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I have as much say in stopping our government's descent into fascism as I do for improving our o-line. We can sunshine pump all we want but I'm not sure what if anything you or I can do to directly affect a change. Further, shitting on discussion and discourse does nothing but reinforce the status quo as "normal". So that's probably a big part of why you're getting the reaction you've been enjoying. But seriously, I've canvassed for candidates I like, called my reps and senators (lmfao, right?) to express my position as a constituent, but sadly I lack the millions in disposable political speech (read: millions of dollars) that enable my voice to be truly heard. It's a lot easier to not be a downer when everything isn't going to shit while a group is dedicated to accelerating that trend. It does suck that it's not the early 2000's and we still had a semblance of class mobility and market fairness, and a football team that didn't crumble in the face of adversity, but alas. We fuckin don't.
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Our economy is NOT strong - an ever smaller group of consumers and businesses make up a significantly larger percentage of spending. It's a K-shaped economy with the top getting exponentially bigger while the bottom gets steadily smaller. The stock market is strong, but individuals are fucking struggling. Hard times and complex problems make people look for simple solutions, and trumpism and blaming nonwhite people is a simple answer. I joked earlier this year about trump DIY'ing his own economic calamity to enable his fascist takeover, and goddamn it's happening before our eyes
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
TFW modern policing started out as slave catching patrols "just enforcing the law". And yeah, we've been operating in a semi-fuedal means for as long as housing as been out of reach for the average/median American. Lords of the land seek and extract rents from the workers who live on their land. If you don't have a home, you are criminalized as a homeless person and pushed further down the social hierarchy. So, you MUST go find a job in order to give the majority of your earnings to a landlord just so that you can avoid sliding further down. Remember, to them, the only value that you intrinsically hold is how much money can be extracted from you. Nothing more, and absolutely nothing less than extracting wealth and funneling it to the oligarchs -
You should really read a history book about 1930s Germany and how often the nazis fucked up their plans and pissed off their citizenry until their schemes caught on through cultural normalization. There can be all the resistance you want, and then DHS will helo-rappel down and go Fallujah on them. The State has a legal monopoly on violence, and they have been ratcheting up with zero check on their power. I really wish I had your optimistic mindset, but brother, America is as cooked as our o-line is.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Speaking of Doctorow, he just did a long interview with Adam Conover on the subject of enshittification -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
One step further, Sergio was a whistle stop for GW Bush and catered for his fucking campaign events! The entire point of these actions is to terrorize nonwhite people and create an underclass of person that is unprotected by the law but still subject to it. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/texas-waco-chef-deported-sergio-garcia-ice-undocumented/ He was a well-known business owner who had won an international following in the years when President George W. Bush brought hordes of journalists and politicians to Waco. Within 24 hours, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had Garcia deported across the border into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. He was separated from his four U.S.-born adult children and wife, Sandra. Sandra Garcia, also undocumented, would reunite in July with her husband in Monterrey. The detention and deportation abruptly cut short an American dream 36 years in the making. It came as a shock to customers and fellow business leaders. The news rippled through Waco’s immigrant community and brought a sense of fear and vulnerability, said Mito Diaz-Espinoza, president of the Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. “Deportations like Sergio’s — to fixtures of the community — are making people think, ‘This could be me next, or my favorite place next, or somebody who I talk to every day’,” he said. Garcia, originally from Veracruz, Mexico, rose from selling ceviche in Styrofoam cups to earning writeups in Texas Monthly and catering events related to President Bush’s Western White House in the 2000s. A box of thank-you notes at the family’s Waco home includes signed letters by a Baylor University athletic director, Waco Independent School District and countless customers through the years. -
Aren't you enjoying the historic levels of hype???
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The problem is that the courts are too slow to handle their fascist schemes. They can do damage and destroy public services without legal backing. They simply go and do it, and are shielded by the sheer audacity of it all. It's the classic fascist playbook man. There are hundreds of missing persons from their Florida concentration camp. It's not even a year into the administration. You shouldn't focus on where they're blocked, but on the damage being wrought on an international scale. We will have no allies except for other dictators and strong men
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He's Trump's goebbels
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
It really illuminates the empty and crass mindset you carry with respect to community and one's "worth". People aren't just machines to extract value out of and with. They raise children, build friendships and relationships, and make up the culture of a region through expressing themselves. Just because you think he's untermensch doesn't make it so. Your argument is akin to what slave catchers used - "duh law says so, so we havtuh go treat this person like an animal". Go eat a bag of dicks and die in a fire you fuck- 1189 replies
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Im about 99.999% sure that's the latest GRUhorn sock, fwiw.
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Almost like Jesus had a parable on that exact topic, or something (Luke 18:10-14)
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yikes, watch your cornholes empathetic Christians
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the content is interesting, but goddamn I cannot stand the AI voiceover that has become endemic to YT
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and his imminent pardon of his partner in pedophilia, Maxwell
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You should post this in your Shame Gillis thread to really demonstrate his point lol
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Newsweek: Donald Trump Says He’ll Speak to DOJ About Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon President Donald Trump said Monday that he would need to "speak to the DOJ [Department of Justice]" when asked about a potential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking during an Oval Office event focused on approving a new mining road in Alaska, Trump told reporters he hadn't "heard the name in so long" and would "take a look at it." The exchange with CNN's Kaitlan Collins came after the Supreme Court rejected Maxwell's appeal to overturn her conviction earlier on Monday. When Collins pressed Trump on Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction, the president reiterated: "I'll have to take a look at it."
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Judge's house burned down after ruling against Trump Administration
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
In Ground news this was the most neutral and highly factual source for this story, what public accusations are you referring to? The judge was getting credible death threats referencing her rulings, the administration singled her out, and then a few days later her house burned down. Thems the facts -
Judge's house burned down after ruling against Trump Administration
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
They haven't found a nit they can pick at to ignore the issue, so they're sitting this one out I guess -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
ya know, you could just pull the mask off like your peer Chrispy did - it's really a beating to have a founding member of the Rittenhouse fan club constantly lie and derail the topic of ICE going gestapo on people. let's try and dumb it down for you: Yes or no: do you think ICE is going overboard? -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Except... That didn't fucking happen. The only people claiming it happened is ICE and their bootlickers. There's no evidence of it happening, and what we can see and find is ICE officers ramming people for the crime of being nonwhite. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
No you didn't, you called me a clown and implied that I'm overreacting to something that isn't happening. You're picking nits to attack me personally instead of engaging with the reality of the slow motion Kristallnacht that you voted for. And the fact that there's multiple incidents of ICE ramming people for the crime of being brown should in and of itself be a fucking concern -
What the fuck is wrong with you, Houston? Non-CR thread
Captainant replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
It's unfortunate that SJL decided to run because she was able to muscle everyone else out but had a TON of baggage and then literally died a few month into what would have been her mayoral term. It's a microcosm of a much bigger issue -
Shocking how little reporting and discussion there's been about this issue, especially considering the recent concern over political violence. Time: House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down Police are investigating the cause of a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work. State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach, which began at around 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Saturday, sources told local news outlet FITSNews. Goodstein was reportedly not at home at the time of the fire, but at least three members of her family, including her husband, former Democratic state senator Arnold Goodstein, and their son, have been hospitalized with serious injuries. According to the St. Paul’s Fire District, which responded to the scene, the occupants had to be rescued via kayak. Law enforcement has not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack. “At this time, we do not know whether the fire was accidental or arson. Until that determination is made, [State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel] has alerted local law enforcement to provide extra patrols and security,” South Caroline Chief Justice John Kittredge told FITSNews, adding that the fire appeared to have been caused by an “explosion.” The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire, multiple sources told FITSNews. Last month, Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice, a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and later reversed by the state Supreme Court. The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers, of over three million registered voters as part of President Donald Trump’s March executive order restricting non-citizens from registering to vote. (Non-citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal and state elections.) ... Hours before the fire at Goodstein’s house, Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller accused U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut of “legal insurrection” for granting a restraining order that blocks Trump’s deployment of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said in a post from his office that Miller’s accusation “for ruling on a case isn’t just reckless. It’s authoritarian propaganda, plain and simple.” (Miller has previously accused Democrats of using incendiary language to “mark people” for political violence.) Trump has called specific judges who have pushed back on his executive orders “radical left lunatic” and “troublemaker and agitator.” In May, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the panel of judges that ruled against Trump’s sweeping tariffs “activist judges.” In a post that month, Miller said, “We are living under a judicial tyranny.”
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
I'm glad you're honest about voting to brutalize and terrorize brown people and citizens. It's a big step forward for you, you goddamn fucking fascist. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.989081/gov.uscourts.cacd.989081.9.0.pdf People are being DISAPPEARED for more than a month and held under guard for no fucking reason besides the color of their skin. It's completely fucked and anyone cheering for this sort of treatment is a goddamn fascist goon- 1189 replies
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