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  • On the post: Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 02:38pm

    it was the cops who forced the “peaceful” protestors to light a car on fire
    The arrival of police to the scene of any peaceful protest creates an instant tension. Sometimes the tension is broken by people who, if the cops weren’t there, wouldn’t actually commit violent acts. Sometimes it’s broken by the cops who want an excuse to hurt people. But the tension exists until it’s broken, and it’s never broken by the cops deciding to leave peaceful protestors alone. That isn’t to say there aren’t people who go to peaceful protests with the intent to commit violent acts and use the protests as cover for their actions. Of course that shit happens. But how often are they randos looking for an excuse to commit crimes, and how often are they undercover police agitators trying to push people into doing that shit?

  • On the post: A Manufactured Crisis: How A Few Hooligans In LA Became The Pretext For Military Rule

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 02:14pm

    Also, while I’m thinking about it:

    stinking bums
    Hyman, did you break your promise to leave forever? You’re the only anonymous commenter I know who referred to homeless people with this kind of language.

  • On the post: Elon Musk’s New Business Model For ExTwitter: Give Us Money Or We Sue

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 02:12pm

    Ten bux says Elon’ll claim he invented extortion.

  • On the post: A Manufactured Crisis: How A Few Hooligans In LA Became The Pretext For Military Rule

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 02:10pm

    Who started these incidents?
    The cops. 99 times out of 100, the presence of the police at an otherwise peaceful protest escalates tension that can only end when the police have an excuse to commit acts of violence.

  • On the post: A Manufactured Crisis: How A Few Hooligans In LA Became The Pretext For Military Rule

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 02:07pm

    Where was the Republican president when order needed to be restored on the 6th of January 2021? Why din’t he ask the military to intervene in a riot-turned-insurrection (which he helped instigate) that legitimately threatened the safety and security of members of Congress? You want to whine about Democrats, but your actual problem with them is that they’re not willing to use the cops to bust the heads of “communists” or “antifa” or whoever-the-hell you perceive as “the enemy” if people are protesting peacefully. Of course Democrats denounce violence and such⁠—which is more than I can say for a lot of Republicans, who still refuse to denounce the insurrection (or its instigator). What you don’t like is how Democrats aren’t silencing dissent and establishing a strict “order” through state-sanctioned violence. Shit, I’m surprised you didn’t also say they were actually funding and planning the violence. Right-wing weirdos love to do that “our enemies are both weaker than wet paper and stronger than any force short of God simultaneously” shit.

  • On the post: A Manufactured Crisis: How A Few Hooligans In LA Became The Pretext For Military Rule

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 01:25pm

    God, just fuck off already, you weirdo.

  • On the post: Judge Says Of Course The US Can’t Detain Or Deport Mahmoud Khalil Just Because Marco Rubio Wants To Dress Up As A Fascist

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 12:15pm

    It was plagued with career bureaucrats who did not want to follow directives.
    lmao, you’re whining about people following the law you wanna piss on the Constitution while you're here, fascist? gtfo and stay out, you violent weirdo

  • On the post: Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 11:23am

    Ohio, probably.

  • On the post: Judge Says Of Course The US Can’t Detain Or Deport Mahmoud Khalil Just Because Marco Rubio Wants To Dress Up As A Fascist

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 11:22am

    FUCK OFF.

  • On the post: Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 11:21am

    I’d normally rebut all your bullshit, but I’m getting so sick of seeing you deny reality in favor of your emotional support fantasy, so I’m just going to call you what you are and be on my way. You’re one weird motherfucker who needs to leave. You’re not welcome here, and frankly, it’s long past time Mike put a stop to your sick sociopathic shit.

  • On the post: Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 08:08am

    It’s a matter of perspective, really.

  • On the post: The GOP Is Way Too Fucking Excited About Using US Troops On American Protestors

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 11:41am

    You know what, fair point.

  • On the post: The GOP Is Way Too Fucking Excited About Using US Troops On American Protestors

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 11:17am

    The GOP is a death cult. But I didn’t think they were willing to actually condone the American military murdering American citizens on American soil.

  • On the post: Lindsey Graham Thinks It Should Be Illegal To Identify ICE Agents

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 11:08am

    ICE has nothing to fear in “red states” because those are the states where ICE is practically welcome to do as they please. They’re the same states that voted for Trump and his “Mass Deportation Now” promises; why wouldn’t ICE be able to walk around unbothered in such places?

  • On the post: Lindsey Graham Thinks It Should Be Illegal To Identify ICE Agents

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 11:04am

    How am I imagining myself the victim here if I’m a born-and-raised American born to American citizens who doesn’t even live in LA? My point is that if the LAPD, ICE, the National Guard, and/or the Marines kill one of the undocumented immigrants they’re rounding up, you⁠—being a part of the GOP death cult⁠—would have absolutely no problem with their death because you see that immigrant not as a person, but as a pest to be either ejected from the country or eradicted to prevent further “infestation”. That’s who you are, Koby: a sociopath who doesn’t care if people you see as “the enemy” are killed by your always righteous, always correct, always morally superior Dear Leader and the loyal lackeys of his regime. You wanna know what’s funny? I see all these stories about people leaving various government agencies because they don’t want to be seen as collaborting with or acting in service of the Trump regime. None of those stories are about ICE agents. All the thuggery, the fearmongering, all the morally repugnant bullshit⁠—like blackbagging college students off the street⁠—is what they want to be doing. They want to hurt people, even if you (or they) don’t see those people as people. They want violence to happen so they have an excuse to hurt people worse…or even kill them, for that matter. What do they have to worry about? They could slaughter a whole room of undocumented immigrants and Trump would pardon them for running “pest control”. So remember this, Koby: You’re putting an awful lot of trust in the idea that the leopards won’t eat your face when they’re hungry and yours is the only face around.

  • On the post: Lindsey Graham Thinks It Should Be Illegal To Identify ICE Agents

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 10:55am

    You are not in authoritarian society.
    Trump acts as if his word is law. He demands loyalty not to the country or the Constitution, but to him and him alone; anyone he perceives as disloyal by following U.S. law instead of his law is eventually booted from his regime. He demands investigations into his enemies and fealty from those who could be his enemies if he so demands. He is working to dismantle government agencies such as FEMA because he doesn’t think the federal government should be in the business of helping the people of this country. And he’s pardoned the insurrectionists from the 6th of January 2021 as well as a convicted murderer, and there’s a good chance he’ll pardon anyone he perceives as “friendly” or loyal to him even if they’ve been fairly convicted of serious crimes. Trump is a fascist. His regime is all but begging to send the military into Los Angeles and declare martial law within a state run by someone vehemently opposed to Trump’s bullshit. You can keep whitewashing his actions the same way his regime wants to whitewash American history (and subtly supporting the ideals of segregationists), but everyone who hasn’t been brainwashed by Fox News and OANN knows better.
    Nobody is being “disappeared”.
    Only because the Trump regime hasn’t figured out how to get people out of the country without courts, lawyers, and regular citizens finding out and fighting back. But you should know by now that if anyone loses their right to due process, so does everyone else. After all, if Trump and his cronies can get away with declaring that people who aren’t citizens don’t have rights and can be treated any way the regime wants, what’s to stop them from declaring that I’m not a citizen and stripping my rights?

  • On the post: Lindsey Graham Thinks It Should Be Illegal To Identify ICE Agents

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 10:37am

    …says the guy who would be fine if ICE, the National Guard, and the Marines happened to kill an undocumented immigrant or two during the raids in LA and would justify said deaths as “the cost of freedom” or some shit. Fuck off, you sociopathic weirdo.

  • On the post: Trump, ICE Have Earned Every Bit Of The Hatred They’re Now Facing

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 04:30am

    I’m not saying Trump is a mastermind. He’s a fucking idiot. But there are people working under him who are at least marginally smarter than him, and some of them would be willing (and able) to push and poke and prod him into giving his approval for these sorts of things. Stephen Miller, for example, would probably have immigrant-heavy sections of the country carpetbombed if he could.

  • On the post: Trump, ICE Have Earned Every Bit Of The Hatred They’re Now Facing

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 04:27am

    Voting is a form of damage control. Everyone who didn’t want to vote for Harris has to live with what happens when the people who voted for “damage all the things” get their way.

  • On the post: Trump, ICE Have Earned Every Bit Of The Hatred They’re Now Facing

    Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2025 @ 04:25am

    Nope. We’re not doing that shit here. If you want to allege that voting machines were hacked such that the results were changed to favor any candidate, you need to either offer actual evidence of that allegation or stop making the allegation in the first place. We’re all well aware that voting machines aren’t exactly 100% safe and secure. Any claim beyond that will require proof, and that means having more evidence than Fox News had when it paid nearly $1bn for its lies and slander about Dominion.

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