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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • They are already kidnapping innocent people in the street and disappearing them for life imprisonment with no chance of parole in El Salvador. There’s no due process, not even any consideration of evidence. They’ll kidnap whoever they want to. When their victim’s innocence is pointed out, ICE say there’s nothing they can do to get them back. Those innocent people just have to work as slaves in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives, even when known to be innocent, and even when American. Now these Nazis are ramping up their concentration camp program and will not hesitate to disappear innocent people to secret camps in the USA. No one is safe. This is the time to start fighting.

















  • I think there have been societies with genuine protections for free speech, and even in the USA there have been better times and worse. So I wouldn’t say that shutting down free speech is “what we are as a species.” As a species we have many impulses to be hostile to those we disagree with, but we also have the ability to see past these and to build societal systems that protect people’s right to speak freely. It’s up to us whether we pursue the latter or give up.





  • White House officials said they were vindicated by the latest reporting, pointing to an earlier characterization of the discussions as “war plans,” language which had now shifted to “attack plans.”

    So far these have been their arguments in defense of themselves:

    1. Hey, this is the first time we’ve catastrophically fucked up on security in a whole two months so treat us with some respect! (And letting an unelected drug-addled Nazi and some disreputable teenagers roam freely through all government computer systems doesn’t count.)
    2. We didn’t leak war plans to a journalist, like you all claimed, we leaked attack plans. Totally different so you’re a bunch of liars.
    3. Nothing that was leaked was classified. We totally meant the movements of our bombers to be made public before the mission started.

    Hands up who thinks these are not utterly ridiculous responses!