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This might be the truest thing in the history of the internet

Yep.
The working class cheering on billionaires as they suck the lifeblood out of the country, all so they can grab the satisfaction of being mean to Mexican landscaping crews, is amazing to watch. I never imagined anything that stupid, but here we are.
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this is nothing, but for some reason it really hit me, two small things pulled my trigger this week...
first... in the last week the blue mailboxes have been removed from the driveway/parking lot of our local post office. gotta find a spot, park and go inside now to drop a letter. 
and then we went to a nearby NFS area...lake, trails, park...and i have never seen restroom facilities at a federal park/site as filthy and neglected, looked like they hadn't been serviced or cleaned in over a week. i won't describe them, just disgusting.
minor examples reflecting the larger purposeful decay and destruction of our federal systems. 
i dunno...i was just already unreasonably annoyed about the post office bc wtfWHY?? and then the atrocious facilities just sent me over the edge. i got back in the car and had an actual cry. 
guess i should just be happy there weren't For Sale signs everywhere.
 

They got rid of the drive through mailboxes at the Allandale post office recently. There also used to be one in the hood on Greenlawn but it’s gone too.
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8 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:


They got rid of the drive through mailboxes at the Allandale post office recently. There also used to be one in the hood on Greenlawn but it’s gone too.

 

200 mules !!!!!

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46 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


Yep.
The working class cheering on billionaires as they suck the lifeblood out of the country, all so they can grab the satisfaction of being mean to Mexican landscaping crews, is amazing to watch. I never imagined anything that stupid, but here we are.

The backlash to the civil rights movement that buttresses the modern Republican Party has been going on for 70 years, so it's not all that surprising.

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5 hours ago, speed817 said:

 

Bullshit. 

Sloth was a tender hearted soul who sacrificed himself to save others. 

The exact opposite of Dotard 

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10 hours ago, Macanudo said:

Shawn Ryan is still a choad though.

scratching my head because he’s a huge Trump bootlicker isn’t he? Is that real?

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11 hours ago, mchookem said:

this is nothing, but for some reason it really hit me, two small things pulled my trigger this week...

first... in the last week the blue mailboxes have been removed from the driveway/parking lot of our local post office. gotta find a spot, park and go inside now to drop a letter. 

and then we went to a nearby NFS area...lake, trails, park...and i have never seen restroom facilities at a federal park/site as filthy and neglected, looked like they hadn't been serviced or cleaned in over a week. i won't describe them, just disgusting.

minor examples reflecting the larger purposeful decay and destruction of our federal systems. 

i dunno...i was just already unreasonably annoyed about the post office bc wtfWHY?? and then the atrocious facilities just sent me over the edge. i got back in the car and had an actual cry. 

guess i should just be happy there weren't For Sale signs everywhere. 😞

 

“Not yet” (Sen. Mike Lee)

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Posting this in both DT and CR, very longcat Facebook post from a HS friend of mine who is a defense attorney and whose wife is the exact kind of US citizen who is being threatened by Trump's policies. Spoilering because quite long but worth the read.

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HOW TO TALK TO, ABOUT, AND WITH YOUR LATINO FRIENDS DURING THIS TIME


Look, I'm not going to sugarcoat this. As an attorney, we are in dire straits in this country with regards to "immigration." Whatever you think about so-called "illegal immigration," the scope of DHS activities, ICE, and CBP has gone far, far beyond merely enforcing existing immigration laws against undocumented persons. As a matter of verifiable fact, the authorities are taking steps to DENATURALIZE citizens, end birthright citizenship, and according to the vice president, make citizenship in this country a matter of who your ancestors were, not whether you've met the legal requirements for citizenship. Stephen Miller does not care whether you were born here, born to US parents, or earned your citizenship with tests and long years spent under a visa or green card. Stephen Miller hates the color of your skin and will do anything he can to remove you from the country. 


This kind of blood and soil nationalism is infuriating, threatening, and maddening to white Americans who can trace their ancestry back to the colonial times. So... let's imagine, for a moment, how your Latino friends feel.


Those of you who grew up in the Southwest know that many Latin Americans did not cross the border; the border crossed them. As the US expanded westward, we took, bought, or recovered land by treaty from Spain and Mexico, turning many formerly Spanish subjects or Mexican citizens into US territorial subjects or citizens of Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and so forth.


So it is wrong, at the outset, to treat Latin Americans as a class of "immigrants." Many of them have been living in the same area for hundreds of years more than the United States has expanded this far westward.


But others of them did come across a border once established in the 1800s. The problem is: the government sees no difference between these people. Whether they are Native American, European, African, Caribbean, or some mixture thereof in ancestry, all Latin Americans in the United States are painted with the same broad brush: they are Othered, they are held to suspicion of having come here "illegally," and they are subject to deportation.


Living as I have the past 23 years with a Latina, let me tell you the horrific things that get said to her: asking about her green card (she is a US citizen by birth), making jokes about "going back" or "deportation" (she has more right to be here than most Anglo Americans), or worse, the kind of smarmy self-regard that well-meaning centrists and liberals toss out to her.


[Wife's name redacted] has been told, "oh, don't worry, you're not the type they're looking for" or "it's OK, you're one of the good ones." Or worse, when she voices her very real fear that one power-tripping ICE agent could arrest her, detain her, and force her to prove her US citizenship over a challenge to "birthright citizenship" or even "denaturalization," people tell her not to harsh their vibes, that thinking about that ruins everyone's good time, and that she shouldn't be inflicting that kind of worry on people when it's not likely to happen to /her/.


And there is alot of understated, implicit racism in all of that. Many people forget that because Becky doesn't have an accent, is married to a white guy, and sits comfortably in the upper middle class that she's Latina. Among our white friends especially, she gets coded white because of her relation to me, her interests, and what we do. People rarely get to hear her speak Spanish (which she does well) or see her dance to Tejano and norteno music. You don't get to hear her talk to her family in Spanglish or celebrate Dia de Los Muertos or Diezyseis or other Mexican holidays (NOT Cinco de Gringo). And because of that, you often forget... she's as much a Mexican citizen as a US.


Her father was a Mexican citizen. Her mother is a US citizen. But she was born across the river, in Mexico. Her birth certificate is Mexican; we have a certificate of live birth recording her birth and status as a US citizen. So yes, the proposed changes to the 14th Amendment understanding of birthright citizenship (that we deny citizenship to children of two foreign subject parents born on US soil) would not necessarily affect her... but we've already seen them apply the same logic to US citizens by birth born abroad or born to foreign national parents. It is not a big leap from "denaturalize the children of foreign nationals born on US soil" to "reject the citizenship of US children born abroad to only one US citizen parent." 


And even if I could (because I'm not a bad attorney, and I know some excellent immigration lawyers) successfully argue that her case should be dismissed, that would still require her to spend nights, maybe weeks or months, in cruel conditions in ICE detention, cost us untold amounts of money in retainers or my lost time from work dealing with it, and leave us both scarred and traumatized by the experience.


And this is something we have to think about every time we leave the house or when we travel. When Becky was coming back in through customs after a cruise this past April, I sat in trembling anxiety until I heard that she cleared customs. And again, we are fortunate enough that we have CLEAR and Global Entry, but all it would take is one power tripping customs agent to pull her aside and then I'm on a flight to Miami to try to get her out.


So please, please, please, when you're discussing the political situation regarding immigration (and I think I have curated my FB list enough that most, if not everyone, agrees with our political position on this) understand that it is very real for some of your friends. And for those that are Latin American, don't do things like call them one of the "good ones" (implying that others, or even most Latin Americans, are "bad ones" or not good) or suggest that having the financial resources necessary or being covered by the white privilege of a partner or friend will do any good.


All you need to do is look through the news to see that masked ICE goons are indiscriminately assaulting and arresting anyone they deem sufficiently suspicious of violating immigration laws, e.g., having more melanin than the average American. You can be as white-passing as you want, if an ICE agent sees your last name is "Rodriguez," prepare for additional scrutiny.


And sadly, judges and local law enforcement are not doing enough to reign them in. If you live in a comfortable blue state where your governor is taking steps to reduce ICE's power and exclude their operations, I envy you. For those of us trapped in red states, there's a very real fear that a trip to the mall to buy clothes could end up in handcuffs or worse.


A little sensitivity is going to go a long way. And understanding that there's a special dimension to trauma to your Latin American friends goes even further. It won't hurt us to be careful with how we speak and examine the concepts and language we employ, even if unintentionally, for how that language comes across and who our audience is.

 

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7 hours ago, NWBuck said:

Bullshit. 

Sloth was a tender hearted soul who sacrificed himself to save others. 

The exact opposite of Dotard 

He didn’t sacrifice himself. He became part of Chunks family at the end. 

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The person who wrote that doesn't actually believe it for one second (assuming he's ever been in a single corporate meeting), and he doesn't give a fuck.

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Last night I found myself thinking a great deal about this, and how the other-directed harm visited upon minorities and out-groups in Trump’s America is the mirror image of the self-harm visited upon rural Texans. 
As a free market capitalist in both idea and instinct I don’t often find occasion to quote Trotsky, a brilliant thinker whose very forgivable primary intellectual sin was to be wrong about whether We The People were capable of utopia. Nevertheless, his unflinching criticism of both fascism and Stalinism were penetrating and prescient, and they are worth reconsidering at this moment. 

Last night I watched the county court meeting where citizens of Kerr County demanded that FEMA money not go to flood preparations. It reminded me of polemic, “What is National Socialism?,” written while in exile from Stalin’s Russia in 1933, a few months after Hitler became Chancellor while many in the United States, France and England (including Churchill, to his eternal shame) were still ignoring the truth before their eyes.

The whole thing is worth a read, but I’ve been thinking about these three passages:

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The rapid growth of German capitalism prior to the First World War by no means signified a simple destruction of the middle classes. Although it ruined some layers of the petty bourgeoisie it created others anew: around the factories, artisans and shopkeepers; within the factories, technicians and executives. But while preserving themselves and even growing numerically – the old and the new petty bourgeoisie compose a little less than one-half of the German nation – the middle classes have lost the last shadow of independence. They live on the periphery of large-scale industry and the banking system, and they live off the crumbs from the table of the monopolies and cartels, and off the spiritual alms of their theorists and professional politicians.

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Personality and class – liberalism and Marxism – are evil. The nation – is good. But at the threshold of private property this philosophy is turned inside out. Salvation lies only in personal private property. The idea of national property is the spawn of Bolshevism. Deifying the nation, the petty bourgeois does not want to give it anything. On the contrary, he expects the nation to endow him with property and to safeguard him from the worker and the process-server. Unfortunately, the Third Reich will bestow nothing upon the petty bourgeois except new taxes.

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Fascism has opened up the depths of society for politics. Today, not only in peasant homes but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside of the twentieth century the tenth or the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic power of signs and exorcisms. The Pope of Rome broadcasts over the radio about the miraculous transformation of water into wine. Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man’s genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance, and savagery! Despair has raised them to their feet fascism has given them a banner.

 

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38 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

The person who wrote that doesn't actually believe it for one second (assuming he's ever been in a single corporate meeting), and he doesn't give a fuck.

 

I'm assuming you were replying to what I had posted.  It's from Marc Andreessen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/12/marc-andreessen-private-chat-universities-diversity/

 

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Influential tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen recently said universities will “pay the price” for promoting diversity and allegedly discriminating against supporters of President Donald Trump, according to messages he sent to a group chat with White House officials and technology leaders reviewed by The Washington Post.

The billionaire’s messages also cited Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, a respected institution at the heart of Silicon Valley that has incubated tech companies such as Google. Andreessen and his wife have donated millions of dollars to the school.

 

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“I view Stanford and MIT as mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation at this point,” Andreessen wrote in screenshots of messages sent May 3 and reviewed by The Post.

The investor described a “counterattack” against universities in his messages and called for the National Science Foundation, a federal research funding agency, to receive “the bureaucratic death penalty.”

Andreessen co-founded one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz, which embraced President Donald Trump’s candidacy last year. While Elon Musk was the most visible tech mogul in Trump’s orbit until he split with the president, Andreessen has quietly helped shape the administration’s hiring and policy decisions.

 

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The tech investor is known for making controversial statements, including to his 1.8 million followers on X, and has criticized universities and government agencies in media appearances, but his comments in the private chat went beyond his previous statements.

In addition to criticizing Stanford and MIT, Andreessen sent a rapid-fire series of messages, according to the screenshots and two members of the chat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“The universities are at Ground Zero of the counterattack” from Trump voters, Andreessen wrote, alleging colleges favored immigrants over Americans and promoted DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion policies intended to increase race and gender representation.

 

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“The combination of DEI and immigration is politically lethal,” Andreessen wrote. “When these two forms of discrimination combine, as they have for the last 60 years and on hyperdrive for the last decade, they systematically cut most of the children of the Trump voter base out of any realistic prospect of access to higher education and corporate America.”

Andreessen did not respond to requests for comment through his venture firm. He quickly deleted many of the messages after sending them, according to the screenshots and the two members of the chat.

Andreessen sent his messages to a WhatsApp group used by Trump officials to discuss artificial intelligence policy with dozens of tech figures and academics, according to screenshots of the chat from May and June reviewed by The Post.

The group, whose members have varied political views, predates the current Trump administration. It was established in 2023 to connect investors and others with a shared interest in open development of AI.

A White House official said members of the Trump administration in the group participated in their personal capacity, no official policy was discussed, and that Andreessen was not an official adviser to the president.

Andreessen in his messages did not suggest any action against Stanford and MIT. The Trump administration has targeted the University of Virginia, Harvard and Columbia over issues including DEI initiatives and alleged antisemitism, moving to cancel funding and student visas.

“They declared war on 70% of the country and now they’re going to pay the price,” Andreessen alleged of universities, without calling out a specific school.

“MIT is merit-based and affordable, driven by innovation and entrepreneurship, and committed to excellence — all with a mission of national service,” said its spokesperson Kimberly Allen in an email statement. A spokesperson for Stanford, Dee Mostofi, declined to comment on the message Andreessen wrote about the university.

‘Bureaucratic death penalty’

Andreessen grew up in rural Wisconsin and rose to prominence in Silicon Valley in the 1990s as co-creator of Netscape, one of the first popular web browsers. His influence and wealth has grown during the past decade through Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested in Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb. The firm financially backed Musk’s 2022 takeover of Twitter, which Andreessen said would encourage free speech.

The investor has supported Democratic presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton in 2016, but backed Republican Mitt Romney in 2012. Andreessen and his firm backed Trump after his attempted assassination in July last year, an endorsement the firm said could protect tech start-ups from hostile policies pushed by the Biden administration.

In a company blog post, Andreessen and his co-founder wrote that their firm’s political efforts were “entirely focused” on helping start-ups, including through “expansion of high-skilled immigration to encourage foreign graduates of American universities” to build companies in the United States.

Andreessen has previously criticized DEI, affirmative action, federal agencies and universities, alleging colleges radicalized young tech workers and were “unfixable,” including on his firm’s podcast and in podcast interviews after the election. The investor in January told podcaster Lex Fridman he was rethinking his support for high-skilled immigration, which the tech industry uses to source talent, because he thought it had disadvantaged native-born Americans.

Andreessen’s message to the group about subjecting the NSF to “the bureaucratic death penalty” alleged that the agency, a major funder of university science and tech labs, backed projects that led to online censorship of American citizens — a talking point among some Trump supporters. The investor added: “Raze it to the ground and start over.”

Some members of the group chat found Andreessen’s comments discussing immigration and attacks on universities extreme and out of character with the chat’s usual tone, the two members of the chat said.

AI insiders have often used the chat to impress on Trump officials that alienating immigrants and attacking universities will undermine the ability of the U.S. to maintain its lead in technology by attracting and training top talent, the two members said.

Andreessen ceased participating in the group soon after his messages in early May, the two members said.

The chat is moderated by Sriram Krishnan, a White House senior policy adviser on AI, according to screenshots and the two group members. Krishnan created the group before Trump’s second term, while he was working as a partner at Andreessen’s firm. Dean Ball, another White House adviser on AI, is also a frequent contributor, the two chat members said.

AI experts in the chat include Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University, who supported Kamala Harris’s presidential bid; and Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor and robotics entrepreneur, who worked with the Biden administration to promote government funding for public sector AI projects. Steven Sinofsky, a partner at Andreessen’s firm, is also in the group.

LeCun and Krishnan declined to comment for this article. Ball, Li and Sinofsky did not respond to requests for comment.

In recent months the group has argued over Trump administration budget cuts at the NSF, and whether the government should place export restrictions on Chinese AI company DeepSeek, the two members told The Post. In January U.S. tech stocks crashed after the company claimed it could achieve similar results to American rivals with fewer resources.

‘Upstream of mainstream’

Andreessen has said that encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Signal, which allow users to set up disappearing messages, have become a safe outlet for tech elites to share polarizing views likely to meet public backlash, a trend he called “the group chat phenomenon” in the January podcast interview with Fridman. Andreessen is on the board of Meta, which owns WhatsApp.

Group chats took off in Silicon Valley during the political upheaval of 2020, spurred by pandemic lockdowns and the murder of George Floyd. “The great culture wars of 2020 meant people, especially in tech, weren’t comfortable sharing their views in public lest they get various online mobs after them,” Krishnan wrote on his personal blog last year.

The chats provide venues to workshop those ideas before they’re shared on social media, Krishnan said, functioning as “the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion.”

Group chats helped forge a new alliance between tech elites and Trump before Silicon Valley elites publicly declared their support and Andreessen was at the center of many of those messaging threads, Semafor reported in April.

The tech industry has historically lobbied in favor of government funding for scientific research and high-skilled immigration, which some studies show has been crucial to the sector’s flourishing. A growing number of tech figures such as Musk and venture capitalist David Sacks, now Trump’s AI and crypto czar, have broken with that received wisdom in recent years, celebrating Trump’s moves to slash government funding and target Harvard and other schools.

Andreessen’s comments against Stanford in the group chat pit a high-priest of Silicon Valley against a beloved local school that has served as a crucial pipeline for the industry, providing ideas, research funding and technical talent, including the founders of Instagram and LinkedIn. MIT has long been a top recruiting ground for the tech industry. Two pension funds for MIT employees have invested in venture funds managed by Andreessen’s firm, according to federal filings.

‘Not going to take it any more’

Andreessen’s comments in May came after another member of the chat group expressed skepticism that diversity policies or environmental and workplace regulation had reduced economic growth. When Krishnan, the investor turned Trump official, invited Andreessen to offer an opposing view, Andreessen fired off his comments about immigration and diversity.

The billionaire also mentioned a personal disagreement with Stanford, alleging that his wife, philanthropist Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, was forced to leave her position as chair of its Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, which she co-founded and helped fund. Arrillaga-Andreessen did not respond to requests for comment.

“[T]hey forced my wife out of Stanford without a second thought, a decision that will cost them something like $5 billion in future donations,” Andreessen wrote in his messages to the group, without specifying the cause of the dispute. Arrillaga-Andreessen’s LinkedIn profile indicates she stopped being chair of the philanthropy center in 2024.

Mostofi in an email statement praised Arrillaga-Andreessen’s philanthropic and academic contributions to the university. “Her initiative as the founder and longtime chair of [the center] was instrumental in driving attention to these important topics,” Mostofi said, adding that Arrillaga-Andreessen will teach at Stanford’s business school in the fall.

The couple’s names were included in the job titles of academics who led the philanthropy center. They donated almost $28 million to Stanford Hospital in 2007 and $2 million to Stanford Healthcare in 2020.

Andreessen, who was born in Iowa, went to the University of Illinois, and built his businesses in California, suggested in his messages that he was among a large group of Americans tired of perceived injustice.

“My cohort of citizens,” he wrote, had once been willing to accept diversity policies as the cost of prior bigotry in American society, “even though the discrimination was now aimed at us,” according to the screenshots.

“The insanity of the last 8 years and in particular the summer of 2020, totally shredded that complacency,” Andreessen added, apparently referring to protests and discussion of diversity after the death of Floyd. “And so now my people are furious and not going to take it anymore,” he wrote.

 

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I know where those 300,000 missing kids are.  They're in the basement of Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor in Washington, DC.

Don't give me the usual crap about there being no basement in that restaurant.  Fake news.

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12 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Yep.
The working class cheering on billionaires as they suck the lifeblood out of the country, all so they can grab the satisfaction of being mean to Mexican landscaping crews, is amazing to watch. I never imagined anything that stupid, but here we are.

It’s not to be mean—it’s that those  landscaping crews are poisoning the blood of this country. If you don’t believe me, try speaking Spanish in public in a small white town.

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12 hours ago, Pancho said:

Dog Killer Noem should be in prison

 

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Gnome needed the money to add to the DHS budget in their war against Californians.

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

“The combination of DEI and immigration is politically lethal,” Andreessen wrote. “When these two forms of discrimination combine, as they have for the last 60 years and on hyperdrive for the last decade, they systematically cut most of the children of the Trump voter base out of any realistic prospect of access to higher education and corporate America.”

This statement, taken literally and at face value, is not fully untrue. What’s deeply and insidiously false about it is the unmistakable upshot implicated: that those two things are the only things, or even the primary things denying the children of Trump’s base from access. Here again, Trotsky’s words resonate 80 years after his death, from the link above (emphasis added by me):

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While the Nazis acted as a party and not as a state power, they did not quite find an approach to the working class. On the other side, the big bourgeoisie, even those who supported Hitler with money, did not consider his party theirs. The national “renaissance” leaned wholly upon the middle classes, the most backward part of the nation, the heavy ballast of history. Political art consisted in fusing the petty bourgeoisie into oneness through its common hostility to the proletariat

What must be done in order to improve things? First of all, throttle those who are underneath. Impotent before big capital, the petty bourgeoisie hopes in the future to regain its social dignity through the ruin of the workers

In the sphere of modern economy, international in its ties and anonymous in its methods, the principle of race seems unearthed from a medieval graveyard. The Nazis set out with concessions beforehand; the purity of race, which must be certified in the kingdom of the spirit by a passport must be demonstrated in the sphere of economy chiefly by efficiency. Under contemporary conditions this means competitive capacity. Through the back door, racism returns to economic liberalism, freed from political liberties

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2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

He didn’t sacrifice himself. He became part of Chunks family at the end. 

Absolutely. But at the time of his decision to hold back the rocks, no one knew that was going to be the outcome 

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29 minutes ago, C-Man said:

The fatal flaw with this discourse is that it's still rooted in some sort of institutional integrity and normalcy. Trump's authoritarian power grows by the day. He owns the courts. He owns every single person in his administration. He owns Congress. He owns the media. He owns half the voters. 

Everything he's doing now with ICE and immigrants is just the starting point. American dissidents are next. If we don't take these realistic threats seriously, it's over. 

 

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1 hour ago, Bookman said:

It’s not to be mean—it’s that those  landscaping crews are poisoning the blood of this country. If you don’t believe me, try speaking Spanish in public in a small white town.

I would but when am I going to be in Idaho?

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1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

He saw Kerr County yesterday but by the next day Rosie O'Donnell is on his mind

Example 1,000,000 that he's a sociopath who is incapable of caring about anyone but himself.

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1 minute ago, Bookman said:

What in the ever loving fuck? 

Americans just overwhelmingly voted for mass deportations and now they've changed their fucking minds? Is this a joke? 

Brexit anyone?

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3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Last night I found myself thinking a great deal about this, and how the other-directed harm visited upon minorities and out-groups in Trump’s America is the mirror image of the self-harm visited upon rural Texans. 
As a free market capitalist in both idea and instinct I don’t often find occasion to quote Trotsky, a brilliant thinker whose very forgivable primary intellectual sin was to be wrong about whether We The People were capable of utopia. Nevertheless, his unflinching criticism of both fascism and Stalinism were penetrating and prescient, and they are worth reconsidering at this moment. 

Last night I watched the county court meeting where citizens of Kerr County demanded that FEMA money not go to flood preparations. It reminded me of polemic, “What is National Socialism?,” written while in exile from Stalin’s Russia in 1933, a few months after Hitler became Chancellor while many in the United States, France and England (including Churchill, to his eternal shame) were still ignoring the truth before their eyes.

The whole thing is worth a read, but I’ve been thinking about these three passages:

 

 

the check every box .... the dumbest fucking people alive 

beautiful part of the states, ignorant and racist population 

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Did Rosie say or do anything to get back on his radar?

also, if he can take away her citizenship because “not in the best interests of our great country” then what mechanism stops him from taking citizenship away from any of us for the same stated reason?

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21 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:


Maybe they will come together and pass meaningful immigration legislation….. emoji23.pngemoji23.pngemoji23.pngemoji23.png no fucking way.

 

16 minutes ago, Bookman said:

What in the ever loving fuck? 

Americans just overwhelmingly voted for mass deportations and now they've changed their fucking minds? Is this a joke? 

Yep like I posted up top even Joe Rogan is like wtf

 

keep in mind this is an anonymous poll so Trump can’t come after the pollsters.  
 

This wasn’t the only article either

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6 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Did Rosie say or do anything to get back on his radar?

also, if he can take away her citizenship because “not in the best interests of our great country” then what mechanism stops him from taking citizenship away from any of us for the same stated reason?

She was born in New York.  He has zero basis.  I'd love to see him try to do this, but, as with everything, it's just bluster and deflection from him.  He  uses these idiotic statements to keep people from thinking about what really matters.

Plus, his troglodyte base eats it up.

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2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Did Rosie say or do anything to get back on his radar?

also, if he can take away her citizenship because “not in the best interests of our great country” then what mechanism stops him from taking citizenship away from any of us for the same stated reason?

I think she held his administration partially responsible for gutting the NWS.  Said more shit like this was going to happen because of him.

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2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

 

Yep like I posted up top even Joe Rogan is like wtf

 

keep in mind this is an anonymous poll so Trump can’t come after the pollsters.  
 

This wasn’t the only article either

Doesn’t matter. We can’t call for and hold a new election. 

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5 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

This statement, taken literally and at face value, is not fully untrue. What’s deeply and insidiously false about it is the unmistakable upshot implicated: that those two things are the only things, or even the primary things denying the children of Trump’s base from access. Here again, Trotsky’s words resonate 80 years after his death, from the link above (emphasis added by me):

If the entire premise is false, wouldn't that make the statement untrue?

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3 hours ago, Bookman said:

What in the ever loving fuck? 

Americans just overwhelmingly voted for mass deportations and now they've changed their fucking minds? Is this a joke? 

I think a lot of them are figuring out that the majority of immigrants are good, hardworking people and they were sold a bill of goods on "criminal immigrants."

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I think a lot of them are figuring out that the majority of immigrants are good, hardworking people and they were sold a bill of goods on "criminal immigrants."

But…and this is important….it doesn’t fucking matter, he won’t lose a single vote over it. Because cult.
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