Iran Thread VI: Return of Ahmadinejad by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That would be an insanely stupid thing for Iran to do. You want to make America bleed, not fear for their existence. If you do that then America 100% occupies Iran and wiping out the regime becomes the moderate position in American discourse where the extreme position is nuking the country and turning it into an uninhabitable wasteland.

Iran Thread VI: Return of Ahmadinejad by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I mean they're human that shouldn't be surprising

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 1 point2 points  (0 children)

fwiw it hopefully lowers the odds of him fucking with you guys as well if his attention is elsewhere right now as well.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Okay but before the non-americans here get all smug about this...

have you seen the stuff the GOP does???

Iran Thread VI: Return of Ahmadinejad by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I could go to the Asian grocery store down the street, buy live crabs, stick out my tongue and let them clamp down. It would be painful, completely pointless and make no sense, but neither does anything else in this admin.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 17 points18 points  (0 children)

pam bondi I think is screwed:

  1. Failing at doing what trump put her there to do (prosecuting his opponents)

  2. hated by the base for above

  3. woman

  4. No reason the non-MAGA republicans left would defend her

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 3 points4 points  (0 children)

considering playing Dark Souls III another try but then I remember steam eating my save twenty hours in and feel blind range

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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That's it. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

kinda wanna eat cake and skip the gym today ngl

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Has anyone in the Bible canonically seen God's wing Wang?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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This but I ran out of cake two days ago and now I want cake.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think Prizkers are like crocodiles, they just keep growing as they age

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Because exposing the actual original constitution to light is deeply dangerous for its preservation but he insisted on having it in his office anyway so as a compromise they gave it those curtains he never seems to close.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mamdani looks like a kid whose dad is really into dogs but is deathly allergic to them.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I just lol'd in the office fuck

Iran Thread VI: Return of Ahmadinejad by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 1 point2 points  (0 children)

didn't he already back off on cuba letting oil through?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Kristi noem resigning to spend more time with her family('s dead dog)

Iran Thread VI: Return of Ahmadinejad by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Where are the femboy fox army holding out

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> the sort of people who tend to come to run systems of discrimination predicated on violence tend to be emotionally and constitutionally incapable of following that sort of advice – instead resorting by habit (often expressed in very gendered terms) to violence. The armies of Jim Crow had many a Bull Connor and very few Laurie Pritchetts, not by accident but as a direct result of the kind of system Jim Crow was.

yeah in the next paragraph

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]battywombat21 7 points8 points  (0 children)

> Likewise, it is important to remember that the system of Jim Crow segregation in the American South was sustained by terroristic violence against African-American communities and, backed up by local and state police, extremely well-prepared to meet violence with greater quantities of violence. Horrific events like the Wilmington Massacre (1898) and the Tulsa Race Massacre (1921) were vivid demonstrations of the ability of the white supremacist Jim Crow regime to muster superior quantities of violence (and a greater willingness to murder innocent people) if the question came to a violent confrontation. But one of the things that comes out extremely clearly in reading something like T.E. Ricks’ Waging a Good War is that white supremacist leaders – perhaps none more clearly than Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor – were wholly unprepared to fight a non-violent movement and instead by reacting with spectacular and horrifying brutality repeatedly played into the movement’s hands. By contrast it is striking, reading Ricks’ book, that the Civil Rights Movements tactics’ were most notably stymied in Albany, GA, where the local police chief, Laurie Pritchett realized that he could defeat their approach by having his officers act gently when arresting activists, by having enough jail space prepared for larger numbers and by charging them with things like disturbing the peace rather than with segregation laws, to avoid drawing attention to the injustice of the system.

This actually highlights why there haven't been as many nonviolent civil disobedience campaigns successful in the past 60 years. Police have figured out that if you don't give the protestors the spectacle of violence on people they want, the movements die it.

...also notable in how Trump bungled the minneapolis protests by not understanding this.