No! Critical support is for the weak of mind! We only cheerlead here.

Now we have to have the “rate of inflation” vs “inflation” talk again.

Look I know it’s gauche to laugh at one’s own joke but I really fucking got myself with this one.

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I don’t care how based a flag you show me on a kid holding a gun, I’m still going to say it’s a bad thing. You absolutely do not have to hand it to them when it comes to militarizing children. That’s fucked up no matter the ideology behind it. Is there wiggle room for teens? Maybe. They need to be prepared for the society and world they’re going to be living in, and they have a right to begin deciding how they want to go about doing that. But if you’re going to be handing grade schoolers weapons you’ve jumped the shark. Children do not have the faculties to properly understand the ramifications of holding a weapon nor to commit to an ideology behind such a choice. We can point to how fucked up the world is and the situations that led to someone committing such an error, but it doesn’t make it any less of an error. Patriotic education? Sure, great, all for it. Sticking 10 year olds in military uniforms with weapons? Nope. We rightfully feel sick to our stomach when Israel commits atrocities against children because they are not respecting that children should never be a legitimate target. Anyone who would put children in a position where they can be regarded as such, on one side of a gun or another, has committed a grievous error.

bruh let’s not pretend children carrying guns is based or something just because it’s our side doing it. We all rightfully bawked at Ukraine creating little Neo Nazi military camps for their children, and sure the political messaging is different and all, but putting these children in uniform and carrying weapons does not do anything to protect them from atrocious violence. Does the empire care about brown children? no of course not, but no child should have a target painted on their back by an adult by being handed a weapon.

It’s still undermining their own power in the long run. Having his base and America writ large sick and stupid is not a winning strategy for maintaining US hegemony. Recruitment goals for every branch of the military are way down not just because people are less ideologically motivated to join up, but because too many Americans are too physically unfit to clear the bar. Increasing the rate of childhood disease and disability is not going to improve that situation. Increasing communicable disease and making the workforce sick is not going to leave a good reserve army of labor around for their fantasies of reindustrializing. Having even more people become victim to the health insurance agencies and privatized hospital networks is not going to create a passive and happy population. The attitude you describe is not just myopic, it’s self-defeating, which is why I think they must actually believe this grotesque anti-science stuff to some degree.

They will when I spit in their eye, mouth full of blood

I figured they’d take Kennedy out back and shoot him, or or whatever it is they do with useless endorsements after an election, having already secured his crank base’s support, but they really let him in to fuck things up lol. I’m sometimes comforted by the fact that Trump and his sycophants are genuinely morons despite all the harm they cause. They must to some extent be true believers in this garbage.

I hope he gets doxxed and then dies of natural causes

I know, I’m not calling the community action adventurism. I just suspect the first real act of reciprocal violence towards ICE will likely be a lone individual with nothing to lose or otherwise unstable but packing surprising firepower. This will not end well for that individual, no doubt, but it’s the kind of social murder this system brings about. It will be a small relief to see the pain being returned upon the fascists for a change. I hope it riddles these Nazi fucks with fear and PTSD and that they never know a moments peace.

I know adventurism bad, but goddamn, I can not wait for ICE to finally by going after the wrong person.

Except there’s 2 more guys immediately out of frame ready to ventilate whoever wins too

You can’t tell me what to do.

I’m going to JAY WALK later today, and it’s going to LOOK SICK AS HELL.

most obnoxiously smug liberal voice possible TACO Tuesday came twice this week.

What’s the difference between a clandestine operation and terrorism? I don’t think we should characterize an attack that very clearly hit legitimate military targets as terrorism no matter how it’s delivered. If this was used to assassinate military personal and their families in urban areas I might entertain the word, but this is an airbase housing planes directly used in or supporting the war. I can’t think of a more legitimate target if I tried.

So that’s what’s wrong with my dating strategy.

Hope for Mathew Miller yet.

“If things don’t change around here, I might shit my pants.”

-Man with the saggiest and stinkiest trousers you’ve ever seen