winterayars @ winterayars @sh.itjust.works

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They have also been deployed against what have been perceived as riots that threaten lives and properties of the individual states.

Yeah, like when they got called up against random citizens in Minneapolis...

Man i don't wanna buy a car made by people who aren't sleeping in a bed. Come on, now.

It being in Oakland makes me more suspicious, not less. That's where the "crime wave panic" is at its strongest.

They were armed. Not all of them but they did have guns.

That's definitely where Anakin is going, at least.

Sure, unless you want to be really picky. They had better options than Biden, at least. Their failure to develop a new generation of candidates is their own fault, though.

Not that i'm in favor of either of those two, particularly Jill Stein, but i think a slice of grilled cheese could beat Trump. As long as it has a reasonable campaign behind it.

There was a national poll a couple years ago that showed a majority (>50%) of people thought burning down the police precinct in Minneapolis was justified. If asked where on the political spectrum that position was before George Floyd was murdered i bet most people would have said extreme Left (or maybe extreme Right).

The country is, in a lot of ways, more ready to be Leftist than the Democratic Party and the Dems are really bad at capturing that energy.

Biden's arrogance on this is incredible, though of course he's part of the party establishment so that's to be expected. "You aren't allowed to complain about anything and if we don't win this election it's all your fault" is not, it turns out, a winning campaign slogan.

It probably won't be hacked for most of these cars, though. Just the ones interesting enough to attract that kind of attention.

That's what i pay for gigabit fiber and unlimited 5g combined. (Admittedly my cell plan is one of those crazy grandfathered plans.)

They're training people for even worse subscription models.

I dunno, I'm also open to the idea it's not the technology that's the problem in this case.

This is an interesting bit of reporting. Runs counter to the "lone wolf with no motive, nothing to see here" approach we've seen in similar cases. I hope this means journalists are waking up to the reality of far right political terrorism, but it is the Guardian so that awareness may not spread.

lol

It's got a truck bed, right?

Yes, easily.

This is the most hollow pr stunt i've seen out of him yet.

Yeah the Republicans want to drag me out into the street, murder me, and then drag my corpse through the town behind their Dodge Ram 1500 or Ford F150.

Democrats don't like that and would prefer Republicans not do it, but most of them won't do anything to stop it as long as they're not forced to watch it happen and can pretend it's not happening.

A real, but grotesque, difference.

It depends on how you count.

Germany went through a Communist revolution immediately after (and a little bit during) WW1. The Communists won and took over Germany, getting rid of the monarchy. The far right in Germany went fucking wild with rage, a level of anger that really has no parallel in the modern US, and "cleansed" Germany. The Weimar Republic was formed roughly in the wake of that.

But that wasn't the Nazis, though many of the people involved in that did go on to become Nazis.

The Nazis did sorta go after queer, and specifically transgender, people first. (And "degenerate art"!)

The Weimar Republic, for its many, many, many faults (seriously here it's hard to overstate) did grow out of a Communist revolution even if it betrayed that revolution. They were actually issuing permits for people to live their lives as a different gender, similar to our modern conception of getting your paperwork changed in the US. One of the first things the Nazis did when they took over was to strike those permits down. (Or simply prosecute the people who held them. Or simply straight up murder them.)