void_turtle

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The point of being armed is that you increase the cost of fascist goons carrying out the street level orders of the fascist leader. Do you love freedom enough?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

No, Dachau concentration camp was started in March 1933, just a few months after Hitler took power.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America already had concentration camps in the form of ICE detention camps and prisons. The trials most faced before being sent to prison do not some how make those prisons not concentration camps. Those also have inhumane living conditions, forced labor, dehumanization, brutal violence, isolation from accountability, psychological torture and murder.

El Salvador is certainly worse, but we didn't get here overnight. The american people have been conditioned to accept this over decades by sending millions of people to internal slave labor camps with the thin excuse of "but they had due process!!!1!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

This is what I'm saying. To Trump, the worst sin is disagreeing with him. The second worst sin is failing him. Hegseth is gonna get fucked, maybe charged for leaking classified info. Hell, the way things are going he may spend the rest of his life in an El Salvadoran gulag.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What a hilariously absurd interpretation of what I said. Total failure of reading comprehension. Or just a bad faith dipshit.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Which part didn't you understand?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I never mentioned genetics, strange that you would bring it up. Sex isn't even fully determined by genetics, something as complex and fragile as your personal values certainly can never be reduced to genetics.

Humans brains are stochastic and the values we eventually settle on depend both on our environment and on somewhat random walks through possible values. Some people will land on violent domination as a social strategy just through randomness. I believe an environment where everyone is cared for and has the ability to flourish will minimize the people who randomly end up on violent domination, but it is not possible through environmental changes to completely prevent this. Thus we cannot allow any positions of power, since those will attract and eventually be captured by people who have chosen domination as their preferred strategy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

The desire to dominate and the willingness to act on it has existed in a fraction of the population since before humans were human. This is the root of all evil, capitalism is a specific manifestation of this impulse that has only existed for some 400 years. If your analysis starts and ends at "capitalism bad" you miss the vast majority of oppression that has existed or will exist.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Really hate the milktoast way these articles are written. "critics warning" "ignited alarm online" "backlash has ignited debate" ffs just say the Trump admin announced the end of free speech. That is literally what happened.

Some worried the administration was veering into authoritarian territory.

FFS WE'VE BEEN THERE THIS ISN'T VEERING THIS IS FOLLOWING A STRAIGHT LINE ALONG THE PATH WE'VE ALREADY BEEN ON FUCK

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The ruling is also meaningless. They ruled the US has to "facilitate" his return, but does not have to "effectuate" his return. The admin will interpret this to mean that as long as El Salvador doesn't take active steps to send him back, the US doesn't have to do anything to try to make them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sure, lab safety goggles will protect you from pepper spray in most instances. But what eye protection you're wearing won't matter. You're chained to a tree. The cops can do literally anything they want to you, including ripping your safety glasses off and emptying a can of pepper spray directly in your eyes. See: the infamous case of the Pepper Spray 8

Deputies pepper sprayed Mike McCurdy (above) and Noel Tendick directly in the eyes at close range while they were locked together through the tracks of a Pacific Lumber bulldozer on an old-growth redwood logging site. The activists endured the torture and did not unlock. Deputies then safely cut them loose with a portable grinder, as they could have done without using pepper spray, and as they had done hundreds of times in previous years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Treesitters have been killed by loggers before and didn't face murder charges iirc. They are probably more worried about wrongful death suits.

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