Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 05/10/2025It’s not that simple. They’re not being ordered to shoot civilians or anything patently abusive, so disobeying is a legal grey-area that would get them thrown in the brig immediately, with only a chance to get out on appeal. That’s why you see silent protest instead: yard work and standing around. 220
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 01/10/2025We want both. But one feels slightly more urgent than the other, for some reason. 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 28/09/2025And it need to be held in Truth or Consequences, NM 0120
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 25/09/2025That’s the goal. A government that can’t function is more easily undermined and replaced. 1110
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025That’s the point, really. Freedom for their speech, repercussions for yours. I’m sorry you have to experience this. 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The release date is just a field submitted by the seller. They backdated the release date. 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 07/07/2025As one public servant to another, thank you for putting your experience out there for the world. The average person never sees behind the curtain, and right now I think they need to. Godspeed on what’s next, and I look forward to posts on national security and your stupendously weird taste in art. 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 02/07/2025If you hear “concentration camps are bad” and are inclined to waffle on the topic: Fuck right off. This isn’t a debate. 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Oh boy, Pascal’s Wager. Finally, a philosophical argument we haven’t been rehashing for 400 years! 130
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I will not pretend they are perfect, but this is why I have (some) faith in our military: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTroops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessary 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Use the real story, the facts are even worse: they hit the car, tossed tear gas at the family (including a toddler and baby), then dragged the man off at gunpoint and left the family there screaming. abc7.com/post/federal...abc7.comICE agents ram car to take man into custody in Boyle HeightsA man was arrested in Boyle Heights Wednesday morning after ICE agents rammed into his car and pinned it between two unmarked cars. 194
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I am secure in the knowledge that 700 Marines received no less than 4 speeches in 48 hours from some truly frightening people, all along the lines of: “If you disgrace my Corps, I will fucking end you.” 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025They spend a pretty considerable time teaching officers and SNCOs that their career (and possible freedom) are over if one of your Marines kills a civilian. They’re not perfect, but the people in charge usually want to do good things. 0110
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025You mean the “Cover Me” incident. They returned fire when someone shot through a door at them.The only incident recorded, and thankfully no one hurt on either side. They use it in training today as a warning about battlefield communication. 010
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Military officers go through more ethics training than you’d believe That’s why the last time this happened, the Marines put the bullets away, and ordered their units as far to the rear as they could get them. 2264
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I like how we’re just supposed to pretend Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn’t a recurring character on the Muppets. 010
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Education is a vaccine against stupid, and we all know what she thinks about vaccines… 020
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025According to immigration records, he comes to the US all the time. We keep throwing him out. Seems like an apt analogy of American Christianity. 010
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 04/05/2025He did, but back in 2020: www.npr.org/2020/06/04/8...npr.orgREAD: The Full Statement From Jim MattisFormer Defense Secretary Jim Mattis issued an extraordinary criticism of President Trump's leadership, saying Trump has sought to divide Americans. 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I can always rely on Joe Rogan to eventually realize that “Oh shit, my numbers are down, better change course!” 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I’m now confident RFK’s brain worm starved to death. 010
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025But if you have to tell yourself “it’s not that bad”, it is that bad. 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Americans grew up imagining that they’d stop Hitler if given the chance. Ironically, that’s exactly why so many are silent. If they admit it’s happening here, then they either have to risk everything, or admit their self-image is a lie. So they look away, and pretend it’s not so bad. 120
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Miranda only applies to criminal cases. Immigration is civil, which is why the court ruled Miranda doesn’t apply. The same applies to citizens: you have no “right to an attorney” in civil cases. 140
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 09/04/2025And even their own judges in TX said “hold the fuck up”. 100
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I always get a chuckle when people assume I’m against regulation when I say anything remotely in favor of guns. It’s a weapon. It’s meant for killing. It demands respect and responsibility. 120
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Yes, every tool can be used badly by stupid people. That’s why regulations are important. 130
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Ah, yes, jump to conclusions about my position based on a simple statement that guns do have utility. Very well considered. You’ve changed my entire worldview. I’m sure the Nobel Prize is in your future for this comment. 100
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Physically weak people need them to even the odds against physically strong people. Weapons exist in every civilization ever for a reason. 220
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Hegseth and Vance accidentally sending TSSCI war plans to reporters because they used the wrong chat group is 🤌. Peak incompetence. Meets expectations. 020
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 22/03/2025We always knew the apocalypse would be orange. We just didn’t realize it would be a spray tan. 010
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Matthew Yglesias is a longstanding neoliberal pundit and cofounder of Vox. The tweet is sarcasm. 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Oh the poor souls who don’t know who Matthew Yglesias is and can’t understand sarcasm. 010
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Ah, another edgelord troll attempting to be clever. As Scalzi likes to say: The failure mode of “clever” is “asshole”. 000
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Lead wasn’t restricted in US drinking water until 1988 020
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I couldn’t really care less what party people are affiliated with. I care about their values and actions. If their actions are supporting an attempt to overturn the rule of law in favor of a petty revenge-fest for the rich, that’s the thing that makes them a shitty person, not their party. 100
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This is the same state senator who submitted a bill to consider it a “mental illness” to criticize Trump. 1100
Bacon8tor @baconailia.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Sure! Heres an example of a Minnesota Republican Senator trying to “come hard” at a 17 year old girl and finding the police “coming at him hard” instead!abcnews.go.comMinnesota Republican state Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested for soliciting minor: PoliceA Minnesota Republican state senator was arrested on Monday for soliciting a minor, according to the Bloomington Police Department. 1190