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• On the post: Don’t Kid Yourselves, Folks. Trump Is Just As Willing To Deport/Jail Actual US Citizens.

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2025 @ 02:44pm

  What also helps:

  • affordable medical care for expectant mothers
  • paid leave for new parents
  • affordable childcare
  • affordable housing
  • affordable food
  • a clean environment in which to raise a child

  Guess how many of those Republicans support not through words, but through their actions as lawmakers.

• On the post: Don’t Kid Yourselves, Folks. Trump Is Just As Willing To Deport/Jail Actual US Citizens.

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2025 @ 01:44pm

  A Republican.

• On the post: Don’t Kid Yourselves, Folks. Trump Is Just As Willing To Deport/Jail Actual US Citizens.

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2025 @ 12:25pm

  Goddamn, you’re pathetic. Not an ounce of empathy or willingness to admit to being wrong. I’d pity you, but you haven’t earned it.

• On the post: Marco Rubio’s Family Values: Preventing Mahmoud Khalil From Witnessing His Child’s Birth

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2025 @ 12:22pm

  This is unusually cruel even by the low standards of the Trump administration.

• On the post: Harvard Goes To Court To Stop Trump Nonsense

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2025 @ 09:35am

  Though some universities might still follow Columbia’s shameful example and capitulate, Harvard’s principled stand could embolden others to resist.

  The fact that Columbia bent the knee and still got treated the same as Harvard should also embolden others. When resisting and giving in gets the same result, resisting seems like the smarter move.

• On the post: RIP John Roberts’s Summer Vacation

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2025 @ 08:37pm

  Dude, stop trying to make SCROTUS happen.

• On the post: Court Allows Government To Continue Stalling While Abrego Garcia Remains In Hell

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2025 @ 12:36pm

  You’re so vain, you probably think this post is about you.

• On the post: Hegseth Shared Attack Plans In Another Signal Chat… With His Wife, Brother & Lawyer

  

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

  Fascism always replaces first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence guarantees their loyalty to the cause.

• On the post: Hegseth Shared Attack Plans In Another Signal Chat… With His Wife, Brother & Lawyer

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2025 @ 09:26am

  This morning, Hegseth blamed the whole thing on the media (naturally) and “disgruntled former employees.”

  Notice how he doesn’t deny the allegations from the article or apologize for the actions mentioned in the article. He yells “fake news” and whines about other people talking about him instead of taking responsibility for his actions (including his failures). And here I though the GOP was supposed to be “the party of personal responsibility”.

• On the post: Pushing The ‘Shoplifting Crime Wave’ Narrative Allowed Cops To Stock Up On LEO Goodies

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2025 @ 06:03am

  That’s republican pussies crying at the sight of people defending their rights under the law of the United States.

  And the sight of gay people holding hands in public. And the sight of Black people in general. And the sight of women who aren’t barefoot, pregnant, and shackled to a kitchen. And the sight of religious people who aren’t Christians doing their own religious thing in public. And…well, you get the point.

• On the post: Pushing The ‘Shoplifting Crime Wave’ Narrative Allowed Cops To Stock Up On LEO Goodies

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2025 @ 06:34pm

  instead of wetting yourselves in terror at the very sight of a firearm

  I’d really love to know where you picked this fantasy up. Like, was it Fox News, OAN, or some shitpit like 8kun that told you that every liberal in the U.S. genuinely believes touching even an unloaded gun will instantly vaporize them?

• On the post: Pushing The ‘Shoplifting Crime Wave’ Narrative Allowed Cops To Stock Up On LEO Goodies

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2025 @ 06:32pm

  The very suggestion of any kind of physical resistance to people having very real harm done to them RIGHT NOW turns you into a frothing fed-posting twit.

  Not for nothing, but you’re being very weird. When I say that violence needs to be the absolute last resort, you rip into me for being a liberal pussy who’s so afraid of guns that he thinks touching one is going to dust him like he got snapped by Thanos. When I say that violence in the name of self-defense against masked ICE agents acting like kidnappers/human traffickers is okay, you rip into me for being a fed. When I ask you for specific, non-violent actions you think people should take to effectively protest the Trump administration after you continually whine about one specific protest multiple times, you duck the question and keep whining about me being a liberal pussy or a fed. I’m legitimately asking you what you think the best course of action is that isn’t mass murder of anyone who so much as thought of voting for Trump in 2016, 2020, and/or 2024. All you give me is garbage. At this point, I’m inclined to believe that your accusation is a confession and you’re seriously trying to get me to say something you can use to, I’unno, make ICE come knock on my door or some shit. But in case you’re not, I’m going to ask you again: What specific non-violent actions do you believe people should take to effectively protest the Trump administration?

• On the post: Pushing The ‘Shoplifting Crime Wave’ Narrative Allowed Cops To Stock Up On LEO Goodies

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2025 @ 09:33am

  Dude, what the actual fuck is your problem? You seem to think that “wanting sensible gun control” is the same thing as “get rid of all the icky guns [stereotypical queer handflailing]”, and I don’t know whether you’re trying to stir shit up as a right-wing agitator or if you’re sincerely stupid enough to believe your own bullshit. I don’t own a gun, I don’t want to own a gun, I think guns should be more regulated than marijuana, and you can still be goddamn sure that I would pick up a gun to defend myself or my loved ones if that ever became necessary. My adherence to the principle of “violence as a last resort” doesn’t make me a pacifist⁠—it makes me someone who knows that violence is often more trouble than it’s worth, which is why avoiding violence (especially lethal violence) until it becomes necessary will always be something for which I advocate. I imagine that plenty of other liberals feel much the same way: They don’t like guns, but they recognize their unfortunate necessity in modern times, which is why they call for stricter regulations. The ones who are all “take all the guns away” are no better than the kind of people who stockpile guns’n’ammo in preparation for “the Second American Revolution”, in that both groups are dumbass extremists who live in a cloud of all-consuming fear that fucks up their entire lives.

• On the post: ‘This Should Be Shocking’: Conservative Judge Blasts White House As Senator Finally Accesses Abrego Garcia

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2025 @ 10:03am

  And that DA’s name? Alberta Einstein.

• On the post: HHS Is Fucking Up America’s Measles Elimination Status

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2025 @ 05:00am

  40+ years of Democratic neoliberalism has turned the healthcare system almost completely over to greedy and out of control corporations and VC companies, put pharma and healthcare execs in charge of the CDC and HHS, smashed any attempt at single payer

  Let’s say all of this is true. If you’re going to blame Democrats for all of that happening in the first place, you also have to blame Republicans for not reversing that shit when they had the chance.

• On the post: Border Patrol Says It’s Catching Criminal Migrants, But Its Internal Records Say Otherwise

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2025 @ 04:40am

  Two things.

  1. Every accusation, a confession.
  2. I actually agree with the idea that people have every right to defend themselves⁠—including with violence⁠—against ICE agents who are acting like kidnappers/human traffickers by wearing masks and snatching people off the streets.

• On the post: HHS Is Fucking Up America’s Measles Elimination Status

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2025 @ 06:38pm

  The word you’re looking for is “fuck”. I promise that you can say it here.

• On the post: HHS Is Fucking Up America’s Measles Elimination Status

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2025 @ 04:44pm

  RFK’s also been saying some crazy, bigoted bullshit about autistic people

  Yeah, that’s literally some eugenics bullshit he’s been saying about autistic people, and it’s seriously fucked up, and I’m glad autistic people have been pushing back against it (as well they should).

• On the post: HHS Is Fucking Up America’s Measles Elimination Status

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2025 @ 04:02pm

  Hey, MAGA chuds: Did y’all vote for dead kids and another pandemic?

• On the post: White House Falsely Calls NPR, PBS A “Grift,” Moves To Cut Already Modest Funding In Latest Attack On Journalism And Informed Consensus

  

  Stephen T. Stone ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2025 @ 11:01am

  Oh, if it gets bad enough, bullets will be what it comes to. I’m not going to deny that. But I think even a fascism-loving GOP would boot Trump out of the White House if doing so meant they would save their own asses from angry citizens who want Trump’s head. And there’s no way to get them angrier any faster than fucking with their entitlements⁠—especially for older people who are living off said entitlements. Blood won’t have to be spilled if the GOP does the right thing if and when the time ultimately comes. But if they don’t…well, no one will be able to say “they weren’t given a chance”.

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