Update 2/5/26, 5:20 p.m. EST: The DOJ told 404 Media that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image.
Who knows if that’s really the case, but it wouldn’t really surprise me, either, knowing how weird some of the other pictures are.
I think that’s really the problem, the Democrats are actually multiple parties forced under a trenchcoat due to the electoral system. Unfortunately, the center (-right if you compare to other countries) is the wing that is in control at the moment, and that seriously has to change. Obama was more from the center-left wing of the party (yes, I know, that changed later on), and look how well he won. Yes, a lot of his policies got watered down, and he wasn’t without his faults, but it was still a move in the right direction, I’ll take the healthcare plan he got passed before the clusterfuck that was before it any day.
If you had a proper electoral system you wouldn’t have the Democrats as such but instead at least two parties that cover the ground Democrats cover today.
So yes, condemn the Democrats that aren’t doing shit. But don’t forget to give credit to the Democrats that are giving proper resistance.
I understand that perfectly well. It unfortunately doesn’t change the fact that he is distorting the facts.
I fully get that point, and it would be pretty neat if we managed to pull that through from a legislative standpoint. I just wish he would stick to the facts more. Essentially making the argument you make in your last sentence.
I watched the first 10-15 minutes of this and have to say, while I agree with him on principle, he’s either misinformed or exaggerating the anti-circumvention regulation. There are a number of exemptions in anti-circumvention laws in the US for personal use. How far this goes was made clear in court, Apple took the creators of an iOS jailbreak to court and lost, making it clear that jailbreaking is not illegal, even though it clearly circumvents the “protection” system in place. Similar applies to circumventing DRM for backup copies of media, for instance.
Of course, I would rather see no anti-circumvention legislation whatsoever, but the way he misportrays the situation makes me question his credibility.
Multiple reasons.
As is always the case when fascism, authoritarianism or similar takes over, things happen slowly, and there’s a reason for that: humans notice fast changes very quickly, but not necessarily slow changes. They didn’t start building these concentration camps yesterday. This has been going on for a while.
Because at least right now, there isn’t the stated goal of keeping people there, but just keeping them there in the intermediate term. We all know where this is going, but it does make it a little more difficult to use that term.
The Trump administration has a habit of suing the press. This has already had a chilling effect. See CBS, BBC, and I think ABC as well. They have decided that it does not make sense financially to fight it, and there are probably a number of lawyers much smarter than I who know what they’re talking about. And since most major news sources are profit-driven and public broadcasting is chronically underfunded, that’s all you get.
The word “concentration camp” often gets confused with the word “death camp”, and we have failed to properly differentiate. How often do you hear about the Nazi concentration camps where they killed people on an industrial scale. No, those were death camps (they had concentration camps as well). But the term has been used wrongly for so long that when people hear “concentration camp”, they think “death camp”, so calling it a concentration camp, while correct, could make a fair number of people think the wrong thing - as of now, there is no systematic extermination, and I hope we get a handle on this before it gets that far.