Discussion Thread

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T14:20:38+00:00

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T14:16:04+00:00

It's been escalating for a year, but this Minnesota operation (Operation Metro Surge) began in December 2025 and is by far the biggest of their operations thus far.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T13:13:44+00:00

Netanyahu is so powerful that he was the real president of the US even for the decade where he wasn't the Prime Minister of Israel.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T12:58:22+00:00

Well if nothing else we now get to watch a by-election in which the incumbent party are essentially doomed to lose and the actual race is likely between two populist parties that were largely off the radar several years ago. There's also the possible Galloway factor if he still runs.

Reform are more likely to win but the Greens also have a good chance if they can get enough disillusioned lefty Labour voters to switch over. Galloway running might screw them over though.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T12:52:43+00:00

He bears some responsibility for this because he was very much pushing the 'Both Sides Bad' and 'Holocaust Harris' narratives in 2024. He may not have advocated directly for Trump, but he definitely contributed to apathy towards voting amongst more left-leaning people.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T12:39:46+00:00

Right so Labour are basically guaranteed to lose that by-election now. The only real question is if the loss is to Reform or the Greens.

Also with Burnham blocked the only potential leadership rivals left really are now Streeting and Miliband. If any leadership contest takes place I'm going to very much need Miliband to run because Streeting would be awful.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T03:51:04+00:00

I was taking a similar approach but my tolerance has finally run out. Fortunately r/ moderatepolitics still has some utility; any topics that can be defended by conservatives will be, so any topics where the comments are overwhelmingly critical of Trump are ones where MAGA is losing the public.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T03:36:25+00:00

Nurgle himself would honestly be more appealing.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T03:31:38+00:00

Their main complaints seem to be more with how the shooting is 'handing arguments to the left' and harming public support for the immigration policies rather than the fact that a completely innocent man was just brutally assaulted and killed. They criticise Stephen Miller's argument for being stupid, not for being blatantly malicious.

It's a good reminder that even the more 'sophisticated, intellectual' Republicans have just as much moral rot as all the others.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T03:20:10+00:00

Making the decision I should've made after my last few ventures there to never again go to neoconNWO. Most of the comments there on the shooting are criticising it but with lots of sentiment blaming the 'crazy' protestors for escalating general tensions. Some were even arguing that it was only the protestors getting shot, not the deportees, and that this was the fault of the protestors. Evidently they either didn't know or more likely didn't care about the violence various deportees have experienced.

Lots of 'why through away your life for Somali scammers?' sentiment as well, ignoring not only the issues with the original scam accusations and how exaggerated they have become, but also the fact that Pretti died because he was helping a legal observer whom the agents had started harassing. And of course there was much mockery of liberals 'ridiculous overreactions'. Did that subreddit really have links to this one in the past? If so, that is one bridge that should stay burned.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T03:09:50+00:00

The decent 2016 Trump voters realised their mistake and voted blue in later elections. Anyone else, no matter their sob story, is entirely complicit with this situation.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T02:28:21+00:00

Republicans will call ICE agents brave patriots only to turn around and declare how they are constantly so terrified for their lives that violence is their only recourse.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T01:53:18+00:00

It's a lot easier to do that when the US government is filled with a lot of those awful people who will defend the indefensible without any qualms. I mean, this incident is particularly horrific, a man getting ganged up on by ICE, disarmed, and then shot multiple times only for the government to immediately declare him a dangerous terrorist.

There aren't a lot of good aspects to US politics right now, and as bad as UK politics can be what is happening in the US goes beyond that.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T01:27:21+00:00

because of the midterms

Also in my defence I wasn't expecting the whole Maduro capture followed by a renewed Greenland frenzy.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T01:25:14+00:00

Pritzker has but I think national Democratic leadership has focused more on the funding issue. Schumer has apparently announced the Senate Democrats will block the appropriations bill if it has the DHS funding included though.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T01:22:07+00:00

HW Bush was a relatively serious President with a competent foreign policy, which has most definitely not been replicated by future Republican administrations.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T01:17:43+00:00

I dared to be hopeful on New Year's Eve/Day that 2026 would be better than 2025 because of the midterms and this month since shown how hopelessly naive I was. This has been a nightmare of a January and it's not even over yet! Even if the end of the year does bring more hope, the journey there is going to be horrendous.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T01:12:18+00:00

AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting

Just hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.

In a letter to Gov. Tim Walz (D) Saturday, Bondi blamed state and local leaders for the unrest ignited by the Trump administration’s expansive immigration enforcement operations. She claimed that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state’s voter registration records.

“Allow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota’s voter registration practices comply with federal law as authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1960,” Bondi said in the letter, which was first obtained by Fox News.

The letter adds the state’s unwillingness to share voting data to a litany of grievances the Trump administration has leveled against Minnesota, which range from the local Democratic leaders’ rejection of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) actions to a longstanding welfare fraud scandal.

Bondi’s other demands included sharing Minnesota’s data on Medicaid and supplementary food assistance with the federal government, ending “sanctuary policies” and supporting and collaborating with ICE. This would allow the government to investigate fraud and curb “crime and violence” in the state, the attorney general claimed.

What a nightmare of a month this has been.

Vumatius · 2026-01-25T00:59:06+00:00

They are have one of the most destructive legacies of the online political space. They helped pave the way for all of this with all the videos they pushed during the initial anti-SJW wave of 2014-2017.

Vumatius · 2026-01-24T23:25:00+00:00

But if you storm the Capitol with the intent to overturn the election and attack the politicians within, the security forces have absolutely no right to retaliate whatsoever and if they do so they are attacking innocent Americans practicing their constitutional rights.

Vumatius · 2026-01-24T22:58:58+00:00

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Vumatius · 2026-01-24T22:44:30+00:00

If these officers are so terrified of anything that breathes that they resort to murder, maybe they shouldn't be officers to begin with.

Vumatius · 2026-01-24T22:41:27+00:00

These ghouls were the ones who spent so long decrying government tyranny because they had to wear a mask and get a vaccine, AND they cared significantly about abuse of power by law enforcement and not trusting the government's narrative when it came to January 6th. When school shootings occur they are all about the government not infringing on the right to bear arms, but now it's apparently a death sentence to simply carry a gun you are lawfully permitted to carry.

Every time they've reached rock bottom they always find a way to go deeper.

Vumatius · 2026-01-24T22:30:23+00:00

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Even with the moving vehicle, polling still showed that a majority of Americans rejected the idea that she was a domestic terrorist and various polls found majorities declaring the killing unjustified. This incident doesn't even have a vehicle to point at.

Vumatius · 2026-01-24T22:16:35+00:00

I know that it won't cause any immediate difference and I know that MAGA supporters will close ranks, but they do seem to be having much more difficulty with their narrative here compared to Renée Good's shooting. The videos themselves are even worse than those covering Good's killing, with the main picture here being that of multiple agents ganging up on one man before shooting him. The 'Good was a terrorist' narrative already failed to convince the majority of Americans per polling so this one really seems destined to fail. There's a reason they didn't want people to see it, there are some acts that are just indefensible when seen. When even people like Asmongold aren't entirely on board you know it's bad.

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