This is a scam. I’ve been watching for the past hour, and the reaction hasn’t changed once!!

Oh lmao, thank you but now I feel somewhat gratified to know that I don’t recognize Destiny 😂

This is a painting from 1872 called American Progress. The giant woman in a toga is Columbia (note: not Colombia, the country), the popular personification of the United States at the time. She is bringing “civilization” to the west, book in hand, laying telegraph poles as she goes with settlers following behind her. Which also just happens to involve genociding Native Americans and buffalo, seen fleeing in the painting. It was a painting made to embody the idea of American expansionism and manifest destiny. If you’re ever in LA and have the opportunity to swing by the Autry Museum, it’s there and worth checking out (if only to see how surprisingly small it is).

It looks like JD Vance’s face has been pasted on Columbia, I’m assuming because of the Panama and Greenland stuff.

It’s actually Destiny (the YouTube streamer), oops!

You think the protest didn’t cover two blocks when thousands of people were there?? It’s okay to not criticize protests you weren’t at and don’t have local knowledge of. You don’t have to say that LA was doing it wrong to say that you liked another protest. It’s fine to just lift something up without putting something else down.

There’s also absolutely no way you’re going to convince me to post about doing crime on the internet, even “hypothetically”, because I’m not a moron.

Show up to your local protests if you can, show up for your community if you can’t. Assume anyone asking you to talk about crimes is a fed.

random street in Los Angeles

Oh, where would you have protested? I think outside city hall would have been a good place, especially because the federal building with Sen. Padilla’s office is 2 blocks away.

(If you found yourself agreeing with this: this is where they protested.)

Am I nuts or during his first term wasn’t there a story about Trump literally eating a piece of paper after he read it??

The article is full of examples of ways people have organized.

Not sure how you could read my comments and come to the conclusion that I’m ready to just lay down and die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If your conclusion is “non voters are just stupid” without examining what in their lives led to them feeling like their vote won’t matter or count (with reason, in some cases) you’re not really doing anything other than venting about losing.

We don’t only live in a nation that is heavily propagandized and with a suppressed vote when Republicans have the presidency, that’s true all the time. Until we fix that and other issues with our political system, a portion of voters won’t be able to be (or have a reason to be) engaged.

Damn, it’s too bad the average citizen is who participates in elections and not only political masterminds. I guess nobody could have known to account for that.

Wow, I can’t believe people weren’t more motivated to vote for “nothing will change no matter who wins.” Truly nobody could have foreseen and warned of this.

Thanks for the accurate info!

At the risk of becoming too anti-casual, anti-gay slurs were so common in the US up until the mid/late 90s, if you weren’t there for it you just have no idea. One of the Bill and Ted movies (I think the first one?) just randomly dropping it in there as a joke, where the slur is the joke, is a good example of just how it was then. There’s still bigotry but it’s not as casual and pervasive.

The planned order follows years of campaign promises from Trump to abolish the federal Education Department, which was established in 1979, during President Jimmy Carter’s administration.

Oops, mixed that up with the federal Education Department. Thanks for the correction!

I think they pretty clearly wanted the Democratic party to stop arming Israel, which did not happen, and probably wouldn’t have happened if they were elected, either, given they made no promises on it and gave no real indications of course correction.

This is like if the guy on watch duty on the Titanic spent a year screaming about how they’re heading directly for an iceberg, the captain did nothing, and then got mad at the guy on watch when the iceberg sank the ship.

I use the Voyager app and there’s just a little accessibility icon you press after uploading the image that lets you type it in. I’m not sure how to do it through browser, though.

I had no idea the DOE federal Education Department was that recently created. Having grown up in a deep red state I feel like a veil was suddenly lifted from me, and now I can see how even more fucked up my older relatives’ education must have been compared to mine (already pretty fucked up!).

I think it’s from 30 Rock (TV series).

Smelly things have delicious electrolytes ❤️🦋

In California (and probably other states, but I know here for sure) they have “Spanish for Spanish speakers” classes in addition to regular Spanish classes, presumably so people can’t do that, lol.