Yeah, there’s a critical difference with law enforcement wearing masks. Antifa, and I guess very theoretically the Nazis, wear masks because they are private citizens opposing structures of power. Police aren’t. The only people they have to fear is the public, which is who they’re supposed to be working for.

Plus, it’s not just their faces they’re hiding. They also aren’t giving badge numbers or any other way for the public to lodge a complaint against a bad agent. That’s not a system of justice, it’s a political gang.

You can refuse donations. Or publicly disavow his support if it’s in the form of independently bought media.

Murder charges frequently do not allow for bail.

I’m not convinced it would lead to civil war. It could, but it still takes a lot of manufacturing consent for us to go to war with random brown countries. It’d be no easy task to convince the US population and military we needed to start dropping bombs on Hollywood. Soldiers would desert and other states would think about joining.

When it gets to the level of a component piece of a country leaving said country, it doesn’t really matter what the law is. The South isn’t part of the US because it was decided that secession was illegal, they’re there because they got their ass beaten.

SALT is authorized.

If you’re planning to do any sort of tax strike, step one is zeroing your withholdings.

Seriously. The headwinds against protest are that it’s kind of an imposition and people worry it doesn’t have any impact. Do absolutely nothing and it’ll probably evaporate. Come down on them like a load of bricks and it signals to a lot more people that it’s important. The CBP doing Gestapo kidnappings in Portland during BLM spawned a whole new wave of protest participation.

The whole attack does just seem a little off. He planned for a year and wanted to “kill them all” and chose to use fire as a weapon? Not a car? Not a bomb? Not an illegally acquired gun?

And his target is a kind of innocuous group who are kinda Zionist but not clearly so, who just happens to have an 88 year old Holocaust survivor among their number? These people may have even been publicly opposed to continued war.

It just seems like a lot of time to plan an attack that wasn’t very effective against a group that doesn’t make a very effective statement, by a person almost tailor made to reinforce right-wing talking points. I dunno about active deal-making, but I could definitely believe he was targeted and groomed by someone intending to use him for political purposes.

But he could also just be a moron who spent a year plotting a dumb attack.

Hey, quick question. What’s the name of the guy this post, which you very definitely didn’t read, is about?

Is it Elias Rodriquez? No? Huh.

Based on fucking what? Did you even read the article?

Oh, he was saying things then too. He was one of the main spokespeople defending the genocide.

Biden is not a piece of shit

So someone who enables genocide is not, in your moral framework, a piece of shit. Full stop. Not even a “lesser evil” argument, just straight out not-evil.

Good that we’ve got that definitively stated.

State Department Spokesman. Not a policy maker, but he was definitely a significant person involved in providing cover for Israel’s atrocities.

The question you’re trying to dodge was “is Biden a piece of shit for enabling a genocide” not “is Trump worse”.

Which have daily limits, are in public places, and have cameras. Not many people plan to kidnap and torture people for $500 a day.

The manliest thing to do is complain about how you’re not allowed to be a man because the left doesn’t have someone as manly as Steven Miller (??) for you to emulate.

Manliness isn’t a course or a team and you don’t need other people to approve you being it. Have beliefs, stand up for people who are weaker than you, and build things to make the world a better place.

Also, the largest leftist streamer (hasanabi) plays videogames, like anime boobs, and clearly works out constantly. Bill Burr is constantly going viral for telling assholes to shut the fuck up with a big cigar in his hand. And Tim Walz’s whole political schtick is being a solid, caring, coach figure. There are plenty a representations of stereotypically “manly” figures on the left. The type that’s not represented there is the toxic dudes complaining about how every problem in their life is the fault of women denying them their rightful place as the masters of society.