ffs I stopped using the men’s restroom because men kept getting confused and angry when I went in there, and I wasn’t even that far into my transition yet. It’s been years now, I’m going to have to make a scene every single time I have to pee I guess.

Smart in a really specific way.

Specifically: stealing, scams, and flimflam.

As long as you keep obeying the US like loyal dogs, I will keep bashing you. You’re pathetic, worthless little worms that will do anything the US wants. You’ll whine about it, you’ll complain at the UN, you’ll make impassioned speeches - and then do what the US wants anyway. Hopefully Trump is the wakeup call y’all need to finally start asserting your sovereignty. I won’t hold my breath.

“So many” is doing a lot of work.

It’s literally hundreds of people, and it only jumped from dozens after Trump’s tariff regime began.

Out of a country of over a billion people, that’s basically nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang

Why shouldn’t they be assholes when they have to deal with piece of shit riders like you?

In the context of US imperialism, yes, deportation is always bad. This country has no right to close its borders.

That has basically never been true for US parties, because they’re not really parties.

And yet, people voted for candidates who pledged to cut them. That has to be reckoned with.

There’s definitely a problem with Democrats being unwilling to improve these programs, because ultimately the Democratic leadership hates government programs too, but there’s also the problem with people voting to take government benefits away form undesirables. Again, policies aren’t popular on their own, they need to be promoted and advanced. We have a role to play.

If I was cooking chilaquiles or tacos I’d probably try the palm shaping method, but it seems really unworkable to make big burrito tortillas that way - at least at my level of skill!

I also had a problem of not getting the pan hot enough at first, I think, and so actually getting the little browned bubbles to appear was challenging. The tortillas I made towards the end of the first batch came out way better than the first ones, thinner and softer and easier to roll. I’m going to be learning a lot doing this for sure.

… I might have forgotten that step of letting them sit. I was impatient!

If surveillance does not seem to affect their daily lives then they are not bound by the law. They’re simply protected. They have nothing to fear because the government’s terror regime is not directed against them, they simply benefit from the security it provides them. You can not argue against them, they are simply conscious of their own material interests.

Privacy is only valuable if the government is a hostile force, but they have never experienced government hostility. They’re protected. They’re not the ones being dragged out of their houses by screaming masked men or put to work in prisons. They’re fine.

A lot of government assistance programs were popular, and they were eroded anyway because their popularity wasn’t sustained through outreach and propaganda. Democrats wouldn’t stand up for government assistance programs because they didn’t really like them either, so the only thing people heard was how bad it was. There needs to be a concerted effort to educate the masses.

Policies aren’t popular on their own. They still have to be made popular and kept popular, by activists and politicians and parties.

There are a lot of people on those apps who mostly are protected by the law. They’re not, like, Epstein clients or anything but their interactions with law enforcement often involve being pulled over and then let off with a warning, whereas someone else would be dragged out of their car and beaten half to death.

Also, never underestimate how many of them are bots.

It has worked on a big enough scale to matter, it’s how so many government programs have been gutted over the past few decades. They’re always screeching about “fraud” and “abuse” which basically just means “non-white people getting benefits.”

There’s definitely a limit to how far race consciousness can suppress class consciousness, but it definitely works on a big scale.

Just raise your prices more, I’m sure that’ll help!

Replaced the editor with AI too.

Except for when racists are rallied into opposing things they would directly benefit from because non-white people would also benefit. Anything which erodes their racial caste becomes a material threat to their racial consciousness, and they fight it.

That’s how you end up with some poor whites pushing to gut SNAP and WIC.

There are two kinds of people. There are people that the law protects but does not bind, and there are other people that law binds but does not protect. These two classes are in conflict with each other and this can’t be overcome with words.

If they are someone that the law binds then they’ll either immediately understand what I mean when I say “the government is run by terrorists” or they’ll find out when they’re terrorized by the government. Law is class power, the terrorism is self-evident.

If they are someone that the law protects, then they’ll have no idea what I’m talking about and there’s literally nothing I could say or do that would convince them. They materially benefit from the government’s terrorism, it’s in their interests to support it.

That argument falls flat when the government is run by terrorists.