Somehow, I don’t think that ice or the doj feels that these defeats are all that embarrassing.
Arresting the protesters and making them go through the system, even if they are found not to be guilty, is a significant punishment in itself.
There should be repercussions for the ice agents and prosecutors when this is happening repeatedly.
I also had that thought.
Its tactics get real citizens killed.
The media are largely owned and controlled by the oligarchs. They no longer exist to serve the common person’s best interests. The examples that really cemented this reality in my mind are:
-The way they coordinated against our boy Bernie in 2016. I recall a specific instance on live tv where they listed the leading DNC candidates. It displayed an infographic said something like: #1, Hillary Clinton, #3 someone else, #4 someone else. And the announcer made some brief comment at the end, along the lines of, “oh and also some guy Bernie Sanders, some communist or something is in 2nd place. Anyway, here’s Eric with the weather!”
-The way they coordinated to tell everyone that anybody who bought GameStop stock a few years ago was stupid and should absolutely sell. The wealthy had bought an illegal amount of short sale positions in GameStop and were losing tons of money to common people who had realized this.
You might think that these two situations are unrelated. Maybe the DNC has its own interests and manipulated the media by its own mechanisms. Maybe the hedge funds and their wealthy investors had enough power and leverage to get help from their media friends. I assert that the rich and powerful people pulling the strings in these two scenarios are the same group of people and they have powerful influence over media, using it to shape popular perception to their benefit.
“Take the picture of me from a low angle so I look like I’m all grown up”
It seems like your choices when confronted by ICE are:
Trump is already a floating turd. The shit he says should make you more angry, not more apathetic.
Take your weak-ass bullshit attitude somewhere else.
I think “murders” pretty much sums it up.
Would you mark this as nsfw, please? Her ports are all showing!
Reminds me of the Linux stats. Desktop adoption is really taking off!: 2.6% -> 2.7%
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
In the videos I’ve seen there are usually at least 5 ice guys with body armor and at least a couple have rifles. Good luck against that with your little pew-pew.
Hopefully there will be some commentary on media consolidation and how successfully propagandized the american public is.
You’re getting downvoted but the way they coordinated internally to make sure Bernie Sanders would lose the presidential primary in 2016 told me everything I need to know about the Democratic party: they don’t actually want liberal policies implemented. Their apparent dislike of Mamdani is further evidence.
Increasing inflation will surely solve our problems!
I mean, if he really wants it, let him buy it. He’d just better pay so much that everyone else’s water becomes free.
I’d really just calculated it the way decryptor did but the article also said only 7 of the barrels actually tested positive.
I figured most things have a density not all that far from water. This isn’t lead or tungsten or helium we’re talking about. Also the their .001% value is probably also just ballpark.
I would like to do this. The problem is that these disagreements have become sensitive issues and addressing these topics seems like asking for trouble.
Simply put, how does one approach this topic without inviting an argument? Pointing out the simple items you’ve presented will surely make them defensive to the point of hostility.