I don't have the right words here, cauese sometimes I need time to find them, but like

its like a group of mavericks

a fair chunk of these protests are protesting threats that
A) They created
B) don't exist

you can't have such a thing

would false flag be a good term?

pointless would be a good term

lmao

was listening to a discussion podcast yesterday

two guys reacted to an article telling the left to be more polite with opposing viewpoints and it was kinda cancery to hear them both

one guy was on about how he's from trump territory and as *an gay* he's against this fascist whtie supremacest hurdur

and the other was also *an gay* who teaches his male students that they're part of the oppressive system

it was a real shenanigan

"It's hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead,
This moment the dawn of humanity,
The last ride of the day"

good podcast overall, though. the idea of the cast is to get two people in an argument (or sometimes, the host vs one of his haters) and talk it out

it's called Conversations with people who Hate me

it's like... bringing the comment section to an actual verbal discussion

and how doing that magically seems to make everyone less of a reactionary fuckwad

`Imagine My Shock`

lmao

the host's a bit irritating sometimes though

he's a flamboyant *le gay* voice actor and activist

its almost like, when you treat people as people, they react like people!

but he's super good at getting to the meat of each participant's issues

actually, turns out he did a ted talk about what he does

https://youtu.be/waVUm5bhLbg

He's also a voice actor in the podcast Welcome to night Vale

he's a bit of an annoying LGBT-leftie "look at my activism go" guy but he's got heart

reminds me of a podcast i recently listened to

the podcast is Science Vs and the topic was immigration

did a decent job of breaking down common complaints of immigration and trying to see if there was data to back them up.

seemed like half of them where "not entirely wrong but not exactly right either" kind of deal, which is kinda to be expected. truth is usually closer to the middle.

Fun

most interesting one was that people who do immigrate here, do cost the US more in terms of welfare, but generally their children will end up putting more into the system in terms of taxes and stuff than most Americans

that make sense!

you get raised with the "this is a country we're privleged to be in, work hard motherfucker"

so over time it is a net positive. but thats like an 18 years or so delay

I've never met an immigrant, first or second generation, who wasn't a boss worker

so really, the argument that they are taking more than giving is not wrong in the slightest.

its just that there is a return on investment

which leads to trying to find a sustainable balance

I have