nothing relevant or on topic tho
One may argue that tit-for-tat is appropriate, but generous-tit-for-tat is better.
Are we going to classify every single variations of the political beliefs of every domestic terrorists even if they are shared by millions of others law abiding citizens?
Alternatively, consider the world in which the claim that it is victim blaming is 100% true. Such a world, where large parts of the U.S. are focusing their attention on righting grievances instead of anything else, is a world where the U.S. is too distracted by actual civil war to avoid suffering conquest by foreign powers.
I'd ask for a citation of what Biden/Biden's admin actually did, but the Trump folks have been so busy disappearing things that the policy that I think you're referring to is now gone from the WhiteHouse.gov site and doesn't seem to be available via Internet Archive either.
Once again, in harmony, and louder for the people in the back: the both-sidesism is utterly misguided, plays into the Trump camp's hands, and just entirely fails to recognize just how not-normal and dangerous things are right now and they are just getting worse by the day.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210617103741/https://www.white...
At least in the broad-strokes PDF I see no mention of "radical Christian" anything. If there's some citation, I'd be curious to see it if it can still be found and if it mentions specific groups.
Rise up now, before it's too late!
The word “war” has meaning.
The executive is saying “war” and “portland” in the same sentence.
We the people can invoke treason— the commander in chief said the word and an American city.
Those two things are treason.
This isn’t hard. We just need to STAND UP.
It isn’t like we need to say anything.
Quite literally a mass formation of people to represent, “all of your generals that represent your digital social presence are documented pedophiles, just stop.”
As someone that stepped outside of the church a decade ago, they’ll be the ones to decide if they are the religion to harbor sexual abuse or if they’ll also just STAND UP— For their own daughters.
At a certain point, they’ll have to admit Peter Thiel’s “political theology” was never “theology” and was only ever “politics”
Tbh, there’s a really easy mantra people outside the church can chant and that is
“Known by fruit, known by fruit!”
And if there’s any hope at all, it seems people do see “the rot” they’re just afraid to say it.
So as shitty as that is we need to operate within that reality.
Also, Trumpism isn't going to end with Trump. Now that his base has had a sold run of "winning" they're not just going to dissipate, even if any potential successor may not be as effective as Trump in creating a personality cult.
There's millions of Americans that want these things.
We'll see about that. The prominent members of his like are all doing their best impressions of him and it's they're not very convincing. Their sycophancy is the best indicator that they lack the spine to do the audacious things he does.
Someone with a completely different demeanor yet still standing above the crowd is what will likely succeed Trump and, as of now, I don't see it.
The lines between their in group and the out groups they target don't depend on Trump. He's just very effective at wielding them.
The MAGA crowd aren't the same. MAGA dies with Trump. Nobody is going to get away with saying what Trump did about McCain post Trump. Nobody else is going to try this tariff nonsense. Nobody else is going to send the national guard to American cities.
Trump has extreme solutions to main stream gripes. The gripes will stay, the solutions won't.
It remains to be seen. Trumpism is built directly around his entertaining cult of personality. Once he is out who's going to entertain the masses?
With the law enforcement apperartus distracted chasing anarchists, queers and anitifa it must be boom times for organised crime
Best proof for this is the administration itself.
Edit:
Guys, wait, c’mon, I mean you’re not wrong for decrying Nazism and Fascism against the current administration.
All I’m saying is that I think that there’s a hat that’s passed around in American government. It’s red, green, yellow and black, with matted strands of fabric around the edges of it. Sometimes, if you’re cool enough, you get to wear shades with the hat. But if the people already expect illness out of you then you can don it barefaced.
Trump dem a mash up di country baldfaced.
The aesthetic differences in the spectacular politics under Obama/Biden vs Trump are pretty easy to see. Heck, one is blue and one is red- that's an easy to spot difference.
The material differences are much more difficult to find and require enough "nuance" to justify that I haven't been able to hold that distinction in my head for about a decade now.
These topics are incredibly salient to discuss if we’re going to improve our industry and society. Everything is political, and should be discussed in the context of technology here - which this article is highly relevant for.
Enforcing it as a rule is an explicit enablement of the status quo.
If HN is about intellectual curiosity, the heated disagreement in this comment section should be proof of how stimulating this topic is. But we’d rather stick our heads in the sand rather than confront what inconveniences us.
kelseyfrog•4mo ago
Usually these things end up bringing more attention to a specific group or cause due to the Streisand Effect.
fifteen1506•4mo ago
You can't kill an idea, but you can severely maim it for a generation or 2.
anon7725•4mo ago
jasonwatkinspdx•4mo ago
China is one example, where being too vocal about certain topics online can land you in a police station interview.
I don't think we should be overly confident that similar things can't happen in the US or EU.
And indeed, in the US we're seeing the administration successfully pressure changes at educational institutions for example. We're already uncomfortably far down this road imo.
aaomidi•4mo ago
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thaumasiotes•4mo ago
The Eleusinian Mysteries aren't what they were.
In fact, we don't know what they were.