It may not have actually escalated into shooting yet, but the armed defense is certainly beginning.

Yes, driving Nazis from society is more important than including them so you can then performatively dunk on them.

I honestly cannot believe anyone here would struggle to understand that. Come on ffs

Yes, platforming Nazis is a bad idea. The correct response would be to ban the account and any similar accounts.

I mean the Dems trying to run a genocidaire who could barely speak coherently probably didn’t help matters

not more establishment dems.

Fixed that for you

Again, they got gang tattoos. They’re not worried about hiding anything or keeping up appearances. They have guns and the government on their side. They are the dogs of the ruling class. Most of us don’t even have guns… yet.

Not to even get into the DHS Twitter posting “14 words” tweets and other barely-veiled white supremacist propaganda.

My theory seems to line up with the author of this article’s experience.

They hired her without even bothering to check that she’s a massive ICE detractor, how does that support your position? It’s a hiring process, a necessary part of getting boots on the ground, not a meaningful screening process and not really presented as one.

I tend to place human compassion as a higher priority than morals derived from novels.

…also the book is about shooting a mentally handicapped guy because the world wasn’t able to accommodate his disability. Are you always pro-eugenics or just in specific cases?

Comparing vets to involuntarily disabled people is a big stretch.

I don’t think vets volunteered to be disabled.

Most vets alive today are people who knowingly decided to go kill people for oil money.

I’m guessing you’ve spent time around like, 1 or 2 veterans max.

Do you have literally any source to back that claim up? (I know you don’t but I’m asking anyway.)

Nobody goes to afghanistan without knowing about the atrocities that the US has comitted there.

You might if you are broke as fuck and not on the internet 24/7.

Not everyone lives the same privileged life as you.

That’s an insane and inhumane stance which could be equally applied to mentally ill / developmentally challenged people in many cases. The price of community is inconvenience. We aren’t only meant to protect and take care of people when it’s comfortable for us.

Now if we’re talking about living with someone with PTSD who waves a gun at you or hits you, for sure, get yourself out of that situation for your own wellbeing. But there’s a lot of room between “Calling them ghouls and exiling them from polite society” versus “Avoiding becoming a victim of their violence”, especially when they aren’t all violent.

The LA Sherriff’s Department was revealed to have gangs in their ranks which would go out and party and get commemorative gang tattoos after they killed their first person.

Basically nothing happened as a result.

You drastically overestimate the extent to which there is oversight or accountability for any so-called ‘law enforcement’ in this country.

Yes, it works, but also yes, high temps will destroy LSD. So if it was a brand-new-scalding-hot pot, it would probably degrade. Would you still feel it? Idk. If it’s a lukewarm pot though, you’ll probably trip just fine.

For informational purposes only, obviously.

…I mean that implies they wouldn’t hire Nazis if they were screening.

America inspired the Nazis. This is nothing new. Our country is founded on genocide and built by slavery. The only reason decorum has been maintained as long as it has is because the propaganda/distraction machine worked so well until they broke it on Israel and forgetting to give people enough money to eat.

They aren’t ghouls, they’re victims. They can be, and often are, victimizers as well. Most people join the military because they’re broke and desperate. Have some class solidarity.

Now the people who join the military just to go shoot someone in the Middle East (or soon South America maybe), yeah, they can get thrown into the meat grinder.

It was probably an automated decision to be entirely honest

I once got banned for quoting a spammer to make fun of their spam. They banned me because they thought I was the spammer.

I think it’s kind of the inverse of what you see on platforms like TruthSocial or such. Everyone goes to those to be racist assholes. Similarly, many people go to Lemmy to escape racist/capitalist/etc assholes, and because they’ve been effected by racist/capitalist/etc assholes or their policies, they spend a lot of time discussing them.

You almost need a population of normies (sorry) to act as a ‘buffer’, maybe? Idk, thinking out loud.

Pixelfed is really quite positive despite the similar context, but it’s a little… “cocktail party” vibes sometimes. Not enough weird people for me, but that’s why I try being weird there.

I like Pixelfed too, for all its bugs. I would like to drop Instagram for it, but I’ve managed to convince exactly zero of my friends to join PF lol

I think at that point it’s more of a revolution than a riot, but I agree

Sounds good, I’ll continue “hiding” behind being unwilling to sign my name to endorse putting a genocidaire in charge of a massive military force

Good luck saving the world by voting for genocide, odd strategy but here’s hoping

Ok: By allowing Democrats to get away with their “lesser evil” sales pitch, you guaranteed what you incorrectly perceive as my willful ignorance.

The perception of members of the Blue MAGA cult is irrelevant to me.