The ear was probably hit by a tiny fleck of glass from a shattered teleprompter, and then with Trump no doubt on blood thinners it would bleed like all

I’m pretty sure this is AI, but it’s so damn perfect…

Is verbal harassment of police and such even a thing? What if he did shout ‘fucking pigs’ or whatever while he was videoing? To me that would change nothing - but would it?

provide evidence either way, but if this just is their typical Baghdad Bob propaganda, I

You don’t say.

IRL an opener like that receiving a response like that would probably be a sign that these two people are absolutely made for each other, IMO. They’d probably be a fantastic couple and wind up growing old together.

They are already proving the rule of law they claim to adore means nothing to them on many fronts, and on this specific topic of Mamdani have already gone from 0-100. When a court blocks their attempt to revoke his citizenship, then what? “Accidental” ICE abduction I guess, but that might be a little risky even for them with such a high profile and beloved politician.

These motherfuckers never even learned what a prefix was in 4th grade.

Of course he did. The last thing Trump needs to stay in the whitehouse until old age finally takes him, and have the justification that he thinks will be sufficient to start murdering dissidents in the streets is for one side or the other to pop off and the other side to react.

Gonna elect a cop TWO times after 2020 NYC? Please tell me no.

It’s almost like everything Republicans claim to stand for is a hollow lie that exists only to justify their greed and the harm they inflict.

When a company gets criticized for everything it does, its decline increases significantly.

Gives me hope for the future of MS then! Maybe they will decline themselves out of dominance.

I dunno, between how clearly French people routinely and thoroughly let it be known that they will not be fucked with by their leadership and shit like this, if I win the lottery and get rich enough for some country to let me escape from the white nationalist oligarchy of the US, France is looking pretty good.

I’m OK with it because maybe when they realize he’s just a guy making decisions to help his community, it will remove a smidge of the ZOMG SOCIALISM reaction to folks like not only him, but also Bernie, and maybe others who might like to call themselves social democrats instead of democrats.

If Bernie and AOC start the social democrat party tomorrow with Mamdani and others, I’m registering before the ink is dry.

These are two of the the primary things gone from my life now that I’ve cut every conservative I can from it. It’s glorious.

So if you want me to support some kind of outreach for conservatives (who apparently can’t post anywhere they aren’t overtly welcomed and that’s a problem the rest of us need to fix) I need some understanding of what you think the upside is.

I haven’t seen that.

I’ve seen scolding people for not wanting to surround themselves with people who have had years and years to demonstrate what they are like and what they support. The only thing new about modern conservatism is how it no longer bothers trying to pretend it’s not hateful.

As I have said repeatedly, nothing stops a conservative from coming here and communicating like an adult.

The issue with echo chambers is that they reinforce people’s existing beliefs instead of challenging them. That often comes with extreme hostility toward anyone who doesn’t share those beliefs.

One more thing -

Why do conversations like this always assume:

1. The entirety of my life’s experience with conservatives is online or even recent.

2. That somehow I don’t know what conservatives support. I’m looking at the effects of what they support in the news right now. Just like I did during the satanic panic, just like I did during all their attempts to take away the rights of women, just like I did during my lifetime of watching them try to treat the actual lives of LGBTQ+ like a fucking talking point, just like I’ve done during my lifetime of watching how their policies impact black people, and (since the current group hasn’t yet figured out how to reach back in time and change textbooks) just like I learned during all my various history classes.

So now, when the conservatives in the world are the most openly hateful and bigoted they have ever been in my nearly sixty years, folks are going to scold me for being fucking done with them? Do not want, do not accept.

For sixty fucking years the group of people most obviously and loudly working to make things miserable for the fucking rest of us has been conservatives. WHAT am I going to learn now from them? A deeper understanding for how little they care about anyone not like them? The nuance of their bigotry?

Keep everyone uneducated, breeding, and making money for the 1%. It’s the conservative way.

Lots of us will die, but not the billionaires, and probably not most of the millionaires, and enough will live that all the losses of people and resources will just be the cost of doing business.

Look at all the money they won’t have to spend on healthcare for those who die! And those who remain - just cattle at that point to keep the rich wealthy.

Close enough parallel to cover it, I think.