BillyClark

It’s not particularly funny in the first place.

If a sidewalk is overgrown by grass and then people walk on the grass to make a desire path, that would be more obvious, I think.

I’m just saying this would be like that. There’s a place where people would want to walk if only there was a path there, but there is a path. It’s obstructed by snow.

とくにもくてきはないひと

means “Write out what you have to say, and then delete the last sentence”?

Sorry my phone is not letting me write properly in Japanese for some reason…

Especially when Kash Patel testified that Trump basically wasn’t in there at all.

This is a desire path on top of a normal path.

I can’t believe one of the best gamers in the world would just make things up and lie.

They say it’s a direct conflict of interest for someone in a faith leadership role to also be a leader in immigration enforcement operations.

It’s hard to have a separation of church and state when the church directly works for the state.

Even in the completely off-chance that he wasn’t, we don’t give the death penalty to first-time murderers who committed one murder and no other crimes. No, the death penalty is for fishermen who are suspected of smuggling drugs.

The only reason anybody should listen to a celebrity’s political opinion is if that celebrity has shown some political expertise or astute political insight in the past.

Celebrities are not better than other people. They often have one thing they’re good at, and are ridiculously stupid outside of that area. And often, they don’t even have that one thing they’re good at.

Trump has played his hand so hard that anybody who is capable of thinking for themselves will be voting against Republicans in November. If there can be a “blue wave”, then we have a small amount of hope for avoiding that future without violence. If violence escalates quickly, then that election can even be canceled.

If people still don’t vote against MAGA and GOP in November, then America is doomed with or without violence.

At least, that’s the way I see it. Resistance is important, but violence before this election may be counterproductive. Of course, if you assume, probably correctly, that American citizens will never pull their heads out of their asses, then I guess it doesn’t matter.

Yeah, I said easiest way, but that’s technically easier. I don’t think Trump would do it except possibly if his downfall and complete ruin was inevitable and imminent.

What Trump wants is to stay in power for the rest of his life.

The easiest way for him to do that is to cancel all elections going forward.

The easiest way for him to excuse that is if there is an active armed domestic resistance.

The easiest way for him to have an active armed resistance is if he deploys the military domestically and oppresses the citizens.

The easiest way to deploy the military domestically is through the Insurrection Act.

The easiest way to excuse invoking the Insurrection Act in Blue States is if citizens are killing federal agents in those states.

(We are here today)

The easiest way for him to get citizens to kill federal agents is if they are being oppressed and murdered by those agents.

The easiest way to get agents to oppress and murder people is to deploy them where they’re not welcome and tell them they have free rein.

The easiest way to deploy federal agents where they’re not wanted is to have a huge manhunt.

The easiest people for the federal government to target in a huge manhunt are immigrants, legal and illegal, because the federal government has an immigration police force.

Pretti was a nurse who was murdered. It would be weird if nurses didn’t support him.

Like, it’s ridiculously stupid that people don’t understand that this is one common consequence of murdering someone. That their family, friends, and people who see parts of themselves in that person will all be outraged.

Maybe Libs of TikTok are just used to a world where nobody cares about whether they live or die.

I do not hate everyone. I am disappointed in everyone and save my hate for a select few.

ALE? NA

I’m not saying that people shouldn’t do this, but it’s exactly what Trump wants people to do.

He wants everybody to be armed so that the odds of someone killing an ICE agent go up. Trump believes conflict between the government and citizens will allow him to use the Insurrection Act to mobilize the military against us, and then as he continues to escalate violence, he believes that he’ll be justified in canceling our elections moving forward.

People need to keep this in mind as they decide how to act going forward. It is practical to arm yourself, but you should go out of your way to avoid using a weapon.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that people like him are historically supposed to go to Argentina.

It’s possible that MAGA will go see it in order to make it successful, just like how Nazis bought Mein Kampf but never read it.

But probably not many MAGA view Melania as having any worth.

It’s irritating to see him looting the company like that when he actually delivers negative value to the company otherwise. Literally it would be better for Tesla to give those bonuses to some random person on the street than to Musk.

The woman reported a prowler and they had already checked the outside of the house. I wonder if they actually needed to go inside the house in the first place.

I wouldn’t voluntarily allow cops into my house unless the situation required them to enter my house.

For some reason, I am starting to feel closer to the methods of Diogenes as I get older. If you’re not familiar with him, I suggest you read at least the intro on his Wikipedia page… actually, I’ll just copy it here:

Diogenes the Cynic (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/, dy-OJ-in-eez; c. 413/403 – c. 324/321 BC), also known as Diogenes of Sinope, was an ancient Greek philosopher during the period of Classical Greece, and one of the founders of Cynicism.

Renowned for his ascetic lifestyle and radical critiques of social conventions, he became a legendary figure whose life and teachings have been recounted, often through anecdote, in both antiquity and modernity. Diogenes advocated for a return to nature, the renunciation of wealth, and introduced early ideas of cosmopolitanism by proclaiming himself a “citizen of the world”.

Diogenes was born to a prosperous family in Sinope. His life took a dramatic turn following a scandal involving the debasement of coinage, an event that led to his exile and ultimately his radical rejection of conventional values. Embracing a life of poverty and self-sufficiency, he became famous for his unconventional, shameless behaviors that openly challenged societal norms, such as living in a jar or wandering public spaces with a lit lantern in daylight, claiming to be “looking for a man”, that is to say “for a wise man” (sophos).