just kept after the press … plus his occasional discussion of no term limits and etc.

As a democrat i want to respect who the president is who is rightfully voted our executive branch head. But yes i was worried – not about his conservative politics (which is his right to pursue as president) but his attacks on structural democracy. I worried but did little except voice my concerns to a very small audience…

Even after the election when the Big Lie was being touted I had faith (and admittedly the courts backed me up) that the rule of law would prevail. And it did.

But January 6 made me change my mind over everything. I then realized (and i assume some of you did too) that this guy really was trying to take power and kill our republic…I am still surprised I can say that with a straight face… if he would have stolen power on Jan 6 or thereafter my oath to the constitution would have made me (as an attorney --we have to give that oath) what …an outlaw? I would not have respected anything then from the executive branch of the government and we would have been in a state of … I dunno… hurts my heart to recall it even now.

6935

I’ve been feeling this way for years. For folks who are wondering why I get so angry about this, it’s because of my veteran status and what I think it means, as well as probably having the bedrock and culture of white conservatism at my soul, just direction against the fascists.

These thoughts sometimes give me self-loathing (which I have plenty of due to how I am) Ironically, it was my time in the military which was an attempt to get away from who I was and how low I had sunk, that opened the door to straightening my head out for real. This is why I still want to defend the institution of America, I just want to work for people other than myself and the people who resembled who I was.

Every day at work (well weekdays) I see what I could have become, and it disgusts me.

It’s probably coming from a slightly different place than Armando.

6936

And all without some grand plan or real reason other than to just because he’s a narcissist and this would be the ultimate thing to stroke his ego. Ultimately, the idea that such a sad, simple man could bring the foundations of the United States closer to ruin than anything else since the Civil War is something my brain still can’t process and leaves me feeling dejected when I try.

6937

He didn’t. McConnell did.

6938
6939

Something, something, rats, ship.

I hope Chris Carr suffers a debilitating anal maggot infection while watching everyone he cares about be slowly crushed under debts their non-wingnut-welfare jobs can’t possibly pay off.

6940

Some news to brighten your day.

6941
6942

sigh And here I can’t even get a single match on Bumble.

6943

You are not storming the right ramparts.