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TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
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TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
it embraces everything sordid and distasteful about the United States and rejects much of what makes it genuinely exceptional.
And what would those things be exactly?
It wont for the same reason the rank-and-file of the NYPD came out in support of Daniel Penney despite him being a suspected murderer
The back the blue crowd are simultaneously the people most aware of the prosecutoral double standard and the least inclined towards unilateral disarmament.
It's the old "my rules" > "your rules applied fairly" > "your rules applied unfairly" progression in action.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
This is America, ridiculousness is a feature not a bug.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
Two wrongs make a right, according to you?
No, I am questioning the "two wrongs" part.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
The Optimates believed that by pulling out all the stops to strike down Gracchus they could silence the movement he represented and return to the status quo ante.
Instead they got a new Gracchus who was both angrier and less restrained.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
it's something we ask of everyone in government, especially people involved in prosecuting and judging crimes
Is it really though?
The benefits of prosecutorial discretion and the need to consider a prospective defendant's race, gender, politics, etc... when exercising that discretion has been a core progressive belief/talking-point since the first Clinton administration.
The claim that nobody gained here is preposterous.
The Biden family and thier inner circle of supporters absolutely gained from Biden's pardons.
The protestors who've spent the last 4 years rotting in prison for acts that would have them little more than a slap on the wrist (assuming the got prosecuted at all) had they not been Republicans absolutely gained from Trump's pardons.
Your tribe suffering a setback is not the same thing as everyone being worse off, no matter how similar they may feel in the moment.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
No it really doesn't.
In the standard formulation of the dilemma, the ideal outcome in terms of individual gain for any single player in a single round is "I defect while the other guy cooperates". By extension the worst possible outcome from the perspective of any individual player is to cooperate with someone who then chooses to defect. This is why defect-defect is a natural equilibrium.
The Democrats wanted tolerance and have been given tolerance.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
It doesn't make everyone one worse off, it only makes those who were already defecting worse off.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
While i feel like that would be reasonably justified i don't think it will happen.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
consider that someone may not be working, such as retired, and wants to save money by moving somewhere cheap.
Why? Why is this something that the employer should consider?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
Unfortunately the 2014 prohibition didn't include any penalties so if they did go after him it would effectively be for embezzlement/misuse of government funds and property.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
The news is atwitter with talk of an EO on birthright citizenship. It's supposed to be signed today.
Serious question, is there any indication at all (aside from rampant speculation) that this is happening? And without even a draft of the proposal what is there to discuss?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
I think the woke right, alt-lite, dissident right, or whatever we are calling them this week need to get their noses out of the extremely-online left's stash.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
What do you find "clever" about it?
Fauci worked with a major geo-political rival (China) to funnel US tax-payer money into performing bio-weapon gain of function research. Research that Congress had explicitly banned.
Re: The Fauci pardon, Congress instituted a ban on Gain of Function in research in 2014. Fauci's work with the CCP to circumvent this ban and the efforts of his office to conceal this work (not the lockdowns) is presumably what he is being pardoned for.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6mo ago
The ideal solution in the eyes of the western left is the complete Israeli capitulation and return of the holyland to the muslims as part of the wider "decolonization" movement. The the muslims are themselves conquerers and colonists is conviently ignored.
The ideal solution in the eyes of the western right is the final destruction of Hamas, Hezbollah, Et Al. At the hands of the IDF through a combination of support for a long-term ally and a sentiment of "rabid dogs get put down".
Forever war is the compromise position.
Indeed, I suspect that this is the real reason for the pivot. A Harris appointed AG wouldn't allow such cases to go forward but a Trump appointec one...
There are a lot things (DEI programs among them) that are deeply unpopular and in some cases blantanly illegal based on a plain reading of the law that only persist because they are fashionable amongst the priestly class. The priestly class looks after its own, which is how Alvin Bragg is able to talk on national TV about how his office absolutely considers a potential defendants' political leanings and racial identity when deciding which cases to pursue without getting charged under title 18 section 241.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
It was never possible to avoid them, there are large swaths of the country (eg the Rural south, Texas, portions of California) where the "minority" population has been there as long if not longer than the "white". Hanania is just another member of the PMC raging at his percieved loss of privilege.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
He improved with Latinos (35% in 2020 to 43% in 2024) and blacks (8% in 2020 to 16% in 2024)
This more than "suggests" a reckoning this "is" the reckoning. The Democrats' electoral strategy for the last 30+ years has depended on keeping Blacks and Latinos on the Democrats plantation and this is why the people pushing Identity politic the hardest are all woke PMCs from Democrat controlled cities and/or Canada.
The nature of FPTP elections means that even a small shift in the effectiveness of a tactic can have big effects on the end result and these are not small shifts.
My evidence is that of my own eyes.
I live in a decent sized southern city, and as fantastical as this may sound to the average mottizen such as yourself, black people are out there, right now, wearing clothes, driving cars, and running buisinesses as if they were human beings. While the streets are clean, and reasonably well maintained, and homelessness is rare.
Who are you to tell me that they aren't?
And yet we see Hispanics breaking for Trump (allegedly against thier interests) and white identitarians breaking for Harris (again allegedly against thier interests), the rationalist who is deeply invested in identity politics might have trouble understanding what is going on, but to anyone else the the simplest explanation is the ovious.
The Democrats claim that no one cares about crime or the economy, just race is further evidence that democrats do not care about crime or the economy, they only care about race.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
Oh boy.
I mean, this really is the central DR3tard article of faith
No matter how much you might sneer at it, DR3 (ie "Democrats are the real Racists") remains objectivly true.
Who is the real retard then?
I don't think there's enough information at this time to justify a new thread, and I don't have much commetary beyond "If this is true, heads need to roll", but it seems pretty relevant to the ongoing discussion of the Trump and Biden pardons so I might as well drop it here.
MAGA-aligned internet fora are blowing up with alegations that the City of Washington DC has elected to fight the pardons and there seems to be at least some truth to this as this just popped up on my news feed Newsweek: Officials Stop Release of Jan 6 Inmates Following Trump Pardon.
The alleged reasoning is that the pardons only apply to those already convicted of a crime and as such the 20 or so individuals (reports differ on the precise number) being held by the DC Metro Police in pre-trial confinement are to remain in custody pending a decision by the city on how to proceed.
Update: As of this afternoon the remaining prisoners have reportedly been released. Officialy it seems that @DradisPing was correct, but it's still terrible optics IMO.
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