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In the absence of legal protections, there is still no benefit of talking to police, even in the face of torture. Thugs have already made the decision to hurt you by the time they pull you off the street, nothing you say will convince them otherwise, and everything you say will be twisted to justify their behavior.

His responses were brilliant - and I'm taking note

No. Never talk to police.

I meant to say 2024, during the election. The past few years have been a blur to me.

1. Comments on news articles are going to largely be bots, it's a waste of time.
2. They do not care about being hypocrites. They are laughing with glee that they are winning and that you are losing, frustrated, angry, and scared.

That is the pragmatic and short term outcome, but I would not discount the level of power hard-line Christian nationalists have over the far right. Many of them believe "moral degeneracy" like porn is the most grave problem of western society and would be glad to "correct" it given the chance.

I think the order of operations is almost unimportant if their opposition can only secure minor, temporary victories and nobody is truly stopping them. If anything the broad stroke of this bill could be used as cover while states quietly criminalize homosexuality and transgenderism by fiat.

It really made the rounds again in 2020, even to the point of breaking into the mainstream. Probably a lot more people are aware of it than you might think, it's just the doing something about it that we're all sticking on.

“Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society and reach countless children,” Lee *said in a press release*. “Our bill updates the legal definition of obscenity for the internet age so this content can be taken down and its peddlers prosecuted.”

My memory is a bit hazy, but I think this phrasing is taken almost verbatim from Project 2025.

Fleeing to a non-extradition country like Assad did.

Of course the problem with leading a movement is that the leader is inevitably targeted by the establishment, and it has never been easier in human history to do so than now. See: basically the central mission of the FBI post WWII.

Pay up, Lemmy, adminning is hard work!

Some really lethargic reactions to being shot at and having your comrades drop. And again, appears that at least some of them don't have rifles.

So then what, an SS sniper shot crowd members dead just to make it convincing?

Trump is a vain motherfucker, he would have used makeup to touch up his wound once he was tired of parading around his bandaged ear.

He doesn't attend daily briefings, why would he care about the operational capabilities of his kingly litter?

I will continue to voice my opposition to this take.

People in the crowd got hit and one died, there's a picture of Crooks' head split open by sniper fire. There is no proof it was a setup beyond how Trump and his campaign leveraged it, which isn't really proof.

Clinging onto this theory feels like the same kind of smarmy double speak Holocaust deniers use. "It didn't happen, but I wish it did."

People who elect genocidal, theocratic fascists to power because they think trans people are icky should be driven to the fringes of society, not have their feelings coddled.

If any progressive has an opinion on the Catholic Church, it's most likely that is that it should be wholly disbanded, its assets donated to the needy, its relics donated to museums, and its clergy investigated and arrested for crimes against children.

Not much love between the two groups, so imagining some sort of alignment of goals at any point just feels like a waste.

Seems like she's hoping for the MAGA coup to be at least nearing completion by then. Why spend resources on campaigning when you expect your opponents to be declared enemies of the state and arrested by the time "elections" come around?

well trained

They are well trained in thuggery and how to evade legal consequences. 80% of cops wouldn't know discipline or acting through adversity if it knocked their teeth out, and the 20% that do learned it in the military.