A Jesus Christ complex would be refreshing. A leader who would deny earthly pleasures, command their followers to love thy neighbor, feed the hungry, uplift the sick and poor, give long sermons about mercy and forgiving your enemies, and would be seen personally breaking bread with the unhoused and lawyers alike?
That’d freak everybody out for sure.
I appreciate a lot of the harassment campaigns around tracking and interfering with ICE. These should continue and escalate.
This extrajudicial black-bag unmarked-personnel van-kidnapping bullshit should carry unacceptable risk and highly visible negative public optics for those who keep attempting it.
Actually really curious as to the exact wording of this.
Because I wonder if this one in particular were better publicized, if it would turn some percentage of hardcore single-issue 2A types against the regime, if they put their money where their (very loud) mouths are.
It seems like it wouldn’t work, but I imagine if we can broadcast a lot of “Are you STILL so sure they’re not the bad guys?!” messages with receipts, it could eventually change some minds.
Even if they want to get back to arguing with us over the dinner table when the dust settles, we need everyone we can get.
Sorry, maybe I didn’t articulate that very well. Thanks for pointing that out. (Sites like this tend to favor short punchy responses lol)
I didn’t mean like “haha lol rofl lulz” funny, but I appreciated how succinctly they pointed out the logical ridiculousness, the sheer morbid absurdity, of such a forum existing in the first place, and asked the question: “Well if what they’re encouraging is so great, why haven’t they done it themselves?” Which, logically, would likely end the forum itself.
It’s like a self-defeating concept. It shouldn’t be able to exist by its own definition.
Laying that out got a guilty chuckle out of me because it’s such a bizarrely awful thing to exist and it was so simple a thought process to show how little sense it makes.
I only wish it was so obviously absurd to anybody who would dare to seek “community” there, but when people are beat down that much, it must be easy to miss the signs.
So absolutely, this is serious business and it really begs the question as to the motives of the people running it. Doubtful they’re benevolent in the slightest. “Three tiny serial killers in a trenchcoat” feels pretty likely.
It’s darkness through and through, and should be handled with utmost care and tact. I highly doubt anybody receives any actual “care” from this community, and would imagine its legacy is massive irreparable harm.
At worst, it’s crowdsourced murder via psychology without any accountability on behalf of the perpetrators, when the victims could have possibly been led to better lives with the right intervention.
That’s a terrifying thought.
But yeah, I didn’t mean to make light of anything. I only saw humor as a useful tool in cutting through the lies of the concept.
That’s how it was supposed to be, until the Right co-opted firearms as an entire personality, and the liberal response was to spread ignorance, miseducation, and fear about them so that their party branding looked different enough.
So now all the insecure, hateful, scared-of-everybody violence-fantasists are armed, knowledgeable, and stocked.
And those that would oppose authoritarianism en masse were force-fed “Only cops and the military should be armed and the rest of us should just wish they didn’t exist”.
So they’re now largely rendered toothless and clawless normies who think flash hiders, rail grips, and black paint make a weapon “more lethal.” And don’t know what to do with themselves if pickets and law systems don’t have an effect.
Meanwhile the “patriotic” bullies ramble about “freedom” and “small government” whilst simping for their fascist overlords unopposed by any actual threat.
Like most loud bullies, most are the types that would likely break if met with any actual opposition that could do them harm.
I don’t want to see it come to this, but we need to educate and train ourselves before it’s too late. The threat alone might be enough to put them in their place.
It’s very clear nobody is coming to save us from this worsening state of affairs.
“I’d buy subscribe to THAT for a DOLLAR!”
This is the kind of darkly humorous deep-thought that keeps me coming back to the Internet.
EDIT: Sorry, no, I don’t find this funny in itself, I meant I found it “funny” how the commenter above so simply and concisely destroyed the concept of such an awful thing, by pointing out the sheer absurdity of its logical conclusion. Proving it shouldn’t exist by its own definition. Longer explanation below if it helps.
But in short, I hope nobody is visiting this “community”, when they could / should be receiving compassionate professional care and support in this world that’s already got enough darkness without them leaving it before their time. :(
That’s a pretty good point, and I agree. It was “This is a weird and sinister mystery!” and that’s pretty much it.
I hope it at least builds some attention momentum for others with maybe more assets or connections at their disposal to hone in on what’s really going on here and bring it to light.
This is good reporting. I’m glad there’s still people who will notice this bizarre kind of thing and start digging.
Something is truly mind-boggling here, like where he’s getting all this money from.
This is disgusting.
Irritatingly unlikely, sadly.
Both parties have spent considerable time batting around the 2nd Amendment as a toy in their game. A polarizing empty-promise point with emotional strings attached, so now all the blowhard bullies sexually fetishize weaponry, and many of the types who would disagree with authoritarians are paralyzingly afraid and ignorant of anything “military looking” that makes loud noises.
“Because only cops and troops should have guns!” said the enlightened neoliberals, as they gladly handed over their responsibilities of self-protection and firearms education to the might-makes-right crowd.
“Muh freedom! An’ 1776 or somethin’! An’ own the libs, don’t tread on me!” says the gun “collecting”, MAGA-hat wearing, massive-smoking-diesel-truck-in-the-suburbs driving, angry and scared working man, who carries a copy of the Declaration of Independence (he hasn’t actually read, or if so, cherry-picks the parts he likes) and is completely ignorant on the Bill of Rights, who loudly decries and slanders “The Government™” …but conveniently simps for his abusive bossman and “backs the blue” when they mercilessly beat a bunch of people waving signs and assault reporters. Who waves a Bible (also unread) around yet shows contempt and hatred for his neighbor. Who thinks a bunch of armed insurrectionists storming the Capital because they didn’t like poll results aren’t traitors.
Lol.
Lmao.
God help us.
Many of the people who are opposed to this clown show have been successfully declawed and defanged if their legal processes have fallen apart, which we’re watching happen in real time. They’re also scabs who just want their creature comforts and will keep their heads down hoping “somebody else will take care of it.”
you should be weary.
Oh don’t worry, we’re really freaking tired and weary of this nonsense.
But we should also be wary of how sneaky these bastards are.
As Caesar Donald the step to becoming the god emperor isn’t that big…
Kinda just hoping we can skip all that and go straight to the “Et tu, Bruté?” bit.
The worship of limitless work and the military, a toxic obsession with hyper-individualism and isolation, with a paper-thin facade of morals and self-proclaimation of greatness, while everyone is broke, without opportunities, hooked on drugs, and stuck with crumbling infrastructure in vast stretches of remote nothing-land, while getting used and abused by multinational corporations and barons?
Sounds like they’re just pushing the mentality of the southern states to a national level.
“This is an invasion that could have been an email!”
Oh trump’s definitely not the “daddy” in this relationship.
Imperial power will co-opt, steal, bastardize, and butcher whatever peoples or messages it has to in order to justify its own legitimacy.
Gentle reminder that a term of military service is compulsory in Israel.
In essence, wicked old bastards are conscripting kids, filling their heads with xenophobia, and sending those kids to die.
Kids getting blown to pieces is a net-negative for mankind.
If they will not change, the most good these “leaders” can amount to in their brief time on this planet before they go straight to Hell, is to become a feast for the buzzards, preferably sooner rather than later.
(Edit: wording)
Annnd "Open"AI goes full evil, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
And the military is going for this? Yikes.
“Ah, my mistake! I suppose that was a bunch of civilians with signs and not combatants with weapons after all. Let’s try again. Anyway, is there anything else I can help you with?”
That’s exactly the strategy. He’s basically a human (term used loosely) “Denial of Service” attack on our collective psyche.
Constant output of garbage information we’re forced to evaluate, until we’re overwhelmed, overloaded, and shut down from being mired in so much sheer volume of stupidity.
Oh man, seeing how all of this bill is basically “trickling up” wealth again , it’d be kinda hilarious to use strategic ICE suing to drain it back down to the people again.
Lawyers would see it as blood in the water after one or two successful cases, especially after that huge budget increase. Gold rush on ICE lol!