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He's been pulling that card since forever. It's an embarrassment that no one ever calls him on it.

Ted Cruz explaining to Tucker that he hates Communism because his father fled from Cuba is interesting because his dad was persecuted by Batista and not Castro.

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starting an anti-corporate political organization, gonna call it the Mario Party

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links to the donations mentioned

https://unrwa.org/

https://www.instagram.com/gazamutualaid

https://campusbailfunds.com

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I hate Reddit so much dude I saw people talking about their local protest not seeing any arrests or violence and talking about it like it was this great thing, like they were talking about how it was good that the protesters were "staying peaceful" and congratulating the cops for not beating or gassing people. Actually embarrassing.

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you hear about the anti-romanian pogroms happening in northern Ireland? it's so fucked there

I didn't until now

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its depressingly, morbidly funny to me that the 'no cops at pride? what about the good cops 🥺' discourse happened like 12 hours before the LAPD were ordered to arrest every single person in downtown LA

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i heard about the killdozer guy but what about the rooftop koreans?

During the LA riots in 1992 the LAPD abandoned minority neighborhoods, leaving the locals to fend for themselves. Some Korean families posted up on the roofs of their buildings to protect their businesses with guns. Without any other context, they've become something of a right-wing gun culture meme. Y'know, the whole "model minority defending their property against the savage hordes with glorious firearms" sorta thing, you can see the marketing appeal.

(And I do mean marketing quite literally, there are tons of Roof Korean merch churned out on Internet shops).

The thing is, this is a somewhat whitewashed version of events. Racial tensions had been inflamed between the local black and Korean communities recently, most intensely by the killing of Latasha Harlins by a Korean store owner, Soon Ja Du. Du accused Harlins of stealing juice even though she had money in hand to pay, initiated a physical conflict, and then shot Harlins in the back of the head when she was trying to flee the store. Du received a suspended sentence for manslaughter: five years' probation and 400 hours of community service, plus a $500 fine and Harlins' funeral costs. The killing is widely seen as a contributing factor to the 1992 riots, especially with regard to Koreatown being targeted.

As for the actual defensive actions by the "Rooftop Koreans," in practice it was kind of a disaster.

What's more, if you talk to the actual Koreans who were out there that day, they don't see anything to celebrate about it. If anything, they found the abandonment to be a wake-up call with regard to their standing in society: Second-class and fully expendable.

But because of the sanitized version of history that became a meme, you can guarantee every time there are mass protests and riots, some douchebags are going to run in, drop their pants, and start furiously cranking their hogs, moaning "we need roof Koreans!" for the duration.

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I feel like whenever you get too doomer about the idea that the entire population harbors some deep undeprogrammable homophobia you have to remember that in the 2010s hearts & minds were being changed by shit like Glee

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Making the realization that 9 times out of 10 "riots" and "violent protests" are just "peaceful protests" who got attacked by cops and retaliated was a real turning point in my political views I think.

Extolling the virtues of "peaceful protest" is at best ignorant of the reality of the situation and at worst actively propaganda

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can't imagine how alienating it must feel to put yourself in a vulnerable position twice. i definitely support detrans folks.

we also need to remember that a lot of detrans folks aren't willingly detrans, and are avoiding social antagonism. either way, it's important to give space to them so that they can live how they want or need to, just like the rest of us do.

just saw a post where someone put “detrans dni” and like… hey we should be supporting detransitioned people bc if we don’t terfs will

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protests in LA against unlawful deportations being called an insurrection after one single day of unrest. martial law is next. the playbook is not hard to read.

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Gerard talking about speaking out about the transgender community during shows despite Russia’s anti-LGBT laws. (x)

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(no children, the mountain goats/US politics)

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I think a lot of you are kinda lame for doomerism and already declaring democracy is dead forever. Like yeah Trump is weakening it but come on have you seen other people in countries with so much less democracy and so much less privilege fighting for more. And you are giving up already, lame.