MonkeMischief

Your integrity and commitment to transparency and truth is most honorable and appreciated.

Thank you for the update and for being a shining example the rest of us should follow. Stay safe out there. <3

Well said. Username checks out. Stay loud, my friend! ✊

Do they think it's full of supervillains or something?

Remember, with these types, every accusation is a confession.

EDIT - clarification: They're attributing nasty supervillain weather-control powers to the "Libs" because, were they themselves in possession of such abilities, they'd gladly use them in such terrible ways.

If they're gonna roll over for armed kidnappers inflicting political violence and dragging away U.S Citizens, yeah, how does that bring any order to chaos? Whom do they "serve and protect"? How's that possibly encourage "public safety"?

What's the point of the organization besides hoovering up tax dollars to step aside for bullies?

I realize these are all rhetorical questions lol...

"It's not kidnapping when WE do it...it's...forcibly taking people against their will to a undisclosed secondary location under indefinite false imprisonment. TOTALLY different!"

B) How do you seek justice in the courts when the officers won't show their faces, won't identify themselves or the agency they work for, and reports they file don't name the officers or departments involved?

How would we seek justice against cells of foreign terrorists doing the same thing to people? That's how.

Courts aside, if the oaths of law enforcement weren't completely thrown in the can at this point, unidentifiable armed masked goons hopping out of unmarked vans should be a "shoot first" scenario for the coppers ~~and concerned citizens.~~ (Ah right. L.A.)

How long until the next mass shooting or high profile robbery goes down because the perps thrifted some surplus and shouted "We're ICE, step aside."?

"Hey Pooty how do you keep replenishing your ranks with vicious, cold, snarling beasts to send at Ukrainian civilians? Oh? What fantastic idea! Yeah? Hehe maybe...what are you wearing? Yeah I'm still sore from last time..."

--Overheard in the Oval Office, probably

I know lately it's just a constant stream of man-made horrors overwhelming our comprehension, but holy crap this is...beyond disgusting.

I don't even know what words to use because these monsters keep pushing their ever more extreme depravity on the world.

Thanks for raising the alarm on this particular point.

and actually do something,

I think the big problem here is how stupidly huge and deeply rooted into everyday long-term-life the problem is, and brittle, tenuous social ties (lonliness epidemic still a thing!) means wrangling together enough people to agree on what can be done about it becomes a herculean task.

Neighborhood tree on fire? Do something! Cool, we bring water and extinguishers and call the FD, whatever. There's generally an idea of what needs to be done.

There's also been no massive campaigns pushing to ban non-firefighter use of fire extinguishers and make people afraid of them, so chances are you and your neighbors might have the tools at hand to deal with the problem.

If you run out to put out a fire by yourself, you're hoping to be joined by others, and if you don't have an army of committed hardcore anti-fire people behind you, you're not gonna get singled out, dragged away, and shipped to a death camp for trying to solve a fire.

It's a problem that doesn't require the same kind of strategy. There's procedures in place. Putting out a fire also doesn't carry the fear that your anti-fire activities will get you noticed, ratted out, and abused when you discover your neighborhood actually consists of more fire-worshiping pyromaniacs than you thought.

It's so easy for oustiders to imagine us rootin' tootin' 'Muricans just grabbin' our Winchester repeatin' rifles an' M1 Garands an' stormin' the obvious fascist regime that marches the streets in their snappy black leather uniforms, but this is another thing entirely.

This is a systemic infection of hearts and minds. We're already struggling to make a living so our basics are covered, to know who and where our allies are, and to trust they aren't just keyboard warriors and will actually have our backs so we don't just throw our lives away in some random isolated act of virtue signaling.

At the end of the day, we have to live here. And we're up against people who make it their specialty career to surveil, intimidate, coerce, arrest, subdue, manipulate, and kill. You wanna make the first move?

People are doing a lot, and we always need more! The cards are VERY stacked against us, so it doesn't look like much is happening. It's a massive disaster and it's hard to identify the helpers right now. But we're not just sleeping on it.

At Albuquerque or the political alignment compass?

Feels like "my Great Honor" (?!?!?!) is a giveaway though lol.

I would hope, but on the whole you'd almost think they deliberately purged home computing from the mainstream consciousness, with how tragically ignorant the average person is about anything that isn't a little poke-driven rectangle that screams at you all day.