Getting people to talk about the headline is going to be really difficult, like… Damn, I wish I had some kind of metaphor or idiom for this situation

The right wing urge to reinforce social hierarchies? I think they just reflexively love anything connected to a white monarchy

I wonder if Biden still thinks fighting for those increases to ICE’s budget was such a good idea

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Nothing new there but it didn’t stop Democratic candidates from doing what they needed to win elections in the past

Oh right, thank you!

Protections for the homeowning class happen quickly, but protections for tenants are more difficult for some reason

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I think the senior military types will only talk about this stuff to journalists who have swallowed at least a little bit of American propaganda, but yeah thank you for getting the correct version of history out there

When school staffing has one teacher per forty or so students? Yeah.

That said, I still think these measures are stupid and punishing the group for society’s failure to fund and staff our schools appropriately, but I can understand why teachers often support them.

I wish there was some sort of organization that would push back against them, maybe like some kind of political party that emphasizes a democratic approach to politics

Oh but I’m sure forcing these 800,000 people to list their names, identifying information, and residential locations with federal immigration agencies to qualify for this program in the first place won’t have any negative consequences /s

Those people spend almost all of their time focused on not getting caught, the rest of us spend almost all of our time trying to remember groceries to buy and after school events kids need to be transported to and Co workers birthdays and etc.

Also, we’re generally social creatures who want to trust each other and cooperate and stuff

You know you can delete your posts, right? You could spare us your idiocy if you were actually sorry for it.

This source is misrepresenting his quote, it was essentially 95% “we’re not for sale, fuck off” and 5% “when you’re ready to be reasonable we can talk about real issues between our countries”

I don’t think we’re the only land of hypocrisy out there (like, listen to Russia talk about how they’re the real protectors of human rights, or China say other countries are threatening their national security, or Mexico complain about cartel violence while letting their police do whatever they want, or Israel do so much shit I don’t know where to start), but, yeah, a lot of us are brainwashed as hell, and our government is completely full of shit whenever it’s scolding anyone else about human rights, international law, the climate, etc.

i find it beyond funny that we support israel because ‘they were there first’, but if you mention that maybe the american indians should rise up and take their country back you get very different responses.

Yep, and also the fact that there’s such a vocal anti-migrant movement here after almost all of our ancestors in immigrated here is completely absurd

Yeah, actually that’s a really important point, plus between the insane amounts of essentially anonymous propaganda that’s been unleashed on us through Citizens United and all the state government voter suppression laws that were allowed by Shelby County we’ve really only been a quasi-democratic society at best for most of this. Americans aren’t uniquely terrible people compared to the citizens of any other country, we’ve just got some incredibly shitty rich people who ran the table on political power.

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Hard disagree, Republicans wouldn’t do so much voter suppression bullshit if it didn’t have any effect. People who don’t vote are almost always being oppressed in a variety of different ways.

And this isn’t even the first clown shitshow of a government we’ve voted in this century