The White House will also highlight how the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has expedited an update of its complaint form. For the first time, it will make it clear that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits certain forms of antisemitism and Islamophobia.
I never realized how awful Democrats were until I started paying attention to their policies toward the imperial periphery. It’s darkly funny to me whenever someone from the third world says they don’t see any meaningful difference between Democrats and Republicans, only for some to condescend to them and accuse them of being privileged.
The nanosecond Bernie dropped out in the 2020 election, I hope everyone here also de-registered from the Democratic Party. Controlled opposition at best.
Maybe do some local electoralism, but in the mean time either GTFO the great satan or find a small crevice in the great satan and get organized.
Yeah I’m not a registered Democrat because I dont live in a closed primary state but it can be worth it to register for the purpose of voting in primaries sometimes if otherwise so idk.
Said before and I’ll say again: the biggest “mistake” of the prequels is that they lost track of the fact that people don’t care about the events of the story, they care about how it impacts the characters. Everything about the setup of the prequels is great but the missing element is that its still not clear to a lot of people watching the story that the republic didn’t turn fascist overnight: it was already fascist before episode 3 ever even happens. The main characters just hadn’t quite realized that they were already the empire in everything but name.
Libs didn’t recognize it as fascist until Palpatine defenestrated Windu, had Anakin kill everyone, and then gave a speech proclaiming himself emperor
Even though he functionally already had almost all of that power, it needed to be accompanied by some really obvious nonsense to be truly ‘fascist’ to them
I’m a diehard Lucas apologist…but also a diehard tweaker and editor of movies and I unironically think the biggest missed opportunity of some of the prequels was how they could have really leaned into a dissection/commentary on the original films transparent black and white aesthetics of good and evil.
Like: at the end of attack of the clones there’s a small reprise and hint of the Imperial march and I absolutely get why its there…but I still believe it was the wrong choice. I wish they had played it more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TouCl6yp13A
Cause yay! The troops are off to war to stop the evil insurrectionists!
Now, especially living in america, I think its kind of amazing how much people can only start to recognize fascism when the aesthetics of fascism start to take hold.
When I’m comrade general secretary of the United Earth Soviet Republic, everyone who’s ever had anything to with the 501st Legion is getting gulag’d. People who fetishize the Galactic Empire aesthetic worry me.
I love jerkoff loser cop in Andor so much as a character for exactly this reason. He is just such a brilliant way to shit on people who have a stormtrooper fantasy.
Hellworld. Fascists play it smart and have their fascist leader be a democrat:
Libs are all happy at brunch to care
most of the dissenters are ones asking for more fascism, not less.
Biden will give empty platitudes about equality or tolerance, but we as a society will shrug our shoulders as the nazis organize and do ethnic cleansing. Those platitudes are then protested because it isn’t fascist enough.
The fascists get to win by having the lesser fascists feel like they’re losing and the liberals are too smugly self-satisfied with themselves to really care that much.
I was looking at the reddit thread about this yesterday and all of the comments were talking about how shocked they were at how much antisemetism had been hiding. There was a thread about how the left calling this a move what it is was “oh look Jewish conspiracy” and “it also forbids anti-palestinian bigotry”
If things go the right way we could have a Year of the Four Presidents situation happen. Trump beats Biden in the election, Biden kicks the bucket and Kamala is pres until Trump is sworn in, then Trump chokes on a Filet-O-Fish and whoever his vice president is becomes president
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t see what he would gain from having DeSanctimonious as his running mate, especially with how he’s eaten shit and failed to get off the ground. In short Ron is a loser, and we know how trump feels about losers
it’s not enough to blacklist and strangle the job prospects of anybody who participates, they have to go all Kent State on this shit? really seems like an overreaction incommensurate with the actual threat. Israel and the USA both seem to be on the back foot and reacting wildly
I think their plan is to help Israel quickly finish their genocide by taking the rest of Palestine and they just need to shut people up for a bit to do it. Then they’ll make up a bunch of stuff about how it was “maybe not totally cool in hindsight” and handwave it away like the genocide of indigenous people.
“Should we shoot liberal college students with the national guard” would have 70% approval with republicans and 60% with liberals if you told them the students didn’t vote for Hillary.
The Biden administration is reiterating that there will be no student loan debt forgiveness for PELL grant recipients who stage a pro-Palestine sit-in in an underserved community and keep it running for three years.
Note, that this is not a change from the administration’s current policy of no student debt forgiveness.
That’s why there was a bot to mock this phrasing on the sub. “Wow, Goebbels sure went mask off in Der Jude, huh? They sure are having a normal one over in Nazi Germany.”
So I clicked on the article, and a video started auto-playing. It played while I skimmed. Then after the talk about the ‘hate’, another video immediately auto-played talking about Isra*l intensifying their bombing campaign of Gaza. The ideological whiplash almost broke my neck.
Remember when Texas had the law that you had to sign a loyalty pledge to Israel and liberals fell over themselves for rEpUbLiCaNs bAd? Glad to see there’s yet another Trump policy they decided was right after all. And by glad I mean distressed.
to condescend to them and accuse them of being privileged.
you gotta vote for biden. He’s just like FDR!
progressive reforms like the new deal?
nearly overheated.
