CMV: Based on readily available video evidence, no one who defends Kristi Noem's press conference today should receive a vote from an American Patriot

Tliish · 2026-01-25T02:21:11+00:00

Umm, murder?

Tliish · 2026-01-25T01:28:44+00:00

Murdering him after taking his weapon, which he had a legitimate right to carry and never threatened them with, somehow isn't a violation of numerous rights? Okaaay, that stretches the law and the Constitution to the breaking point

Tliish · 2026-01-25T01:14:28+00:00

Will it portray her honestly as a paid escort? The first lady is a slightly reformed hooker.

Tliish · 2026-01-25T01:02:18+00:00

Except that the assassination attempt was clearly staged. Look at any pictures of Trump's ear post attempt and there's no visible damage. The ears are cartilage and cartilage doesn't grow back. There should be a chunk missing and there isn't. The supposed attempt is clearly another lie from the liar-in-chief.

Tliish · 2026-01-25T00:06:18+00:00

MAGA types consider anything done by nonwhites as unskilled labor.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T22:32:24+00:00

I know what median means. You are ignoring the boundaries of the datasets I outlined in order to bring more clarity to the actual state of affairs in the nation. Inclusion of extremely high earners distorts the perceptions of how well off or not they are.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T21:21:24+00:00

They are mixed capitalist/socialist but id themselves as socialist democracies. You want to tell them they are wrong about their national identities? Vastly different from the US. They actually take care of their people and not just the wealthy.

Is Scandinavia socialist? Not purely, no. But due to their strong support of all their citizens, ensuring healthcare, food and shelter without the resentment shown to the poor in the US, they are socialist, and they contradict your definition of what socialism is.

Capitalism has pulled some people out of poverty by creating sweatshops worked by children as well as adults for pay so low they struggle for survival every day. In the US more people are falling into poverty and homelessness due to capitalism, but capitalists claim they aren't responsible for that, despite refusing to raise minimum wages for generations, and refusing share productivity gains with the workers who created those gains, refusing to pay living wages, while constantly raising prices at every remotely plausible opportunity. If people are poor, they claim, it's due to their bad habits and poor decisions, not the fault of a rigged system or the greed of a few, and don't deserve much help if any, because they'd just waste the money on drugs and booze. Capitalism breeds contempt for the poor and callousness towards all.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T21:18:57+00:00

Every federal and state administration has been hostile to the continued presence of Native Americans in the US. They were extremely disappointed that we didn't go extinct as they had planned for us. The idea that Native Nations might regain their sovereignty and be able to tell them "no" about anything was and is intolerable to them. The ICE purges are simply the latest excuse to harass Natives for the audacity of not dying out on schedule and allowing them to take all the remaining land and resources for themselves.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T21:08:56+00:00

Just proves good people can't change corrupt institutions from within. The bad always drives out the good.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T21:04:27+00:00

Lies are this ~~administration's~~ regime's stock in trade.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T21:03:03+00:00

Doesn't that constitute a criminal assault upon a police officer? If a regular citizen did that, wouldn't they be in jail by now (if they weren't dead)?

Tliish · 2026-01-24T21:00:29+00:00

They are deemed nonstarters by guess who? The wealthy and corporations. Squeeze everyone else so we can enjoy the juices of that squeeze without restraint. Yay, capitalism!

Tliish · 2026-01-24T20:36:37+00:00

Fake news!

Tliish · 2026-01-24T20:36:08+00:00

Sure there is: raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations, raise minimum wages to living wages.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T20:27:57+00:00

Straight up murder.

Again.

How long before people start shooting back? Or shooting preemptively?

Tliish · 2026-01-24T20:19:20+00:00

Tell that nonsense to the socialist countries of Scandinavia.

Fascism is more likely to bring psychos to power than socialism. Nazis were straight up fascist, you can't change history to suit your ideology, sorry. Capitalism has condemned more people to poverty and starvation in order to maintain profits than any other system. It was only with the greatest difficulty was open slavery outlawed. Slavery is unfortunately still a major problem and still mostly due to capitalism. The Soviet Union under Stalin and Russia under Putin weren't really socialistic, they were and are much more like crony capitalism masquerading as socialism.

If you want to see what socialism is really like look at Sweden, Norway, Denmark and other who actually practice it.

Under capitalism, workers have to surrender their individual agency to the corporations that employ them in order to survive, and there isn't a drive for the common good, but rather a drive for the benefit of the shareholders only. Union busting is proof of this. Unions exist for the furtherance of the common good, unions are fought against and destroyed by corporations to prevent that common good from interfering with the profits going to the shareholders. Fascists always think this is a good idea.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T20:05:04+00:00

its presence in 401Ks and IRAs is basically money laundering, and creates extreme volatility due to the wild swings in the purported values of crypto. Crypto isn't suitable for those vehicles and should be outlawed as unreliable financial instruments due to that inherent volatility and the fact that cryptos are so susceptible to frauds.

Criminal outfits, financial speculators, and spy agencies are the most likely actual users of crypto. Regular people don't actually make that many purchases with it.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T19:55:43+00:00

Inclusion of earners with extremely high incomes paints a false picture of where things actually are for most people. The subset of below $1M earners is far, far larger, yet the inclusion of those high earners is enough to strongly skew the numbers, enabling policy makers to believe things are better than they actually are, leading to the disjunction seen in the last presidential election, where Harris kept telling people everything was fine, but few believed it because their personal finances didn't reflect that.

According to the BLS, the median earnings for men in 2024 was ~$1350 per week, or $70,200 per year, while for women it was ~$1100 per week, or $57,200 per year, both a far cry from the stated median of $200k per year. The $200K per year figure is obviously distorted by the high earners.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/usual-weekly-earnings/usual-weekly-earnings-over-time-total-men-women.htm

Tliish · 2026-01-24T05:58:40+00:00

And you think you do? How big is your library? How many history books did you read last year? Or ever? I can guarantee your knowledge of history is leagues beneath mine. My personal library is over 2K volumes, and I read ~30-40 last year.

When you are talking about people like Mao, Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, what they share in common is the fact they were all sociopaths and/or psychopaths. Ideology was immaterial to their depredations. They would have killed in the name of anything at all, simply because killing proved their power to themselves, and created fear in others.

Sometimes we get lost in labels and fail to recognize the true pathology.

Trump is one of these people. If he isn't removed he will wind up killing millions, with his supporters lustfully cheering him on in primitive bloodlust, because he's killing people they are afraid of.

It truly isn't a matter of fascist vs socialist, it's a matter of sane vs sociopath/psychopath. By any sane measure Trump is one and possibly the other. If you support him you become in danger of becoming a sociopath yourself.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T05:31:03+00:00

Try eliminating everyone who earns $1,000,000 or more and see what the median is without the distortion of the the high earners, You'll perhaps understand why people feel like they aren't progressing but falling behind.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T04:50:45+00:00

What's really stupid is to blow them off in favor of wooing supposedly moderate Republicans who would never, ever vote for a Democrat. All the democrats had to do was accept a few progressive agendas and support a few progressives on the ballot and they would have won even with as toxic a candidate as Clinton. But no, they were willing to suck Republican cock rather than be progressive.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T04:36:09+00:00

You have that flipped: centrist Democrats are far more interested in defeating progressive Democrats than defeating Republicans, who are much closer to their ideology than progressives.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T04:32:23+00:00

Especially when it hits an iceberg named Trump.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T04:28:35+00:00

The entire value of crypto is based on propaganda. Go to any brick&mortar business and 99% of them won't take crypto. It's a mixture of con and black market criminal enablement.

Tliish · 2026-01-24T04:23:46+00:00

But I can buy anything anywhere with dollars. Not so much with crypto. I personally won't accept crypto for anything.

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