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I'm just going to point out, 6 of the 8 gunmen were acquitted at trial.
Its frustrating that they only throw the blame at Trump and "MAGA world" when every single Republican voted for this ridiculous ICE budget.
Edit.
Democrats love ice too!
Sure but most of them didn't vote to increase the budget 400% leading to all the nonsense we see today.
til people actually think Democrats will save them
No one said that cause no one is thinking it.
There are no Republicans. That was their larval stage, before they morphed into their final form -MAGA.
I don't like this framing as it exonerate Republicans (even if that isn't what you intended).
These absolutely are Republicans, and this is what their party has been about since at least Watergate.
No it doesn't, it indicts all of them in the crimes of MAGA. When this is over, MAGA will be designated as a serious, ongoing, violent, seditious, national security threat, and prohibited from existing, promoting, or recruiting, and that will include Republicans. They will have to start a new party, with a new name, that abides by newly reformed campaign Finance laws, and no previous MAGA will be allowed to hold office under 14A/S3.
The Republican Party is officially dead. They can revive the Whigs.
Republican is "maga" and "maga" is Republican. No difference.
They quote is "MAGA world" so that doesn't seem like the authors intent.
The silence from the Democratic leadership is deafening. Yes there are a few non-progressives that have gone rogue, but for the most part it has been all's quiet in the chickenshit front.
Not sure how y'all didn't learn from the government shutdown, it was only 2 months ago. Democratic leadership is getting the job done, it's just that Democrat voters miraculously haven't realized what "the job" is yet.
"getting the job done"? What have they done?
Both parties are literally owned by Israel and the Zionist oligarchs. Our country is literally occupied by Israel. https://www.trackaipac.com/shame
They’re not chickenshit. They want this. The wealthy need the military in the streets to stop populist uprisings.
We need more politicians like Mayor Joker.
"Can you tell us what you're doing here today?"
"Some mayoral candidates take bribes from Big Money. I'm skipping the bribe part and just taking the money, and giving it back to the citizens. Here's your money, chumps!"
"What do you hope to accomplish as Mayor of Gotham?"
"Where to start? Education reform. Every child should have the choice to be in a dual immersion class, and be bilingual. I also want free universal healthcare. Do you think Arkham would have a three year waitlist if everyone had access to free mental health services? And the rich one percenters are gonna pay for it all. Big changes are gonna happen. Hahahaha!"
"You want the rich to pay for all this, are you like a, socialist?"
"I'm not like a socialist. I AM a socialist. And together, we're gonna fix this city!"
Ummm, is Batman's greatest nemesis supposed to make more sense than Batman?
I am looking forward to the Mayor Joker & Scooby Doo crossover. Batman turns out to be the pharmaceutical CEO, Bruce Wayne!
...did Luigi kill Bruce Wayne's father?
Plot twist: it was a Terminator movie spin-off and Bruce was its target!
Once Americans realize that both Democrats and Republicans are controlled by the same puppet master, then we can see change.
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Americans will whine "but what about the democrats?!?" all the way down the road to fascism.
Y'all didn't vote for them, there's nothing they can do. How about blame the fascism on on the fascists doing it?
The democratic leadership are in the absolutely best position to lead the people against fascism though. You'd expect someone like their presidential candidate to stay in the spotlight, being a leader and showing the people what to do, by being at the protests, help planning civil disobedience against fascism, give people hope and will to fight, but instead the people have been left to fend for themselves, with no actual structure or union to gather behind. It's doomed to fail if the resistance doesn't have any leadership.
Newsome is busy fighting the 5% one time billionaire tax and pandering to Israel….his handlers say funny things online sometimes though
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We need more community defense classes now more than ever. Seriously!
Just a reminder that the defense attorney, for the soldiers that gunned down the people during the Boston massacre, was none other than future president John Adams.
He successfully argued they were in fear for their lives.
America has NEVER cared about the masses of people. It has always and will always defend and justify the actions of state violence. The American revolution was very much just a transfer of power from the Royal British to the rich ruling class in the American colonies. And it has remained that way to this day.
What is happening now is nothing more than the ruling class resorting to fascist acts, once again, on its own population to maintain that power.
Look, I would happily pull the trigger on the execution of a convicted ice, but defense attorneys exist for a reason. Yes, they're often scum. Yes, they often 'know' that their client is guilty (paraphrasing one, don't tell them you did the crime if you actually did it, it does make their job harder because they do have a duty to not lie in court) yet defend them as rabidly as a junkyard dog with a cat wandering in. Yes, they often posit logic or reasoning that makes the average person want to spit at them for their sheer gall. Yes! THEY GET SOME FUCKING SICK FUCKS LIGHTER SENTENCES OR EVEN 'OFF...'
But they are critical in a sane world where the law matters not just as a set of rules but also where there are people dedicated to truth, justice, and ensuring a short-lived tyrannical government cannot just throw people it doesn't like into jail based on allegations of crimes and get convictions based on whimsy.
John adams may have helped those six get off, and done it in a manner so similar to modern law enforcement court strategy that it assaults the nose with its stench, but don't smear him because he did that. Smear him for his presidential actions enforcing the class war.
Just a reminder that the defense attorney, for the soldiers that gunned down the people during the Boston massacre, was none other than future president John Adams.
At the time, they were not advocating for independence, just more autonomy. Giving a fair trial and good representation in that trial was a way to demonstrate that the colonies could provide fair justice without England’s intervention. This is why they were so pissed off when the “Impartial Administration of Justice” Act passed.
He successfully argued they were in fear for their lives.
Which was probably fair in this case. The protesters at the “massacre” were throwing rocks at the soldiers. There was reasonable confusion in the moment.
Holy shit. You actually did "the Boston massacre was justified". Licking the boot of King George all the way in 2026.
Sorry, I studied American history beyond high school “King George was literally Hitler” propaganda.
Don’t forget that a major factor motivating the “Patriots” was the fact that England was going to create an Indian reserve (land speculators doing shit like “buying” all of Kentucky for a handful of beads was pretty problematic for peace), and that they were letting the Canadians be Catholic. But sure, we can pretend that expecting the colonists to contribute to the costs of defending them against the Indians they were genociding was horrific oppression.
Notice how nothing you said had anything to do with your prior justification of state violence? I never compared anyone to Hitler. That was you. What a weird reply. It sounds like you're having a conversation with yourself.
Gonna guess your the same person today that defends the murder of Renee Good.
Fuck you. No, the murder of Renee Good is not comparable to soldiers getting confused about an order to fire when they were literally getting pelted with rocks.
Christ. Obviously Adam’s should haven’t of defended them, they should have just been executed on sight. Makes perfect sense.
Maybe read some primary sources from the time period, instead of trying to argue about a topic you haven’t looked into since high school.
If I were a rich bastard and wanted to stay that way, pissing off the poors would be a thing to avoid. A placid sheep and trusting cow are much easier to exploit.
The 1% are incredibly stupid.
They are not stupid. They firmly believe that happy people are not productive at the level they want. And they want our 150% because they are hoping for AGI and other holy grail technologies to happen in their lifetimes. When you have everything the only goal left is to avoid losing it.
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Honestly I'm surprised it didn't happen already during the No Kings protests
Every day I am a little surprised that it hasn't happened yet.
They're just waiting for the day an ice officer gets killed. That is their wet dream. The instant that happens, this crap will ramp up 50 fold. They cannot wait for that moment.
It's sad and true. The elite are pitting untrained, unvetted and violent LARPers against the people in ever-increasingly tense encounters, with no orders except to attack anyone who doesn't look/speak like them, in the hope the powder keg will ignite. ICE goons are too stupid to see how hard they are being played and how little this regime values them.
Reminds me of that scene in Enemy at the Gates where they shoot the communication cable to lay a trap, and the Germans send out a repairman they know will get shot so they can get a fix on the snipers. Except in this cartoonishly-villainous timeline, that repairman is wearing brightly colored clothes and a helmet made of upholstery foam. They're on a suicide mission as canon fodder to start the next phase of this shit.
And of course the party will say the crowd was engaging in domestic terrorism and all the fox/Newsmax brained dumbfuck morons will slop it up and continue to gobble up the cock of the fascist regime.
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