Even on “safe” planets, the average person is basically a slave doing endless, arduous labor with no concern for their lives or well-being, all under the merciless thumb of Imperial dogma. It’s just a bad place to end up.

Border Patrol reportedly told them they were working from an anonymous tip tied to the previous owners of the home, who lived there two years ago.

Remember every single worm who informed on their neighbors.

Once again, it is not hyperbole to say that Republicans want to kill you.

Once again, if you are physically and mentally able, you should be arming yourself to the best of your ability for the day when they are emboldened to act out their violent delusions en masse. And that day may come sooner than you think, as it has with every fascist milestone thus far.

It reads like any self-righteous copypasta, which it may be. I guess people are downvoting based on how seriously they’re taking it.

Idiocracy was a mediocre stoner comedy that I think we’ve come to expect too much of as some sort of biting social commentary.

The people making these decisions are, for the most part, not stupid. Myopic, maybe. But mostly they’re just psychopaths, which is a bigger problem than even stupidity.

“Allahu ackbar” - same shit, different tribe

They’ll take it as a challenge to their authority and specifically target them, just like sanctuary cities and states. I hope those businesses have funds for renovations after a SWAT entry team has their way with them.

Garden won’t do you any good if someone with a gun can take it from you.

Without more context it’s hard to pass judgement. Were the victims hit by pass-through shots on the attacker or a wall? Did the firearms officer straight up miss? Were they using their handgun or their carbine?

The real difference will be if they hold the firearms officer accountable, for negligence if nothing else.

I seem to remember the secdef from Trump 1 relieving the captain of an aircraft carrier of his command because he made public that there was a COVID outbreak on board and no accommodations were being made. It culminated with Secdef Shitheel getting on the intercom of this carrier and belittling the former captain in front of the entire crew. There’s videos some of the crew took.

I don’t even remember this guy’s name, but I do remember that, like Hegseth, he had little military experience to speak of. Most of his career was corporate management or something.

That’s what this admin loves. Worthless corpos and shitheel influencers belittling and browbeating the people who actually hold things together.

Should just black bar all the words on the bottom and write “pedophilia” over them.

Maybe not, up to a point where he won’t have a police force anymore. Even then, they’ll quickly get re-hired as white trash Gestapo, and then what?

No. Police across the board are optimistically 70% MAGA, more realistically 80-90%.

The most vile among them are at best ambivalent towards Trump. They’ll say he’s part of the same [Jewish/communist] cabal as the rest of the globalist NWO government and would be glad to put him to the torch as long as they get to put everyone else to the torch. He doesn’t go far enough quick enough, basically.

Right now it’s the legal infrastructure, mostly. The mechanism they seem to most prefer developing is making LGBT+ existence pornographic. They are already trying to ban porn in general per P2025, but leveraging the severity of sex crimes to abuse them in particular is not a giant legal stretch once they have the precedent.

The mental illness angle would give the public the sense that they care, that they’re “helping” those “afflicted”, but may be harder to sell upfront. It’ll probably be a post-facto justification once they’re already rounding people up.

As far as physical structures, they are opening and reopening prisons at breakneck pace for the deportation effort. There will be no shortage of places to stuff anyone they don’t like.

If the topics of discussion are:

1. Nonwhites should be subject to warrantless search, arrest, detainment, and deportation, and we are actively carrying it out.
2. LGBT+ should be considered a mental illness and be imprisoned in “psychiatric facilities” and we are actively building the framework to do so.
3. MAGA is the party of real Americans, everyone else is a perfidious traitor and should be targeted, and we are openly entertaining this idea.

There isn’t anything to discuss, really. Fascist “discussion” is a distraction, a charade, an amusement, while they work to undermine norms and institutions and do real harm.

You want to see what MAGATs mean by “open discussion”, look at Patel’s and Hegseth’s Senate hearings. Repeating blatant lies, hollow rhetoric, and when pressed even a little, they angrily accuse everything and everyone in the room of being a fraud and a traitor. Nothing but contempt for the institutions they are forced to abide by, for now. I guarantee they were both thinking “I can’t wait to give the order to throw all these fucking communist worms in a hole” the entire time.

There is nothing to discuss with a fascist. There’s only what you can do to neutralize their influence.

It doesn’t need to be absolute in success, it just needs to be applied arbitrarily to further abuse out-groups.

“We’ll coup whoever we want! Deal with it!” - actual Elon quote.

I’d imagine there are many ways people might “deal with it”, unfortunately for him.

Just world fallacy. There is a very real chance that they will all get away with this. Better odds than not, I’d say.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that the officer was trying to arrest a man who had a history of reckless driving, but he refused officers’ orders and instead drove his car at them. An ICE officer who was hit and dragged by the car felt his life was threatened and opened fire, the department said.

Federal goons tried to disappear a motorist with a post-facto justification of “public safety,” and the motorist chose Door #2.