Cripes, this is like, easy-mode. The way to push back without giving them a soundbite is dead simple:

Our ICE officers obviously are not terrorists.

Reply: “Is it obvious? What distinguishes the way they act from terrorists, Ben?”

What? The 2A people have a way to prevent this: More guns! It’s always more guns! If only this father had had a gun to defend himself from his armed attacker/son…

(/s, just in case)

Why am I not surprised that he’s all-in on that sovcit typography nonsense? “It can’t mean me because it says Enrique Tarrio, not Tarrio-comma-Enrique!”

That is the ultimate goal, isn’t it? The problem here is that the situation isn’t so neatly reciprocal. The Republicans offer about ⅓ of the nation exactly what they want, whereas the Democrats offer nobody exactly what they want. The favorability ratings in the polls show that. They only offer, “we’re marginally better than fascists,” which is good enough for a small lead in polling for the midterm elections, masking how deeply unpopular Republican actions are, and providing a veneer of legitimacy for them in the form of a near-tie.

No, I want them to GTFO of the way. If our election system only admits two major parties, then they are complicit by camping out in one of the slots, preventing a political party that’d actually put up a fight from arising. Whatever their alleged motivation, or level of cooperation, it no longer matters at this point; they have been the party in that second slot as U.S. political institutions slid into fascism over the course of decades. The record shows that they’re not going to turn it around should they win back Congress in the mid-terms (if we even have elections). At best, they might stave off full fascism for another few election cycles. That’s the issue we have with Democrats.

YouGov has published a page about its polling methodology. Polling groups abandoned the random telephone survey decades ago, at this point.

Oh my gosh, yes! As a fan of the books, I was so excited for the series. I was determined not to be put off by the changes to the story the producers made, so it took me a while to realize that the changed story lacked something. Like, being good? I should’ve just stopped after the terrorist attack that killed nobody, or tens of millions of people maybe, in the first episode just to advance the plot. Great visual effects, no emotional resonance. Why should I care? Nobody on-screen seemed to. I stuck it out until the episode that ended with the one character getting surrounded by the Anacreon landing party, but the show never established why I should care about her. So I didn’t, and never bothered with the next episode to resolve the cliff-hanger.

Yes, but “this isn’t new” is a major rhetorical weapon for fascists and their media enablers.

Thanks for the explanation, even if it’s verified as half lies.

Damn, I misread that as “Shrank IQ Scores of Americans by Half,” and thought, “Hmm, that tracks.”

This, but unironically. Just do it, ferchrissake.

WTF are you talking about?

It’s also not self-defense if you escalate. They could’ve just driven around her vehicle and been on their way, but apparently sniffed an opportunity to oink.

There most certainly is gluten in barley! Breweries don’t just add gluten to beer just to be dicks to people with celiac disease.

Who fed him that line of BS? Is it the fascist instinct to lie brazenly to establish dominance, or are they just that bad at lying?

Well, hey, at least this year, I learned that it’s even a thing, so this time I did not watch intentionally.

It was definitely pitched in western media as something we should all fear. I just found it funny that everything that they tried to scare us with (“it might be used to determine whether you get a job or can rent an apartment!”) applied equally to our credit scores.

E: So, yeah, completely agree.

Remind me, were we supposed to be disgusted and afraid of the Chinese social credit score system because it included woke BS like how nice you are to others, and how things you do improve society, rather than just laser-focusing on the only important thing— whether your existence can be monetized by rich assholes?

Waiting for all of the MAGA celebration as a celebrity learns to shut up about politics. In 3, 2, 1…

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There’s 7digital, which has a music store offering DRM-free MP3 downloads, as well as FLAC for many selections.