The apple is rotten to the core. Taking this sadistic MF out isn’t going to fix anything when they’ve given all the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys badges and paychecks.

You can say whatever you want on social media, they don’t control what you see! - Lemmy, complaining about censored w*rds in social media copypasta here.

Only if you’ve been asleep and ignored the bots, troll farms, social media subversives interested in clicks (paid or otherwise), international interference using the same tools, billionaires pushing the media to tell lies or hide the truth.

What a useless article. We’re already overwhelmed with lies and half-truths. The only thing that’s going to happen is that a few troll farm employees are going to be out of work when they get replaced by AI.

Greater Boston:

More feels before reals. They’ll follow a completely fake person as long as it reinforces their echo chamber.

Being a decent person means you are unwilling to do things you know are going to hurt others, even if they’re assholes. You’ll avoid conflict.

The problem is that assholes have no such restrictions, so they’re just fine with fucking other people over.

And then you have the people that drive past the car crash who just don’t want to deal with it.

So you can have relatively few assholes who can do a lot of damage. I wouldn’t say there are more stupid/evil ones, there are just a large majority unwilling to engage in the actual conflict needed to stop them.

Desk job of most any kind.

Any job with the threat of violence, to me or me to others.

So these clowns joined up because their echo chamber made them feel like they were going to be some kind of hero. But when they got out in reality, they found…reality. People hate them, they’re destroying families, holding kids hostage, and murdering people. There are definitely a number of them getting off on what they’re doing, remorselessly. For others it may just be a shit job, a lousy place to work. But for a few, I bet they finally figured out that they aren’t who they thought they’d be viewed as.

Elite? Parody of elite. Wannabe elite. Caricature of elite. Gravy Seal Elite.

Yeah, I get this sentiment. I don’t particularly like cooking, but I like cooking a lot more than what my partner prepares.

The Patriotic Republic of Democratic Free Republicanistan.

Of course it won’t be democratic, or free, and the patriotism is punitively mandatory.

What they say they saw. What they see is the same thing as everyone else. They lie.

He did have a gun. Officials have commented he legally was allowed to carry a gun.

He was not threatening with or brandishing said gun, as some outlets have stated.

Go stand with the protesters.

Is this clown the new Arpaio? The abuse the fuck out of everyone so I can be the biggest badass kind of guy? He seems far more sadistic than Arpaio who seemed to do it because he wanted the attention. Bovino genuinely seems to enjoy inflicting pain.

I’d be willing to bet the Republicans abandon the NRA before they abandon trump.

Didn’t you read what I said? It doesn’t matter that he was disarmed because they said he was threatening them with a gun. Your preference for facts has nothing to do with the reasons they make up.

It isn’t for him. It’s for his followers to agree with what he’s doing.

You’re right. I found a different clip that shows he wasn’t cuffed. The original clip I saw it looked like they cuffed him while he was on the ground, He tried to stand up and they shot him, but I can’t see his hands.

His possession of a firearm matters because the reich wingnuts have already tried to say he threatened ICE with it.