HermitBee

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[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 6 hours ago

Fair enough. I knew he didn't win the primary, so I thought he was perhaps as much "fuck dems" as the next person.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 3 points 8 hours ago

but if it had been a left-wing supporter going at Noem or Miller, then the left response would be...

Even assuming you're correct, all that does is show that there are dickheads all across the political spectrum.

I don't know if you're aware of the recent(ish) history of people squirting liquids into (especially Muslim) women's faces, but I fail to see how this is significantly different from running up and sticking a replica gun in her face.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Sanders (I-Vt.)

Doesn't that mean he's the independent senator(?) for Vermont?

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

We need to cut their funding.

You can't. They got given $77b. That is now their excess budget which they can carry forward for 4 years. You can, perhaps, claw some of it back, at least nominally. But getting that through the courts, and appeals, and the Supreme Court before it's all spent? Not a chance.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is the first stage.

ICE are funded up until the end of FY2029, so that they can act as Trump's personal army should the election not go his way. They cannot be defunded by anyone. That gives them over 3 years to weed out the weak, harden the strong, and practice urban combat.

So while I'm glad that these crybabies couldn't hack the path they chose, I can't be glad about what it's doing to the overall makeup of ICE.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

They're like 3-6 months behind current news.

I love telling language models the current news. They are blown away, every time. I give them a "how plausible is my novel?" analysis then when they say not at all, I tell them it's real, then allow them to search the news. Loads of fun, in a "watching the apocalypse slowly unfold" kind of way.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 17 points 3 days ago

“[...] I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,”

Don't cry about it online. You've discovered your employer is a fucking monster (well done, it took you long enough), now quit.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, but your solution is what - hope that a large number of Americans stop being dumbasses by the next election?

Much better to assume that a certain percentage of the electorate are gullible idiots, and make sure that you play to that audience, because the other side certainly will.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A lot of Americans chose "something different" over "more of the current shit that is slowly killing us".

Perhaps if they'd been offered another version of "something different" they wouldn't have chosen Trump. Or maybe they would, because ultimately Trump embodies the real American dream for a lot of people.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago

Yes, that's my point. Trump fucked the economy. Covid, including Trump's response to it, fucked it further.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

Neither of you are wrong. This isn't going away until a lot of people do something different.

And a lot of people are in your situation - they don't have the power to do anything, even if they wanted to.

The answer is just that before this goes away, it's going to get a lot worse first.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

By outlawing solidarity strikes, and several other kinds of strikes. It's difficult to organise a general strike because almost every general strike is illegal.

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