Appreciate the disclaimer.
I don't think that is totally fair assessment and a bit of a strawman. But appreciate that that is what you perceive. I call the posters here clowns for a lot of (imo) well earned reasons. Just do a forum search on "clown" and look at the last pages of when I deployed it. In reviewing the first few pages of results, none correspond to yourdescription and most actually refer to calling the neocons in both the Biden and Trump administration clowns. The ones directed at other posters here is cause they were acting like clowns and didn't have anything to do with any sort of outrage equivalency assessment. I think that that assessment is influenced by projection. The politics board is a clown show and has been for some time. I mean maybe always was, but certainly accelerated in the late Obama, Trump, and Biden eras. A long time ago a from to time to time wise poster observed that the fundamental problem with the CR is that the discussion here devolves into strawman argumentation. He now wallows in it himself. Pretty emblematic imo.
American policy wrt Israel? I have been beating that drum for over 20 years in this community. It's just now turned to 11 for you? I mean I guess that's a take. I'll try to do better though. I was watching a video this morning of a young girl in a gaza, maybe 14ish by appearance, squirting brain matter out her head and somewhat still conscious for a moment. I'll be sure to post more of those videos so we all know what keeps the juice running for the american defense base. I'll try to do a couple a day. I must admit, I do miss me some vampire matt miller at the podium though.
If as on this thread, you want to talk about the execution of federal and many other search warrants. Shit, been there to. ICE ain't the real problem, it's just an example of the problem, ane one that creates greater outrage at this particular moment in this particular forum. That OK situation looks like a very very common one where the intended targets where not at the location and the police come in banging and treating everyone like shit. It's been happening every year for what, decades now? If it was a sign of the fascist overtake of this country, that boat sailed a long time ago. Qualified immunity is and long has been (just) one of the real problems, imo.
Immigration broadly? Shit. Discussions that have been had numerous times here and positions laid out. We need a policy that allows for the streamlined and efficient processing and vetting of people that want to come to work in this country. I don't care if they are from Mexico or India or where ever. A lot of my thinking on the immigration issue, in particular recently, has been influenced recently by some of my colleagues and their own experiences. That whole system is fucked up, but I see the lengths that people have to go to play by the rules. And the sacrifices they have to make to do so. So my take on that one today, people need to play by the rules and the system needs major reform. I don't go into another country without following the rules, the people I work with don't, and I would hope that we could expect the same of others. If you are not playing by the rules, you should be sent home. I'd like that to be done with due process and some fucking modicum of compassion, but also understand that in the current environment we are in a pendulum swing.
Disagree with this very much so. I never really took any major flack on these boards until I pretty consistently starting pointing some of the very absurd aspects of the Trump-Russia conspiracy theories that got wild traction here. Particularly the Steele Dossier absurdities (Dead On Ballz Accurate in the parlance of some posters here), and the totally inappropriate use of the unconstitutional American surveillance system to target politicians (thanks IG for that report, that was fun). That's really the root of most of it. Disco alluded to it in his post here or on the other thread.