@JasonBassler1 .@Flock_Safety prevented no shootings, no black-teen-riots, no shop lifting crimes. chaos funded & organize (via NGOs like SPLC & OpenSociety).
But allows police to presume guilt on innocence. Another constitutional violation @a16z@pmarca
Sue them all. Police. Company. VCs.
"We have cameras everywhere in that town and you cannot get a breath of fresh air without us knowing"
When police are admitting this out loud, it's time to admit the cage isn’t coming, we're already inside it.
As my friend @michaelmalice often says, you may have friends who are police, as we all do, but “the police” are not your friend. Never speak to them without an attorney and let the attorney do the talking.
@AveryDaye@RealDeanCain I mean, I also have a problem with the idea of mass migration as a whole.
It's actually just fine for a people to not want their entire culture purposefully transformed inside living memory.
@ShamashAran This was blaringly obvious in the Clinton years when you had the most strident feminists offering to put on the knee pads because Bill was pro abortion.
Hasan gets no charitability on this. After all, we all have heard him explain it before. Raping WASP fail daughters is harm reduction.
The problem isn't that Platner raped women for Hasan. It's that he raped the wrong kind of woman.
I'm sure @Asmongold will have a field day with Hasan's surrender on Platner (unless that happened today -- I didn't see the stream today.)
"We could explain the last one," Axelrod went on. "Who hasn't thought of hate fucking Republican Women, after all? But a Democrat? Now, that's a different problem. We can't let Democrat women be raped!"
@mkhammer@jonfavs I recall Pete Hegseth was accused of promoting intolerant violence for his Jerusalem Cross tattoo.
Hawaiian shirts, and the “OK” hand symbol have “proven” others guilty of white supremacy.
But someone with an image from Nazi death camps?
Meh…innocent tomfoolery!
@mkhammer@jonfavs Kinda wild the amount of hypothetical situations Jon has to invent to prove that Platner isn’t a Nazi sympathizer and every single one of them starts out ignoring the fact that Platner consciously, intentionally, and permanently marked his body with a Nazi symbol.
I dunno, man, it’s so odd that the list of things that make one a probable white supremacist doesn’t include a Nazi tattoo. I remain convinced a Nazi tattoo is a useful heuristic for “dumb and bad in the extreme” and one you’d absolutely use if you didn’t have a political need for him to beat Susan Collins. I reject the political DARVO that I’m the problem for not being supportive enough of this Marine bc I’m noticing a Marine who wants to be a Senator has a Nazi tattoo. It’s a fiction he didn’t know what it was and his old posts, former political director, and academic history and focus refute it.
I think if one is trying to figure out if a candidate is sympathetic to Nazis, one of the most important tests is whether the candidate knowingly got a death’s head tattoo signifying an elite, brutal group of SS officers and kept it until the second he wanted to run for Senate and someone noticed. It’s an insult to everyone’s intelligence to suggest otherwise. Sorry, his Medicare thoughts from last week are not permanent body art or absolution.
Doctrine over person is a concept from Robert Jay Lifton's "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism." It refers to a dynamic in ideological environments where official doctrine or group narrative is placed above individual experience, humanity, or contradictory evidence about a specific person. If facts about someone clash with the preferred story, the person (or their history) is reframed or ignored to preserve the doctrine.
Here, it highlights how partisan incentives can override direct symbols or personal history in candidate evaluations.
@samstein Nobody's "going after" kids in hijabs. The enemies are the people who force kids to wear them.
By the way, did you know hijabs are meant to prevent lust. Why do Muslims make kids wear them?
@samstein Deeply unsettling that non of you Liberals or Democrats have any qualms about small children having to cover themselves with hijabs so as not arouse grown men (perverts, of course) who are attracted to them. Shame on you all.