So, have you heard the “don’t comply in advance” slogan? That means a lot of things, but this is an important facet of it. Don’t cede ground you haven’t lost yet. The fascists need to fight and win that battle before we give it to them, even in our minds. They’re going to ratfuck, but we must fight it at every turn. And celebrate every hindrance to their victory. This is a win, and you win the war by winning these little battles, over and over again.
That might a valid way to feel, but it’s definitely not what’s being said here. This is a mound of doomerism with no additional context and no take away that people need to be prepared to act. In fact, it makes it seem like there might be no point to acting
Exactly. You must treat them collectively as a threat, but treat those around you based on the things you know about them.
Like my uncle is a conservative and racist. I don’t give him space for either, but I do know that he’s only like that because he 1, likes to feel clever, 2, he’s kinda dumb, and 3, he gets his info from fox and his rich, asshole friends. So he’s mindlessly parroting things he’s heard others say so that he can feel like he gets it, whatever “it” is. That doesn’t magically make him safe, though. He will act based on his shitty thoughts, and that makes him dangerous.
…I think you missed the part where Palps was the leader of both sides. Neither side was good, it was literally pointless conflict for the purpose of giving Palps power and the strongest army in the galaxy.
The Separatists are greedy capitalists that were brought together after the Trade Federation’s attempted “blockade an entire planet and kidnap their queen, forcing her to give us what we want scheme” failed. Yes, the republic wasn’t great, but the banality of status quo politics is a far cry from totalitarian dipshits who only care about their profits. A lesson that the current world is demonstrating quite nicely.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SrGrafo/comments/15he1o5/melodramatic_people/
It’s two years old
“If you can’t see his feet, it looks like the car hit him” - their logic
Yeah, people hit by cars famously keep their footing and are stable enough to accurately discharge a firearm. Meanwhile, he shouldn’t be walking in front of the car, full stop. So yeah, it’s damning but only against his case.
Don’t hate him, he’s one of my favorite authors. He was approached to finish WoT because he was a good fit. He is not a good fit for ASoIaF
Sanderson is a bad pick and has said himself that he can’t do grimdark. Just because he’s prolific doesn’t mean he should be the de facto pick to finish series.
If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike!
Looks at US public opinion turning on Israel for the first time in its history
Ummm… where do you think that came from, then?
It’s not being said to be as such. So, no. Not really
Black people’s lives are treated with less sanctity and respect than white people’s. Images of violence done to black bodies is normalized and spread to justify further violence and spread fear. I’m not “trying to look away”, I’m trying to denormalize the murder of a black child.
If this was a white child, their face would be blurred. This moment of fear and evil would be kept away from the public out of respect for the family. Their family wouldn’t need to fear stumbling across the photo of their last moment just so the public can learn about their dark society.
Yes, we need to confront our dirty secrets, but that doesn’t conflict with the desire to respect the victims of brutality.
… this needs to be nsfw. This is a horrific image of someone’s last moments as they’re about to be murdered. People need to be able to decide if they are able to see it.
Yeah. Hahaha! What silly little guys that are given legal weapons and trained to perceive everything around them as a lethal threat! They’re so funny with how they murder people over nothing and are almost never held to account. How ridiculous! /s
He heard an acorn fall and then tried to kill the person he left defenseless in his patrol car over it. I don’t know why that’s funny. Stupid, yes. Funny, absolutely not.
Need a whole lot of this happening.
Minneapolis during the George Floyd protests. Ya know, the same city from this story.
In this very city we burned a police precinct to the ground. How short is your memory?
Russia’s authoritarian playbook (which the current GOP administration is using) isn’t about lying in an articulate way. It’s about flooding the zone with excuses and lies such that the average person will choose to tune it out rather than to engage.
It uses regular human behavior to hide sabotage. So, no. They’re likely people over-worked and undervalued who have no interest rather than saboteurs.
Yes. Next question