deadtom

Not anymore. They gave them to Russia under guarantees they wouldt do... pretty much everything they are doing right now.

I'm starting to think Russia might not be trustworthy...

May 2023 - "Target removes some Pride Month products after threats against employees" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1177963864/target-pride-month-lgbtq-products-threats

Terrorism is an appropriate word here. Threats of violence to achieve political goals. They threatened employees with violence because the store chose to offer those items. I'm not really sure how much more clear cut it can get. Terrorism isn't just killing people.

terrorism /tĕr′ə-rĭz″əm/ noun

• The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.
• The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
• The practice of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.
• The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.
• Violence against civilians to achieve military or political objectives.
• A psychological strategy of war for gaining political or religious ends by deliberately creating a climate of fear among the population of a state.
• The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.

He only mostly supports the insurrection and attempted overthrow of our democracy, so it's cool.

Ah the naivete. Make sure you don't fall off that high horse you're liable to hurt yourself.

It's funny watching a woman appeal for power to people who think the only place she should be is in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant serving her husband. Just wild.

Were this my wife and this bullshit caused her to die the only viable path I could see is personally watching myself squeeze the life out of every single one of these morally bankrupt shit stains. Such utter trash. I don't know why we haven't exiled these cultists from civil society.

"Why won't this man sit out to pasture and not make waves?!"

We know Trump lied about the election. He staged a coupt to try to maintain power based on those lies which many of his followers are still paying the price. Hell the Fulton County DA just announced they have evidence team Trump was involved in voting systems breaches across several states.

To think this man is the right man to make your candidate says a great deal about the moral and ethical foundations of both republicanism, and the people that choose to support the party as they prop this traitor up.

I hope you all are paying attention. They don't quell calls for civil war in their ranks. In fact its celebrated as a rallying cry. Republicans are doing everything in their power to subvert democracy and steal our country from the rest of us.

I would argue at this point you cannot be a republican without being a seditionist seeking to install their christofascist dictatorship, whether that's subscribing to the whole bag or supporting as a single issue voter. If you guve them power you are responsible for what they use it for.

These people have been hopped up on so much lies and bullshit dressed up as "patriotism" that they are a very real threat to any American just trying to live their lives and get by. Ask trans Americans how the last couple of years have been as the target of their hate and bigotry.

"We're TOTALLY going to start policing ourselves one day. Just you wait and see. When? This year isn't good we have an election coming up and we need to make sure the American people can weigh in on this very important matter [so we can see if Republicans will overthrow democracy and we can move on from this without change. Clarence's mom ain't paying rent and I got "baseball tickets" ill need another "small" loan for...]."

Nothing. Not a damn thing that i suspect is by design. In my opinion it's smoke and mirrors to distract from the fact that they support underage sex by older men through child marraige.

Did you know only 4 states in the u.s. require both parties be 18 and provide proof? Did you know there are 10 states where there is no lower boundary in age for the child? Did you know the lions share of child marraige involves an older man taking a female child as their bride through "parental, judicial, religious, or pregnancy exceptions." The pregnancy exception is really interesting considering a child cannot consent... but if you get married after its all gravy...

"In the United States, child marriage is a pervasive issue with devastating domestic consequences.  Between 2000 and 2018, almost 300,000 children were married in the United States alone, with approximately 30,000 to 60,000 of those marriages occurring at a spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime."

https://childusa.org/child-marriage/

Republicans support child marraige while insisting Democrats are paedophiles, presumably to create a smoke screen for themselves. It's always projection.

Yeah man, referencing the dictionary and how a word is used vs the nonsense framing you've chosen. Some crazy shit.

Says more about the people of Texas than anything else.

So steam sale fodder rather than day 1. No problem it's not like there isn't a plethora of good games out right now and my backlog is pretty stacked.

Failure is the goal. The next target is destroying the department of education.

These people are ignorant disgraceful trash and if we don't do something about them we are going to find ourselves in feudal America with serfs lords and kings again.

Right? These people are seditionists and traitors, calling them dumb children just provides them cover as they try to force their bastardized Christian hegemony on the rest of us.

Humorous they think Republicans would vote for a woman to lead them considering they don't see women as having any capacities beyond being birth and baby raising machines that cook, clean and generally maintain the home for a man.

Just the current republican front runner. The republican party of criminals, white supremacists and traitors needs to be reminded that nobody is above the law.

Because the people in charge don't want to fix schools, they want to eliminate public education all together. They think kids need more free time so they can get them into the factories making chochkey shit, cause that's surely going to expand their future opportunities and won't just create a generation if dumb dumbs primed to vote Republican.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4171756-2024-republicans-want-to-eliminate-the-education-department-what-would-that-look-like/

Its not the 40% being beaten by their husbands is it?

https://sites.temple.edu/klugman/2020/07/20/do-40-of-police-families-experience-domestic-violence/

Living on the border a stones throw from Mexico myself... what border crisis? Care to articulate and provide some citations to back it up?

Sure champ. The dnc wasn't leaning on the scales hillary was just such a good candidate that she lost to Trump. It's imperative you maintain that ideal otherwise you might come to the realization that you're part of the problem.

Trump would have likely handed Bernie his ass without breaking a sweat

He had a much better chance than "it's her turn" Hillary and her baggage. The problem is he actually has a history of helping people and speaks truth to power, contrary to the interests of the DNC and Corporate democrats like ole Hill. He doesn't bring in that sweet lobbying money from the ultra wealthy, just small donations actually indactive of voter support. It's why Debbie Wasserman-Shultz was giving Bernie debate questions ahead of time, to help him out... oh right that was Hillary that needed the help... because the dnc chose the candidate they wanted and needed to solidify it by any means.

Either way the reality is the DNC has shown it is incapable of being impartial, and that the whole thing is kabuki nonsense to make you think you have a choice in "choosing" the peice of shit they want you to pick. The DNC is controlled opposition for the wealthy to be able to maintain control on both sides. Not like any sane person is going to vote republican... so they limit options to only the shit sandwich while expecting you to thank them for forcing you to eat it then they bitch when nobody is excited about the shit sandwich.

Then here you are "well of course MY shit sandwich was the only choice and if THEY couldn't have won, clearly no other sandwich could have come close so stop asking to try another fucking sandwich." The dishonesty here is just fucking pathetic, but to admit otherwise would be to invite criticism for handing Trump his '16 victory, more so than is already done.

Don't they have significant forces in Africa still?

"I saw the cross and it struck a nerve. When I think of those men in those dresses molesting children... I saw red, white, and blue... and I knew I needed to stand up for those children's freedom from this den of paedophiles"

This is the news story I'm waiting for. If only the people larping as protectors of children knew the call was coming from inside their own house of worship.

Ah the proud conservative. Tell me friend, how does it feel to be a champion of legalized pedophilia, aka child marraige? Does knowing you are directly responsible for children being raped, legally, because "its a religious tradition" get the engine going? How about the fact that it's predominantly 60+ year old men "marrying" (to have sex with) young girls and in some cases with no lower age limit? Them proud republican traditions... from the people who have "think of the children" on speed dial. But they never wanted you to think of these children.

I'd be willing to bet you didn't have a clue. Why? Cause your dumb ass is too busy "owning the libs" to bother looking at your party or institutions actions at any level of the government that you arent spoon fed by fox or other republican propaganda mills. Laughable, that's how I see every conservative flinging of the term paedophile. It's funny because your institutions are rife with it, yet you are unphased by the hypocrisy. The catholic church and its priests raping boys is a trope at this point. The Mormon church protects its rapists by changing legislation so they can functionally ignore their confessions instead of reporting to the police. Every other republican politician has a history of sexual deviance, many including children... with the base gasping "imperfect vessel" to hand wave away their disgraceful behavior while accusing their political enemies of the same without a shred of evidence. Straight up moral bankruptcy. Knuckledragging bigots don't need no evidence to parrot their party's political message.

Just like they didn't need evidence to support an insurrection and try to overthrow our duly elected government. Lie to a republican enough, and they will believe anything. Questions like "out of 60 court cases why didn't Trump present any tangible evidence the election was stolen" are just unimportant details when the party asked you to "fight like hell" to maintain their power. Gullible, traitorous lemmings, the lot of them. Watching the Republican party coalesce around these traitors and try to white wash their acts as "desperate patriotism" is just pathetic and disgraceful. Every person that attacked the capitol on January 6th deserve to hang; being a gullible moron doesn't excuse one from the consequences of their actions. You support wannabe dictators at your own peril.

Overall, I can only guess how much spit you unknowingly consume in a year. Not nearly as much as you deserve, I imagine. You could try to be a better person, but then that would get in the way of "owning" the libs. The reality is you are so "owned" by your party day in and out, so much so you don't even know they own you.

She was also the only R on the ballot. This is a race (to the bottom) of Republicans.

Are you a Republican?

Tell me friend, do you support:

Child marraige predominantly expressed through older men marrying young girls with whom they can legally rape? (I don't believe a child can consent, do you?)

Child labor, "the children are our future" but also we should steal their prime growth years so meat packing plants can find more meat for the grinders and not have to pay living wages.

Dissolution of the department of education to kill public education in America

Starving school children of low income families, many of which only get their highest quality meal at school

Unchecked capitalism resulting in an ever widening gap between the ultra rich and the rest of us, such that many are being priced out of any semblance of the lie that is the "American Dream" exploding the number of homeless?

Do you look down on the unhoused as just lazy entitled people who would surely squander any support on drugs, rather than your fellow Americans who are suffering hard times, mental illness, or both?

What about just flat out lawlessness, where one party is disinterested in enforcing laws against their party members and make threats of violence and civil war against any attempts by others to fairly apply the law? And instead they indicate an eagerness to lock up their political enemies despite being unable to bring any evidence of crimes?

Genuinely curious because you seem to be able to understand the current reality, but you cling to an ideal that i would guess has left you behind long ago.

I don't expect that you have all the beliefs that right wing media paints democrats as.

Is it because they are well documented liars?

When Fox News successfully argued in court that no reasonable person would believe the content presented in Tucker Carlson's production was factual or true, and was instead just entertainment, did that give you pause? Are you a reasonable person? If you've believed any of their programming Fox doesn't think you are.

Or can I assume you don't know about it because Right Wing media doesn't cover any deficiencies of the conservative machine unless they've gotten out of line, and are instead just fascist cheerleaders willing to say anything for power? Ends justify the means afterall...

Wells Fargo has entered the chat.

I like to stream from my pc to the deck when I'm feeling like escaping the desk.

I hope you said "Rick Scott, perpetrator of the largest Medicare fraud our nation has ever seen? You think HE is great? And RFK, a well documented Republican funded spoiler candidate they think will siphon democrat votes through wild nonsensical claims backed in no way by reality? This is a good candidate to you?"

Like the "slaves had it good" bullshit from pragerU that Florida just approved for classrooms? Oh wait I'm sorry it's from PragerKids... cause they have a whole wing to target children in exactly the ways Republicans claim without evidence that Democrats do.

From Republicans, every accusation is a confession. Just look at child marriage laws and the expansion they are trying to do to see how badly they want be able to own and fuck children.

Little toasted this time of year. Stay cool brother!

Unless you are a Republican voting for hurricane relief for a blue state. Then all "we" can give is thoughts, prayers and the finger.

Hate is learned and nurtured in a hate filled home. It can absolutely be raised into a child.

It isn't physically addictive, but it can be mentally so. Your body isn't going to start eating itself if you don't get it, but you will probably feel anxious and maybe feel cravings if you break the habit though.

On a trip to Singapore and surprisingly not having as much issue as I thought based on my normal consumption. Gonna be fun to see how it goes when I get back.