Friedrich Niche
@friedrichniche.bsky.social
God is dead. Authority reassigned
Imagine being a big enough pussy to make an online threat and then not even stand behind it like you’ll somehow get out of it 😂
February 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Imagine being a big enough pussy to make an online threat and then not even stand behind it like you’ll somehow get out of it 😂
If anyone has a child who is 16 or 17 - even if they don’t remember what it’s like when they were that age - is absolutely still a child. Arguing based on what they look like is EXACTLY the problem.
February 4, 2026 at 1:34 PM
If anyone has a child who is 16 or 17 - even if they don’t remember what it’s like when they were that age - is absolutely still a child. Arguing based on what they look like is EXACTLY the problem.
Everybody still trying to play by the rules of a dying game. This is life or death. Act like it.
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Everybody still trying to play by the rules of a dying game. This is life or death. Act like it.
It’s time to start making them scared
January 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
It’s time to start making them scared
I can understand your argument and it actually exacerbates my point. We let these become commonplace by not naming them for fear of “alarmism” and all we’ve done is give rise to making these established norms of our government.
January 8, 2026 at 5:00 AM
I can understand your argument and it actually exacerbates my point. We let these become commonplace by not naming them for fear of “alarmism” and all we’ve done is give rise to making these established norms of our government.
Grounding the discussion in what the law actually allows has to come before debating video interpretations or intent. Otherwise we’re just arguing opinions inside a frame designed to excuse violence.
January 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Grounding the discussion in what the law actually allows has to come before debating video interpretations or intent. Otherwise we’re just arguing opinions inside a frame designed to excuse violence.
“She should’ve complied” is not the law. “She was trying to leave” is not the law. We don’t allow officers to invent rules in real time and enforce them with bullets.
January 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
“She should’ve complied” is not the law. “She was trying to leave” is not the law. We don’t allow officers to invent rules in real time and enforce them with bullets.
…They do not get to manufacture a confrontation, block a civilian’s movement, and then claim lethal force because the person reacted to being trapped.
January 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
…They do not get to manufacture a confrontation, block a civilian’s movement, and then claim lethal force because the person reacted to being trapped.
… If we argue inside the frame offered by people defending this, we’ve already lost.
Even if every factual claim in their narrative were true, it still wouldn’t justify what happened. ICE does not have the same authority as local police…
Even if every factual claim in their narrative were true, it still wouldn’t justify what happened. ICE does not have the same authority as local police…
January 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
… If we argue inside the frame offered by people defending this, we’ve already lost.
Even if every factual claim in their narrative were true, it still wouldn’t justify what happened. ICE does not have the same authority as local police…
Even if every factual claim in their narrative were true, it still wouldn’t justify what happened. ICE does not have the same authority as local police…
Not to mention tu quoque fallacies address and solve nothing about valid criticism.
January 8, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Not to mention tu quoque fallacies address and solve nothing about valid criticism.
My point isn’t that this is unprecedented. It’s that when senior officials pre-emptively justify lethal force and disparage the victim before evidence review, that’s a democratic failure regardless of era. Naming that isn’t presentism, it’s accountability.
January 8, 2026 at 4:44 AM
My point isn’t that this is unprecedented. It’s that when senior officials pre-emptively justify lethal force and disparage the victim before evidence review, that’s a democratic failure regardless of era. Naming that isn’t presentism, it’s accountability.
Calling Nixon “in many ways liberal” doesn’t resolve the concern. Liberal policy outcomes don’t negate executive abuse of power. Kent State, Cambodia, the enemies list, and Watergate are precisely why Nixon is remembered as an example of executive overreach.
January 8, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Calling Nixon “in many ways liberal” doesn’t resolve the concern. Liberal policy outcomes don’t negate executive abuse of power. Kent State, Cambodia, the enemies list, and Watergate are precisely why Nixon is remembered as an example of executive overreach.
…it’s just a way to justify what you believe without having to explain it and try to make any counterpoints seem dumb in comparison.
January 8, 2026 at 4:43 AM
…it’s just a way to justify what you believe without having to explain it and try to make any counterpoints seem dumb in comparison.
…protection in different areas. Unless we have a foundational understanding of what “small government” means when we use it colloquially, all we’re doing is using it like we use “common sense,” which ironically means different things to different people and doesn’t explain anything…
January 8, 2026 at 4:43 AM
…protection in different areas. Unless we have a foundational understanding of what “small government” means when we use it colloquially, all we’re doing is using it like we use “common sense,” which ironically means different things to different people and doesn’t explain anything…
“Small government” doesn’t mean anything innately. I want small government when it comes to its intervention in my life unless it’s protecting my rights. But “small government conservatives” think some of those I would say are protections are “big government.” But then they want…
January 8, 2026 at 4:43 AM
“Small government” doesn’t mean anything innately. I want small government when it comes to its intervention in my life unless it’s protecting my rights. But “small government conservatives” think some of those I would say are protections are “big government.” But then they want…
By the way (I was born after Kent State, so my point still stands 😂), Kent State happening under Nixon isn’t a rebuttal. Nixon is the nearest modern analogue we have to executive authoritarianism in the U.S., which is exactly the concern being raised.
January 8, 2026 at 4:39 AM
By the way (I was born after Kent State, so my point still stands 😂), Kent State happening under Nixon isn’t a rebuttal. Nixon is the nearest modern analogue we have to executive authoritarianism in the U.S., which is exactly the concern being raised.
This isn’t an ideological claim. It’s an evidence-based claim based on repeated patterns of behavior and honestly pretty blatant admission from those in power. So I don’t understand the significance of waiting until it’s happened to be like “oh yeah, that’s what it was”.
January 8, 2026 at 4:36 AM
This isn’t an ideological claim. It’s an evidence-based claim based on repeated patterns of behavior and honestly pretty blatant admission from those in power. So I don’t understand the significance of waiting until it’s happened to be like “oh yeah, that’s what it was”.
Treating that as performative alarmism avoids engaging whether those behaviors are acceptable in a democracy at all.
January 8, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Treating that as performative alarmism avoids engaging whether those behaviors are acceptable in a democracy at all.
I’m not invoking protest nostalgia or declaring a completed end state. I’m pointing to specific, present-tense conduct: immediate state justification of lethal force, public disparagement of the victim, and delegitimization of dissent before evidence review.
January 8, 2026 at 4:35 AM
I’m not invoking protest nostalgia or declaring a completed end state. I’m pointing to specific, present-tense conduct: immediate state justification of lethal force, public disparagement of the victim, and delegitimization of dissent before evidence review.
…”everyone I don’t like is a Nazi?” And you don’t think that’s an even more dangerous game to play?
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
…”everyone I don’t like is a Nazi?” And you don’t think that’s an even more dangerous game to play?
So you don’t think it warrants alarmism until it’s already happened? You think it’s more important to argue about labeling it than to denote the clear transition?
You equate these things clearly happening in our government as most recently evidenced by what happened today as the same as…
You equate these things clearly happening in our government as most recently evidenced by what happened today as the same as…
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
So you don’t think it warrants alarmism until it’s already happened? You think it’s more important to argue about labeling it than to denote the clear transition?
You equate these things clearly happening in our government as most recently evidenced by what happened today as the same as…
You equate these things clearly happening in our government as most recently evidenced by what happened today as the same as…