Animal cruelty is not justified, even if we’ve created the problem.

GOP = Grifting Old Pedos

When your platform consists of killing the poor and widening the income gap, I guess you need something to sell to fascists who need someone to blame.

Mamdani could file charges against that audience member who threatened to shoot him. That was a terrorist threat. But good luck identifying a random person.

Even if they were able to identify, the GOP would just cover up and protect that audience member.

We can unracist the south, we just have to stop being nice and tolerant. It requires hunting down hate groups, silencing hate speech and destroying cultural iconography that supports hate. Like making it a minor crime to fly a confederate flag or organize a hate group.

This is what the reconstruction was supposed to accomplish, but it failed.

The paradox of tolerance - you must not tolerate the intolerant to preserve tolerance.

We’ve witnessed capitalism and its inhumanity. That’s extreme. Up until recently we’ve been the spoiled beneficiaries, while our gluttonous appetite for consumerism has cause immeasurable suffering to developing nations via economic imperialism.

When I realized this, workers rising up worldwide to dominate the capital class is the only moral endpoint. And that might require violence, as the rich aren’t going to willingly comply without the threat of elimination. Fighting to have justice for workers isn’t extreme at all. It’s either us or them. They’d just as soon have us dead. We’re all expendable parts of a machine to them.

Radical unionists in the early 20th century fought the military and died in order for us to have 8-hour workdays and better working conditions.

We’d have to join together in militias and occupy/defend cities. Then, people might stand a chance at least resisting.

The authorities aren’t coming to save us. They’re the enemies who swear allegiance to a fascist regime.

Not to mention power and internet outages. We’ll pretty much revert to a developing nation of warring factions and no one will be safe.

So Hitler exterminating the intellectually disabled didn’t happen? Weren’t the “invalids” thrown into sanitariums, alms houses and poor farms with horrible conditions? Didn’t Scandinavian countries institute forced sterilization of disabled individuals in the early 20th century? Weren’t children born in antiquity with intellectual disabilities abandoned and/or left exposed to die?

There are plenty of words that can be used to insult someone, if your intention is to bully them. You don’t need to inflict collateral damage to insult one person. The English language is very flexible. Giving up a simple word is an act of respect.

You and everyone else downvoting in this thread are using the same logic as an alt-right dweeb who gets enraged when you “steal” bigoted language from them, or ask them not to misgender someone. Which is dumb, because you’re stealing nothing. It’s saying “Hey, that word is terrible for me hear, it brings back lots of bad memories, so out of respect could please not use it?”

Damn, people want to appear to be against oppression, racism and other things yet can’t even be bothered to modify their behavior in the simplest of ways to respect other living beings. We really are all fucked.

And that side is the overwhelming majority doped up on screens and weed vapes, without any desire to touch grass.

That means we can’t tolerate any alt-right White nationalists at all. We have to “de-fascist” the country completely. Crush white nationalist organizations, block them from having an internet/social media platform, illgalize racist/confederate imagery, and destroy it. And rewrite the constitution.

Those who espouse hate speech (not just mere bigoted statements, but call for the denial of rights to marginalized groups) must be held accountable and sentenced to something like a fine and re-education.

We also have to purge religiofascism. Even private schools must teach a secular curriculum alongside their religious one. We have to ban at home school except in extreme circumstances. Churches must be taxed, unless they register as non-profit charitable organizations and actually provide non-religious community services.

Don’t know why you’re downvoted like that, casteism/colorism is well-known within the Indian community. The Brahmins and White nationalists are like-minded in that sense, although the White nationalists still see themselves as superior.

They are religiofascist to a degree and demonize Muslims and enforce the “superiority” of Hinduism. There are definitely some mirrors to what has happened in their government versus ours.

I mean, some Indians have a fetish for Hitler, rooted in stupid legends about Aryanism. The pick-me-ism is insane.

I don’t want them to waste time with “sorrys.” I want them to capture every last of one these shitcrumbs, humiliate them, strip them of their wealth and throw them in prison. Make an example of what we do with criminal pigs.

That’s the best apology they could give to the rest of the world.

Well yeah, it’s racist and you’re grifting all of the money for yourself to line your pockets, while ignoring infrastructure and the necessity of redistribution. This explicitly targets vulnerable groups more than the White, hetero, affluent, and privileged.

This will always be the end result of capitalism. Social degeneration and alienation.

That’s the same as using certain racial slurs. Refraining from using them is a simple act of respect to those marginalized communities.

“Idiot” or “moron” isn’t commonly understood to be tied to a particular group on a modern context. It’s just a generic insult for a stupid person. Trying to compare that to the word of cocern in this post is comparing apples and oranges. It’s now clearly understood as an ableist word and a marginalized group is asking everyone not to use it, as it has very negative connotations for them.

Likewise, “Latinx” was never accepted amongst the Latino community, and only a tiny percentage of university students, most who weren’t even first generation, even cared about it. Using Latinx or Latine actually demonstrates cultural ignorance, as a gendered language doesn’t actually mean words are male, female, non-binary or anything in between. It’s just the rules of the language.

Using slurs against, or in the presence of marginalized people opens up all their old wounds again, wounds inflicted on them by privileged oppressors. These slurs were created with the intention of dehumanizing, insulting and punching down on certain groups, or implying inferiority of those groups when using it as an insult towards others (you’re equating a person to an “lesser” person of a marginalized group).

If you’re interested in studying systems of oppression, this should be an obvious thing to you. Oppression is perpetuated by direct physical and emotional violence, as well as systemic violence.

It’s all there. Conservatives have to cheat to win, instead of having a platform that resonates with people. Fascists.

No, don’t get ahead of yourself. Every single person of voting age should be voting, and be prepared to overwhelm any effort they make to cheat the election. Plan to stand up to ICE, the NG, the DOJ and anyone else who tries to obstruct. Then, we can talk about heads rolling.

Our government, especially the GOP, invited it to happen by supporting apartheid and genocide. Then the GOP used it as an excuse to start a war and build up a police surveillance state. They cashed in on a massive Halliburton contract. The ball was already set rolling decades ago, but this is where shit really started to go south. The GOP until today are using 9/11 as a justification for their bullshit.