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I feel the same, but IIRC Trump himself babbled something akin to this within the last week or so. They clearly want to do something. Even if they can’t actually make it so.

On the other hand, if this is what they say they’re gonna do, what are they actually gonna do? It seems odd that they’d start broadcasting this if they really had nothing up their sleeves. Note that I think their actual plan will be spectacularly stupid.

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For the first ~ 2 decades of the 21st century, mass protests were systematically defanged by city governments and law enforcement, and they attracted no media attention. So were largely pointless. That is now not the case. And leftists should stop leaving tools in the toolbox.

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Agreed, the idea that setting some garbage alight is equivalent to shooting human beings at point blank range is ghastly. I’m not a huge violent direct action fan, but come on now

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Part of the problem is that a certain subset of activists don’t think public protest is a legitimate mode of dissent. Which is silly and incorrect, but also you can sort of see how they got there.

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As far as I can see, what’s happening is that we are entering an entirely new era of protest, one that makes “smashed a Starbucks window” look quaint. The new era needs new tactics, and thus new OpSec.

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I was on a jury where body cam footage was part of the evidence. On the one hand, it clearly didn’t prevent anything. However, it did provide visuals of what actually happened. Without it, it would be the cops saying “this Black man is bad” and the white suburbanites jury members nodding along.

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I make well over the median income for my county and we are talking about doing beans and rice at least one night per week.

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Especially cilantro, which at least in my area they practically pay you to take away from the grocery store. (SoCal)

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I mean to be fair it’s really just a list of basic facts like “what is the capital of this country”, “what form of government does it officially have”, etc. I’ve always assumed (bc of course I’ve thought about it) the CIA compiles it so they know where to fly people into.

This could only be more on brand if it was Florida.

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IDK, it took me until I was like 25 to figure that out, and I was born in 1981.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 01/02/2026

And the people who came out of Occupy hated it.

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Reposted by Transtifa

Bitterness and cynicism are a form of surrender, when anger at injustice remains but the will to confront it is dulled by resignation. As true warriors, let anger at injustice be bright and righteous, and let it drive us to confront its cause, stand in its way, and cast it down.

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Whoa, cool that you posted that lil picture for yourself to remind you where you stand compared to people who do things rather than being wreckers.

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I know they’ll oppress LGBTQ people. But I also know they won’t get a chance if we stop snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and just fight. Why are we doing this right now? Today? Google cointelpro if you’re going to cosplay as a leftist.

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If anything, what is exciting about right now is that we’re all out here fucking doing the thing. To just stop for no reason and do a little infighting when the work absolutely is not done is counterrevolutionary.

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It’s not unfair treatment for some irrelevant fuck to have a book ghostwritten on his behalf. If you want someone who isn’t Newsom, go talk about that person and what excites you about them. Otherwise this is how we get Newsom as the nominee.

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There’s a reason we didn’t invent drinking straight glasses of milk and eating ice cream on a mass level until pasteurization. And that most dairy products before that were cultured in some way.

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This is the same reason the pundit class decided Defund The Police was gauche or cringe or whatever, based on vibes. It was the first new thing the public organically demanded, in decades.

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WTF does this even mean? This person has no power over you. (Unless you live in CA, in which case you have bigger things to worry about than whether Gavin Newsom runs for president.) Go outside. I beg you.

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He’s going to run, yeah. At this stage in the race (such as it is 2 years out), “is running for president” does not equal “will be president”.

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Newsom is the governor of California. California press outlets are going to cover him. That doesn’t make him the Democratic nominee.

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Cool, a lame duck state governor with zero chance of being elected president just issued a press release detailing why he will never be elected president.

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I read somewhere that that ad aired during Monday Night Football during the campaign. I’m now starting to feel like the typical American will believe literally anything in a commercial that airs during a football game.

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This! People think Newsom must be ultra-progressive because he’s the governor of CA, or that he will be highly electable because 40 million Californian can’t be wrong. We hate his ass over here.

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“Have been”? Sure. I fully agree with that. But they haven’t won yet. In fact, the events of the last year have made it clear that they’re wrong and largely irrelevant. Let’s keep moving forward doing good shit not worrying about shit we don’t need to worry about.

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Dude… Google “Minneapolis”. I agree that we’re not safe from Dem centrists quite yet, but if things keep trending like they are (Trump’s policies remain deeply unpopular, liberal wine moms continue to radicalize), nobody is going to care what Ezra Klein thinks in 18 months.

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The centrists got pretty quiet when their beloved polls started to indicate that, if anything, the Harris campaign wasn’t woke enough.

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This is from over a year ago.

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It’s kind of insane how JKR wrote a plot line into a children’s book that says it’s bad to advocate for the end of slavery if the slaves like being slaves, but now she is advocating that it’s good to persecute trans people even though we actually like being trans.

This reminds me of the week Twitter got obsessed with a little Etruscan pig sculpture.

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A lot of the Midwest was extremely progressive back then. Ohio was, like, the Oregon of the 1840s.

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Kicked out of Canada by the British, and whatever reason the Swedes came here.

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I’ve reached a point where I go away for a few days, suddenly worry that I’m missing important news or someone I like got canceled or something, pop back in here, realize social media is awful, and leave again.

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Tag yourself, I’m Such A Gentleman

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OK so I guess Nate Silver is in the Epstein files.

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To be fair I was saying to a friend that if you took the footage from Melania and used Maysles Brothers style, it could actually be an extremely interesting movie. But that’s probably not what Nick Adams had in mind.

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I read the books as an adult (am old) and the whole time that plot line was happening, I assumed it would resolve in a morally appropriate way. It didn’t.

I will say I signed up for one once, for this reason, and never got anything. But then my DNC spam went through the roof. I’m pretty sure it’s just to sell info to political orgs. Not saying you should or shouldn’t sign up, but it was annoying for sure.

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“MUM-PUMS”?????? Just when you thought you’d heard all the words for vulva.

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I was definitely picturing some kind of IT use, like “oh, your laptop isn’t connecting? You need to put in a ticket. Oh, you did that hours ago? Sorry I don’t see any record of that in our system…” etc. No idea if ICE has an IT department.

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My read of this isn’t for a rando to do it, but the guy at the rental company “accidentally” doing these things. (Because at least where I am, the vehicles they’re using are flet vehicles.) I mean, the flyer is wrong and you *can* be penalized, but not with jail or death. You’d just get written up.

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In fact, my doomerish thoughts about worst case scenarios are indeed that there could be something like a pretender Congress (Johnson refuses to end the current Congress), or something like a Congress In Exile.

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Trump doesn’t have to read a civics book to refuse to allow a Democratic Congress to go into session. Every single step of the process is entirely independent of him. Congress could flee to France en masse and still be the legitimate US government operating entirely outside his purview. 1/2

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