What you are saying is, more or less, literally the point of the article: That it might sound good but it’s a bad bad development because a lot of what used to motivate people to commit extremist acts is now getting normalized within “the system.” You stopped reading exactly one paragraph too early.

They were willing to sell 10,000 cameras anyway. The point of making it into a public tweet is to publicly gargle the ballsack so everyone knows where they stand.

It wouldn’t be racist if you had said they were bigoted (Although I do think it would be wrong, I think the issue is more awareness and education than it is just innate bigotry. They obviously didn’t fully know what Trump was about, by definition, or they wouldn’t have voted for him.)

Since you said the whole grouping is hypocritical and lacks compassion, that’s the racist part. IDK how you can’t see that, but it seems like you’re just determined not to see it for whatever reason.

Hey, try this instead:

“We have an armed response force ready to protect you against ICE if they come to try to snatch you. We have lawyers at the ready, and we’re fine mobilizing the state’s National Guard if it comes to that. If you’re in another part of the country and worried about your safety, come to Vegas! You can do some gambling and see the sights without worrying if you’re going to make it home to your family or not.”

Guaranteed spike in tourism. Don’t just ask for what you want. Earn it.

I don’t, sadly… I actually looked to try to find the book I used for it, but it’s been so long that I couldn’t properly remember what it was. Maybe go to the bookstore and pick up a few and see if they have the right structure (a series of games and then annotations of what’s going on in them, and also if the author’s text seems like something you vibe with).

Sorry if this is unhelpful lol… I looked over some books online but I’m not sure what is good and I don’t want to give you some recommendation and then it not be worthwhile.

“The lack of compassion and hypocrisy among the blacks came back to bite their own community in the ass”

“The lack of compassion and hypocrisy in the LGBTQ+ community came back to bite their own community in the ass”

See the problem now?

It’s not automatically racist just to discuss significant problems in a particular racial community in a direct fashion of course… but just dismissing Latino support for Trump as a problem of “it’s because they are bigoted hypocrites QED” is a bunch of racist crap.

How DARE you be so hurtful, didn’t you understand that I was RIGHT this pepper spray hurts so bad how could you DO this et cetera

I honestly don’t understand why those two sides of the coin always come together, but it seems like about 99% of the time, they do.

My guy this is racist as fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2EQvdzmY

is Patel just lashing out with nonsense to stop the grilling

Ding ding ding

I feel like some people on Lemmy like to do counter-trolling by being an extra obvious obnoxious version of their “enemy” group

Watching the testimony is pretty hilarious. Patel looks (a) visibly miserable and (b) like the least believable person alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf0mWT9iMtI

Incarceritis

Correct, that kind of thing has happened before. That would be a shockingly brazen coverup.

I don’t think he is useful (in either sense of the word). The whole format of Reddit sort of lends itself to long-form discussion and people disagreeing with their masters about things, and I think they will want to get rid of that whatever he tries to do to make it “compliant.”

“Why don’t they just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get educated about it”

Fair enough. I didn’t misunderstand anything, I just wasn’t real overt about responding to it directly I guess.

As I see it, there are two possibilities:

• They give the body back to the family and the legs are fine
• They give it but the legs are broken, or they cremate it first, or they refuse to give it back, or basically anything other than that first thing

In the second case, there’s fuckery by the coroner. In the first case, there’s not (which of course doesn’t mean he wasn’t lynched of course). I just don’t get how trust for the coroner or police needs to enter into that equation in any capacity. Sure, if they fuck with the body or have some ridiculous excuse for why the legs were broken, then it also means that the coroner is dirty and trying a coverup for some horrendous reason. But it’s not like the original question is going to stay as an unknowable thing.

People have this kind of knee-jerk “the system is going to lie about everything” reaction which sometimes makes them kind of throw up their hands on the concept of every getting to the bottom of anything, and I think that’s insidious, especially when they start inserting all kinds of speculation and saying it’s a possibility so who knows. We’re going to be able to tell if his legs were broken or not with a pretty high degree of certainty at some point in the pretty near future. I feel like it’s good to hold onto that ability to make sense of the world instead of retreating into nihilism and just assuming everyone’s probably lying and giving up. Doesn’t that make some sense?

your entire political universe seems to be based around Lemmy comments. and I think that’s given you a staggeringly misleading view of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmVkJvieaOA&t=139s

The whole thesis of what I am saying here is that it’s weird that particular Lemmy commenters behaved in certain ways. I was only ever talking about Lemmy. You keep telling me that I believe (for example) that Kamala Harris lost because of Gaza protest voters, and I already explained how that’s not what I believe and explained the difference between the two domains in my view.

I actually brought up a couple of examples applying to voters outside of Lemmy who operate on a much more normal wavelength (search for “immigration” to see them), contextualizing the tiny subset of voters on Lemmy within the broader context of the average voter who’s very unlike them.

I live in Seattle. you’re saying I’ve been slacking off about making sure Mamdani wins? OK, tell me what I should do.

do you have an answer to this? you quoted and responded to the rest of my post, but this was a weird omission.

I don’t think my original point was about you. It was about people posting constantly on Lemmy, about not voting for Democrats, and specifically self-reporting that they were doing it to influence the Democrats to be better about Gaza, and then being quiet about Mamdani. If that’s not you, then nothing I was saying would apply to you. I actually agree with you that the overall impact of Lemmy is miniscule, like I said when I already contextualized it up above.

I have no interest in this conversation anymore, that’s why I stopped quoting and responding to you in the middle of the reply. That paragraph up above is what I’ve been saying any number of times repeatedly, and it seems like you’re not into absorbing it, so oh well. If you ask me a direct question which you aren’t happy that I didn’t answer, then sure, I’m happy to, but the overall discussion I do not think can be productive within this format.