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It worked on Eric Adams (via the bussing gambit) and they wrongly assumed that the Dem base is as shallow and spineless as our pols

They are looking at this from their perspective. The only way they could get a large number of people together is by paying them. Hence they can't fathom anyone protesting without payment.

I don't think Miller is a true believer. I think it's worse because he knows his ideas aren't mainstream, but he doesn't care because his only goal is to establish a white supremacist nation, regardless of public opinion. I think he believes they've secured power.

contradictions abound

They are paid to be right wing agitators by right wing billionaires They assume all people with morals are being paid like them

Has anyone asked Miller if he's thinks he's white enough for Nick Fuentes

They probably think Somali con artists are paying the protesters. That they're disrupting the enemy's finances

imagine having control of the entire FBI and the power to really trace the money to find proof of this but nah

It's self-snitching since that pundit set often buys their way to the top of the NYT Bestseller List on the regular. It's not just projection in 4K, it's projection in 70mm film.

I liken it to your siblings. You beat the crap out of each other but if an outsider comes for one of them, gloves are off

Reminds me of when DeSantis sent a plane of refugees to Martha's Vineyard, and the locals did everything possible to support them.

I’ve lived in Seattle for 34 years—the city with the 2nd or 3rd largest Somali community. My daughter’s elementary school was maybe 15% Somali. They’ve made excellent neighbors. Model immigrants. Don’t ever remember an incident or complaint.

That or that the consensus-seeking, harm-reducing approach would translate to white suburbanited cowardly staying home when ICE shows up.

They aren’t as wrong about that as they f**kjng should be though.

They're picking blue states to disrupt all future voting in order to have a permanent control of the government. The sequence includes creating agitation and declaring martial law and eliminating voting. This was planned years ago as part of project 2025, with protests expected against the gov.

Exactly

yeah

One of the finest traditions of the Midwest (especially the Upper Midwest) is neighborliness. When someone needs help, you help them. Before heavy industry, you don't survive the winters in a place like that if you don't help shovel each other out, and that's a value system that runs deep.

Yep & on vibes, that feels like how the Overton Window shifted heavily in some places (lots of media deregulation & cut backs to public broadcasting,) yet mostly stayed steady, if not became more progressive, in others (regulations & public media relatively intact until social media bypassed those)

It's one reason I think the "Wow those people are weird!" thing that started catching on during the election would've been effective. Appearances, and not wanting to stand out in a bad/wild/"crazy" way are very important things to people I know who are conservative.

it is one of the truly great pleasures of basic ass straight white guy-ness to have some meatball assume you're as bigoted as them b/c your general appearance and hit them with an icy "you fucked up" stare. nice to know that it will actually bother them.