It’s worth looking at the framing of this. CNN asked, “Would you (favor) or (oppose) the U.S. attempting to take control of Greenland?” A poll from 4 days early found, when specifically asked about taking over Greenland by force, found it was a 86% support, 9% oppose.

Trump has made several bids to buy Greenland, and I think most of the support in this poll is for that option. I think the majority of Americans really don’t believe he’ll send the military to Greenland and destroy the NATO alliance. They think this is a negotiating tactic, and they are seriously mistaken.

Yes, I seem to recall some kerfuffle between LA citizens and their local authorities over a fellow named Rodney King. If I remember right, things got pretty rowdy

I grew up in NYC, live in Boston now. I would say that New Yorkers are rude, impatient, and short-tempered. Bostonians are mean, with a deep-seated rage that’s always threatening to burst to the surface. I don’t know much about Minneapolis, but if they’re anything like the midwesterners I’ve known, they’re kind, polite, and helpful folks. If a large-scale ICE operation provokes that kind of reaction from them, they are not prepared for what they will receive in the Northeast.

He can’t pardon them for state crimes, only federal.

That’s not what the special elections are showing. In last years special elections, Democrats have gained, on average, 14 points in districts that Trump won. Miami elected a Democratic mayor for the first time in 30 years. At the beginning of 2025, people were wondering if Republicans could hold on to the House. In 2026, they’re speculating on whether or not Democrats will retake the Senate.

And this is all happening while Democrats have hit historically low approval ratings. Only 18% of voters approve of the job they’re doing in Congress, including -6% approval in their own party. And still, voters want Democrats in charge of Congress, 47% to 43%. People hate Democrats more than they have ever hated Democrats in the history of Democrats, and they are still hate Trump more.

LOL, no. As I already said in this thread:

Trump is increasingly unresponsive to polling, even within his base, and it seems like the Pentagon really is planning an invasion. It would fracture his own MAGA movement, completely destroy NATO, make America a global pariah, and potentially start WWIII, but it seems he is seriously considering it.

Approval isn’t changing Trump’s actions, and he’s actively talking about canceling the midterms (though using his ICE for voter suppression is more likely). The only hope is that enough neocons tell him that they’ll support impeachment if he fucks up NATO.

They’ve done two big, “operations,” in New York, and both of them failed spectacularly and immediately. The population density of that city basically means, no matter where they show up, within minutes there will be several dozen angry people chasing them down the street. They’re getting constant harassment in fucking Minneapolis, they’ve got no hope of getting anything done in NYC.

Maybe. MAGA is fracturing right now. Withholding the Epstien files really was too much for some of them, and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s defection gave a lot of them permission to question and criticize him. Invading an ally for no reason might actually break through to good chunk of the average red hats.

I read an article that claimed some top Generals are trying to distract him with an invasion of Iran (which is also really, really bad). Traditional neocons certainly don’t want this, though; they don’t want to throw away 80 years of military alliances. Still, if the president tells the Pentagon, “make me a Greenland invasion plan,” they’re gonna do it.

Well, I hate to throw cold water on that comfort, but I’m not sure the numbers matter. Trump is increasingly unresponsive to polling, even within his base, and it seems like the Pentagon really is planning an invasion. It would fracture his own MAGA movement, completely destroy NATO, make America a global pariah, and potentially start WWIII, but it seems he is seriously considering it.

I really want to stress how deeply unpopular this is in the U.S. The MAGA movement is about 30% of the electorate, so you can generally expect that even the dumbest, most insane Trump decisions have a floor of 30% approval. 9% of Americans support this, 86% oppose it. At minimum, two-thirds of Trump’s most rabid, loyal followers are against this.

Sure, ICE should be scared that someone might kill them, but a more interesting question is if a prosecutor could find 12 people in an ICE-occupied city that would convict someone of that killing.

“It’s hard to pretend anymore,” is a strong statement given his profession.

I’m not in love with Bluesky, but they’re not censoring the video. I was able to watch it on the link above, I just had to click passed a graphic warning content.

No, we’re way passed this point. They are going to enact violence no matter how well behaved you are. The only hope is to show up in massive numbers and remind them how many more of us there are.

Lol shut up dumb ass. Most Reddit-ass thing you can do is jump into someone’s comments, annoy the shit of them for days, then go, “LOL, I ain’t reading all that.” Fucking moron.

Ok, so nearly all of them are in their 50s.

First of all, no dipshit, my comments are not written by AI. I actually have a pretty distinct, idiosyncratic writing style that is very different from the slop an LLM spews out. I guess you just think that people that can write in complete sentences must be using AI.

Second, again, the case was not, “thrown out,” it was, “dropped.” Those are actually different words, and different words mean different things, you see.

Third, you want to talk about cherry-picking? What’s the full Presson quote? What did she say just before the part you picked out?

“I would like to emphasise that the injured party has submitted a credible and reliable version of events. Her statements have been coherent, extensive and detailed; however, my overall assessment is that the evidential situation has been weakened to such an extent that that there is no longer any reason to continue the investigation,” says Eva-Marie Persson, Deputy Director of Public Prosecution.

The full prosecutor’s office statement even says exactly what I said about the age of the evidence:

A number of investigative measures have been conducted since May, largely in the form of witness interviews. The preliminary investigation has now been discontinued, the motive for which is that the evidence has weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question.

They dropped the charges in 2017 because they gave up on getting extradition. They reopened the case in 2019 when Assange left the Ecuadorian embassy, and after reviewing their evidence, which was mostly testimony from almost a decade ago, they decided it had become too weak to get a conviction. It’s not that hard to understand unless you don’t want to understand it (or you’re just not very smart).

Anyway, you can call me an, “imperialist nazi apologist,” if it makes you feel better about being called a rape apologist, but if you go through the comments again, you’ll actually notice that I don’t make any defense of the American empire. You, however, are making a lot of excuses for a rapist!

I think they’re all at least fifty by now. I’m in the middle of the millennial years and I’m pushing 40.

In my experience, online gen xers are the first ones to say, “Actually, if you were a serious person, you’d understand that Democrats can’t do [wildly popular thing their base is begging them to do] because of [stupid, made up reason], and that [Democratic leader’s] decision to [do incredibly unpopular thing the donors want] is a brilliant strategy.”