I don’t understand how people can be so comically naive that they think literally anyone in ICE is going to be stopped or significantly delayed by silly little abstract things like “laws” and “conventions” and “case precedent” and “the bill of rights”. They openly do not give a shit. They consider themselves outside of and above the law. ICE is inarguably a fascist paramilitary group now.

It’s ok, Collins is gonna let us know that Noem learned her lesson, and so there’s obviously nothing to worry about anymore

If we do end up annexing Greenland, I expect those fully automated motorized goalposts will be moving at great speed before the effort even kicks off.

The actual point of DOGE was to just backdoor and/or datadump as many government databases as possible and give them to Palantir. That’s it. That was the entire point. Everything else was simply theatrics.

I’m absolutely struggling with a sense of professional ennui as well. I feel simultaneously furious and horrified that so many engineers have so wantonly discarded any real ethical considerations from how they conduct themselves and what work they do. And I know why, too: because for the most part, it’s just become a constant rat-race to stay ahead of layoff waves. And the roof cause of that is the profit über alles mentality, exacerbated by fucking finance and business types running everything under the sun these days, and those people answer to VC and PE for the most part.

I don’t have a constructive answer for you. In fact, if you figure one out, let me know.

Tbh I’m a bit surprised he didn’t try this at some point last year

This is both frustratingly symbolic and meaningfully symbolic. More would be better. But even a single soldier is a serious and important symbol of commitment and literal “skin in the game”.

It is so unbelievably comically ironic

“Some”

In terms of escalation with Europe: next would be any European territory in the Caribbean / Gulf of Mexico (e.g. BVI’s; side note: no fucking way will I ever use the regime’s idiotic rename of that body of water), then any European holdings in South America (e.g. French Guiana), then straight up annexation of countries in central/South America. Then probably an attempt to sweep up any other extraterritorial European enclaves in other areas (Canary Islands? The Azores? Who knows?).

This is what “sphere of influence” politics means. This is the new reality.

Computer, end program.

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Computer, door.

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Fuck.

Fuck you, Newsom. Eat shit. You’re not the caliber of politician we need or want, and you never were.

Tbh the governor should deploy the MN national guard to discourage ICE from existing in the state

Sounds like someone’s not using the poop knife

Cruelty is pretty much the entire point of the American correctional system

What we need is for more people to read the anarchists handbook

I submit that you have no fucking clue what America is supposed to be, and that you’re just getting your jollies off of parroting jingoistic conservative dogma.

Teaching kids about gender identity and gender dysphoria is good and normal. Teaching people about those matters is absolutely not an attempt at indoctrination or “grooming” in any way, shape, or form. Education is not “grooming”.

I hope your children end up seeing your bigotry for what it is and reject it, because your whole psychology around this stuff is unrepentantly toxic. If anything, you’re the one trying to indoctrinate children here.

If you think that’s what was happening, you’ve completely lost the plot, mate. That’s absolutely not a real thing. You’re literally just parroting homophobic conservative reactionary fearmongering rhetoric.

Nobody is doing anything to your kids. What the actual fuck are you talking about.