TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

Sorry! Privatizing education (because it’s $$$) has been on the GOP bucket list for years. It’s why they constantly bash teachers and their unions. It’s why we have trans rights as a social issue in schools first. It’s why they could care less about gun violence in schools. It’s why they are constantly trying to cut funding, putting conspiracy theorists on school boards, and banning books. And on and on.

It’s all about undercutting the public’s perception of public education, so when they try and do a hard steer to private schools people think “it can’t be any worse”. And they run it like Trump University and laugh all the way to the bank, and it’ll take decades to reverse (if ever).

Agreed, but an awful lot of white males that in the past might have been pro union (that didn’t vote in their oppressors) are now full on MAGA while the GOP robs them blind.

Yes same base, but seen and used by different populations was my point. Rich bros aren’t sitting around hitting a crack pipe, they are doing a line off some exploited woman in their orbit (or apparently like Jr just out of the old pocket). And yes the CIA have used drugs as a currency once they realized they could make both illegal for poors and at the same time flood neighborhoods with it. Believe Bush Sr. was into this amongst other “covert” operations.

Because it’s not about being qualified, it’s about-

1. being loyal
2. breaking the system so that the GOP can continue their “the government doesn’t work” talking points, and move everything to being privatized and controlled by donors ($$$)

Coke is not crack, seems like semantics, but the Rich do not see them the same. It wasn’t a war on drugs to stop cocaine pouring into the US being used by white communities, it was to stop crack being used by poorer people of color. If drugs had stayed expensive and exclusive to white folks Regain wouldn’t have felt as strongly for sure.

The same thing with unemployment/social security being a great thing when white people had it to protect their “hard work”, but when people of color got to use the same system it turned into “welfare queens” based on a the story of a single black woman that abused the system.

We as a country have definitely lost our “the man is trying to keep me down” mentality and have bought into this “we want to welcome you to the club” bullshit the Right has been pushing for years. They dangle an enormous carrot in front of the working class, and then give it to their rich friends and blame it on the Left.

And this idea of deporting immigrants is the same thing, “lets get these people out so we can pay our private contractor friends Billions and blame it on the Left” (and hoping it hurts future Left voters). If you dig though, it’s these same shitheads exploiting them (immigrants ) as a labor force doing jobs they have no plan to pay a decent wage for. Trump was famous for doing this in the construction of several of his properties, underpay of don’t pay and then threaten them with ICE or lawsuits if they don’t go away.

Families like hers express frustration at the lack of a path to citizenship despite decades of contributing to U.S. society, relying instead on community support for resilience.

And yet Trump’s own wife who worked illegally here on a Visa, and then lived here many years with a Green Card, and then used “chain migration” to bring her parents to the US only becoming a citizen in 2006 after living here since 1996 (and still maintains a dual citizenship).

But sure, let’s work on deporting people instead of trying to make less hurtles to citizenship.

Edit - posted quickly and missed the quote tag

Correct, and keep cashing the federal checks for “border security” Trump will arrange with them.

I wonder if they will eventually gather so many they need to install “showers” to cycle “prisoners” through?

Can you expand upon that? Everyone knew that a vote for Trump/3rd party/or not voting at all was to Trump’s benefit. Did you see a model or theory that would allow Trump to get more votes and still lose the electoral college? Or is your argument that people that only enabled Trump but didn’t vote for him shouldn’t be put in the same bucket?

The people who sat on the couch are just as responsible for this as the people who voted him in. He actually won the popular vote this time around, so between the 2 groups this is what they wanted.

If released, I hope that the victim/witness information is redacted, unless of course this is a hack done by the Right to get the women’s names out to the cult so they can do what the cult does best. =(

And the far right using free speech/censorship as a cover for hate speech is always in bad faith.

I guess I’ve been out of the loop for pre-hate Pepe (pre-2016), but the only reason I know of him at all is because of all the Nazi/Quon/KKK folks blasting him all over Twitter and everywhere else. I’ve always assumed everyone knew since it’s been almost a decade, and anyone using him these days is doing so in bad faith.

Outside of us causing a nuclear war, it will eventually get better. Every empire eventually falls, it’s just a question of, do we take Mother Earth with us?

I think this has become such a thing because the Right has essentially taken control of current mainstream media, with them constantly doing things like giving Trump (and other fascists) the benefit of the doubt and “both sides” everything.

But the right also has a large and widespread network for their lies/disinformation/conspiracy theories on “independent media” as well. Look at the top 10 podcasts/web shows (on YouTube/etc.), or at the number of just hate “social” networks, and what amount of those push anything outside of Trump-land talking points?

The slippery slope here is that deciding who is “illegal” may vary wildly depending on who Trump empowers (legit or just some Nazis that want “safe streets”) to decide this. He has had people saying just undocumented, but also people saying anyone that isn’t a full citizen (so anyone here with a Visa/Green Card/work papers/migrant workers/refugees/etc.).

You also know that when the Nazis/KKK folks get to work they are just going to be grabbing people that “look illegal” or that run from them/their mob (because they look dangerous!).

This is also going to have a HUGE impact on food prices when farmers have nobody to pick crops.

Also remember that Russia has North Korea and China on its side (among others - the dictators Trump loves). Without nukes to kill everyone, that’s a YEARS long war of attrition.

Also the idea of the US giving Ukraine weapons is to defend itself, so long range missiles for the sole purpose of striking the Russian interior could look to some like the US attacking Russia by proxy. And we don’t want to be in a war, especially one that would surely become a World War. Trump is going to “end the war in a day” though so this discussion is really just moot anyway.

It’s all the same when you believe in conspiracy theories, are not a Dr., and had a brain worm die in your head.

Also, how in the hell do we not have at least a medical degree as the very 1st requirement for a position that controls/shapes medical care for the country?!

… to spend time as much time as they need — three or four years if they need it — to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities …

Is this paid time/leave? Who does he envision paying for his “wellness farms”? Or is this him envisioning everyone creating some commune farm where everyone is eating mushrooms and killing bears?

I think the issue has been that Russia has stated that the US not having limits on the use of their supplied weapons would be seen as a US escalation of the war. And that becomes tricky because Ukraine is not a NATO country, but Russia drawing the US into the war would bring are NATO allies in as well potentially allowing WW3 (although for Trump it would be only WW2).