General strike on Friday was successful and they’re alienating enough of the 2A weirdos with the Pretti murder that they’re “backing off” of their own accord. Really, it’s a scapegoat to try and move the narrative and they’ll keep on with the mission as they were.

I’ve watched that video so many times, I don’t want to do it again, but I’m pretty sure this is accurate. Grey coat removes the gun from Alex, and as he’s walking away there’s a muzzle flash and the first shot can be heard. Then the rest of the shots all come a second or so later. The angle from the street where you can see Grey coat run away has the clearest view of it.

Oh and it wasn’t an accident. Motherfucker had gun training, he put his finger inside the trigger guard, he intended to discharge that weapon. You don’t get an oopsie poopsie for that.

Might stop murdering your people*

Majority is over half or 50% + 1. And we have a very high level of purposeful disenfranchisement. Gerrymandering, restriction of voting places, removal of mail-in votes, no voting holiday, voter ID laws, purging of vote roles with no way to renew your registration in time, two parties that are ever marching rightward away from most American’s policy preferences.

Like, be mad at the people who voted for this, but it’s not even close to most of us. They’re unpopular, and most people don’t want this shit. There are more of us than there are of them so stop acting like you’ve already lost and that we deserve this. We didn’t and we don’t.

I mean, it couldn’t be better either. It makes it look like the protest has more reach than it probably actually did

Trump didn’t receive a majority of the votes, and 64% of eligible voters voted. So, not even a third of voters voted for this.

Yes, it’s how Mamdani won in New York.

Most people with limited political savvy heard Trump talk about the economy when Harris said she wanted to keep things as they are. And everything got fucked under Biden, but things were good under Trump, right? Let’s go back to that. Plus he was funny.

There is a dedicated group of shitheads that support everything the Republicans shit out, but they’re by-and-large not the majority in most places.

Kelly was brave for standing up to Trump, but I don’t think he’s a good choice.

People want concrete policy, economic fixes, and the end of culture war shit. Kelly is just “I’m against Trump” which didn’t work the last two times it was tried. You need a candidate to stand for something, and Kelly ain’t it.

The problem is that the consequence aren’t balanced. If you disobey an order, the consequences are immediate. If you obey an illegal order, you might face consequences at some point in the future. If you disobey an order because you genuinely believe it’s illegal, there’s no protection for you if that happens to not be the case. Meaning the only way to know that you’re safe to disobey an order on the grounds that it’s illegal is to know exactly what law is being broken. Not a thing that soldiers are trained to know.

That, plus, in that moment you have to have a mountain of conviction to resist doing the thing they’ve been drilling into your head since basic, follow orders without thinking. Which is why I’m saying it amounts to nothing more than “the common soldiers aren’t supposed to follow illegal orders, this is all their fault for not stopping this” as a justification.

Should’ve masturbated more when you were younger. Kept that prostate lean and tight.

It’s the same in the US, but you have to be court-martialed to prove that the order was unlawful (ie, you fail to obey a command, you’ll be arrested, and only let go if the military tribunal determines you were right to not follow that command).

If Germany’s system is the same… then you’ve got the rule on paper only. Soldiers don’t question orders, it’s how they’re taught to act. This is a post hoc justification for punishing regular soldiers for unlawful acts, rather than anything actually actionable in the moment.

People don’t learn that from consequences. Is this your first time being human? They have to be taught that lesson the hard way, by having it explained to them until they internalize it. It can take decades.

“But we gotta whip both sides into a frenzy. Bigger news makes for bigger profits!”

Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd

Edit: special interest rant, it’s actually very interesting how they got these two to interact on screen because Rita is from the Japanese show (Super Sentai) and Zedd was an addition solely for the US version (they used a double for Rita while the voice actor continued to dub over her in post)

Thank you. Papers, Please isn’t the ending we need to run to. They can’t treat us like criminals cause they feel like it

I didn’t see it before so it wasn’t happening! /s

I’m not here to debate you. I’m here to let you know that no one fucking wants you and this shit you dumped here on lemmy. You wanna get your knob slobbed cause you can parrot some pseudointellectual garbage you picked up from a grifter that told you your intuition on a subject that neither of you know anything about was correct and perfect? Well LLMs and reddit exist, so just go there and get the fuck out of here.

You wanna be a grown-up and actually learn about shit instead of giving yourself a participation trophy in smarts that no one respects? Learn shit so you’re beyond a “third-grader in white suburbia” level of understanding on how the world works before you try to engage others in an intellectual way. I’ll give you a hint, start with the people your grifters bash but watch their videos without the grifter telling you what to think first. You might actually learn something. It might seem like a scary thing at first, being challenged on how you think the world works, but in time you’ll grow to like actually knowing things instead of the mastubatory shit you’ve been doing up till now.

Who knows? You might even end up being something more than a mouth-breathing racist with all of the intellectual prowess of a clam. I mean, it’s unlikely, but human potential can surprise you.

Get the fuck out of here with this shit. No one wants the filth you spew.

You and most everyone around you has unconscious bias against non-white people because of the world you grew up in. So we tip the scale, not against those of higher merit, but against those whose only higher merit is their skin color. Then, once you start seeing a world where everyone contributes and all talents are seen, then we can talk about whether or not the scale tipped too far.

If you’re feeling insecure about your place in the world, join a union or a collective help network. Helping others gives others incentives to help you. It’s like networking, but not purely selfish, so it’s more fun!

Democrats: Man, that’s a whole lot of words my corporate donors aren’t paying me to read. Guess I better move more right to capture those moderate Republicans.

Spoiler: T’weren’t