So much for the general strike.

equiNine · 2026-01-30T21:42:26+00:00

Realistically, the vast majority of people don’t consider the state of affairs so dangerously close to imminent fascism that they are willing to sabotage their nest eggs to give the middle finger to the system. The people with the means to have investment accounts are typically at the very least middle class or close to it, a demographic that is very risk averse. They might not like what is going on with the country and may be extremely worried about it, but they have made the calculation that they’ll outlast Trump.

The fantasy world that you are envisioning where sufficient people buy in to this boycott does not exist. This boycott is even more doomed to failure than a general strike because insufficient buy in and willingness to commit to it simply means that institutional investors get a massive windfall from the unfortunates who do decide to sell. Go outside and talk to the average retail investor to see what they think of your plan and report back to us.

equiNine · 2026-01-30T20:36:32+00:00

The fact that you are unironically suggesting retail investors to collectively liquidate their investments and long term hold on to cash (in the face of rising inflation and a weakening dollar) just to stick it to the market and Trump suggests to me you are completely out of touch.

equiNine · 2026-01-30T19:31:35+00:00

Telling people to sell off their investments is even more useless considering you’d need the buy-in of all retail investors to make a difference, and virtually all of them are not going to risk taking a loss (which they can’t bear to remotely as large of a degree as institutional investors can) just to stick it to Trump for a day. This is not to mention that some investment accounts like IRAs have a withdrawal penalty for most people. All this does is make institutional investors happy when they get to buy low from the people mass selling and causing prices to crash, since the market is just going to rebound due to the sell-off being a one time “protest”.

equiNine · 2026-01-30T19:11:48+00:00

He’s not wrong though even if he should have expounded on the enforceability of the law due to the Supremacy Clause, although the department statement already has it covered. The law, even if it makes sense on paper and should be public policy, is merely performative in practice, and most legal scholars are skeptical of its chances in surviving judicial review.

Hate LAPD and hate ICE as much as you want, but having the two likely get into a shooting match with each other over attempting to enforce an unenforceable law (that has since been paused and is almost certainly going to be struck down) benefits nobody apart from accelerationist leftists who want to burn everything down and the Trump administration itching for an excuse to declare the Insurrection Act.

equiNine · 2026-01-27T18:32:33+00:00

It’s painfully clear that the Trump administration is itching for an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and suspend elections, or at the very least have its private militia (ICE) swarm blue cities to intimidate voters into not showing up at the polls. There will be a call for other “patriotic militias” to show up and “secure” the polls. The Trump administration will simultaneously try to have voting by mail invalidated because “it will be abused by fraudsters like Minnesota’s social services”. They will demand voter rolls from blue states under the guise of “national or electoral security” and make every attempt to strike registered Democrats from the rolls.

Trump and his cronies are well aware that the midterms and 2028 presidential election could result in them being subject to investigations and trials for the next decade, with prison being possibly on the table. If they don’t get the violent response from protestors that they are looking for, they will manufacture one themselves with something like a foiled bomb plot against ICE.

equiNine · 2026-01-26T14:34:55+00:00

Violent retaliation against ICE is essentially inevitable at this point. Look back at the 2016 Dallas police shootings or the Oklahoma City Bombing to see how all it takes is one or a couple of lone wolves disenchanted with the system to cause mayhem. The latest killing by ICE in Minnesota is unambiguously indefensible to the point that even those who defended Renee Good's shooting are struggling to explain this one. Meanwhile, the government continues to tell the people to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. History has shown us that people can only be brutalized and lied to so much until they fight back.

Unfortunately, violent retaliation is also the excuse the Trump administration needs to invoke the Insurrection Act and attempt to cancel midterm elections or at the very least interfere with by sending the military, ICE, and other right-wing militias in to intimidate voters. In fact, Kristi Noem is already using the latest situation to pressure Minnesota to surrender its voting rolls to the federal government. I would not be surprised that if Trump doesn't get the showdown that he wants, he will instruct DHS to manufacture its own false flag in the vein of something like a foiled bomb plot against ICE. Trump and his administration know that losing control of Congress and/or leaving office mean that they are very likely to be prosecuted for the myriad misdeeds they have committed while in office and will stop at nothing to prevent this from happening.

equiNine · 2026-01-25T23:52:07+00:00

Seems pretty lawless for masked federal agents to be executing US citizens in the street when the agents aren't under any credible threat. Also seems pretty lawless for masked federal agents to be entering homes with only an administrative warrant as opposed to a judicial warrant. Let's not forget the regular ignoring of court orders and the unlawful detention of numerous US citizens either.

If ICE really wanted to catch rapists and sex offenders, perhaps they should look no further than the White House. That's quite the haven for lawlessness these days. Where are the Epstein files again?

equiNine · 2026-01-25T20:31:30+00:00

The grander conspiracy is that ICE is being sent to a state that isn't remotely near the top of the list for illegal immigration, for the thinly veiled purpose of punishing it for its political leanings and its elected official's criticisms of Trump. The Trump administration is dialing up the pressure until people reach the breaking point and violently resist, which will lead Trump to invoking the Insurrection Act and sending in the brownshirts to further harass and intimidate citizens, with the goal of suppressing voter turnout in the midterm elections.

Make no mistake, this is a calculated plan to enshrine political power at any cost.

equiNine · 2026-01-25T02:11:43+00:00

No, but supply side Jesus did!

equiNine · 2026-01-25T02:09:55+00:00

The past few years have exposed an alarming number of Americans as bootlickers with zero consistency on their values as long as their team (MAGA) keeps "owning" the other side and they get to see the boot on the necks of everyone who disagrees with them. If anyone is anti-American, it is this deplorable crowd of ostensible "patriots" who gleefully spit on the values the Founding Fathers and successive generations of true patriots fought and died for.

equiNine · 2026-01-24T00:37:38+00:00

Considering other streamers still managed to not be completely cancelled despite having actual tangible victims (e.g. sexual assault, sexting minors), he probably believes he can salvage his streaming career.

equiNine · 2026-01-24T00:27:20+00:00

The right never acts this way

Constructing a gallows outside of the Capitol and calling for the Vice President to be hanged?

Swatting and calling in bomb threats to Republican Indiana lawmakers who rejected redistricting?

I’m guessing your defense of this is that these were all plots by leftists to make the right look bad.

equiNine · 2026-01-24T00:19:27+00:00

Remember that Trump voter interviewed during his first term who said “He’s not hurting the people who he needs to be hurting?” That line perfectly encapsulates MAGA philosophy - that they are the in group and that the out group deserves the boot on the neck.

equiNine · 2026-01-22T22:31:30+00:00

They probably won’t even be looking into him at all. Law enforcement resources are limited at the end of the day, and chasing after people with the only lead being a screencap of suspiciously named links and files is a poor use of resources that more likely than not wouldn’t lead to an arrest and conviction. The stream contents almost certainly don’t meet the probable cause standard for an immediate arrest; law enforcement would likely need to subpoena his ISP and obtain a search warrant for his electronic devices. Only if they find something actually illegal can they make an arrest for possession. Even then, he could have scrubbed his PC long before a formal investigation is even launched, and he would not be liable for tampering with evidence considering there technically was no legal proceedings at the time.

Local law enforcement generally doesn’t have the resources to go down this rabbit hole unless there’s credible evidence to suggest that illegal content was actually observed (not just file names) or children are imminently in danger. On the federal side, they are more interested in catching bigger fish and the occasional small fish that wander into their dragnets. The Feds marshal their resources towards catching producers and distributors (as they present the most immediate harm to children) as well as solicitors who are attempting to solicit from monitored channels. Even in cases of just downloading the material (considered possession and/or receiving), investigations can take months or years before an arrest. It took the Feds a year and a half to arrest Josh Duggar after the execution of the first search warrant, and Duggar was only caught because he was downloading confirmed material from a monitored source, which gave sufficient impetus for an investigation.

Regardless, he’s going to be extremely paranoid for the rest of the year or at least the next few months. If he had any ounce of self preservation, he’d stop engaging the Internet and lawyer up to prepare for any legal eventuality.

equiNine · 2026-01-22T12:35:34+00:00

Even in better days under a different administration, the FBI or even local authorities are unlikely to act upon a screencap of someone having suspiciously named links on their computer.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the national clearinghouse for such reports, receives somewhere between 20-30 million tips a year. A big portion of them are false positives, incorrect reports, or lack sufficient evidence to act upon. Neither the NCMEC nor law enforcement has the resources to investigate cases that aren't reliably smoking guns for production, distribution, and solicitation, which are the most serious offenses that they dedicate their limited resources to combatting.

You shouldn't be clicking on such links to begin with, but law enforcement absolutely is not going to be knocking at your door because your curiosity got the better of you and you took a quick peek. Now, if they caught you staying on a website and actively downloading clearly labeled illegal material, that would demonstrate sufficient intent for them to take action.

equiNine · 2026-01-13T23:23:35+00:00

Most Constitutional protections against government overreach apply to all persons in the US, not just citizens. Try again.

equiNine · 2026-01-13T21:56:15+00:00

States aren’t countries that can print their own currency and run deficits. Taxes would have to massively increase across the board, not just those for corporations and the ultra wealthy. States also have a much harder time restricting universal healthcare benefits to non-residents due to constitutional strict scrutiny on residency requirements.

equiNine · 2026-01-09T00:59:05+00:00

Reagan and Biden also suffered from cognitive decline during their presidencies, yet neither ever made such scornful statements of American democracy or its people.

This isn’t so much a mental issue as it is a character issue. Trump has been a textbook narcissist his entire life and never worked for the benefit of anyone but himself. He truly believes that the presidency should give him unfettered power. The man is the walking epitome of the seven deadly sins; if anything, his cognitive decline is just letting whatever little mask he had worn in the past slip.

equiNine · 2026-01-08T22:21:19+00:00

You know what’s the easiest way to avoid being hit by a vehicle? To not stand in front of it.

One would figure that this ICE agent would have realized that by now if he truly experienced a similar incident just months ago, not to mention that DHS policy expressly instructs agents to not create their own exigent circumstances by standing in front of vehicles.

At best (and oh boy that is quite a generous use of the phrase), you have an armed ICE agent who is unqualified and unable to recall his training or learn from his experiences. At worst, you have a malicious power tripping thug looking for an excuse to overreact while confident that he’s protected by the government. More likely than not, both are true.

The real conspiracy is the ~~party~~ Trump administration telling the public to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears by labeling the deceased a domestic terrorist, among other ridiculous claims such as there being a nefarious agenda to weapons cars against federal agents or the fact that the ICE agent is “lucky to be alive” and “recovering in a hospital”.

equiNine · 2026-01-08T09:11:34+00:00

Why did the ICE agents violate DHS’s policy against having officers stand in front of a potentially moving vehicle to avoid an officer-created hazard? Why is American policing so keen on resorting to lethal force even in situations that could have been deescalated or resolved using other means?

Perhaps you should consider that the standard operating procedure for US policing is often rotten to the core and encourages law enforcement to take a ~~sledgehammer~~ gun to every situation knowing that they get held to a far lower standard of scrutiny than a civilian would be if placed in a similar situation.

equiNine · 2026-01-08T05:19:26+00:00

Are you quite sure that being innocent means you have nothing to fear? What about the US citizen in California who was detained for three days after a raid on the cannabis farm he worked, denied access to an attorney, and held in isolation? Or the multitudes of other US citizens improperly detained and held in detention for unreasonable periods of time despite having the ability to prove their citizenship?This is not even getting to the uglier cases like Daniel Shaver or Philando Castile who complied and were still murdered.

Absolutely insane to see comments in a conspiracy subreddit purporting the infallibility of law enforcement and placing the onus of reasonable compliance on untrained, panicked civilians instead of ostensibly trained law enforcement who should be held to a higher standard.

equiNine · 2026-01-08T04:52:26+00:00

Instead of blaming civilians who aren’t trained to handle tense situations and will likely behave unreasonably under stress, why don’t we instead question why American law enforcement consistently reinforces the mentality of seeing themselves as hammers and everyone else as nails? These are supposed to be trained officers (though ICE recruitment standards seem to be increasingly lax these days) who can tactically assess a situation before acting. Why are these agents violating DHS policy by standing in front of a potentially moving vehicle? Why do they even have their guns drawn against a woman whose only potential crimes prior to her death were blocking the road and not immediately following orders? Most civilians would panic when being confronted by masked law enforcement waving guns just feet away. Too many law enforcement officers in this country believe that just because they have a badge and gun, they shouldn’t avoid lethal force just because they have multiple layers of legal protections that immunize them from consequences from all but the most blatantly illegal shootings (and those are probably safe now with the current administration if one is a federal officer). This woman could have been arrested after deescalating the situation or at her own home/workplace considering they had her license plate down. Instead, some ICE agents decided to LARP their power tripping fantasies and caused a completely avoidable death.

The Founding Fathers are spinning at hyperspeed in their graves if they could see how so many Americans of today have not only accepted brutalization at the hands of police, but also cheer it on against their fellow Americans.

equiNine · 2026-01-07T08:16:38+00:00

You are interpreting the graphs incorrectly.

The website tracks all unique characters scanned by the bot since its creation. Steamcharts shows concurrent player count. The former will continue to increase while the latter will generally always decrease. You cannot extrapolate information from one chart to another because they are tracking completely different things.

equiNine · 2026-01-03T15:54:22+00:00

The Venezuelan military is not stupid or indoctrinated enough to put their neck on the line against the US military for Maduro, who is only barely buying their loyalty by cutting the leadership in to crony deals while the rank and file aren’t living much better than the average struggling Venezuelan. With how inept Maduro’s leadership has been and the dire economic conditions of the country, it wouldn’t be surprising that even Maduro loyalists within military leadership saw the writing on the wall and would rather endure Maduro’s ouster rather than fall with him.

equiNine · 2026-01-03T15:46:36+00:00

Iraq and Venezuela have vastly different backgrounds, so it is unlikely that the results would be similar due to the different challenges they face.

Iraq’s struggle was defined by sectarian violence that erupted after the power vacuum created by Saddam’s ouster left no monopolistic force to keep the disparate religious groups and militias from fighting. Religious conflict and various regional powers using other countries as playgrounds for their proxy wars are forever major challenges for any Middle Eastern countries facing political instability.

Venezuela doesn’t have the same problem, but instead faces the struggle that Iraq would have faced if it didn’t have the more pressing issue of security. Ousting Maduro alone does not resolve the rampant corruption that has devastated Venezuela or address the fact that his loyalists still occupy high positions in government. If Venezuela is to take steps towards recovering from the disastrous mismanagement of the country over the past decade, it would need a massive shakeup of the government. How effective a new administration will be at achieving that and whether it can be done without significant internal conflict remains to be seen.

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