You can’t say those words. Those are Tankie words

Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.

No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.

Maduro’s grip on power relies fundamentally on electoral manipulation.

All the “Maduro cheated to win the election” stuff comes from the same people insisting Biden cheated to win in 2020 and Obama cheated in 2008.

Following the contested 2024 election, Maduro launched “Operation Tun Tun” (Operación Tun Tun), a brutal crackdown described by experts as “state terrorism”.

Were these experts affiliated with Elliot Abrams?

Conservatives do love self-owning with the anti-Castro rhetoric

But what about those on the left?

Idk about the rest of y’all, but I’ve been volunteering with the Houston Chapter of Food Not Bombs at every opportunity.

There’s far fewer of us than cops, and we’re more focused on keeping our impoverished neighbors alive than getting in gunfights with the police.

But maybe that’ll change. I guess we’ll see.

Who wants to be the first to martyr themselves getting turned into Swiss cheese after firing the first shot?

Thomas Matthew Crooks tentatively raising his hand

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Is a regular hater and chronic pot stirrer. You’ll get used to them.

Where are the bearers of arms who bear arms in case of government tyranny?

They’re the guys in the ICE uniforms, more often than not

She could file charges attacking a member of Congress

Against whom? They were masked and otherwise unidentified.

her bodyguards

Did she have bodyguards at the scene?

Then use your powers in Congress to do something about it!

Is she not doing exactly that?

At this point, I’m amazed he hasn’t simply had Obama’s award confiscated

shrug

“Congressmen should just be able to profit off fluctuations in the market based on their legislative insider knowledge” seems pretty nonsensical and easy to dismiss outside of the US Capital Building.

But inside the building, its wildly popular.

Whatchagonna do?

McCarthyists unironically believe this.

Part of the problem with vilifying a culture for nearly a century is that your audience will eventually lose the ability to distinguish between the individual and the stereotype.

That’s how we got Japanese Internment in the 1940s. That’s a big reason for the anti-Venezuela hysteria in the modern day.

That’s beautiful

Principal–agent problem

If you’ve solved it, please let us know. Nobel in Economics is in your future.

You can run for office for a maximum of 12 years and then you’re summarily executed.

I guess anyone dumb enough to try and plant a pipe bomb like this would be dumb enough to yap their yaps when the FBI pick them up five years later.