This is exactly why training the police as warriors instead of as civil servants is so insidious and deadly.

It has to be reflected back into his stupid face.

I’m red/green color deficient, and even I can see it as orange. That’s some intense saturation.

“I went to bed and woke up next to this unconscious woman… I was in my bed with the wife and dogs at the time, so she must’ve been a demon.”

I have always failed to see why people view Donald Trump as anything other than a con man.

They’re either rubes who are indoctrinated into the reactionary cinematic universe or grifters who pretend he’s authentic to exploit the gullible.

Because counting all the votes is detrimental to Republican prospects.

It would be the sweetest nectar if a woman beat that misogynistic, rapey carnival barker.

Feminism is only controversial to reactionaries.

Everyone else thinks women should be equal members of society.

Wave that feminism flag!

Conservatives have huge issues with consent. Remember this Rush Limbaugh quote?

You can do anything, the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine, whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.

They understand the concept of consent, but it offends their patriarchal values so they loathe that it is seen as a virtue (and indeed, a moral necessity for sexual acts) by people who aren’t tuned-up right-wing freaks.

Operation Snow White was a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries. It was one of the largest infiltrations of the United States government in history, with up to 5,000 covert agents. This operation also exposed the Scientology plot “Operation Freakout”, because Operation Snow White was the case that initiated the U.S. government’s investigation of the Church.

Oh no, the richest country to have ever existed on the face of the earth will have to deal with the refugees from the destabilized region it created.

I only disagree because he’s never done anything legally before.

Did they know what Communism, “Bolshevism,” was? They did not; not my friends. Except for Herr Kessler, Teacher Hildebrandt, and young Horstmar Rupprecht (after he entered the university, in 1941), they knew Bolshevism as a specter which, as it took on body in their imaginings, embraced not only the Communists but the Social Democrats, the trade-unions, and, of course, the Jews, the gypsies, the neighbor next door whose dog had bit them, and his dog; the bundled root cause of all their past, present, and possible tribulations.

-They Thought They Were Free— The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer

It’s been a mainstay of reactionary politics since the rise of Fascism in the early 20th century. This book follows ten “friends” the author made after the war who were members of the Nazi party.

A huge one is that they’ve stripped away the individual right to abortion by way of the right to privacy.

And the MAGA dipshits cheer it, because they don’t realize what they’ve really lost.

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He’ll bounce right back when Trump pays him for services rendered.

Remember that time we thought he might die from COVID?

That one one of the highlights of 2020 for me.

Hope he hated it.

I do think that those types of conversations are useful, but only to someone who is doxastically prepared to change due to the aforementioned community reasons.

I think we’re mostly in agreement though and we’re just using different terms, so thanks for sharing your perspective. If you’re interested, I read a great book a while ago called How Minds Change that digs into it a bit more.

I don’t really think most people form their beliefs based on what is logically true; they get their cues from the group who makes them feel a sense of community.

Deviation from this accepted morality carries the risk of being ostracized, and acts as a control mechanism to keep people in line.

The real issue, in my opinion, is that people are getting their moral cues from an amoral media who wants to enrage them for profit and then the reactionaries carry that back to their communities to feed it into their echo chambers.

Therefore, I don’t really think facts will change people’s politics; that will not happen until their reactionary community either is no longer useful to them or they find something more worthwhile outside of it. I respectfully reject that there is a fundamentally different strategy for “true believers” and “the fooled;” I’d say both populations are mostly the same (except for the politicians, who know exactly what the game is).

I sympathize with the desire to know, but I think it really doesn’t matter.

To quote Vonnegut, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”