I can sort of see the point you’re trying to make (as I too in a comment have called for censorship but in a different and very specific context), but I feel that you’re not exactly acknowledging the issue being discussed in this thread which is that people won’t be able to state their thoughts about the government of a country that is killing people en masse.

It’s a moral position that should be easy to support: it’s wrong to ethnically cleanse a population of people.

When I commented that certain speech should be punished, it was in the context of speech that is easy to fact-check and speech that directly harms people. The expression of being against the current government of Israel doesn’t harm anyone (other than the masters behind the scenes, but even then it’s just their money/control being targeted).

I lived and worked in China for a year (Shenzhen). There was a palpable sense of brainwashing and/or an overpowering air of unhealthy patriotism there. Which made it stranger for me as I had Chinese friends and coworkers that seemed like decent normal people, we went to bars and drank and joked together. But whenever the topic of China as a country and its policies came up, everyone had a similar change in attitude and unwavering loyalty to the government.

I never felt that I was being targeted specifically, but I also never felt truly comfortable for a number of reasons. I’m glad I got to expand my horizons and experience a bit of what the country/city had to offer, I don’t think I would willingly go to live there again.

Comedian turned activist Cliff Cash has a public call to action if you’re interested. He’s asking anyone who can come to Washington D.C. to join him to go to congressional offices this next Monday. It’s likely to not be a silver bullet to all this fascist bullshit but it’s a good fight.

https://youtu.be/p02auUgYREw

I’m also pretty sure there are similar efforts and protests near you if you can’t make the trip today.

It makes sense why the cult and its leaders call progressives the “extreme left” because the center and the right has shifted so much.

He can get fucked by a huge pine cone. He and those that back him are enemies of humanity at this point, willfully choosing to be cruel and sacrificing lives for money and power.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn if they use the sex offender registry to recruit for ICE

Yup, and the whole “she wasn’t a squeaky clean and perfect candidate for me so I couldn’t vote for her in good conscience” sounds like such a fucking dumb argument in the face of what we’ve seen the other guy has done/will do.

And to the user you replied to: yes, it doesn’t do anything to change reality, but points like this should be noted so hopefully people learn. You vote so a piece of shit like Mango Mussolini doesn’t get to power and dismantle the U.S. government.

P.S. I proudly voted for Kamala Harris

I’m no attorney and (luckily) have never been in a situation where I’ve had to use my firearm in defense of my life. But I will say, it depends on the circumstances. In Texas (and other states I’m sure), we are encouraged to only use firearms as a last resort of defense and in a situation where any other action would likely or reasonably result in our death (apart from maybe your home, castle doctrine). So out in public, it would be tricky to justify the use of deadly force where you might otherwise have had the option of running away from your alleged captors, calling local law enforcement, or some other course of action.

If you do survive the encounter, you will see the inside of a courtroom and I have a feeling the proceedings will be biased against you.

That being said, a few tips:

1. get in range time
2. don’t miss
3. don’t shoot anyone from behind
4. you shouldn’t want to murder people, but if you do open fire, make sure they can’t take legal action against you afterwards…
5. be able to explain exactly why you did what you did, and in response to questions like “why did you shoot this person?” be sure to avoid phrases like “I had to kill them”

To them, poor is probably like just a few dozen million USD.

Ice-tipping, I love it.

@BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz

This user is great when it comes to mimicking this.

I will never not read this in Morgan Freeman’s voice.

I guess that’s a consideration for some, but that student was experiencing seizures (again) after being taken off the meds.

Knowing this specific children/orphan home, they do some backward ass things beyond what I care to share/type out so we just chalked it up to most likely the change in staff at the children’s home (the head nurse over there, *cough* that bitch *cough*) don’t know what they’re doing and/or they’re bad at their job. Last I heard before I left, the student’s case worker was working with our school nurse to pressure the children’s home to get the student back on their anti-seizure meds.

*Edit: and not to downplay the severity of the side effects that can accompany powerful medications which I have seen firsthand, or to say that it doesn’t make a difference anyway with this student’s future, but this student is also a very high needs special education student with an all too familiar tragic background. They can’t go to the bathroom on their own, let alone do things like take friggin tests, so we at the school thought, might as well make them comfortable at least and quell the seizures 🤷

Seriously.

Case in point, I had a student once who had a note on file to watch for seizures. Me and other teachers/staff were puzzled as this student didn’t have this worry of seizures the years before — turns out the children’s home they were housed at took them OFF the anti-seizure medication they were on, noting that the student didn’t need the medicine anymore as they were not showing signs of seizures. WTF?!

Sorry to spew political rhetoric like vomit everywhere, but this reminds me of the same self-inflicted idiocy of trump and his cultists.

Fuck Greg “Hot Wheels” Abbott. If we survive long enough for elections to still be a thing, I can’t wait to vote against him in 2026.

Democrats will be prioritized for sacrifice.

True it didn’t, but Japan got earthquakes like they’re going out of style.

While that doesn’t surprise me, I don’t think I’ve heard/seen/read about “ICE” getting guns drawn on by people they try to kidnap.

I carry, with a permit, and I regularly practice & train. I don’t wake up bloodthirsty but if masked dudes approach me and I don’t see badges/names/police ID, you bet I’m drawing on them, and if they attempt to lay hands on me I’m firing. I will most likely be persecuted and found guilty but I’ll at least say I did something on record against the gestapo and maybe set a precedent?