Skill issue

I’m really talking about the Mara Lago raid in 2023.

The plan is flawless if you don’t give a shit about anything, except creating wealth and power for yourself.

We jumped the shark when they called the FBI “woke leftists” however many years ago that was.

Humming seems a bit odd. I wonder if those people are just humming to themselves.

I’ll do things like scuffing my feet, jingling my keys, or pretending to talk on my phone. I am a large guy and I naturally walk very quietly. I have scared quite a few women, and honestly, it is unpleasant for both of us.

I think it’s worth pointing out because so many people are selfish, bigoted assholes.

I’m Black and Queer. The fact is that the majority of ⚪ people don’t give the slightest fuck whether I live or die. (And don’t #NotAllWhites at me. I didn’t say “all”.) That’s why writers always kill the Black person first in movies. That’s why people watch so much torture porn of cops beating and killing us.

You are absolutely 100% correct. Trans people should be worth protecting for our own sake. I don’t know how to convince people that we’re humans too, but if people stopped killing us only because it hurts their wives and sisters too, I’ll take it.

Obscene wealth. All of these people have sold their souls to billionaires.

In the US we call that the National Guard. The state governor controls them. In no way are they for this sort of situation though.

I don’t care what the dictionary says. I’m telling you what every American means when they say “militia”: crazy fringe conspiracy theorists who spend a lot of time discussing “the Jew problem”.

This is a reasonable reply to a nonsense statement. Signal is plenty secure for us and whatever we need to do with it. It is not secure enough, nor authorized, for classified information.

Republicans don’t understand “soft power” in any way. They think you guys are “freeloading” off of us without any understanding that you’re our best customers.

The US will never come back from this.

Your fundamental misunderstanding is that “militia” is a euphemism for “right wing domestic terrorist organization”. You won’t find them on Lemmy. There are a few small armed leftist organizations, but they wouldn’t call themselves militias and their mission is defending their communities. They understand that our government has always been tyrannical and a few guys with guns will just get themselves killed.

Don’t believe right wingers. (You can be forgiven for not knowing these were fringe right wing idiots. Media coverage tends to obscure that part.) They say they’re against government tyranny, but really they just hate brown people. (They meant the “tyranny” of having to sit at the same lunch counter as [slurs].) They love what is going on now.

I don’t think the person above meant anything by it, but if we’re just discussing grammar: if I say something is “my idea” that does suggest that I thought of it. It is reasonable to read the sentence that way, and Americans do have a tendency to reflexively think we are exceptional.

Both readings are perfectly cromulent.

Pick randomly from Forbes Richest People list, or top to bottom?

TIL I am Hayao Miyazaki.

They have enough money that they think it will shield them from Republican policies. For the most part, they are actually correct. As stupid and self hating as they are, they are “one of the good ones” to their “friends”, and selling out everyone like them isn’t really a problem for them.

People like to paint Log Cabin Republicans as dumb, but the truth is that they’re actually more evil and selfish.

The main reason I go to Pride festivals these days is to heckle the Log Cabin table. Completely worthless trash.

You only have to ban something after people do it. Everyone knows not to wear MAGA gear to a gay club. These Log Cabin assholes just wanted to cause the exact kind of problem they caused.

I love how the Atlantic called around to the various government offices who should care about this stuff: “Hey, are you sure there’s nothing classified in here? If this is too sensitive to print, just tell us and we won’t print it.” This has been a study in covering your ass and making sure the reporter doesn’t become the story, as much as the administration would love for it to.

It really does show how stupid this country is about waving “National Security” for any matter that would make the administration look bad.

It’s okay when the US does it.

I’m sure USians would be perfectly normal and react calmly and rationally if a foreign power killed 50 innocent people while assassinating a target on US soil.

Texas won’t infringe on your God given right to die of a preventable illness, but the power of the state protects its’ citizens from cylindrical silicone.