Both are crappy. Unfortunately, the more assertive one seems better suited to what the moment calls for. I am hoping that AOC becomes our next president, and Newsom fades away, Back to the Future style.

Already passed laws against masked and anonymous ICE, alongside a governor that at least speaks with a spine. Far as I can tell, most states don’t have enough establishment leadership that opposes ICE.

Still not enough IMO.

I no longer feel shame as a person, because I have been presented evidence that I am not a hemorrhoid on society. I don’t hurt people for fun nor profit.

If I were running the nation, I would offer universal healthcare to documented immigrants, regardless of whether they hold a job. Also, a bounty program where workers receive a stipend between jobs if they report on employers who underpay workers.

Companies should exist to serve society, not to be profit maximization engines.

Ignoring the fakery, I don’t see how the alteration makes her less sympathetic. I would also be distressed if being frog-marched by facists for the crime of being born autistic.

All this propaganda does, is cement my decision to fight. The Trump Regime and Dogey Americans, are enemies of any decent human being, and must be destroyed.

Rules haven’t stopped Trump. Why should we follow them anymore, if only jackasses get to decide when they apply?

An awful lotta people seem to think military personnel are robots, who automatically obey whoever is at the top. Honestly, it seems incredibly authoritarian minded to me, that such debaters don’t perceive soldiers to be people first, and job second.

I would like to have Mark Kelly as our Washington, far as the military side of the conflict goes. He can be a Vice President to AOC after the dust has settled.

They are both turds. It is just one is dressed in a snappy tan suit, and the other is a orange shitgibbon.

I hope we get 16 years of presidency between AOC and Mamdani.

Well, that is the point. By making it so that they can only have inconvenient ranged firepower that is locked up in the car, they can’t kill people nearly as often nor with ease. The only time they should be using firepower, is with coordination with dispatch and the PD anyways.

It is harder to shoot a black dude in the back, if you don’t have a gun by default.

As we have seen with the protests in Minneapolis and other places, people don’t readily kill enforcers, despite having just cause and the 2nd Amendment. The claims of cops needing a gun at all times is a lie, perpetuated by the oligarchy to protect their interests.

MAGA has certainly convinced me that they aren’t patriots. I now consider them to be Dogey Americans, servants of an evil regime and avatars of malice.

It ain’t great that things have become black and white like this, but it is pretty clear that there isn’t room for nuance anymore.

While I hope for the best, I have low expectations of our timeline.

I think that police should only have a shotgun in the trunk of their police cruiser. The dispatcher has to remotely unlock the trunk, and then grant permission to the shotgun. Our law enforcers should be held to a higher standard when it comes to deploying violence, and be fully on the record.

They can have telescopic batons, which also require the remote unlock from dispatch. Again, to ensure that when force is deployed, the state is responsible. An officer who deploys force without permission, should be treated as suspect in a court of law.

Same goes for grenades to need dispatch’s authority. All weapons and cameras should automatically have records sent to federal, state, and civil rights groups.

I wish the bullet that got President Garfield traveled through time and did in Governor Reagan instead.

The ‘good’ Latinos among ICE will be the last to be headhunted for a bounty. They will be no different from the workers at a Mexican restaurant.

Fuck no. You are telling me to bury my head in the sand and ignore reality. You are welcome to ignore the world around you, but don’t ask me to carry water for your sanewashing.

I think a civil war is nearly inevitable, thus I want my side to prepare, both mentally and materially. That can be domestic service, states making compacts and foreign treaties, the stockpiling of goods and arms, or offering one’s body in the line of combat.

I have no useful skills, so my blood will have to do.

Dude. I read an awfully lot of history, watched the entirety of Ken Burn’s Civil War and Vietnam series, read over 1,500+ pages of Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History, listened to many episodes of Dan Carlin, and Behind the Bastards.

You have a different viewpoint from me, that war is bad and nasty. That is fair. But you are attacking me as a person, and reveal your colors: someone who can’t handle the idea that someone else has a different reasoning and perspective about the world. You are trying to infantize me.

I know that the odds of my death are probable if a 2nd American Civil War happens, as I intend to serve as an infantryman or whatever role is needed. But you know what? It is worth dying over, because I don’t want the latter half of my life to be ruled by the likes of Thiel, nor do I wish to die in RFK’s “wellness” camps. As a minority, I intend to live decently, and die on my terms.

The best you can do is to make the bad parts of America face bad consequences for their malice, while supporting the good parts of the nation. You have different tools from my people, and should make good use of them.

Back in the 1st American Civil War, the Union had retained their international trade partners throughout the war, while the Confederacy was cut off. That starved the serpent, and made it much easier to tread upon as the years went by.