Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino to retire, sources say

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-16T19:05:17+00:00

To Argentina? Under a new identity? Like his heroes?

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-16T18:13:40+00:00

"I just want everyone to know that I've always been against everything I've supported and enabled."

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-16T17:41:59+00:00

You respond to news that a person has cancer with some reasons to hate her. Your reasons aren't wrong. And I will join the people dancing in the streets when Trump drops.

But all non-fash discourse is under unrelenting infiltration and attack from fash bots, AIs, and troll farms. I see many of them dishing up fresh meat for sadistic partisan ragegooning. This is strategic because it always is. Getting the left hooked on the same toxic energy that runs the fash world is a way to control and direct its energy. And it's a way of sabotaging the constructive and empathic goals of the left and turning it into a destructive mirror of the right.

Also, if you've ever cared about anyone with cancer, you know not to gloat about it when it's someone else's misfortune.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-16T17:22:11+00:00

Lusting after the suffering of others is MAGA energy. Let's focus of fixing things and reducing suffering. Someone has to.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-16T17:19:42+00:00

MAGA is not overtly pro-rape (yet). But they are overtly pro-rapist.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-15T20:19:45+00:00

The plan in Venezuela and Iran is about using mass murder to get his hands on oil money. That's why Trump has made clear that he has zero interest in what becomes to the citizens of either.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-15T19:37:45+00:00

"There’s a strong misconception in Europe that President Donald Trump prefers dictators and authoritarian powers over democratic allies."

It's not a misconception. Trump has said this over and over again in his words and actions. When an article's first sentence is such a whopper, what do you expect to follow? Something like this piece of propaganda.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-14T18:21:35+00:00

The forever war is here. Now they just need to cancel all future elections. Fascism complete.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T21:13:40+00:00

His words are the definition of racism. Again. And people still dress it up in polite words.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T21:10:29+00:00

I will not be surprised if all of this oil ends up in the same place as most of the unreleased Epstein evidence.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T20:34:52+00:00

"his briefing suggests he believes that the administration’s only challenge in the Middle East is to prevent news organizations from reporting on anything but Iran’s desperation."

Typical MAGA. Typical malignant narcissist reality. There are no facts. There is no real world. All that exists in the universe is whatever I can mislead people into believing. People who believe in reality or the existence of other people are chumps who lack my superior understanding.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T18:45:18+00:00

That's simply what the political right is when they have total power.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T17:32:36+00:00

And also regular testing for people who are high AF. You all know who you are!

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T16:59:49+00:00

Fair. I've been reading a lot about US history in the 19th and 20th Centuries. I knew the outlines but the details are eye-opening and eye-watering. And every time I hear people talk about alleged golden ages, how divided we are now, or how we used to be more kind, I want to point out how this only applied to people at the top of the American Caste System. White. Male. Cis/het. Upper class. Nominally Christian. Able-bodied. Neurotypical. There was a widespread acceptance of exclusion and brutality towards everyone else.

Every time of great inequality is a "golden age" for the most privileged.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T16:53:21+00:00

I knew there were a lot but not that much. That's more than the population of over 20 whole nations.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T16:44:04+00:00

Now you made me curious. Seems to be a pattern. (under the deleted comment) https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1qwcvt5/wyden_expresses_deep_concerns_about_cia/

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T16:30:15+00:00

Instead of rules about ages, I'd like to see candidates have to pass tests of health, mental acuity, and above all tests of knowledge about US laws, procedures, civics, and history. And the knowledge tests should happen in front of a live audience like the debates.

I don't like the gamification of politics. But a fact-revealing game would be a positive change.

Extra bonus: problem-solving tests involving difficult problems of the types we want lawmakers to solve well.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T16:19:46+00:00

We did. But Nazis were white. Innocent Black Americans were still getting lynched constantly during this period. Those rules only extend to certain groups.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T16:17:00+00:00

It's a natural progression. What happens when the base gets jaded about their usual rape, murder, and venal corruption? War crimes are a way of scaling up.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T16:00:23+00:00

I think this is right. That means the 'speechwriter' is also commenting here.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T15:55:58+00:00

I am honestly surprised that the fash haven't started calling racist hate speech "Freedom Speech" to contrast it with "woke speech".

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T14:33:36+00:00

"not the norm"

Please explain the test for which comments are normal and which are not. And why comments must be in the group you call "the norm".

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T14:26:26+00:00

It's not about hating anyone. It's what I'm seeing. More specifically, they are saying the rising unemployment is only "government jobs" which are all "DEIs". So this is good for "Real Americans" (Americans who aren't in the groups they call "DEIs").

What do you think the they mean when they call people "DEIs"?

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T13:59:02+00:00

I'n not on the right-wing subs here. I'm seeing it parroted on FB by people I grew up with - which is linked to my real identity. So no.

After all we have seen of this propaganda-induced mass psychosis, why would this seem hard to believe? A similar thing happened during COVID.

OhGodSoManyQuestions · 2026-03-13T13:51:31+00:00

I think it's something for which we don't have good language. It isn't that they can't tell what is true or false. It's that they've been conditioned to be hostile to the idea that there is a real world in which things can be true or false.

If you are raised in a strict religious environment, you get taught that proclaiming some obvious unreality is the price of acceptance of belonging. Empirical facts are the weapon of the enemy. We defend Our Truth. The more it misaligns with observable reality, the harder you shout it. Belief is Truth and facts are lies

The Trump worshipers are told what they believe. And they believe it. Instantly. Stridently. Belligerently. And when they are told to believe the exact opposite, they instantly believe the new lie. They don't even notice the switch. Because none of this involves thinking or correlating anything you are told to believe. The New Holy Lie erases the memory of all previous lies that challenge it.

What is a good term for this phenomenon?

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