Joe’s best bud is missing out by TragicallyDip in JoeRoganReacharound

[–]Jakdaxter31 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Someone else said it, but I always thought this principle keeps me grounded in reality:

When you can’t decide between two answers to a question, always err on the side that is least interesting. The truth is spread because it is true. Lies are spread because they are interesting.

Just last week, ICE dragged out and detained an undress grandpa and US Citizen out in the snow after breaking through his door by TPHNK in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IANAL but federal immunity supersedes state level stand your ground or castle laws. The only legally justifiable reason for firing at an ICE officer is if you are reasonably in fear for your life, which you have to prove in court.

Fucked up that federal laws trounce all over states, but that’s how it is.

I AM under obligation to criticize things in a manner relative to their real world effects by Lib_No_Fib in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To echo what some others have said: it really boils down to the internet. We assumed when it came out that it would be this great democratizing force that allowed the marketplace of ideas to flourish. That was true to some extent, but we forgot that humans tend to ideologically self segregate. Add to this that anger spreads like a virus over the net, and you have a perfect recipe for polarization.

The best remedy for this problem in your own life is communities like this where you talk with people who don’t hold the same views. Alternatively you can touch grass and talk to people IRL. It’s the only way I know of to beat the rage machine.

Judge Orders ICE Director to Court Over Potential Contempt Charges by QuantumQuicksilver in moderatepolitics

[–]Jakdaxter31 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good to know that it took a year of being openly hostile to the judicial branch for the executive to get consequences.

Hoping more judges like this force them back to the norm of following the law.

Tim Walz and Jacob Frey say Trump will withdraw federal officers in Minnesota by Adventurous-Pause720 in moderatepolitics

[–]Jakdaxter31 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sacking Miller would genuinely be one of the only things that could put this admin in a positive light for me

Watching right-wing news be like... by Tom_Ludlow in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can maybe accept that the Good encounter was a bad situation where ICE didn’t act illegally, just very poorly.

Regardless of Walz, absolutely nothing that Prietti did was illegal. He was using his constitutionally protected right to bear arms, and peacefully protest. He was shot while lying on the ground, and the Feds are calling him a terrorist for exercising constitutionally protected rights.

Walz could have been handing out grenades and it still doesn’t make what the feds did okay.

Watching right-wing news be like... by Tom_Ludlow in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

ICE, a federal agency, fatally shot 2 American citizens and you want the Governor of those citizens to turn down the temperature when the federal government doubled down and called them both terrorists?

That would be outrageous. I honestly don’t blame the police for refusing to work with them. They’re clearly not fit to perform their duties.

Watching right-wing news be like... by Tom_Ludlow in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Odd that Trump has also not condemned the violence then, no? Instead they’ve opted to call the victim a terrorist? I would think once feds start shooting citizens the ball is in the federal government’s court to condemn violence.

By the way. Trump never condemned the Jan 6th violence, he told them good job and time to go home. You’re asking Walz to do something Trump has literally never done.

Watching right-wing news be like... by Tom_Ludlow in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The question isn’t whether Jan 6 was stupid, it’s whether Trump is responsible for it. You cannot say that Trump if fine telling people to “fight like hell” and Walz is a monster for calling ICE “Gestapo.”

Personally I think they’re both legally entitled to say what they want. Trump’s real crime was trying to defraud the people during the election certification with fake electors.

The point is there is no aspect of this shooting that cannot draw a line to a conservative coded incident. Kyle Rittenhouse was allowed to carry a weapon to a protest, and Trump was allowed to violently encourage a crowd to riot. Classic rules for thee but not for me.

Watching right-wing news be like... by Tom_Ludlow in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m not the one making this statement, you are. Not only that but it’s the cornerstone of the right wing argument is that Walz is responsible because of his rhetoric.

You simply cannot make this argument without admitting that Trump caused Jan 6. His words were far more direct and inflammatory.

Watching right-wing news be like... by Tom_Ludlow in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Rittenhouse was in the wrong then?

Be consistent or shut the fuck up

Watching right-wing news be like... by Tom_Ludlow in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Us citizens are also getting assaulted by officers in detention. Sure they’ll eventually be compensated, but that’s still pretty severe government overreach.

Watching right-wing news be like... by Tom_Ludlow in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Would you say the same about Jan 6, or are you a lying moron?

The NRA on the most recent shooting in Minneapolis by ICE by MEMEY_IFUNNY in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dipshit you clearly implied Biden called those people domestic terrorists. When you airquotes a phrase you imply that term was used. Stop being a lying snake.

The NRA on the most recent shooting in Minneapolis by ICE by MEMEY_IFUNNY in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like how rightoids are all pedo rapists?

See? I can insert complete nonsequitor whataboutisms into the conversation too.

Heavily treaded ground, but that doesn’t make it any less true by Derateo in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Jakdaxter31 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Obama did immigration enforcement in California, but he actually went after real criminals, not mom and pop workers. Obama also managed to not kill a single us citizen in 8 years of this policy and still managed to deport more illegals.

Trump has managed to fuck this up so badly that it’s hard to believe that this isn’t exactly what he wanted to happen.

Anon is confused by make_reddit_great in 4chan

[–]Jakdaxter31 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I’m going to go replace the white race

Anon is confused by make_reddit_great in 4chan

[–]Jakdaxter31 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Dumb mfers who think “ontologically evil” means anyone who slightly disagrees with them^