In the absence of legal protections, there is still no benefit of talking to police, even in the face of torture. Thugs have already made the decision to hurt you by the time they pull you off the street, nothing you say will convince them otherwise, and everything you say will be twisted to justify their behavior.

His responses were brilliant - and I’m taking note

No. Never talk to police.

I meant to say 2024, during the election. The past few years have been a blur to me.

1. Comments on news articles are going to largely be bots, it’s a waste of time.
2. They do not care about being hypocrites. They are laughing with glee that they are winning and that you are losing, frustrated, angry, and scared.

That is the pragmatic and short term outcome, but I would not discount the level of power hard-line Christian nationalists have over the far right. Many of them believe “moral degeneracy” like porn is the most grave problem of western society and would be glad to “correct” it given the chance.

I think the order of operations is almost unimportant if their opposition can only secure minor, temporary victories and nobody is truly stopping them. If anything the broad stroke of this bill could be used as cover while states quietly criminalize homosexuality and transgenderism by fiat.

It really made the rounds again in 2020, even to the point of breaking into the mainstream. Probably a lot more people are aware of it than you might think, it’s just the doing something about it that we’re all sticking on.

“Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society and reach countless children,” Lee said in a press release. “Our bill updates the legal definition of obscenity for the internet age so this content can be taken down and its peddlers prosecuted.”

My memory is a bit hazy, but I think this phrasing is taken almost verbatim from Project 2025.

Fleeing to a non-extradition country like Assad did.

Of course the problem with leading a movement is that the leader is inevitably targeted by the establishment, and it has never been easier in human history to do so than now. See: basically the central mission of the FBI post WWII.

He doesn’t attend daily briefings, why would he care about the operational capabilities of his kingly litter?

People who elect genocidal, theocratic fascists to power because they think trans people are icky should be driven to the fringes of society, not have their feelings coddled.

Seems like she’s hoping for the MAGA coup to be at least nearing completion by then. Why spend resources on campaigning when you expect your opponents to be declared enemies of the state and arrested by the time “elections” come around?

well trained

They are well trained in thuggery and how to evade legal consequences. 80% of cops wouldn’t know discipline or acting through adversity if it knocked their teeth out, and the 20% that do learned it in the military.

A1) Let it be known and not forgotten that Worcester Police are collaborators.

B1) The dichotomy of the political leadership condemning ICE and the police backing them up is noted.

B2) I expect there to be a concerted but quiet effort from federal law enforcement to identify and target the crowd members regardless of how the locals feel.

The comment I replied to appeared to suggest that if everyone together brandished firearms at the cops as a show of force, the cops would simply slink away in fear without a shot being fired or anyone being further hurt. Something I would not count on.

There’s a reason they’re using 6-12 officers to arrest one middle-aged mother. They know the communities they enter hate them and they are terrified of bystanders ganging up on them or worse, ambushing them with firearms.

I don’t think there is a “peaceful show of force” in this scenario. The second a cop sees a civilian carrying a long arm walking up to them, pistols are leaving their holsters and they’ll start screaming commands just like they’re trained. The first shot fired is inevitable from there.

I think if you can’t find someone with the fortitude to put a hole in the victim’s brain stem at muzzle contact range (let’s ask the people who pushed for this punishment, for example), and you have to go through all this procedure to alleviate “guilty consciences”, maybe the whole idea isn’t so great?

Recently some states have brought it back specifically. No points for guessing which way those states lean politically.

He was whining that Europe was starting to push back on far-right disinfo operations like Twitter and Facebook…that the US/MAGA party is paying for.

Like always, they want protection and sympathy for themselves, and vengeance upon everyone else.