Somebody is lying, and so far, it's constantly been Republicans

It's weird how Trump fans feel so justified about it all. They can look at people being completely disappeared, to never be heard from again and say, "Hell Yea!". It's not just evil, it's stupid evil. They don't understand that if they can do that to someone else, it can happen to them, and they like to march around with weapons...guess who's next. True conformity can't be achieved with those that believe in freedom.

It's never been about conviction or honest concern about "freedom" etc. It's been a grift for a loooong time - the only difference is that the grifters are in the White House now.
I listen to a podcast that's been dealing with Alex Jones and Infowars for a long time. Of course that isn't as hot now as it was, say, 10 years ago, but they make it interesting. One of their recurring statements is that Jones used to cheer for values that his current hero - Mango Mussolini - is diametrically opposed to, which kinda proves that he never believed in any of that anyhow. He's just a grifter.
And then they go back in history and find out that Jones himself was influenced by earlier radio grifters. Rightwing media outrage has a looong tradition in the USA, and it's fair to say that it's never been honest.
Believing anything that comes out of teir mouths is like believing that raspberry flavored chapstick represents actual raspberries and their flavor.
They like suffering for some reason. They’ve been told they’re victims for such a long time - not that their own choices helped put them where they are - that it’s everyone else’s fault they aren’t living the American Dream. So they lash out like angry toddlers and take happiness from someone else’s suffering, they actively seek to increase it. Doesn’t matter if it’s taking away LGBTQ rights and actively encouraging discrimination against them, ripping kids away from brown-skinned parents, or letting women die thanks to the lack of abortion services. So because Billy Bob can’t afford a lifted F150, the government won’t let him have a full-auto AR variant, and he can’t stand a school that might read his kids a story about a gay couple, everyone else has to suffer worse to make his lot look better.
But don't worry, the guillotines will only be used on the bad people.

I want politicians focused on who they can help more than who they can hurt. Like fundamentally, ignoring all of modern politics, thats what healthy societies are supposed to look like.

That's why the Zoran Mamdani Campaign is so successful
It still works that way in a lot of places. The US has definitely lost its way a long time ago though.
- How sweet that you think the US ever had its way.
  Skipping the obvious bullshit of the last 25 years, there was Anita Hill, and Rodney King, Reaganomics, Reagan racism, Nancy "I don't give a fuck about this until it affects me" Reagan, then Kent State and our military just straight up murdering our kids, Nixon, CIA killings of prominent activists, murder of a president, McCarthyism, that whole anti-immigration/racism era where white Americans rammed god and their view of patriotism in everything (people today STILL think those things were there since the beginning), union and strike busting, child labor, failed reconstruction era, more president's killed, "compromises" over fucking slavery, wannabe King Jackson not giving a shit about other human beings nor any possible check on power or anyone else's ideas, a fucking Vice President shot a guy (the first time), begging the first president to be King, and failed attempts at presidency and democracy before that (pre-constitution).
  I really glossed over a lot too.
- You mean it's lots it's way of importing slave labor and exterminating the natives?
...human empathy is not a team sport...
- It's a co-op pve
From their perspective that's what they're doing though. The means to help their kind just involves more collateral damage and what ends up indistinguishable from targeted pain.
No. We need on the left need to focus a hell of a lot more on people we can hurt. Aka, who we can bring to justice and hold accountable for their crimes against the nation. This whole "live and let live, all is forgiven" attitude that Obama and Biden practiced led us directly to our current moment. Dick Cheney should have died in prison, not been featured in the campaign of the Democratic presidential candidate.

Is it just me or does “white people twitter” now have a whole different meaning with Nazi Musk owning it….

Now you freaking mention it...
the sub only criticizes him, and people on it. musk like chronically online he is, has ask whitepeopletwitter to be banned.

Newspapers: We can't say things because they might be misconstrued and we could get in trouble for even insinuating anyone is to blame for anything.

This shit: Look at this terrorist motherfucker right here that we hate.

We need to send these people to Gitmo.

Lol saying "radical democrat" is like saying "radical centrist"

i'm old enough to remember when they called quakers terrorists and saddam lovers for being against the iraq war.

That's been a minute.
I remember kids in my school wearing shirts with tanks running over Saddam with the caption, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up." I remember how happy my mother was about it.
- Wow, I have to say that is fascist as fuck.

AOC is basically the anti-Trump: it's like she has to be on the correct, moral side of every issue...

how dare she
- Quiet, Gretta.

To be... Uh... Fair??? they didn't say "terrorist" in that tweet.

AOC prescribes to the idea that Hamas is exclusively a terrorist group.
- Question honestly from a place of ignorance: is it not?
  I don’t know much about that group other than the attack a couple years ago. I do know that IDF is a terrorist org because they’re currently committing a genocide.*
- Terrorism is just a propaganda word for common military strategies, which "civilized" nations like to pretend they don't do.
  EVERY nation with a military is automatically a terrorist organization by definition. That's literally the primary job of the military - to terrify the opponent into surrendering, or not getting froggy in the first place.
- Fair, but they said "Hamas supporter," not just "Hamas". I'm just nitpicking, but yeah.
Then why was he arrested?
- Because fascists don't care about the law? What even is this question?

Maybe she should get off a platform ran by a Nazi

As a politician trying to reach members of the public, including those who could possibly be swayed by you, the last thing you want to do is entirely remove yourself from a platform with a very large reach.
Wanting people to leave Twitter is all well and good, but you can't discount the fact that so many people are still on there, and refuse to spend the time setting up new profiles on entirely different sites with smaller userbases. For politicians, reach is key, and Twitter still has the users.
- You guys are mostly being civil, but I'm giving you guys a strong reminder to hate the argument but don't shit on the user. Warning.
- I appreciate your comment but largely disagrees. Communicating on a platform you don't own and can't control seems very shortsighted. She should publish on her (or her party's infrastructure) first and a bot is largely sufficient for Twitter.
- Back when Playboy was "the men's magazine you read for the articles," they always had an extensive interview with a major public figure. Often it would be someone with a moral component to their careers, like religious figures or politicians, and they would be criticized for lending their credibility to what many felt was pornography.
  Inevitably, every one justified it by saying, "If you want to reach the sinners, you can't wait for them to come to you, you have to go to them."
- They shouldn't have been using it at all for official government posts
- they need to establish on bluesky while it still fresh.
- Nobody left on that platform is going to be convinced of anything anymore. If being bought by a literal Nazi saluting is not enough to change their minds, nothing she can say will sway the right wingers and bots left in that cesspool.
  She is literally helping keep that Nazi shithole afloat and legitimate. Should bail and see who really listens.
Honestly it would be better if she simply had enough conviction to say the shit that would get her removed from that platform
- hella agree, US democrat basics = don’t make waves!
- musk wont remove her, because she is useful propaganda for the right. much like how putin maintains opposition or westerners so they can be used propaganda for internal comsumption. pretty much that playbook.
- To then never have her words be seen by those that don't look outside their own bubble? And also probably hear she got removed for her speech and be like 'hell yeah no wonder' without researching why or what was said.
- Absolutely agree! Would show more spine than playing games with Nazis