Seems like you fell for the obvious bait & made their point when I figured they were playing devil’s advocate. “Free speech” only when it doesn’t offend you isn’t free speech. This is just plain hypocrisy.

18%? 🪫

While I don’t know anything about Nextdoor, has it occurred to you that you would have been banned for any rant whatsoever or are there rants on there defending ICE & bashing protesters that don’t get banned?

These are the logical rewards of expecting social media companies to police & deplatform “undesirables” when people grew too complacent to uphold norms of open discourse by educating or discrediting idiots the old-fashioned way.

24/7 stream of this trash

Why should we want them gone? They’re fun!

Imagine being horrified of your own thoughts. They’re you. Just welcome them & delight in their wild machinations.

That was not at all the point the comic was making, so whoosh? 💨

@JUNlPER
this is always one that gets me. so many people are unable to realize that you can present characters doing something bad without endorsing it. not sure when this kind of baby brained thing started but its so silly to see so often

@ducktales2020
more than anything they conflate Presenting Something with Agreeing With Something, but don’t apply it to good guy/bad guy narratives. when everyone’s bad they short circuit

Wouldn’t that be nice? Too good to be true, though.

I’ll admit that their argument is sound

Not in the slightest: did you miss all the fallacies?

That’s a tremendous omission.

Big think: the people wouldn’t just vanish. The parties are their people. After we dismantle & liquidate them, wouldn’t the same parties reemerge? Something crucial seems missing.

Cool, those are the douches breaking the web by stubbornly refusing to understand the humble web link.

Your edits address nothing I wrote. That you think they should (when they really do the opposite) indicates poor reading comprehension.

The cozying up to a convicted felon, rapist, fraudster, pedophile, war monger part?

Like every world leader flattering & gifting the douche (a problem that might resolve itself in a few years) to evade extra hardships from the US? Have you been asleep? That’s classic diplomacy in this sort of situation. Except for the warmongering part, the US’s problems aren’t everyone else’s: the US can fuck themselves for all they care.

No sense in faulting someone working with what they got. They’re in no position to challenge the US.

Machado does not want democracy

They already had an election robbed by falsified results.

Citation missing, especially on the resource “rape”, so

You’re flailing vitriol without properly justifying until called out & arrogantly assuming everyone should know shit that doesn’t affect us.

Plus, she’s advocating for Venezuela, not Israel or Palestine & certainly not the US: enemy of my enemy & playing sides against each other logic. As for the coup begging, I doubt anyone wanting to restore democracy in their country gives too many fucks about how their country’s dictator is deposed as long as it gets done. One step at a time without her people even lifting a gun.

Seems like she’s working with what she’s got, which is way less than the might of the US.

I never said this looked different,

Your question

What the fuck happened?

pretty much did unless you’re assuming that peaceful pragmatism^[1] is incompatible with a peace award (in which case, that’s daft as hell).

One of these would be fun, but ICE would probably fire back with real bullets.

• Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’ (arc)
• Schumer and Jeffries Refuse to Back Growing Democratic Calls to Defund ICE (arc)

One of these is not like the other: someone can call for defunding without further calling for outright abolishing. Is there a name for the baby-brained fallacy where someone can’t draw obvious distinctions?

Do you literally not remember all the times world leaders have lined up to award & praise Trump to try to get their way? That’s just sensible foreign relations by world leaders who understand the type of shallow, transactional idiot Trump is. Without insight about Machado, how does this look any different to you?

I can’t

Seems like loser talk.

Republicans one-party state FTW?