She had some major medical issues, an ongoing court case, and a custody battle with her ex, so there was a lot of sadness in her life recently on top of all the abuse she’d experienced growing up. Maybe that was cover for an assassination, but there’s a much more mundane story to explain events.
Elon was never the guy who made Tesla work. He’s just a rich guy who bought it and then had to be insulated from running it because his ideas suck.
The whole board and major investors condoned this. Fuck the whole brand. Now and forever. They don’t need to be redeemed if they do the right thing, we’ll be fine without them. The smart people that actually make things happen will go work for better companies.
Propaganda works. Tankies exist. If America is bad, their enemies must be good.
And from personal experience, even if you find common ground and get them to recognize something is bad, they’ll sit back down in front of Fox News and revert to the norm before any of it matters. I had a “law and order, national security” type conservative acquaintance who right after the Trump classified documents story broke said Trump should go to prison for it (he also had to add that Hillary Clinton should go too). I’m certain he voted for Trump this time around. And he’s had nary a peep about the multiple war plans chats. They aren’t gettable if you just find the right issue or use the right words. If they’re going to change it’s going to happen on their own and over a long time.
Warrants from entities involved in enforcement aren’t warrants for the 4th amendment.
Only the very best for our Secretary of Firearms and Alcohol.
uses an obscure 18th-century law — the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — to give law enforcement nationwide the power to bypass basic constitutional protections
…That’s not how the relationship between laws and the Constitution works.
Journalists don’t need to just print both sides arguments and throw their hands up like determining truth is beyond them. Don’t print lies and falsehoods without immediately pointing out they’re lies and falsehoods. They didn’t find a glitch in the system that maybe the courts will patch eventually, they’re making up unlawful justifications to violate constitutional rights. Yeah, constitutional rights aren’t going to save you from the violation, but we all need to know and establish that it’s a violation in advance. ICE could always enter your home without a warrant, they just couldn’t do it legally, and a memo from fascist Barbie hasn’t changed that.
I haven’t had an experience like that with anyone I’m close with, but I’m still pissed the fuck off at them because a) I could and b) I have empathy for the many people who have. So they just need to fill the jury with people without empathy.
I dunno, we also just get bored and angry when our national cock is publicly embarrassed for a long time. We didn’t sour on Afghanistan because of too many deaths, we soured because it should have been over already and nothing we were doing seemed to be actually progressing toward a incontrovertible win. It was an ongoing demonstration of our limitations.
Also we literally only know his thoughts on the matter because they released excerpts of his journal. If he was trying to rally political and social opposition, you’d think he would have published a manifesto himself.
They don’t have to say outright that the guy was scum and got what he deserved, just question why the federal charges are being brought while there’s a state case and ask questions about how many other people would have a good reason to want this health insurance executive dead. You can introduce the message without abandoning all other defense and saying it explicitly.
Let’s get a guerilla art piece installed in front of the courthouse labeled “Monument to the Unidentified Gunman”.
Funny that she’s used the word “oligarchs” plenty for Putin’s bunch, but now thinks it’s too “coastal” when applied to American oligarchs. She’s never been concerned about people getting it before, but the moment it might describe America she’s very concerned. Not that they’ll misunderstand it, but that they will.
I’m not sure I can remember a single time a progressive politician put out a navel-gazing messaging statement into the media. It’s almost exclusively done by the centrists who want to pretend they’re just helping out while using it to try to derail progressive campaigns that are gaining attention. And it’s the last thing you should do publicly if one of the aesthetics you’re chasing is “being alpha”.
It’s not even an uncomfortable topic among the people. You can go into a bar of any political persuasion anywhere and loudly complain about those goddamned rich assholes running everything into the ground and screwing over regular folk and all you’ll get is hearty agreement. It’s only an uncomfortable topic among the wealthy and their political lapdogs.
What’s more “alpha” than backing down from a bully and adhering to their chosen framing of an issue?
You know what would actually be “alpha” (ugh)? Not trying to figure out the ideal terminology for whatever state she thinks the populace is inclined to right now and actually driving the conversation to bring people to our viewpoint. Like having a national tour highlighting wealth inequality and corruption by literal mustache twirling villains. Because if you say it enough and talk about the problem that’s right there fucking everything up right now and LEAD, they’ll adopt whatever goddamned term you feel like.
Fuck conservatives. They don’t need to be educated, they need to be beaten. There are more people left of center than right, we just need to prove we’re actually going to fight for them. All of them. Not 80% and then we’ll start to strategize on how many “urban” voters we can lose to pick up white suburbanite conservatives.
You’re the one who just made an argument to listen to the centrists and stop doing “identity politics”. You’re the drama!
Is this another Teen Vogue situation where a media project you wouldn’t expect to have anything to do with political coverage or analysis suddenly comes through with reporting that puts the major media outlets and commentators to shame?