Nah. So much of even The Left are desperate to get their swasticars and tesla stock back and will be ecstatic over saying that now musk is no worse than any other CEO. Like, did you hear about how horrible Toyota is?
Its one of the things that make me the most depressed about the state of humanity. Even around here we had straight up mods insisting that attacking teslas was wrong and nobody should fault anyone who bought one or some stock and blah blah blah.
He’ll get sanctioned for arbitrary bullshit by republicans and given a stern talking to about unity and bipartisanship from schumer.
The republicans are actively trying to erase and eradicate trans people. And, at the best of times, the democrats don’t care enough to fight. One of the most important things to understand is that your political party/affiliation probably doesn’t give a shit about you (a sadly not uniquely Asian American experience)
But there are countless “concessions” and horrors coming everyone’s way. So why fixate on something that is unlikely to happen and which all evidence points against? Even the attack on trans people was more about dead naming and causing emotional pain but the upper middle class (and above) trans folk were able to get revised passports pretty quick.
Because hurting trans folk? That is just ratings. Restricting the upper middle class? THAT is how you get people in the streets AND piss off news networks enough that they show it. Because that news anchor who is just keeping his head down? He has a vacation coming up.
Which is why:
So… if you can get out, get the hell out.
The “why” is important to understand.
“It won’t happen because it is illegal” or “it won’t happen because the military will save us” is patently stupid and an indicator that people aren’t paying attention.
“It probably won’t happen because it undermines their goals and the countries trump et al worships don’t do it” is actually assessing where their control comes from.
The danger with assuming everything bad will happen because it is bad is that you just give people “lines” that are easily avoided. Or quick ways to say “Oh, it isn’t THAT bad. They aren’t ACTUALLY setting babies on fire”
And dispose of it if someone actually is carrying it.
It is incredibly unlikely that the republicans pull passports. They are very much dependent on people to be placated and insist “it is just temporary and I am going to live my life”. Passports are owned/used by predominantly upper middle class families who are the most likely to try to ignore the republicans while bitching and moaning that somebody is being rude and protesting in front of a Starbucks. Take away their passports and now this impacts them rather than just “trump, biden, whatever. Groceries are still expensive and I am just going to live my life and go on vacation to Italy this year”.
Historically? Yes, fascist regimes do that. That is also incredibly ineffective. We are more likely to see the China/Russia model where political crimes become increasingly prevalent (see: attacking a tesla is terrorism). The other reason to pull passports is for draft purposes. And the US Military, for as massive as it is, is not one that can be run by drafted soldiers. But republicans are also fucking idiots so… we’ll see.
So… if you can get out, get the hell out.
I am still not sure if I come down on false flag or not.
But yeah. Basically anyone who has done “real” graffiti knows to use a stencil. You want to get in, spray it, and get out. And then dump (or burn) the stencil so there isn’t anything tying you to it. Whereas people who are rookies are going to try to free hand things.
They are the party that is in power and actively trying to destroy elections. In a state that generally votes VERY blue outside of a few rural counties.
I’m not going to lose much sleep over watching some nazi buildings burn. But there is a very real argument that “New Mexico is dangerous” and collecting some insurance money is more valuable to the republicans at this point.
A law that is not enforced is not a law.
That said: This was discussed the last time he claimed to be doing this. There are theoretically loopholes that boil down to “Say you support X and I’ll give you money. This is not legally binding as a vote” which likely would not hold up to a just court but…
On the one hand: Fucking A
On the other hand: We have a trump admin who is already pushing to get rid of elections and a Democrat Senate minority leader who actively refuses to fight. It is hard to care too much when we actively won’t use the seats we have TO fight until it is way too late.
FOIA has nothing to do with this.
These are discussions of military operations and our relation to foreign nations. It would basically instantly be considered sensitive for quite some time. Think “years” and it would be pretty trivial to get that bumped up to decades.
This was solely about the convenience of not needing to use a VTC room or the fancy computer in their office (that they probably leave the door unlocked to but…) and possibly being able to show it to russia.
Cue schumer saying that we shouldn’t be hasty and should focus on bipartisan bills instead.
Did you seriously just turn trump talking about deporting us citizens because they are saying something he doesn’t like into “but here is why the democrats suck”?
No shit? And musk as the voice pushing past trump just to talk for him isn’t even the real threat. It is the project 2025 folk and their oligarch backers (of which musk is PROBABLY one).
But that doesn’t change the talking points we are going to see constantly as so many voices and people insist that musk is no longer a threat and the car they bought as a social status flex and the stock they bought to get rich quick are now good things again and you are just hurting The Movement by hurting anyone who isn’t an oligarch.
Just like all the mother fuckers who were talking shit about people spray painting or bricking targets… up until a different mother fucker used that as an excuse to shoot some n****rs and they went back to just complaining that they are totally pro union but it is really inconvenient for people to block a Starbucks and it is just going to hurt those unions to inconvenience The Good People.