16 hours ago, CincyInDC said:

There have been rumblings in the immigrant community of USians where I live. First it was just the non-US-passport holders, but now US citizens are being asked intrusive, personal questions by Homeland Security when they try to visit the US.

Where are you going?

Have you been there before?

Do you have family there?

Why do you live abroad?

Visitors Not Welcome; what a shithole country.

Can confirm. Things are getting so bad I seriously don’t know if I will return when my father passes. After he does, I don’t know that I’ll ever return (willingly).

On 9/22/2025 at 11:47 AM, Jamie_B said:

The Trump administration just reactivated a contract with an Israeli company called Paragon to allow ICE to put a Zero Click Spyware package called Graphite on your phone, meaning you dont even have to click anything for them to be able to install it. For now they can only target individual phones and cant do mass installs, no idea if that is something they will be capeable of in the future. This software has already been used to target journalists by the Italian government.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware

Highly recommend looking into how to "degoogle" an Android-based phone. A lot of people don't seem to understand that every "app" we install is by default running 24/7, collecting and transmitting information. They hardly need "Graphite" or special spyware when we're installing these things ourselves for a 5% discount on donuts or scanning QR codes just to look at a menu.

Faraday bags are pretty cheap, too, if you're visiting someplace where you may not want to be tracked like Planned Parenthood or a public library.

Here's a live camera of downtown in "war-ravaged" Portland, Oregon. As you can see, US troops encouraged to use "full force" can't get there soon enough to stop all the uh... the um, well they mostly vote Democrat so I guess they all need to die? Anything to keep us from talking about the President raping & trafficking children!

They keep talking about how they want people to stop calling them Fascists...... then they do Fascist shit

On 9/28/2025 at 10:15 AM, Jamie_B said:

They keep talking about how they want people to stop calling them Fascists...... then they do Fascist shit

They don't really care, it's just crocodile tears to control the narrative. They know very well they are fascists. This is what fascists do - put their foot on your neck then say you should quit struggling to breathe or they'll have to put their foot on your neck.

Same shit with Kirk, same shit with ICE protests - it's "stop resisting!" while they're beating someone already unconscious. Liberals will wring their hands and say "don't give them an excuse!", as though they've ever needed an excuse.

This is Wuhan Station in China, where they are building 200+ mph rail lines to connect every major city while we get 24k gold wallpaper and inbred white supremacy.  We're going to solve the "immigration problem" by turning ourselves into a 2nd-world country no one wants to go to anyway. Just a handful of pedophile billionaires ruling a nation of obedient semi-literate serfs and organ donors. Really owning the libs now!

You mean Third world. Second world was COMECON. And speaking of China, I just saw this tweet earlier. I'm so pleased that there are some very good things happening in the world right now, despite the lunatics of all stripes who want to start WWIII.

At the end of WWII, my father got hurt on his ship when a line parted and whipsawed into his leg. Absolutely destroyed his shin bone. Spent the rest of his life with a metal bar between his knee and ankle. And he had to swing his leg when he walked, kind of peg-leg style. He handled this like a true squid. This technology might or might not have helped him because the bone was so shattered, but it reminded me of the great things the future holds, if only we make sure that there is a future.

6 hours ago, Homer_Rice said:

You mean Third world. Second world was COMECON. And speaking of China, I just saw this tweet earlier. I'm so pleased that there are some very good things happening in the world right now, despite the lunatics of all stripes who want to start WWIII.

At the end of WWII, my father got hurt on his ship when a line parted and whipsawed into his leg. Absolutely destroyed his shin bone. Spent the rest of his life with a metal bar between his knee and ankle. And he had to swing his leg when he walked, kind of peg-leg style. He handled this like a true squid. This technology might or might not have helped him because the bone was so shattered, but it reminded me of the great things the future holds, if only we make sure that there is a future.

Do we think this is something we'll actually see here, given our current trade policies?

5 hours ago, Jamie_B said:

Do we think this is something we'll actually see here, given our current trade policies?

Not to mention the wave of anti-education Luddite shit.. Who needs this cutting edge medical technology when we can just rub some essential oils on there and pray about it? Your insurance company thanks you.

China has issues just like we do but I kind of hate the demonization of a place that's clearly lapping us on science & education. Why don't we go back to trying to compete on that level, or not having crumbling infrastructure, instead of who can be the most backwards iron fist authoritarian? That used to work to our advantage & cause that "brain drain" of educated people leaving to come here to conduct their research & so on in a more open & free society. Now those same folks are fleeing the US for a place where they can say that they don't like baseball, don't believe in an Angry Sky Daddy version of God or, gasp!, be gay without looking over their shoulder first.

All because a handful of pedophile billionaires prefer a nation of obedient semi-literate serfs and organ donors.

Let's blame Mexico!

On 10/1/2025 at 2:30 PM, Jamie_B said:

Do we think this is something we'll actually see here, given our current trade policies?

Current trade policies? No. America is in deep economic trouble, as is Europe. Gonna be another financial blow out soon, imo. But, innovation and technological progress is a matter of human creativity, and there are plenty of people here in the U.S. who still have those values. Even in a world of cow shit there's a chance of finding a few pieces of golden corn.

On 10/5/2025 at 1:16 AM, Homer_Rice said:

Saw this.. What a missed opportunity. I say missed because I don't want to to vote for someone that's unlikely to remain healthy through 2 terms. Learned that from Reagan as a kid far too young to vote but schools taught basic civics & Dad was pretty far left in some ways, as a Nam vet - not in the flag-burning hippy sense though he loved (that) music. Kennedy guy.

Now, say, if the Conman-in-Chief were to face the consequences of any of his countless & horrid crimes - for perhaps the first time in his life of hateful spoiled brat turned grifter kid pimp.. And leave office* along with Vance.. and Johnson.. and at least 3 members of SCrOTUS.. And the Gang of Pedos enabling all of them & protecting the Epstein List (any & every one exposed, period. Oprah & Stephen King & Bill Gates, too. DGAF who they are.)

Like an emergency election or something where he's serving out the remaining years of Trump's term? Actually somehow "Draining the Swamp" for real? Hell yes, he has my vote. Not without some reservations as a long term Dem but they've always tried to keep him at arm's length - to his credit. Clean house of the Schumer/Pelosi Clinton-era Dems and pledge to stop serving AIPAC? Break up the DHS so these agencies are a check on one another, as intended? I'd be canvassing for him myself, done it before for others. Frankly I'm a little surprised you're still a "Bernie bro" considering how he's toed the party line on Gaza ("patented Liberal pearl-clutching" is how I would summarize it, along with AOC and 99% of the Dems.)

What I'd really like to see though? More of them standing up to ICE and less social media posting. Less campaigning for themselves and more wielding the power of their office. More speaking out on the House floor, to their faces, like Crockett for example. More confrontation, like this:

https://www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/press-releases/alsobrooks-van-hollen-team-maryland-denied-entry-at-baltimore-ice-facility/

* "which will remain bloodless if the left (Radical Right) allows it to be.”- Kevin Roberts, Project 2025 Chairman & President of Heritage Foundation.

*shoutout to PBS Pinchback who I came across re: black Senators and why it's black folks (women in particular) still & once again doing the actual work even in Congress.

This just in: habitual fucking lying fucking liar fucking lies, because he pimped children and everyone knows it.

Jesus, I really dislike you. Just wanted to remind you that I think you are an ass. Always talking and rarely saying anything.

On 10/6/2025 at 6:44 PM, T-Dub said:

Saw this.. What a missed opportunity. I say missed because I don't want to to vote for someone that's unlikely to remain healthy through 2 terms. [..]

1 hour ago, Homer_Rice said:

Jesus, I really dislike you. Just wanted to remind you that I think you are an ass. Always talking and rarely saying anything.

🤷‍♂️

Your feelings aren't my problem. Sat back and watched Trump take over the country to prove some point about Gaza, actively making the situation there worse if you accomplished anything at all, and now you want to feel all warm and fuzzy about Bernie fuckin' Sanders while Chicanos are literally being hunted in the streets and disappeared?

I still respect what you have to say enough to read and consider it but sometimes you seem really disconnected/insulated. Academia?

Nobody is going to like this, but there has to be a certain level of pain before it changes the overton window. More and more, I am convinced that MLK's non-violent approach was about facing the violence of the state without being violent in return, for the purposes of shocking the folks in the middle enough to say "they can't do that to people." I'm not sure we are at the point where we are actually putting enough state violence against people who are not being violent in front of the eyeballs of people who vote.

We need more "normies" to see stuff like this

Or this

4 hours ago, Jamie_B said:

Nobody is going to like this, but there has to be a certain level of pain before it changes the overton window. More and more, I am convinced that MLK's non-violent approach was about facing the violence of the state without being violent in return, for the purposes of shocking the folks in the middle enough to say "they can't do that to people." I'm not sure we are at the point where we are actually putting enough state violence against people who are not being violent in front of the eyeballs of people who vote.

We need more "normies" to see stuff like this

Or this

They've already shot innocent people and disappeared US citizens. They weren't white though.

I think you're absolutely right about something worse happening. Ive been of the mind that a Kent State type incident is inevitable. But would it matter? Would America see innocent kids protesting and being murdered, or would they be "violent Antifa terrorists facing justice"?

We're talking about changing the minds of bloodthirsty white supremacists that have abandoned any sense of empathy for the vicarious thrill of state violence. They want ICE to start mowing people down in the streets, they are lusting for that shit.

Besides man.. MLK was shot dead by a government assassin. It was the riots afterwards that forced the 1968 Civil Rights Act - including the Fair Housing laws that Diddler Donny's KKK daddy kept running afoul of in the 70's.

If you're expecting MAGA to suddenly grow a conscience I think you're going to be disappointed.

On 10/10/2025 at 8:54 PM, T-Dub said:

I still respect what you have to say enough to read and consider it but sometimes you seem really disconnected/insulated. Academia?

Lol. What a load of bullshit.

Back in the day, when there was still an industrial base in this country, I spents hundreds of hours organizing at company gates. More hundreds of hours doing door to door stuff for a variety of campaigns. Been to Congress, done some lobbying. Many other elected officials, too. Been active around a number of issues that seemed chimeric then, but which have later proven to be harbingers foretelling of the hellscape we live in today.

So, your criticism has no merit. But since when has that been a problem for you?

Bottom line for me is that I don't like you because you are a dedicated complainer. You are always whining about something--even stupid shit like somehow trying to blame me for not voting for genocide. And what galls me is the hypocrisy involved here. I spent 40 years trying to stave off that which bothers you so. And you? By you own admission you've done nothing to politically challenge these fascists.

My advice to you is for you to put down the keyboard and get out in the world, maybe write and handout a leaflet or two. That way you would be less of a poser.

It's not the far right extremists whos minds will ever change. Its shocking the white moderate out of their stupor to the point that they have to say this is not ok. You wont change the cult members but they are such a small number that it doesnt matter, its changing the minds of the moderates that has to happen.

1 hour ago, Homer_Rice said:

Lol. What a load of bullshit.

Back in the day, when there was still an industrial base in this country, I spents hundreds of hours organizing at company gates. More hundreds of hours doing door to door stuff for a variety of campaigns. Been to Congress, done some lobbying. Many other elected officials, too. Been active around a number of issues that seemed chimeric then, but which have later proven to be harbingers foretelling of the hellscape we live in today.

So, your criticism has no merit. But since when has that been a problem for you?

Bottom line for me is that I don't like you because you are a dedicated complainer. You are always whining about something--even stupid shit like somehow trying to blame me for not voting for genocide. And what galls me is the hypocrisy involved here. I spent 40 years trying to stave off that which bothers you so. And you? By you own admission you've done nothing to politically challenge these fascists.

My advice to you is for you to put down the keyboard and get out in the world, maybe write and handout a leaflet or two. That way you would be less of a poser.

You didn't "not vote for a genocide", genocide was not on the ballot. What you actually did was nothing, conceding the election to Trump just as surely as if you'd voted for him yourself. He's continued to fund Israel and even joked about building hotels on the ruins. That is what actually happened. That is the outcome of your decision. Our last chance to stop this MAGA dipshittery and you did nothing. Justify that to yourself however you like but you had to have known it would be far, far worse under Trump.

As for what I have or haven't done, you make a whole lot of assumptions. I don't need to justify myself to you, actually.

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All the rural counties in Ohio that overwhelmingly voted for NOAH are now suffering from his policies, while NOAH sends 20 billion dollars to help out Argentina.

Consequences of your actions.

MAGA- Make Asshole Go Away.

8 hours ago, Jamie_B said:

It's no mystery. They're the ones on the left. They never gave half a shit about the Constitution or any of that, they just needed guns to feel like men.

Both sides of this photo are wearing ridiculous costumes.

On 10/12/2025 at 9:53 AM, T-Dub said:

You didn't "not vote for a genocide", genocide was not on the ballot. What you actually did was nothing, conceding the election to Trump just as surely as if you'd voted for him yourself. He's continued to fund Israel and even joked about building hotels on the ruins. That is what actually happened. That is the outcome of your decision. Our last chance to stop this MAGA dipshittery and you did nothing. Justify that to yourself however you like but you had to have known it would be far, far worse under Trump.

As for what I have or haven't done, you make a whole lot of assumptions. I don't need to justify myself to you, actually.

You poor, naive, morally challenged sap. Do you even pay attention to the nonsense you say? I explained all this to you months ago.

Of course policy was on the agenda you fucking dope. I and millions like myself chose not to vote for the Biden/Harris admin because of their crimes. And I noticed that the other day that Harris came out and whined about all the people who didn't vote (for her.). What a privileged asshole. The Democratic party abandoned the working class decades ago and that abandonment is one of the primary reasons that the generally politically uninterested folk turned against them and became so desperate that they voted for Trump. So, fuck you for even uttering this line of bullshit.

Now, Jamie gets it. He understands that the class of folks who generally don't care about politics, but do care about their prosperity and general welfare, need to be treated with a minimum of respect and brought into consonance with some reasonable policy, especially economic. Showing a bit where Bernie simply goes out and does that is proof that this approach works. That you would miss the point, yet again, as you do so very often, is not surprising. And on top of that, you even found an excuse to whine about that.

There is a reason why Plato started most of his letters with the salutation, "Prosperity". Oh, look at me, I mentioned some "academic" stuff from the guy who gave the concept of academy to the world. I must be out of touch. I'm so insulted. I forgot that problems are complex and require more than bitching and moaning to solve them. I should just leave it to the anarchist twatwaffles of the world to fix things.

Stop being a battering ram for for a bunch of loser policies. Stop being a lackey for the empire, too. It makes all your hysterical ranting about domestic policy look opportunistic. Are there some serious problems? Absolutely. Is incessant crying about it on the internet going to fix them. Absolutely not. As we out of touch "hippies" used to say: "If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem."

So, again, a little less "internet democracy" on your part should be replaced by a little more actual political work. Find a couple of candidates you like and work for them. Hard.

And stop being such a damned broken record troll.

The people who don't understand that bolded part, like to throw around terms like "privilege" especially as it relates to identity, but that they can't understand the bolded part really explains their own economic privilege.

Now I don't want to outright dismiss the idea that there is a level of racism and misogyny amongst the Trump voters as well, that absolutely exists, otherwise we wouldn't see actual Neo-Nazi's trolling the streets in Ohio. But their numbers are small, and those are not the people the Dems can reach in fact those are the types they should actively oppose. But you can't go around calling everyone who voted for Trump a racist or misogynist or the like for risk of alienating those who are not, those who just wanted change because their pocketbooks required it and saw the status quo in Harris.

The biggest reason I hate Trump is that he saw these people hurting and used that to fuel his campaign while actively doing nothing to help them, in fact only hurt them more, while he and his rich friends profit off his decisions while he has power.

Years ago I got into it with some Libertiarian friends of mine, I told them you with regard to the inequality problem you cant keep punching down and not expect those at the bottom to eventually punch back, and when not if that happened that you could expect those in power to institute a police state in keep the bottom feeders in line.

And here we are.....