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
Here’s to hoping there’s a causal link between the invite and one’s eventual fate.
Risky move, considering how Kristi Noem treats dogs
That was very fucking serious, but cancelling federal legislative elections is absolutely a very fucking serious escalation in a different axis.
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.
Tbh, Macron isn’t helping things at all by stiff-arming the left wing of French politics.
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
I’ll believe it when I see it. Also, he’ll just do it anyways, so I’ll believe it when something occurs to actually and concretely block that from happening. Because Congress has as much backbone as a sea cucumber at this point.
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
Indeed - it’s a psychology that watches Starship Troopers, or plays Helldivers II, and unironically chants the over-the-top, jingoistic slogans present therein, completely unaware that the slogans as well as large parts of the game/movie itself is pointed satire.
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.
Seriously - I never understood why it got so popular, especially considering performance and hardware issues it had (remember when it was actually bricking components in people’s machines for a while after it was released?)