1/ Reading @Jaden3 post about racist National Guardsmen harassing him and his cousins made me think about a racist member of my platoon that almost lost his life over some bullshit.
@inthehands I’m not convinced that Kirk was shot for his beliefs or his speech. From the behavior of his wife and the Trump rally at his memorial, his death is being used as a cover for suppressing speech of their political enemies.
Anecdotally, every single person I have seen online talking about #charliekirk being killed for “a difference of opinion” has been white AND cis.
To them I want to say: “Bitch, he was never talking about you or your existence being a threat to him or his way of life so miss me with that difference of opinion bullshit”
So the indifference being shown to him is the same he’d show to any marginalized group. So no, it’s not “a difference of opinion”.
@elebertus my argument is that reduction comes from a place of privilege as they aren’t the target of his or his supporters ire. So to say it’s a difference of opinion does a whole lot of whitewashing of his record.
What I’m referring to is a difference of values and how we see each other’s humanity.
The 1943 film “Don’t be a sucker” illustrates this point pretty well
I keep seeing takes that political violence has no place in the US. The entire history of the US has been nothing but political violence.
Political violence *shouldn’t* have any place in the US, but it DOES and the far right uses that fact to great effect.
As long as one side claims the sole right to use political violence, shit isn’t going to change. Shit only changes when those who perpetuate the violence start to recalibrate their risk that violence may come to them
These fucking tech bros are the kinda guys that would play Horizon Zero Dawn, think it’s cool and not have the self awareness to realize that the game’s main villain Ted Faro (who destroys the world) was modeled after *them*
@inthehands the one thing that gives me pause is the amount of mutual funds and 401ks (not to mention pension funds) that have massive exposure to TSLA. When the TSLA bubble pops, the sound will be deafening
@inthehands The only fly in the ointment here is that Trump has ensured that there is no successor. There is no number two. I believe he has publicly expressed this. After Jim Jones left the earth, his entire movement collapsed
@ErickaSimone@inthehands@singedgoose Most bullies aren’t built like that. They derive their power from others just giving it to them with no resistance
@ErickaSimone@inthehands@singedgoose Reminds me of the nazi that got pressed and immediately put up his hands as if to say “Come on bro, lets not be hasty”, and proceeded to get knocked tf out
Seems to me that saying these billionaires are “bending the knee” makes it seem as if these billionaires are just hapless rich people doing what they have to do to survive, rather than realizing this is who they actually are. They are making a deliberate choice to participate and partner with Trump knowing full well what he intends to do.
From Musk to Tim Apple, Zuckerberg ,Sundar Pichai, Benioff, etc can all get fucked.
1/ I've been thinking quite a bit on how Harris had an almost 20% drop in engagement (compared to Biden) during a historic turnout election where Trump basically had the same numbers in 2024 as he did in 2020.
If you are going to cheat, the way to do it is not the tabulators, but in the reporting system. Long time ago I worked as a programmer for an election counting firm. At this firm, the Secretary of State certified the election based solely off the reports generated by our system.