Now if they could just take this lesson and apply it to the rest of the ‘information’ that is supplied by the media environment they have immersed themselves in.
These people are going to go home and be proud of how they defended the border and tell everyone about it.
“Immigrants stopped coming because we were there! See?! It works!”
“Lisa, I want to buy your rock.”
Wasn’t there some scammer that was selling pieces of the border wall? Like you could sponsor a piece of it and have your name on it?
personalized vanity stones with family names and little messages being used to stop families at the border is actually hilarious
“From the Johnsons. Peter, Debbie, and little David. - we’re hate-filled!”
or one with their pets pawprint “my Pepper is just as racist as I am!”
“Thoughts and prayers – for your death.”
Lol, “lesson.” As if this would teach them anything .That’s cute.
As if they had the capability to learn. That was beaten out of them with a bibble before primary school.
But, of course, it won’t occur to them that this is because their Republican masters are lying to them.
At this point they’d rather forsake god as a socialist than believe the Nazi…ahem…”Republican” party can do wrong.
I remember when debate was getting started about the ACA (Obamacare). I was debating it with my friends older brother. He is the kind of Catholic that will shame you for not going to church.
So he’s ranting about the merits of universal healthcare and I asked him what Jesus would do. Let’s just say he didn’t like that. He later blocked me on social media and it was the last discussion we ever had.
What a happy ending. Some people are really cynical about the Internet these days but it’s things like your comment that give me hope.
He should have gone on about Jesus making the leppers work at Starbucks so they had health coverage before healing them.
It’s “lepers”. “Leprosy” only has one p
It used to have 2, then one fell off.
In before the Christians come to tell everyone that those aren’t real Christians.
I’m surprised that hasn’t happened yet, to be honest.
The last time they tried a Civil war they failed, and destroyed their own economies in the process. That time, they had some of the best generals available. This time they have Boebert and Trump to lead them,
“Best generals available” might be a bit of a stretch. That’s a bit of the Lost Cause mythology still wrattling about the internet.
https://history.info/did-you-know/general-lee-offered-command-union-army/
Lincoln offered Lee command of the Union Army.
Lee almost took it too, he didn’t want to secede but he felt like he was betraying his fellow statesmen in Virginia. People forget that before the civil war people didn’t think of themselves as Americans, they thought of themselves as citizens of whatever state they were from.
From what I’ve read, before the War people said “…the United States are…” and after they changed it to “…the United States IS…”
Also, I like the stories that the British had agents who privately encouraged the South to fight the North in order to keep America weak. Putin didn’t invent anything new
From what you’ve read in… the script of National Treasure?
On the contrary, I think your comment is a bit of a stretch in the other direction. Leaving variances in talent among individuals aside, the officers on both sides were broadly comparable because they had all gone through the same West Point training and were colleagues in the same chain of command, with the same strategy and doctrine, until the Southern ones turned traitor.
I haven’t seen that part disputed? To my knowledge there was a very good reason Lee was the superintendent at the US Military Academy and was even offered a Union command before Virginia seceded, and this pattern holds with his underlings too. A lot of Confederate victories were beating odd against bigger Union armies.
When the upper threshold for greatness available to you is a 3/10, a 2.5 looks pretty good.
I understood that pro-union misinformation and propaganda and poor understanding of history is orders of magnitude less harmful than pro-confederate, but it still bothers me. Lee was an incredible general. Jackson, Longstreet, even Early were excellent tacticians. The union could not field anyone who was a match for them until Grant and Sherman.
I love “wrattling”. kind of a wrestling-meets-defective-machinery.
Wasn’t their general first helping to lead the Union army before Virginia turned against the Union and he turned with them?
Lee was offered comman of the union army by Lincoln.
That part of the mythos is fairly accurate.
Well it doesn’t help it any that “lost cause” is 100% what some of our elected officials are spouting currently
I assume ending this comment on a comma was intentional but even if it wasn’t it’s perfect
It was an error. I should have ended with the ‘…’
The U.S. government has a professional army. They have nothing. And when the vast majority of the country lives paycheck-to-paycheck, you’re not going to get a lot of (male, obviously, 'cause ladies is too fragile) bodies on the front lines when people can barely feed their kids on two incomes. Not without a draft. Good luck with that, Texas.
I dont think you know about the rednecks in Texas. They all have guns and have played Call of Duty. That makes them enough of a trained militia in their eyes to make a go at it.
It’s not about what they believe they’re capable of, it’s about what they can actually afford to do. If you have two kids and a house you’re just barely able to afford and are in a large amount of debt despite both adults in the household working full time jobs, you’re not likely going to let your kids starve in order to fight a war of secession.
Yeah, sure, but you see, it’s all THE LIBRULS’ FAULT, so you basically MUST go to war to show 'em.
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Punish the enemy for all the things I blame them for
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Profit!
The ??? is “take their money and kill them”
See: Holocaust
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whats sad is they do believe that
Presumably they’d be expecting a bunch of folks in the US military with roots in Texas to defect and join them.
It will be defecrors from almost every unit, svery state. And i feel it would be a big percentage.
Why?
Now I wonder. Does Texas even have the ability to draft people into its own “army?” I’m sure they’d have plenty of volunteers itching to fight “the gubment,” but the Selective Service my friends were a part of was for the US military.
I suppose if they secede, they can do whatever they want. They will claim sovereignty. So I suppose they could have a draft. I just don’t think it would work out well for them.
Republicans are mentally defective.
Republicans are mentally deflective.
FTFY
¿Porque no los dos?
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I’m surprised any of them even made it to Texas, considering how hard they descended into paranoia and fear.
Who, Texans?
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Trumpanzee
Oh, hell yeah. I’m gonna do use this wherever I can now.
Trumpanzee…that’s brilliant!
Wait… wasn’t there a huge invasion of South American immigrants about to hit our border in 2020? What ever happened to them? And what about the roving bands of Antifa attacking small towns?
These fucking idiots believe whatever the fuck is fed to them. They don’t remember all the times that info was wrong and realign. That’s why they’re dangerous: they aren’t operating on even the appearance of facts.
They have the memories of goldfish. Remember Jade Helm, where supposedly Democrats were going to put Republicans in Walmarts converted into concentration camps? When that didn’t happen, did all those MAGA idiots who believed it say, “huh. Maybe I should rethink things?” No, they just forgot it was even a thing they said was going to happen within a day or two.
I saw a cop bodycam video with someone who was talking about (jade jelm) that during the time it was supposedly happening / about to happen. Absolutely stunning.
The guy who chased an officer in the Capitol on J6 (Douglas Jensen) reportedly kept asking FBI agents if they knew who Q was or if they were in on the op. I think he was confused why they weren’t a part of it or some such drivel. These people mostly have the lowest media literacy and ability to work through logic. They are 100% id-driven. The small amount that think rationally run the grift at the top, such as Bannon and that ilk.
I didn’t know anything about JH until sometime last year. Here’s from Wikipedia:
Jim Shea of the Hartford Courant wrote that the conspiracy theories included: a “psychological operation aimed at getting people used to seeing military forces on the streets” so that they do not realize when an invasion actually takes place; an international operation aimed to seize people’s guns; recently closed Walmarts used by the military to “stockpile supplies for Chinese troops who will be arriving to disarm Americans”; and a military plan to “round up political dissidents” and “remove key political figures” who may be against the imposition of martial law.[17] Other theories have described Jade Helm 15 as a “secret plot” to impose martial law, confiscate firearms, invade Texas, and institute “total population control.”[18]
Seriously, who the fuck can believe this stupid shit? We’re gonna have a foreign power come take your guns? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Conservatives have only enough thought to register emotions. No ability to question a narrative.
Invade Texas… Lol they wish. What a victim complex these assholes have
I guy I worked with says he stayed up all night holding a loaded AR when “BLM protesters were going to break into houses in small towns across America” and then said it was a good thing he did it… after absolutely nothing happened… anywhere…
I am so confused about these people sometimes. It’s like how they simultaneously say that the January 6th insurrectionists were all secretly Antifa but also they’re Trump-loving patriots who are being treated unfairly by the courts.
Sounds a bit like my dog. When she sees another dog being walked past the house, she makes an alarm bark to let me know there is an invader coming. Then , due solely to her alarm (and not at all because they’re just on a walk), the interloper moved along, and called off their imminent invasion. “See”, my dog barks at me. “You’re lucky I’m here to protect you from that bitch…”
It’s like they didn’t expect any of these losers to actually get off their asses and see for themselves that it’s bullshit. Whoops.
Not that it matters for the rest of them. They’re too far gone.
Ah yes, the infamous iMmIgRaNt CaRaVaN.
They are walking here. Imagine for a second that you had to walk to the store…be honest, we’re Americans, it would take years. You would probably never make it back home if it was winter, at night or full summer. It’s a trek. Now imagine walking from guatemala (prenounced watemalla). They are coming 😁. And when they get here, they’re going to dangerously tired. So dangerous in fact that we just gotta send people there… To help.
Well obviously it was stopped before it could be a problem! /s
Genuinely reminds me of the Orc Army led by Dragons in Gothic 2.
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Referring to other human beings as “things” is abhorrent.
A bunch of people drove a long way to, at a minimum, observe human struggle. Some probably went to participate. Fuck these people.
I agree.
And yet they are still humans. Terrible, confused, hateful humans, but humans no less.
“Stupid-ass shitheads” is probably way more appropriate anyway.
The things were probably “things that get confused” as in invasions, convoys, and groups. Not people.
I think you are totally right, even though these people are idiots, they are still people, they should not be dehumanized.
Mission accomplished!!
Now have them try to land on an aircraft carrier. Just put a big ski jump at the edge of the dock. I am sure they will make it .
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My first thought when I read the title was
Is this the onion?
Somehow I think they are confused about a lot of stuff.
I don’t know what I expected. I can tell you it’s not as bad as what I thought.
Which is it you stupid?! How did civilization get this way? I can’t take it anymore.
How did civilization get this way?
Well, it started when Nixon posited that conservatives needed a republican news outlet to frame political problems in a way that always casted republicans in a good light, that way a media-landslide like Watergate wouldn’t happen again. Fox News was born, and has slowly been pushing our society into what it is now.
So, to answer your question, the snowball started rolling about 50 years ago.
In the scenario in your comment, that very same news network told a bunch of gullable, trained idiots that we are being invaded, in order to make republican policy look good.
The most connected period in human history also produces the dumbest humans, apparently.
the morons have connected through no fault of their own; stupidity has been enabled.
Not just enabled. Weaponized.
Connected? We’ve never been more divided
Connected as in technologically.
China’s gonna collapse any day. Look at Gaza. Democrats are not immune.
If you’re protesting the gaza genocide you’re clearly working for Putin to… um distract from Ukraine? Hey wait a minute…
Gaza is not a genocide
dude… they literally bombed all the hospitals in gaza, there are none left there.
The 15 permanent judges of the ICJ unanimously said as much, and Israel and Netanyahu basically calling it a genocide themselves.
No they didn’t. Not saying the ruling is right or wrong but the court did not call it a genocide (yet).
The ruling has been massively downplayed by the german media with headlines like “does not order ceasefire” when it ordered Israel to “stop killing members of the group”, basically ordered them to stop committing acts of genocide. At this stage they could not be any clearer!
They also ordered under 80. the immediate provision and humanitarian aid. On the same day Israel comes up with this accusation about some 12 out of thousands of aid workers being member of hamas. Then Germany among others cuts of humanitarian aid, directly in violation of the ICJ order. Which now makes Germany complicit in the genocide.
If Israel is allowed to continue a million innocent civilians could easily die horribly from starvation, thirst or disease, as well as just exposure.
For reference: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf
- The Court considers that, with regard to the situation described above, Israel must, in accordance with its obligations under the Genocide Convention, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; © deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. The Court recalls that these acts fall within the scope of Article II of the Convention when they are committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a group as such (see paragraph 44 above). The Court further considers that Israel must ensure with immediate effect that its military forces do not commit any of the above-described acts.
- The Court is also of the view that Israel must take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip.
- The Court further considers that Israel must take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
- Israel must also take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Genocide Convention against members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip.
My point is that the judges did not unanonimously called it genocide. I just don’t want fake news being spread. The ruling has much more nuance than that.
All this nonsense can be removed with one simple statement. One simple argument.
Gaza is as dense as New York City.
If they wanted to commit genocide deaths would be far higher than 30,000.
Also you’re ignoring the absolute fact that has been demonstrated many many times, that palestinian terrorists like Hamas embed themselves within civilian infrastructure and hide among civilian populations.
This is why Israel has to warn people before they bomb a certain area. And of course the terrorist escape due to these warnings as well.
Does that sound like a genocide to you? Not if you’re honest it doesn’t.
If Israel wanted to genocide Gaza the numbers would be far far higher we’re talking over a quarter million deaths. It would be absurdly easy. It’s important that you be honest internally otherwise you make the world worse despite what you might think are noble intentions.
You’re completely uninformed about the definition and the laws against genocide.
I’m actually not and genocide doesn’t have multiple definitions which is a thing that unfortunately people who claim to be progressive love to do… I’m progressive myself but I draw distinction between myself and many progressives by calling myself a moderate progressive. I don’t try and redefine words to fit my ideology.
Genocide means to try and wipe out totally a people or an ethnicity through means of violence or deliberate actions. Things like the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide are good examples as is the Khmer Rogue terror in Cambodia.
However horrifying examples of violence on a grand scale like the rape of Nanking during World War II do not count because they are not attempts to eradicate an entire ethnicity or people nor do they end up having that impact whether the intention was or not.
If the rape of Nanking does not qualify as a genocide then there’s no way in heck the Gaza war does. I need you to be honest and have integrity so that we can make the world better. As progressives we will only have ourselves to blame if we let emotion and passion override logic and truth. Because it WILL make the world worse long-term.
I’m in favor of a ceasefire at this point but it is absolutely not a genocide nor was it ever.
I rest my case.
meanwhile, I ran into some moron from another country trying to tell me, an American, about how 26 US state governors have stood against the government and are “amassing troops at the texan border.”
Fucking hilarious if it weren’t so fucking sad and dangerous.
Imagine doing research
In a way they did… just a very unnecessary, expensive, personal data collection method.
I wonder how bad the filter bubble is for some people. Like “relevant search results” or articles in their preferred news media. And trained cognitive biases. There is a lot of deliberate effort from the fascists and careless ignorance from tech companies to make it this way.
