Deeply fucking tired actually of how every time there's a Republican in office things are five alarm fire bad and people are ripping their hair out in agony, and every time there's a Democrat in office things are actually really good, and our brain damaged voting public insists the choice is hard.

The only thing that this shit accomplishes—the ONLY thing—is making the issue more important to voters and convincing immigrant communities that Democrats don’t give a shit about them. The only right move for Democrats on immigration is unflinching opposition to the deportation regime.

The Searchlight people and their friends cannot get it through their head that when people tell you that Trump is better on the border, they do not mean they’ve examined his policies and like them, they mean they perceive him as a guy who really cares about it.

"we don't have to meet them in the middle, we tried that, so we're just picking up where we left off"

Much of my life has been spent in Chud or Chud-adjacent spaces and and outside of swift retribution for dumbass behavior I don't have a lot of suggestions here, you're never going to convince these dudes that their perception of their deserved role in society is wrong

What MAGA needs is an expectations-reset that can only happen if they avoid incidents in the headlines for an extended period (since the opposition - all praise to Minnesota - refuses to give them a riot to do it). Months at least, maybe longer.

And the next shooting or murder will not be 'oh no, a tragedy' but 'oh God it happened *again*?' with that stronger sense that this is an on-going crisis.

I'd argue you can discern the same 'bigger reaction each time' effect w/ police violence, culminating in the huge reaction to Floyd's murder.

The "argument" from the right is ALWAYS: "We are free to do what we like to you, even to murder you in cold blood, and you are never allowed to defend yourself or fight back in any way, not even to look at us with a hint of anger."

Anything else is the, "Tyranny if the left,"

It’s a power fantasy for weak men.

They cosplay as rulers while applauding their own subjugation.

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and they are almost certainly listening for the vicarious thrill of hearing people voice and affirm their personal prejudices. they’ll be openly fash in a few years

very classic case of unserious people who do not take anything seriously and see politics as a little game

we're talking about a civil violation comparable to jay walking that the entire country is being torn apart for

since before he announced in 2015 it's always been a ruse for ethnic cleansing and the crackdown on civil liberties required to carry it out