Hegar

It’s also important to remember that non-violence serves the interest of entrenched power. The state is at its core a violence-control structure. When people excersize the power of violence in their own interests, the state must reassert it’s dominion or risk collapse.

Non-violent requests can be accommodated without elites feeling like their ill-gotten power is threatened. But it’s often the violent demands that scare them into doing so.

the deputy marshal “fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE.”

100% chance the description was “Mexican”.

It’s only a crime to be an exploited worker. It’s not a crime to exploit workers.

Sure, these fascists have spent 5 years delegitimizing accusations of electoral fraud and are openly committed to ending democracy.

But so far the only actual evidence of ‘election stealing’ is openly buying votes in direct violation of the law, illegal campaigns tactics sometimes resulting in charges, illegal coordination with PACs, systemic campaign finance violations, direct coordination with at least Israeli and Russian leaders to influence the election, decades of foreign disinformation operations pushing for exactly this outcome and a huge influx of dark money from anonymous plutocrats.

Just not direct voting machine manipulation.

Why repost low effort trolling?

Proving you’re a citizen or not is irrelevant since ICE are not enforcing immigration law they’re conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign.

this is an evil incarnate thing.

This is a human thing.

Infanticide of both kin and non kin is a rare but incredibly well documented part of our behavioral repertoire.

There’s an urge to distance ourselves from someone who does this, to say that he is evil, a demon, not human. But he’s us. In very specific and awful conditions, this is what we’re capable of.

I dunno, teenagers all smoke and they seem pretty on the ball.

that face is a consequence, not a goal.

My understanding is that it is a goal. It’s not just a botched face job or over use of botox. People walk in and ask for a face like that.

I have no idea if you’re being serious.

Tbh I struggle with that myself sometimes.

But mar-a-lago face is a real thing and while the first instinct is to recoil in horror at what these people have done to themselves, elites have a long history of this kind of extreme identity signalling. And I do think this phenomenon is best understood as part of that tradition.

2, 3 & 4 are examples of what’s called “Mar-a-lago face” - really blatant plastic surgery to emphasize your ability to afford plastic surgery.

Elites frequently engage in body-modification intense enough to look grotesque to others as a way of marking their status. Mayan and Hunnic cranial deformation and Chinese foot-binding are prominent other examples.

Thats largely untrue though. In crises people come together. The term academics use is “spontaneous self organization”. It’s really just the upper classes who turn to brutality at every possible opportunity.

The point of Lord of the Flies is that the upper class are always brutal savages.

This list is very silly.

Not just because the meanings are off for many of them and “very” is fun to use sometimes, but because you need multiple replacement options for the different contexts of common adjectives. It would’ve been more helpful to provide 4-5 options for 25-30 words.

But it’s not meant to be helpful, it’s not a YSK, it’s just an ad for some proofreading company.

The manual door open on some models of Teslas require removing 2 panels that are not labeled and need a diagram to know how to remove them. Another requires removing the speaker grill and pulling an unlabeled wire.

Even once the manual door release is pulled, without power you need a firefighter’s upper body strength to open the door, and it’s likely that flames and poisonous smoke will be coming up any tiny gap you can create by pushing open the door a little.

Just willful disregard of your customers’ lives.

And some of those are really horrific. I think in one of the CA crashes, one person was able to be pulled out a window before the battery cooking off got too hot for anyone to approach and help the three others who were trapped and died.

I’m not saying it’s good or even super common, just observable. People make up names for people who think differently than them. Once a group hits a certain size, it’s just pretty likely that they’ll have those sorts of terms, even if only a small percentage actually use them.

Illegal immigration is a fiction anyway - seeking asylum is a legal right of all humans.

But legal and illegal are irrelevant distinctions to the trump regime’s current ethnic cleansing campaign.

When there are more humans and everything is getting worse some people will suggest that more humans makes things worse and advocate for less humans to make things better.

The pejoratives thing is just how identities work - making fun of or insulting people who don’t share your identity is just a near universal feature of having an identity.

Counterpoint - antinatalism is what you get when the world is objectively a much worse place during someone’s prime reproductive years than it was during their childhood.