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The sad part is this is how the Biden administration actually thought. They could have restricted these funds from being wasted on stupid bullshit but instead did the moderate Dem thing and just let douchebag Republicans do whatever the hell they want so they could campaign on how bipartisan they were. At the end of the day, nobody in a position of power gave a shit about the safety of these people.

Seems like your efforts would be better spent focusing on the dozen or so Democratic campaign consultants and politicians who convinced those 2.5 million to stay home. Unless you're willing to give up on the whole democracy thing and just impose the leadership you think we need on voters like Lenin or something.

The Democratic party's leadership makes that much more difficult than it needs to be and they will keep blowing winnable elections for the rest of us until they are removed from power

That second sentence deserves its full context

Another uniformed ICE agent stepped out of an unmarked police van at 11:53 a.m. and pointed a matte black rifle at protestors and press, including this reporter, screaming “Get the fuck back!” An SFPD officer stood by and watched from a distance.

I will support him until the day I die.

I bet she would have at least a few doubts in the final moments if things go according to Stephen Miller's plans

I'm sure he's the only person in venture capital with extremely bigoted views and that there is nothing about working in the industry itself that ruins people's brains while also giving them the power to ruin all of our lives /s

I don't think it's by design, I think they're arrogant idiots who thought deporting tens of millions of people would be an easy thing to do, but I think the end result is that they're making concentration camps and slave just like you say, which puts our genocide doomsday clock at about 11:59.

I try to think of it like having a rambunctious friend who takes me on inconveniencing but entertaining adventures

A couple of decades in the future the addition of "Presidented" to American English (verb: to arbitrarily make a declaration or issue an order, implicitly illegally) will really confuse things

Imagine thinking Brian Tarbell Brian gets to decide

Its gratingly bad.

Completely agreed

people today do not understand good music anymore.

I don't think that's anymore true than it's always been, we just have a biased impression of the past because the best stuff from that period stays in rotation, but there was plenty of chart topping crap back then too

Bad covers are frustrating, but I love a good cover where an artist is able to highlight what's different about their approach to music and also pay a bit of respect to a songwriter they like

Because it's the best written song they've ever performed (because they didn't write it)

Note that the cops decided to let her back into her home to say goodbye here. If they didn't have the Trump flags the last thing they would've seen was her being taken down and hog tied in the driveway.

Eh, close, but that's still theoretically barely viable until the administration takes the affirmative step of saying "everybody in Denver can't vote but Rifle's cool", at which point anybody in Denver who can't get a lawyer and a court date is probably screwed,

So, yeah I guess the difference between rule of law being down for the count and democracy going into hibernation might be entirely semantic in practice

Do with that as you will

I'm going to believe a lot of people are about to realize what a bad idea this all is and keep telling people what a bad idea this all is and eventually live in a better world or get dumped in a mass grave for running my mouth. Good luck everybody.

Man, what a great year for anarchism in the USA, first we had a No Kings day, now we have a No Citizens day! /gallows humor

Fr tho, this is awful. It seems like for now at least everybody needs to get their own lawyers and court dates to prove they're a citizen if the Trump administration wants to go after you. BTW, a lot of law firms have struck deals with the administration limiting the kinds of pro bono work they will do. Also deportations to third party countries are legal for now. Also, they may deport you while you have a case pending and then do nothing to bring you back when a court does order it.

So, yeah, they've probably created a "no due process needed, exile all the uppity poor brown queers and any other deviant troublemakers we don't like, unless they have someone inside the system that can get them a pass (and even then maybe do it anyway)" machine here. Call it fascism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, social darwinism, cyberpunk dystopia, whatever, I think we're here now.

This reporter is a dumb racist asshole whose dumb racist bullshit is probably going to be reposted to every dumb racist asshole social media feed before I can finish writing this comment, but FTR,

A shocking message

Real subtle framing there /s

about the immigration raids was posted on Instagram by the elected official Cynthia Gonzalez, who serves as the vice mayor of the city of Cudahy, located in southeast Los Angeles County. The message isn't for the federal government. It's allegedly for the "cholos," a slang term in the U.S. meaning gang members, in Southern California.

Meanwhile, in reality, (arc)

Ari Taylor, a recent USC journalism master's program graduate, explored these intricacies in her capstone project. She summarizes them succinctly:

It's safe to say that cholo culture is more than riding down Sunset in a candy-coated Impala or going to Sephora in order to draw on the most perfect eyeliner wing. It's more than negative stereotypes of gangbanging on the blocks of East L.A.

It is history. It is a culture. It is resistance and activism

Back to the dumb racist asshole's story,

"I wanna know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles. 18th Street, Florencia. Where's the leadership at?... Now that your hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain't a peep out of you... Don't be trying to claim no block, no nothing if you're not showing up right now trying to help out and organize," Gonzalez said, according to the video.

So, she's calling on people to "help out and organize" and that's a problem only because she's using the slang of a non white culture to call on non white people to "help out and organize" and that's very upsetting to dumb racist assholes like Josh and Jim here.

The FBI can't confirm or deny an investigation into Gonzalez's words,

FBI: "Josh what the fuck are you talking about, we're not investigating a politician for calling someone a cholo."

Dumb racist asshole: "Hmm, but there are some investigations you're doing that you couldn't tell me about if I asked right? Like, are you investigating any Chinese spies right now?"

FBI: "Wha - I... Yeah, there are sometimes investigations we do that we can't talk about right away, but thi-"

Dumb racist asshole: "You can't confirm or deny, got it, thanks! Disconnects"

but ABC7 legal analyst Josh Ritter believes the vice mayor's call to action may have crossed the legal line.

"When you're dealing with a political leader calling upon criminal street gangs to take action, that takes on a far more sinister meaning and, perhaps, criminal meaning behind it. It is one thing to say local people of the neighborhood stand up for yourselves.

Which is what she did

It's another thing to actually call out the names of different criminal street gangs and ask them to protect their neighborhood," said Ritter.

Which she did not do and you only think she did because, and I really can not emphasize this enough, you and everyone else involved in the writing of this story is a dumb racist asshole.

Media literacy is a threat to a lot of production houses' business models

Also, if memory serves its actually a modernized version of Shakespeare or someone like that, so there's a hilariously high brow joke of "yeah, people thought his plays were trashy when they first came out too" thing going on with that one, but you don't actually need to get that to be entertained by it

e; I misremembered so I'll just quote the wiki page

Literary scholar John Thorburn notes that Wild Things is loosely based on several figures in Greek tragedies, namely Medea, whom he describes the character of Suzie as a "modern-day version of."[5] He also notes that Kelly functions as a Phaedra-like figure, while Sam exemplifies both Jason and Hippolytus.[6] Thorburn suggests that the film's "most under-appreciated element is screenwriter Stephen Peters’s obvious debt to classical mythology, tragedy and, especially, two Euripidean plays, Medea (431 BC) and Hippolytus (428 BC).[7] Suzie is met by police, Duquette and Perez, while reading Death on the Installment Plan.

One can have no fun watching a good movie

Requiem for a Dream