When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process.

This is an incredible statement to put out when we have multiple angles of ICE just murdering this woman when she clearly was not a threat.

At the rate things are heating up in MN I can see random civilians starting to do adventurism against ICE agents. If the cops want to include themselves in it too then let em.

And the governor there sucks so much boot, apparently it’s not good enough

George Floyd

I just realized something that’s shocking to me. I’ve hardly seen his name at all at Bluesky since the murder in Minnesota. My hunch is that his murder is too painful for the libs to think about. They don’t want to remember how liberalism itself is an utter failure when it comes to social justice. If you speak about the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice but it’s all rhetoric - just what is it you actually believe in? It’s kinda hard to be morally superior when your cherished belief system has fundamental defects about righteousness.

And I’ve seen jokey comments like “The police are like ICE. Maybe the defund the police people were right?” And I’ve seen defund discussed in passing but not in discussed in a serious way. Not even once. The character count limit means if somebody wants to talk more than just social media kibitz - they link to an article. I can’t say I’m surprised about not seeing links about Floyd or defund. But I am disheartened.

I see post after post like this.

an american city is fully under siege by an occupying army that is supposedly an arm of its own government

that army has already shot someone dead and is repeatedly threatening to do the same to anyone upset about its actions

intolerable situation

https://bsky.app/profile/rincewind.run/post/3mc3ijs7fvk26

I don’t know how that poster defines himself. My hunch is he uses the Bluesky catchall phrase “progressive” which implies he’s to the left of Schumer but not really that far way. That account is a go-to lib for me. He has about 100k followers and he seems to have a bog-standard Bluesky lib POV zeitgeist. To even begin to fix the “intolerable situation” radical action is needed. Will Bluesky support any radical candidates for state or federal office in this years elections? Will he? I assume the answer is a big “no”.

Maybe some of them will support a mayoral candidate who is to the left of them and then brag about it like their guy like he’s their own local mini-Zohran.

reactionaries

Earlier today I had a bit of an odd interaction with a political liberal pundit. He replied to me and basically said I was a “silly reactionary”.

He used to write for a major American newspaper and now one of his jobs is liberal tv gig. At first I wondered if he such a dipshit that he didn’t even know what reactionary meant. In context it was 100% clear wasn’t on the right. After about 15 seconds - hey, I’m very sleepy today - I realized his comment was a just a simple trap set out to see if I was stupid enough to stick my paw in. Maybe he hoped I’d be rude and snarky as I explained what reactionary meant. Then he could do what libs do on Bluesky - block me and feel superior.

Now that I’m thinking more about it - I bet his go-to move is traps like that. For shits and giggles I’m going to read some of his old newspaper stuff. I bet he thinks he’s very, very clever even though that’s not actually true.

“ah shit the SS are at the door! quick honey, call the wehrmacht!”

Liberals truly think that the end result of calling the cops on ICE is them arresting their fascist buddies

Gestapo/Gestapo lite

#GUILLOTINESTRONG

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