A smart fellow once wrote an article, and later a book, chronicling this continuous American phenomenon. Something about cruelty being the intended outcome. Author's name escapes me at the moment. #TCITP
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
The news just since I left work:
-A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad
-Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis
Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
-A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad
-Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis
Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
October 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
A smart fellow once wrote an article, and later a book, chronicling this continuous American phenomenon. Something about cruelty being the intended outcome. Author's name escapes me at the moment. #TCITP
MTSW Thought is the skeleton key.
It has, I’m sorry, eclipsed The Cruelty is The Point in that regard (TCITP is still an invaluable banger, tho!)
@mtsw.bsky.social
It has, I’m sorry, eclipsed The Cruelty is The Point in that regard (TCITP is still an invaluable banger, tho!)
@mtsw.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
MTSW Thought is the skeleton key.
It has, I’m sorry, eclipsed The Cruelty is The Point in that regard (TCITP is still an invaluable banger, tho!)
@mtsw.bsky.social
It has, I’m sorry, eclipsed The Cruelty is The Point in that regard (TCITP is still an invaluable banger, tho!)
@mtsw.bsky.social
Sen. Kevin Cramer touts $16 billion in cuts to the transportation budget 12 hours after the deadliest plane crash in America in 24 years
January 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The exchange continued for a few more replies. It was pretty fine and civil.
Here’s the thing.
If your posts about #Resistance and #Fighting and #TCITP and #Justice and #SaveDemocracy and #Protest aren’t inclusive, I guarantee they’re alienating someone who needs you to fight FOR or WITH them.
Here’s the thing.
If your posts about #Resistance and #Fighting and #TCITP and #Justice and #SaveDemocracy and #Protest aren’t inclusive, I guarantee they’re alienating someone who needs you to fight FOR or WITH them.
April 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The exchange continued for a few more replies. It was pretty fine and civil.
Here’s the thing.
If your posts about #Resistance and #Fighting and #TCITP and #Justice and #SaveDemocracy and #Protest aren’t inclusive, I guarantee they’re alienating someone who needs you to fight FOR or WITH them.
Here’s the thing.
If your posts about #Resistance and #Fighting and #TCITP and #Justice and #SaveDemocracy and #Protest aren’t inclusive, I guarantee they’re alienating someone who needs you to fight FOR or WITH them.
The blasee use of “TCITP” shows exactly how well making everyone numb to the cruelty has been going.
as maxims go ‘the cruelty is the point’ seems to have far outlived any rhetorical use it once had
May 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The blasee use of “TCITP” shows exactly how well making everyone numb to the cruelty has been going.
@maddow.bsky.social is particularly guilty of this. I love her and get her point, but girl these are not the standup guys you've interviewed or been embedded with or whatever. These are fascists. They dgaf about best practices, ethics, soft skills, or fitness standards.
TCITP!!!
TCITP!!!
January 27, 2026 at 12:57 AM
@maddow.bsky.social is particularly guilty of this. I love her and get her point, but girl these are not the standup guys you've interviewed or been embedded with or whatever. These are fascists. They dgaf about best practices, ethics, soft skills, or fitness standards.
TCITP!!!
TCITP!!!
I wonder if Adam Serwer feels about 'TCITP' the way Nathan Rabin feels about 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl': namely, "deeply weird, if not downright ashamed, at having created a cliche that has been trotted out again and again in an infinite internet feedback loop." (PS this is not to blame Serwer)
I'm sorry for coining the phrase "Manic Pixie Dream Girl"
In 2007, I invented the term in a review. Then I watched in queasy disbelief as it seemed to take over pop culture
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May 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder if Adam Serwer feels about 'TCITP' the way Nathan Rabin feels about 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl': namely, "deeply weird, if not downright ashamed, at having created a cliche that has been trotted out again and again in an infinite internet feedback loop." (PS this is not to blame Serwer)
Here we go again. The GOP is passing the odious #BBB as quickly as possible, at off hours, so people won't have a chance to learn how truly #ugly it is. The 1% has paid for #Congress, and demands its #ROI. But, how many millions will #suffer so billionaires can accrue more? #Evil #TCITP #Resist
June 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Masked #ICE thugs are seizing children being treated for fatal illnesses. Doesn't it just make you proud to be an American?! #Resist #TCITP #FuckICE #EndDHS
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ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — have sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children und...
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June 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is happening in the streets of LA right now. An innocent young woman gets shot point blank by a nonlethal round fired by the #LAPD for walking up to them as she tried to get to her nearby home. #ThisIsJustWrong #Resist #TCITP #Nonviolence
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June 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is happening in the streets of LA right now. An innocent young woman gets shot point blank by a nonlethal round fired by the #LAPD for walking up to them as she tried to get to her nearby home. #ThisIsJustWrong #Resist #TCITP #Nonviolence
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I never expected the Federal government would be so evil, stupid, greedy, and cruel. The GOP is unconcerned about the harm it is doing to the future of the country, and the well-being of its people. They think they are insulated from consequences. We will change that. #Resist #TCITP #accountability
May 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I never expected the Federal government would be so evil, stupid, greedy, and cruel. The GOP is unconcerned about the harm it is doing to the future of the country, and the well-being of its people. They think they are insulated from consequences. We will change that. #Resist #TCITP #accountability
What?! The GOP tax plan raises taxes on the poor, and cuts them for the rich?! Who would have predicted that?! But, why the greed? How much is enough? #TCITP #Resist
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | Trump’s White House accidentally admitted the truth about its tax plan
Earlier this week the White House published evidence that the president’s “big, beautiful bill” hikes taxes on the poor to cut taxes for the rich.
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May 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
What?! The GOP tax plan raises taxes on the poor, and cuts them for the rich?! Who would have predicted that?! But, why the greed? How much is enough? #TCITP #Resist
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Every moment brings a new outrage. It's hard not to react to all of it. You can't. You'll exhaust yourself. You have to pick your fights! What are your core values? Acknowledge the rest. Put your head down, and keep organizing. Activating younger voters is priority #1! #Resist #TCITP
May 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If you had any doubts about the direction we're headed, please be assured that we are becoming a Fascist country. Mobs of uniformed thugs are roaming free to arrest people without due process and send to concentration camps in Rwanda. #Resist #ThisIsJustWrong #TCITP
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May 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
If you had any doubts about the direction we're headed, please be assured that we are becoming a Fascist country. Mobs of uniformed thugs are roaming free to arrest people without due process and send to concentration camps in Rwanda. #Resist #ThisIsJustWrong #TCITP
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You can't make this shit up. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to reopen #Alcatraz?! Its insane!
#TCITP #ThCrueltyIsThePoint
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#TCITP #ThCrueltyIsThePoint
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Trump Orders Reopening of Alcatraz—The ‘Prison of Hell’—to Jail the Most Ruthless and Violent Criminals in the U.S.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday, May 4, that he has ordered the reopening of Alcatraz, the island prison in San Francisco Bay that was shut down in
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May 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
You can't make this shit up. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to reopen #Alcatraz?! Its insane!
#TCITP #ThCrueltyIsThePoint
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#TCITP #ThCrueltyIsThePoint
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You can't make this shit up! Here, BLOTUS shows callous disregard for the American people. He is so utterly out of touch, it's painful to watch, let alone experience. #TrumpHatesYou #Resist #UnforcedError #IdiotInChief #TCITP
April 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
You can't make this shit up! Here, BLOTUS shows callous disregard for the American people. He is so utterly out of touch, it's painful to watch, let alone experience. #TrumpHatesYou #Resist #UnforcedError #IdiotInChief #TCITP
The individual outrages by this administration don't hit me like they used to. I've reached a threshold where each one no longer angers me. I expect them. The anger has turned into #resolve and #determination. We will stop this monster, and there will be a #reckoning. #Resist #Courage #TCITP
April 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The individual outrages by this administration don't hit me like they used to. I've reached a threshold where each one no longer angers me. I expect them. The anger has turned into #resolve and #determination. We will stop this monster, and there will be a #reckoning. #Resist #Courage #TCITP
I've been so conditioned by movies to expect secret police to wear uniforms, suits, or long leather coats. Ours are ICE agents wearing #Timberlands, #511Tactical gear, and #balaclavas. Unmarked vehicles. No IDs. No judicial warrants. #DueProcess. #Resist #Unconstitutional #TCITP
April 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I've been so conditioned by movies to expect secret police to wear uniforms, suits, or long leather coats. Ours are ICE agents wearing #Timberlands, #511Tactical gear, and #balaclavas. Unmarked vehicles. No IDs. No judicial warrants. #DueProcess. #Resist #Unconstitutional #TCITP
Is it me, or are both the frequency and amplitude of new outrages increasing? Arresting judges. Deporting two-year-olds without regard for the family. Destroying Medicare. Fascism is just not pleasant. #Resist #FuckFascism #TCITP #TheclCrueltyIsThePoint
April 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Is it me, or are both the frequency and amplitude of new outrages increasing? Arresting judges. Deporting two-year-olds without regard for the family. Destroying Medicare. Fascism is just not pleasant. #Resist #FuckFascism #TCITP #TheclCrueltyIsThePoint
Fair enough! Good on ya'! Do what you can. I'm sorry you have to worry. We're all in this together. #TCITP #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
April 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Fair enough! Good on ya'! Do what you can. I'm sorry you have to worry. We're all in this together. #TCITP #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
Leave it to XKCD to boil a situation down to its essence. Poignant. #Resist #DueProcess #ThisIsJustWrong #TCITP #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
April 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Leave it to XKCD to boil a situation down to its essence. Poignant. #Resist #DueProcess #ThisIsJustWrong #TCITP #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
This is what #Fascism looks like. No IDs. No warrants. No due process. Just the extrajudicial arrest of an innocent man, and threats to witnesses, all in a courthouse. #ThisIsJustWrong #FuckFascism #Resist #Courage #TCITP #TheCrueltyIsThePoint www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is what #Fascism looks like. No IDs. No warrants. No due process. Just the extrajudicial arrest of an innocent man, and threats to witnesses, all in a courthouse. #ThisIsJustWrong #FuckFascism #Resist #Courage #TCITP #TheCrueltyIsThePoint www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...