really funny that trump massively sidelines this guy until there's an opportunity to make him the face of the government's "death squad for civilian protesters" policy—a policy that trump himself has the commonsense not to touch with a ten foot pole
don't disagree he should do more. but the podcast focuses on the scale of a multi billion dollar network of secretive, human rights violating camps and the unaccountable thugs dragging people there. going to be eye-opening for anyone but the most seasoned anti dhs activists. have you listened?
probably good that the slippery, hard-to-pin-down, poll dancers have decided that the clear path to filling the power vacuum of dem party leadership is via emphatic support of woke 2
miller is viral on tiktok (half a mil likes!!!) at this very moment for a decade old clip joking about how great torture is. he has spent his entire public life openly saying what Rs have only dogwhistled. every day in the spotlight is another one of these groyper moments getting rediscovered
It would be helpful to lay out his actual gameplan—within the scope of aggregate Republican power—on paper.
mr willis, its time to hand in whatever the journalist equivalent of your gun and badge are
absolute dereliction of responsibility by media. the whole point of a rorschach is that there's no objective identifiable pattern; it is actually random blots. we have specific actions documented on video in a way few historical events are. meta-analysis is cowardly and useless
really feels like the crescendo of the specific type of "apolitical" reaction that makes up r/instantkarma and its spin-offs: the original fafo slopmill, constantly reasserting "more violent response=winning". politics as a "we are going to teach these uppity bitches their place" comment section
it's like someone based their entire affective persona on goebbels as depicted by ulrich matthes in downfall 2004
creating a sense of community empowerment + signalling commitment for the class of people who will put in the hours for political organising. for leftist candidates the venn diagram for food pantry organisers vs. door knockers is a circle. even if it's purely cynical it's a decent strategy
there is not a big enough "fell for it again" sticker for the guy who thought his white ethnonationalist movement would be the very first of its kind in history to not descend to foaming-at-the-mouth antisemitism
can i unsee it now
nobody ever wants to admit that 30% of all people vote purely on a "this sucks let's try the other guy" basis
the clock is ticking down on casting anthony boyle as desmoulins
still personally nostalgically enjoy it but this is factually describing the production process. it really is patient zero for the "get an editor to mash a bunch of scenes together" epidemic in star wars; first season of this pod is so eye-opening: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/g...
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look man i dont think the obscenely wealthy genocidal bureaucrat is necessarily the writers mouthpiece for their personal opinions
the expanse explained it best
conspiracy (2001)
also something to be said for the fact that all these alt right women thought they were going to get seats at the adult table and almost none of them did because the adult table is not for women
institutional dems will really be like "you believe in hardline stances? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, bipartisan incrementalism" and then not get any incrementalism
there were only two types of news stories that could emerge from this shutdown: republicans touch the stove = good; let's touch the stove together in the name of cooperation and bipartisanship :) = bad
once they publicised the fight, they really needed to win it
i know he's evil and everything but i kinda admire how eric adams finessed a pardon while doing absolutely nothing
my mayor (i'm tasmanian)
got even a little hint of "maybe there aren't term limits any more" and started jotting down zingers on the closest napkin
if we could get the right priest near him—british accent, francis-y politics, impressive amounts of gold trim on his vestements—something truly amazing could happen
from "roads can't be racist 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣" to "roads can be racist but only against white people"
for a split second i just became a 1700s calvinist wrt idolatry
dont worry about it man im sure these targets are being generated by an absolutely unimpeachable 100% success rate black box algorithm
darwinian messaging does work better in an asymmetrical media ecosystem where you never get humiliated for misfired in front of your core audience
