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I prefer to appreciate all the little ways these people telegraph that they’re just absolute shit so you don’t even have to interact with them in the slightest

Well… You certainly have a way with words… Some might characterize it as “slightly nauseating,” but that still counts as ‘a way’ if you ask me.

Inb4 literal centuries of literature, film, games, etc. in which the primary theme is “we were the real ‘savages’ all along”

Man, while I certainly appreciate your initiative, I can’t in good conscience condone allowing anyone to look like Stephen “OMG it’s Cailou all grown up” Miller…

Now do the US

At first, Trump will be so excited… “A no blacks Friday?”, He’ll say to whoever he first encounters, “Just imagine… Now if we could just stop the windmills from scaring the sharks… Heh… bLacKS”

an insult to cucks to even associate him with them, honestly

It’s an older crime, but you’ll find it quite unbreakable… uhmm, legal

Great, now I just keep imagining Miller crying alone in the dark while singing along to his Korn/Three Days Grace “xXmegamiXx” on Spotify at full volume in front of God and everybody like it’s still 2002 or something

Hey, there’s still time

They could even sell a QAnon Shaman costume there.

Which would hopefully cause what’s left of reality to finally collapse in on itself and end this fever dream nightmare

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

• Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, c. 1787

Not that I think political violence (or violence of any sort, for that matter) should be our first, second, or even thirty-fifth resort, but at a certain point I think one must come to grips with the fact that - whether it fits in with their delicate sensibilities or not - when confronted with an existential peril it does sometimes become necessary to defend oneself. (Fun fact: This is why self-defense can be presented as a valid defense against murder charges!)

Sure, we should absolutely make any and all attempts to be inclusive (Republicans HATE this!) and tolerant (GOP: hiss IT BURNS!) and attempt to reach solutions through education, research, negotiation, compromise and all that lovely (woke?) stuff, but… For some reason, it seems like there’s consistently only one side that ever shows up to the table willing to actually do any of that. And that’s just how it’s been for fucking DECADES now. There’s probably a lot of you (just generally speaking, not necessarily meaning Lemmy’s demographic per se) who aren’t even old enough to remember a time before the GOP began using “government shutdowns” and “debt ceilings” and “literal fucking coup attempts” as part of their standard, day-to-day politicking. Believe it or not (and I know this will probably be the hardest one to buy, but I swear it to be true) there was a time when the Republicans would - even if they WERE NOT in power at the time - STILL SHOW UP AND DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS. I know, what a concept, eh? Imagine going to work every day and just… doing your job, like a fucking idiot, instead of throwing absolute meltdown tantrums over your lack of control over other people’s genitals.

Does any of this strike you as the behavior of (an) entity(ies) engaging in anything even remotely resembling something that could be construed as “good-faith negotiation” - let alone even approaching something as audacious as “compromise?” This isn’t a willing, eager party to an arbitration, quite, is it? No… Something more akin to an assailant with a knife at our throat(s) demanding to inspect our genitals to make sure we’re where they think we should be at the moment certainly sounds more apt to me…

I don’t want there to be violence. Any. At all, really. But at what point does the moral imperative toward nonviolence get outweighed by the moral obligation to the people being kidnapped by masked (supposed) government agents and disappeared to very real, literal concentration camps? How many genocides at once do we need to hit the tipping point where it’s finally acceptable to stand up and say, “That’s enough. This far. No farther.” But actually back that up, for a change.

If that means by force, then unfortunately, so be it. Might doesn’t make right, but that certainly doesn’t preclude it from enforcing it, does it?

Ya know, it’s pretty common to see a post on a message board calling out user’s/mod’s shitty behavior, but rare that they actually come to the thread themselves and prove first-hand what a narcissistic little fuckbag they are, so… Good on you for that, I guess, at least