I didn’t say “no”

I said it’s loser talk. It’s weak. Just like the Democrats. Which is why they’re the enemy - they’re in the way, and if we don’t sweep out the Schumers and Jefferies the DNC will continue to collaborate with the Nazis against populist progressive candidates

You can’t adopt their framing. Not maga’s framing, or the DNC framing. Reject it, just like I reject your premise that voting is just harm reduction.

If you want to win, you can’t talk like that. You can’t bet on “safe” candidates. You can’t settle for “not a Nazi”. You have to demand more, you have to have fire and speak of hope for the future

You’re missing my point entirely.

That’s loser talk. That’s how you lose elections. That’s how Trump won, twice. It barely got Biden in the door, because Trump was currently in office

You don’t have to be the less bad choice. You have to be the good choice. You have to stand for something. You have to have a message. You have to fight. You have to make enemies.

A Democrat will win the next election, no matter what. But in 2028? It very likely will be 4 more years of fascism if all we can muster is “well, it’s our guy or another fascist”

The only way to stop this is to get populist progressive candidates in office. In every office, in every election.

The Overton window needs to be moved left, or this never ends.

Quit with the loser talk and get involved with local elections. Go join your local DSA or phone bank with progressive victory. Help pave the way for a good candidate

No they fucking haven’t.

The uniparty thing started with like Clinton… Throughout our history, we had choices. Very meaningful ones. Maybe not the ones we wanted, but we had different courses for the county. It was always towards something

Click through some of these. This was the first rise of a fascist movement in the US, one that went on to influence Germany.

Did we hold the line and insist everything is fine? Fuck no, if you click back you’ll the Republicans held everything, the other two candidates had zero chance. Click forward and you get the largest wave of progressivism in our history, it took generations to tear down those safety nets, and they’re still not completely gone

That’s where we are now. Harm reduction doesn’t win, movements win.

Why shouldn’t they be allowed to be citizens? They already live here. They have jobs and pay taxes. They have lives here

Why is it they can’t live here, or even be citizens? They’re already here, the “right way” is a bureaucratic maze to justify the life you’re already living.

At the very least, they should get resident status here if they’ve been here more than a year. Why not?

The reality is, they’re part of our society already. The only reason to deny them status is to make them even more exploitable

Well, the cars themselves weren’t racist though

Progress!

Self examination. Question and challenge your beliefs constantly. Dig into anything that makes you uncomfortable especially

If you’re not growing, your views are not getting closer to the truth. There is no end point, only growth

What do you mean? Any AI can replace any knowledge worker. You just fire the worker and say AI will do it, easy

Look around… Running a corporation isn’t about doing things or making things anymore, it’s about the stock price. And consulting companies have convinced investors that layoffs are so hot and rich

If you haven’t noticed, the quality of everything has been plummeting since COVID. They don’t care about tomorrow problems, just extracting as much wealth as they can before it all comes crashing down

Don’t forget, she also delayed FEMA rescuers for 3 days in the Texas flood, because she decided she has to personally sign any spending over $100k… And then she didn’t. For 3 days

He’s a co-owner, the other guy (and CEO) is the former cop

Kyle Kazan is an American businessman who is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Glass House Brands Inc., a publicly traded cannabis company listed on the NEO Exchange and OTC Markets. He is also a founder and chairman of Beach Front Property Management, Inc. and co-founder and managing member of Beach Front Properties, LLC. Kazan has also served as a special education teacher at LAUSD and a police officer at the Torrance Police Department.

Apparently, the farm owner is a former cop. A former cop who had been in a labor dispute with workers over overtime and missed wages

Ugh…I hate every part of that

I picture Superman as crashing into Kansas in like the '30s, maybe with a bit of a slippery time scale. No way it was in the '90s… But I don’t know enough about Superman to argue the point, I just find the idea really unsettling

Well, more like I think he predates the surveillance state, and by virtue of growing up in Kansas he’s an American and no one would consider thinking otherwise (all of this legal/illegal nonsense is pretty new historically)

I’m not trying to split hairs, but I like to spread reminders that people live where they live, and the idea you can live in a county illegally is inhuman

Yeah, well… Got room for 60 million immigrants?

Your saying it wrong

“Your honor, masked thugs were attempting to kidnap the very scared man. They also refused to identify themselves or explain the situation”

I mean… I don’t think the paperwork is going to account for spaceships. So… Put the spaceship in the barn, say you found him out in the field, and there’s no fraud

Lies of omission don’t count when you’re dealing with the state

Doesn’t mean the Kent’s didn’t lie, just that they might not have done anything fraudulently

Well, not anymore. Now we don’t have coordinated rescues… Even in Texas, the Fed took 3 days to provide support, because it all has to be signed by Christi Nome and apparently she was busy

So… Maybe do show up? Who knows at this point. But ideally, with an RV or camping equipment, because where are the victims and professionals going to stay

I mean… They kind of didn’t though

In major cities, sure. Even smaller ones will have Indian places. But they’re proportional to the amount of Indians in an area

Because there’s a big difference… Everyone can go to a Chinese restaurant and confidently order. Everyone knows what sushi is, even if some people don’t eat it. Thai foods are less known, but the menus are very Americanized, so you go once and you get the idea

I know the good Indian restaurant back home, but I only know the dishes by color. Lots of naan and wet dishes… They were good, but I couldn’t tell you what they were. And if the sign says Indian food, I don’t know what they serve. So I’ve only been to the one place

Vindaloo and curry? That is everywhere, but I’ve never had an Indian version of it. The British spread vindaloo and curry spread itself

At this point, he’s probably over qualified

But he’d get my vote

How can a baby give false pretense though?

If you find a baby in a field (hiding the spaceship, let’s just leave that quiet), what happens next?

A baby cannot bear false witness… It’s a baby. The parents can, but that doesn’t necessarily affect the baby’s citizenship status

Trade it out for the assumed situation…a Kansas teen gave birth to the kid and left him in a field. This is an American with no documentation… But they’re assumed to be legit by their age. And so they get documentation

And yeah, Superman doesn’t match that situation exactly, but it looks the same from the outside. The state won’t know the difference

Ultimately, there are no illegal people. All these roles are made up… People live where they live. The system is the problem, not the people

Is it fraud though? Not necessarily… You could just say “I found this baby, and now it’s mine”, and if it’s young enough it’ll get birthright citizenship

But this is mostly splitting hairs… But more fundamentally, I don’t believe people can be illegal for existing, so I’m never going to say someone is.

But would Superman get deported if they knew his history? MAGA people are saying they’d deport Jesus if he didn’t come in “the right way”, you tell me