DocWatts

Then go meditate in a corner somewhere, and leave politics to the adults who are able to respond appropriately when a woman is murdered in cold blood by the American gestapo.

My point here is that treating ICE as 'law enforcement' is already ceding the narrative to fascists who want this behavior to be normalized. A police officer who shoots an unarmed woman in the face can be removed for misconduct, tried and potentially convicted for murder. ICE is intentionally put in cities like Minneapolis to incite violence. They're operating with the knowledge that they have absolute immunity for their actions - and that the atrocities they're committing are done under a veil of anonymity. I don't want ICE to be 'better at their jobs', I want Trump's Secret Police to be disbanded, its leaders and field agents to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for the harm that they're committing. There's nothing to 'save' about ICE, anymore than there was anything worth saving about Hitler's Brownshirts.

Don't cede the narrative. ICE is not law enforcement - they're a paramilitary that Trump is using to implement fascism within the United States. They are in Minneapolis to scare the shit out of people so that they'll give up their rights in advance, and to incite violence as a pretext for a military crackdown. End of story.

What the fuck are you talking about? A civilian was brutally executed by Trump's secret police, and all you can say is that she had a death wish? I'd expect this type of unhinged take on 4chan, not on what's supposed to be a Conscious Politics Forum. Do us all a favor and GTFO until you're able to engage in this space constructively.

The fact that anyone is willing to give Trump's secret police the benefit of the doubt for shooting a 37 year old mom in the face is disgusting, in and of itself.

Jonathan Ross. Remember his name. He murdered a 37 year old mother, shooting her in the face three times from point blank range in front of her house. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/ice-agent-minneapolis-shooting

My sense is that the MAGA Cult is much closer to defending pedophilia than they are to admitting they've backed an irredeemable monster.

Honestly, I'm surprised we're not in the midst of a land invasion of Venezuela right now, to distract from Trump's kid-diddling.

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Welp, the criminal syndicate that's currently in charge of the DOJ finally dropped a tiny portion of the Epstein files that they were ordered to release. And what's here is a doozy:

Trump wouldn't be Trump if he wasn't grifting: all he's doing is moving money around (illegally) and calling it a 'gift', hoping that our service members are too stupid to tell the difference.

I can speak to this - the Dem's brand is in the toilet because the Democratic base wants: 1) A party that fights back against Trump's authoritarian power grab. 2) A bold agenda centered around affordability. Instead, current Democratic leadership seems content to roll over for fascism, and make small tweaks to an economic system that's not working for ordinary people. Unlike the GOP which is a Cult of personality with a built-in approval rating floor (around 30% of the country will support Dear Leader no matter what), the Dems have to earn their approval rating. And Democratic leadership is doing a terrible job, practicing an outdated style of politics from thirty years ago. This isn't about the age of people running for office (at least not entirely), it's about an Old versus New style of politics (think Chuck Schumer versus Mamdani).

Fair point, but my personal experience is that a lot of academic philosophy is convoluted to an unnecessary degree. To return to Heiddegar, Being-In-The-World is a genuinely useful concept - that we're embedded within the world before we start reasoning about it - that's weighed down by overly technical, precise language. There's a tradeoff between splitting hairs and writing in a way people can actually comprehend. Quality philosophical writing has a good economy of accessibility relative to its precision. (I.e., 'Don't make your writing more difficult than it needs to be')

One more, courtesy of Heiddegar: "In the name ‘being-in-the-world,’ ‘world’ does not in any way imply earthly as opposed to heavenly being, nor the ‘worldly’ as opposed to the ‘spiritual.’ For us ‘world’ does not at all signify beings or any realm of beings but the openness of Being. Man is, and is man, insofar as he is the ek-sisting one. He stands out into the openness of Being. Being itself, which as the throw has projected the essence of man into ‘care,’ is as this openness. Thrown in such fashion, man stands ‘in’ the openness of Being. ‘World’ is the clearing of Being into which man stands out on the basis of his thrown essence. ‘Being-in-the-world’ designates the essence of ek-sistence with regard to the cleared dimension out of which the ‘ek-’ of ek-sistence essentially unfolds. Thought in terms of ek-sistence, ‘world’ is in a certain sense precisely ‘the beyond’ within existence and for it. Man is never first and foremost man on the hither side of the world, as a ‘subject,’ whether this is taken as ‘I’ or ‘We.’ Nor is he ever simply a mere subject which always simultaneously is related to objects, so that his essence lies in the subject-object relation." What's actually being said here, just in the most inefficient way imaginable: "Mind and world are entangled. We live in the world before we start making sense of it."

Most academic philosophy in a nutshell: