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Then there must be pushback from the people who know better. Raising the alarm is not brainwashing — the brainwashing is when MAGA types tell people there's no threat.

Also, Europe needs to get its shit together and stop pulling punches with regard to helping Ukraine.

Yeah, to them it's not a threat — it's empowerment.

He's said some things...

I guess it's a start, though I hope he calls them out more directly. He was pretty close to Francis after all, and Francis even donated his popemobile to be turned into a mobile clinic for Gaza (no doubt to draw media attention to what Israel is doing).

I want to add that the people in charge of these policies have repeatedly made statements showing that their true feelings/intent aren't about legal/illegal status:

• Stephen Miller said in public that the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia (whose deportation to a modern day concentration camp was, by their own admission, an "administrative error") actually said the opposite of what it did. He's made a lot of off-hand statements about migrants, usually to avoid mentioning their legal status, to the tune of "they don't look like you" or "you wouldn't want him as your neighbor" which is literally just racism.
• Tom Homan "border czar" said in an interview that to prevent family separation, they can just deport the whole family.
• Kristi Noem has made few appearances but each time it seems like she's "cruelty is the point" personified. For instance, she recently did a photo op at CECOT with prisoners behind her with the classic "this is what you get if you come here illegally" speech. But to me the worst part is when, totally unforced, she wrote in her book about how she killed her puppy with a bullet to the head because it wasn't keen on killing animals on its first hunting trip and wanted to play instead. When asked about it, she said that "that's just what you do on the farm" and started listing other animals she'd killed for mild annoyances.

These people are psychopaths. They saw it's easy to suck up to Trump and convince him to support their ideas in exchange for treating him like dear leader. I maintain that Trump is the only one in that admin who isn't a soulless demon, but he's so easy to flatter.

The ones in the article mentioned two comments above:

Here’s a small sampling but there are many more. I couldn’t find a comprehensive list and it might not exist.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/detained-or-deported-growing-list-of-immigrants-with-legal-status-caught-in-crackdowns/ar-AA1BedZ6

even though intensive media brainwashing no one even seriously believe Russia will attack us (well, maybe except the usual tinfoil brains)

I'm getting flashbacks to Jan-Feb 2022. That's what people thought about Ukraine despite intelligence reports warning that Putin is making moves.

Of course, Poland is in EU and NATO, so it's definitely in a better position, but keep in mind that all deterrents have limits — as we speak there's a full-on war being fought between two nuclear powers.

The promises of an alliance treaty are, at the end of the day, just that: promises. Posturing to scare off potential attackers. Just because we've never seen someone actually call that bluff, doesn't mean it will never happen.

A guy like Putin could gamble that NATO countries won't send troops to Poland because they'll make similar calculations as towards Ukraine: that it's not worth risking nuclear war. He already sees how NATO countries right now are behaving, pussyfooting around giving aid to Ukraine, so he could believe they will approach Article 5 with the same limp attitude. Especially now that USA is talking about leaving NATO and antagonizing Europe like never before.

Plus, all the "why should we help Ukraine" type rhetoric coming out of the European MAGA-aligned sphere is easily adaptable to Poland: "Why should we help Poland? Just because they're in NATO? I'm not a globalist, I look after the interest of my own country first because I'm a patriot. I don't want to send my people to fight NATO's wars. I refuse to die for the globalists!"

I read this as pro-piracy and anti-AI, generally speaking, since the former is for personal use (art should be free to share and enjoy) while the latter is for commercial use (you should not be allowed to freely profit off the work of artists).

Stalinism was no extreme left. It was fascism, but with Marxist aesthetics.

Fascists are con men, and cons work on what's popular with the masses. You can build an arbitrary dogma and cult of personality around anything, even Marxism.

I'd argue that Marxism is actually great for that purpose: it gets a lot of stuff right so it's close to reality, there's an us vs them dynamic already built in, and it's just complicated enough to the average person that it makes it easy for an authoritarian con man to disingenuously simplify it, distort it and dogmatize it into basically a state religion. Then it's just about pointing fingers to identify the enemy, i.e. who is burgeois/reactionary/etc and needs to go.

I agree. The difference between the two is stark.

Surprised I had to scroll so long for this article. This is probably the best example (recent history too) of Bill's actions killing kids.

I'm still glad he called Elon out. Let them fight.

I guess it makes sense. I wouldn't understand you either from 50km away.

In a world where Kyle fucking Rittenhouse was found not guilty, the flimsy evidence they have on Luigi should never stick. But the goal here is a swift win, so they're trying to frame an innocent man and make him an example.

I subscribe to this belief too. There's no way in hell that an experienced spy like Putin would have any trouble manipulating the easiest to manipulate person on the planet (literally just flatter him). Plus, Putin is exactly the kind of guy who Trump wants to emulate, so he naturally looks up to him.

Yeah, there's a lot of that going around. As if capitalism will collapse precisely into fully automated luxury space communism as opposed to straight-up Mad Max (i.e. the manifestation of America's collective id).

These people don't realize (or well, maybe they do and are lying, I can't read their minds) that asking people to not meaningfully participate in voting is like asking people to not participate in capitalism.

The argument that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism — something all leftists agree on and understand they still need to buy food, clothes, electronics etc. despite them being unethically sourced — is the same as the argument that there's no ethical voting in FPTP (and capitalism). It's literally the same argument, just centered on voting.

So these people end up doing a kind of unironic "you say you're a leftist yet you own an iPhone" but for voting — while probably typing all that from an iPhone.

Has to be covid to top him off so we can count him as a stat of "covid with comorbidities".

Dude trying to build himself a goddamn apocalypse harem. Gross.

Bookmarking this. Well put.

When asked for a follow up he just replied: "Denny Crane"

Not just Heritage. There's so many of them it's hard to keep track. Sourcewatch.org tries to. But you can definitely start with the cosigners of Project 2025 and all the companies (especially media companies) that those people are on the boards of. (I think that should catch things like Rumble, Daily Wire, Victory Network, etc.)