from the you-said-it dept

this week, our winners on the insightful side are a comment-and-reply combo regarding Trump ordering the National Guard into California.In first place, it’s huskcummerbund wiht a question:

Hey, remember when Kristi Neom tweeted “If Joe Biden federalizes the National guard, that would be a direct attack on states’ rights. Over the last several years, we’ve seen Democrats try to take away our Freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech. We can’t let them take away our right to defend ourselves, too.”?

I wonder what she thinks about this? Will she choose Cognitive Dissonance or outright Hypocracy?

In second place, it’s Thad with the answer:

the same thing Republicans think about everything. “It’s okay when we do it.”

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Stephen T. Stone passing along a quote about protests and “violence”:

If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because “violence” is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as “peaceful” are, in reality, quiet violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and manny other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to “peace,” they are really talking about order. And when they refer to “peaceful protest,” they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence.It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.

– from let This Radicalize You: organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes

next, it’s That One Guy with a comment about the media’s role in manufacturing narratives:

‘City burned to ashes! Citizens still living there confused regarding lack of fire or rubble.’

The majority of the ‘mainstream’ media in the US has been so effectively collared and leashed at this point that they’ve turned into the US versions of Baghdad Bob, parroting whatever the regime tells them to no matter the lack of evidence or presence of evidence that contradicts their claims.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is MrWilson with a comment about Elon Musk’s strategy of demanding business from advertisers while threatening lawsuits:

It’s not “extortion.” It’s extra-legal aggressive negotiation with applied duress! Nothing to see here!

in second place, it’s a swift anonymous clapback reply:

“I always thought“

Facts not in evidence.

for editor’s choice on the funny side,we start out with another comment from MrWilsonthis time in reply to That One guy’s already-highlighted comment about media coverage of protestors:

Portland still hasn’t recovered since the George Floyd protests. You can’t walk a city block without seeing a building that was once not burned down.

it’s Nimrod with a silly but apt joke:

Republicans used to like to drink koolaid, but now they’re switching to ICE tea.

That’s all for this week, folks!