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They weren’t doing it secretly? I suppose they weren’t bragging about torturing LGBT+ people either, but it’s not like this stuff was unknown.

“They’re all rotten” +1

So, about that:

Human rights watch letter to Joe biden

We write to express outrage over your administration’s expansion of the cruel and unnecessary immigration detention system. Last month, you signed a spending bill that provides historically high funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention - $3.4 billion in taxpayers’ money. Our organizations work with and advocate on behalf of people who have experienced immigration detention. They carry life long scars from the mistreatment and dehumanization they endured because of the United States’ reliance on detention, mostly through private prisons and county jails. Your administration is further entrenching this reliance, marking an utter betrayal of your campaign promises.

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The system your administration is expanding is riddled with abuse and impunity. Your senior officials have been aware of these significant human rights concerns since day one. ICE’s jails and prisons operate under insufficient standards with inspections that are notorious for covering up deficiencies. Inadequate medical care results in deaths; LGBTQ individuals in custody suffer homophobic and transphobic harassment and abuse; basic sanitation is often lacking; Black immigrants face unaffordable bonds and violence at disparately high rates; and ICE’s use of solitary confinement regularly meets the United Nations’ definition of torture.

The far right: a beetle story.

I agree, it was around just long enough to set everything up. Characters, settings, plot all established.

Then it died right before it had to start paying anything off.

Now it’s all things to all people. The firefly I imagine and the firefly someone else imagines are totally different, and it was going to be both.

I call it “butt stuff friendly”

Who just sits there and makes up fake words, as if they were real? Hmmph. A real loser, that’s who!

Shakespear didn’t deserve that. Nor Dr Suess, actually maybe they both deserved it.

Stop playing into the stereotype GB News, you’re making the rest of us look bad.

If I were a fish and you saw me, you’d say look at that fish. Shimmering in the sun, can’t believe that you caught one.

It just so happy, and simple, and happy

https://youtu.be/dx_vMONe3tM

You’re a LEG-END. Legend pronounced leg end.

I regularly get the chorus of Weiners as an earworm.

One Weiner next to another Weiner…

I think it’ll end up like any industry with machine made options. There will be the a spectrum of products from 100% human made to majority machine made.

There will be a few bespoke artists doing interesting things for the wealthy and the passionate. But, for most of society, the mass produced stuff is fine.

Take clothes, how many of yours were hand made VS machine made. Cobblers are hand making shoes the world over, we’re yours hand made. I have some hand knitted wool stuff (because I’m passionate about wool) but my Levi’s are machine made. Shoes, motorcycle gear…

Furniture. There’s cabinet makers the world over doing beautiful pieces of work, but I got most of my stuff from IKEA. How about you?

It’ll end up like any other industry with machine made options. The bubble will burst, don’t get me wrong, but after the .com bubble burst we still had the internet.

One of the top posts of fuckai right now is a bottle of olive oil, now I’m not yucking their yum. I just have different things I wanna do with my day than stare at someones olive oil bottle. Not better, I’m glad they have the free time and mental effort to do that, pondering mass produced labels is their jam, I support it. I just wanna do different things. I expect the world is going to want to do different things too.

That sounds like a bunch of people who are even more politically engaged than most. So they’re even more correct than they otherwise implied.

I do. I tried to keep it level. It’s your house, I’m not arguing.

I meant I sent a reply at the end of the chain, where it got ‘heated’.

Eh, Jax replied. I’m happy with those being the last words.

Saw this after I sent my reply? Want me to delete it? I tried to stay level, for what it’s worth, while being called stupid, an idiot, and being told to go fuck myself.

You came to me, you didn’t have to, you can leave at anytime.

Once you proved you were ignorant about the reign of terror already happening, you could have left.

Once you proved you were ignorant about how fascists have been successfully handled in the past, you could have left.

Once you proved you were ignorant about how appeasement doesn’t work you could have left.

I don’t owe you anything: you do not get to come to me, ignore everything I say and demand answers from me. You can, instead, leave.

You can educate yourself about what’s happening right now. You can read MLK’s letter. You can educate yourself about how fascists have been successfully handled in the past. You can educate yourself about how appeasement doesn’t work. You can become a better and more educated person. Or you can tell me to go fuck myself while saying it’s me full of hate.

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What do you disagree with? P1, P2, P3, C1, or C2? Or do you want to keep telling me how you’re not terrorised by the current regime, but would be terrorised by fascists having violence visited upon them.

You want to learn from history? Historically, how have fascists successfully been handled?

I just also recognize your suggestions are equally shit and reductive.

Tell me the difference between fascists and those who fight fascists? You: “I can’t”

Ah yes, the reign of terror

Typical privileged liberal response. For people target by ICE, they are already in the reign of terror. For women losing their rights, they are already in the reign of terror. For lgbt having their rights removed, they are already in the reign of terror. For those with families in Palestine, they are already in the reign of terror. I’m happy for you, you don’t know any of these groups, you have no empathy for these groups.

Those people being terrorised, no reign of terror. Alex pretti being shot, no reign of terror. A rich cishet white pedophile male being shot? Now you’re terrorised.

Wanna deal with my premises and conclusions now? Would you like to disagree with P1, P2, P3, C1 or C2? Or just tell me your terrorised by fascists having violence visited upon them?

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice […] - MLk letter from Birmingham jail