Basic psychology.
Anyone who has already decided that they like Elon (or MAGA) do not want to believe that they are the bad guy. So they will reach for even the worst of arguments to make themselves believe they aren’t the bad guy.
Remember: Nazis themselves refuse to believe the Holocaust happened. Same same really. No one wants to think of themselves as the bad guy.
Note that frozen potatoes were found to be an illegal cartel just last year. Its quite possible that the egg suppliers are doing similar.
The problem is that I don’t trust Trump on this issue.
Cartoon published in 1910. What do you think?
Note: Spain did NOT in fact, blowup that ship.
Yeah, the non-existent Deep State. These fuckers are firing important people looking for ghosts and goblins.
They became the Government and are using their power to mass fire everyone to get rid of the Deep State.
Why do you think MAGA is so willing and ready to fire huge swaths of the US Government?
Hitler relied upon the Reichstag fire to sieze power.
The Nazis were the specific kind of political entity to judo-reverse protesters and “prove” to the public that it was the Communist opposition who were truly the enemy. As the German public demonized the Communists, the Fascists gained in power weeks after Hitler took power.
The opposite is happening here: ever so slightly, public opinion is turning against Elon Musk (maybe not Trump yet, but DOGE is becoming a toxic word right now). A leftist “attack” in these times could consolidate the right much like the Reichstag fire did (or for a more American example: the two assassination attempts on Trump only allowed his side to grow stronger).
The prison camps will take years to build. The current plan is to send people to Guantanamo Bay, which literally doesn’t have enough room to make a dent in our protests.
The ideal is to wait long enough to convince the maximum number of dumbass MAGAts that they’ve been tricked by Trump. This number is smaller than people expect, but its not 0%. I’m already seeing some questions being posed in my Republican circles (ie: “Why isn’t Trump more focused on these Federal cuts?”) but not the right questions (ex: “Why is Trump so dumb??”).
So the current environment is to our political advantage. We need to move before things reach the concentration camp or authoritarian stages of course, but we have some degree of time to work with.
Lol. Trump and Vance just sucked Putins cock for the world to see last week, while cancelling US Farmers contracts to USAID and mass firing USDA during a bird flu pandemic destroying our egg supply.
There is no final straw. This is what we got.
I’m not saying we need to take action immediately. Letting this toxicity stew for a few months is to the Democrats advantage. But the vast, vast majority of conservatives are brainwashed peasants who will not change their opinion.
GOPs explicit goal is to seek control of the majority of the majority of voters, which is only like 16% of people. (60% voters best case, 30% Republicans, only 16% of hardcore Republicans to keep in check). That’s all they need to continue to stay in power.
What we can do is try to split that 16% group explicitly and try to turn them against each other. Farmers who lose government contracts, hawks who don’t want to work with Russia, etc. etc. it’s all microscopic fractions of a fraction of people but it adds up.
The laws people care about in this topic, white collar corruption in government officials, is handled by FBI. Who is controlled by the President
President enforces the laws. Apparently Americans have forgotten this.
No. There are tons of people who require others to get vaccinated and rely upon herd immunity.
Ghandi. MLK Civil Rights. Rosa Park.
The goal is to demoralize and ultimately fire these people.
This is all just the first steps before the debt ceiling talks next month. People need to seriously learn to look forward a week or two or three.
Over Clinton’s email server. Or something.
I dunno, I can’t fucking follow this shit or their thought process anymore.
To explain how utterly insane this is: the email requires a response by Monday. Elon Musk sent out these emails on Saturday Night.
FBI primarily works on Top Secret missions, meaning they do NOT often read unclassified emails. Department of Energy is largely Top Secret (ie: Nuclear Weapons) projects.
In these Top Secret jobs, it is illegal to say what you’ve done in an unclassified setting. So it isn’t very clear how you’re even supposed to write an email on what you’ve done, as writing such an email is literally illegal.
Also, David basically brought a gun to a knife fight against Goliath. Seems like Goliath should have been considered the underdog :3
Its been suggested that the combat could have been a ritualistic slaughter. Much like the Gladiator Ring was ritualized slaughter, to appease the masses.
IE: David vs Goliath, if it were to ever have happened in true history, would have always been written down like the story. The concept of “true history” wasn’t invented until centuries after that particular story. The purpose of writing in the Bronze Age was to build shared culture and shared stories.
Pretty much any criminal gang scenario.
Take crypto coins for example. By using crypto coins and anonymizers you are avoiding the Goliath of the FBI and other monetary controls.
But you are supporting literal human trafficking and slavery, sanctions avoidance and ultimately benefiting Russia, North Korea and Iran.
Free Palestine going full mask off. They don’t even bother protesting over Trump or recent actions as things get worse. It was all bullshit.
Literally genocide.
As opposed to the fake over exaggerated genocide the Free Palestine protesters were uppity about. Let’s raise you a real fucking Genocide.
Both sides tho.
Pretty simple. A jury is 12 rrandom-ish people (ignoring the Voir Dire process where lawyers argue about who deserves to be on the jury).
If you openly are for jury nullification, then the prosecutor will try to throw you out in the Voir Dire proces (its unfair to the prosecutor if you think that you can ignore the Prosecutor’s argument entirely). Then they select someone else to be part of the jury.
Secondly, all 12 members of the jury have to agree on the decision. So all 12 of you have to agree that the law is unfair in this case and opt for jury nullification instead. There’s examples where this happens: ex a child gets charged for child pornography when they send a picture of themselves. After all, they “distributed child porn” which is grossly illegal by the law, but the jury can agree “Yeah, they broke the law but don’t deserve to be punished in this case”. That’s the kind of thing jury nullification was created for, when everything is “technically correct”, but the jury is smart enough to realize that its not “Truly a crime”.
Now people bring up the Jury Nullification as a potential… erm… way to get someone out of a murder case. Highly unlikely that you’d get all 12 people agreeing on that. At best, you’d probably get a hung jury if say, 2 or 3 people agreed ahead of time to use jury nullification.
Furthermore, by showing that you’ve got “interest” in a case means that you’re no longer a random person off the street, but instead someone who may have been misinformed by media about a case. A jury must be ignorant about the case and have an open mind for the trial process to work at all. So people with pre-existing knowledge about cases are often thrown out during Voir Dire. This is because many pieces of evidence are often determined to be illegal. (Ex: if the police illegally wiretapped you, then the evidence CANNOT be shown to the jury, even if the wiretap was published in the media). So the evidence that shows up in court is itself part of a large process and selective ignorance is in fact key to the whole shebang. (How else can you punish a prosecutor for illegally obtaining evidence? Even if the evidence is true, it must be struck out of the record and the prosecutor is not allowed to use such evidence in their case).