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Only if he stepped well outside what he was supposed to be doing, and looked at and/or had his goons look at a lot of classified information that they had neither the security clearance, nor the need to know to access.

So in short, yes.

Oddly when it came time to negotiations, they somehow realized actually calling yourself a Decepticon, was not a good name for inspiring trust.

Worse....

Look I can name 3 products that are cheaper today than they were in 2025... Didn't you see that walmarts thanksgiving bundle was a few bucks less than before, and they only had to downsize everything, give half as much food, and replace name brands with store brands. Your just cherry picking by talking about the 90% of things that are more expensive, and how much your total grocery bill is. Also it's all Biden's fault inflation skyrocketed under him, and when I said I'd fix it on day 1, I meant day 1 of year 3.

Plus all that tarrif money is going to trickle down to you any minute now... we're just racking in so much money from the tarrifs they don't know what to do with it.

Amazing how much more consistant they never miss to redact people listed as co-conspirators... but so frequently miss the one thing they are actually supposed to be redacting

For once it's time to root for him... not to pull off the escape act.

I mean I'm not going to disagree that a blanket all old must go all young must stay approach. Obviously trading Bernie Sanders for Rick Santorum would not be a good move.

That being said what does need to be dealt with is incumbancy bias as a whole. IE no matter how shitty they've been, the effect is over and over again keep the same guy regardless of how good or bad he is until he chooses to retire or drops dead.

The approach should be "replace the people who haven't been looking out for their people".

While I can see even being an agent and enforcer... it's possible to be a good guy in desperate situation, no different than how I can see someone might turn to a mobster or gangster that way. Hell even the "If I don't do it, someone worse will take the job, I can at least do it with as much compasion as the job allows".

Those excuses kind of go out the window though when they start shooting a prone, disarmed, pepper sprayed guy. I can hate the organization, and note it has horrible training. Being desperate enough to join ice is one thing... however you'd think that would lead to being as non horrible as possible in the job. As not every ice incident leads to a shooting, it's still fair to say the ice agents that do shoot peaceful protestors are clearly the worse of the worse.

I guess my point is federated services, at least prior to a world where they become mainstream, are only particularly good if

1. You have a group of people all willing to use them together (IE Matrix, Friendster etc...), Join as a group don't expect to find other specific individuals.

2. If you do want to meet people, you are looking for pretty broad categories encompass millions. IE on lemmy you can certainly find an anime community, you won't find an active jujitsu kaisen community.

Anyway so my point on things like Dating, Linked In etc.... those topics are likely to be the last to have a hope in the federation, because their services on their own, require users, but more importantly those users have to be localized (IE dating sites need, both a high volume of users, and those users need to be in close geographical proximity, and have some reasonable male to female ratio, and then have some level of common interests). A linked in needs.. job seekers, and companies/head hunters. Of which you can't expect companies to put in resources without a large userbase... and you can't expect the userbase to grow without company usage.

Is there even really a function for linkedin without... well what it is? The last people to adopt new and open source tech are... corporate executives, and to my knowledge the whole point of linked in is, a psudo job hunting web page, with some social media pages as a secondary (of which people are only going to be posting "work hard" and "I work hard" kind of messages because... well they'd never post something that might make them less attractive to employers.

I guess the point is, what's the use of an open non corporate controlled linked in? I can convince a handful of friends to maybe join a facebook alternative to make it useful, Lemmy certainly is an ok reddit alternative, at least for the equivelant of bigish communities, and mid sized tech communities.

Things I don't see working in federation, are things that you are looking for... well people that aren't going to switch for you... and most importantly people geographically close to you. Companies aren't going to use their HR members time searching for people on a niche career site, dating sites are likely lost causes because... well no matter how bad the sites are... a dating site where most people are 300 miles away from the nearest compatible person isn't going to be of much use, and job seekers don't have the luxury of moving before the companies they want to work for go.

Honestly I somehow picture this spinning in 2 directions.

Maga's going to find a way to claim illegal immigrants infiltrated ICE, and that's the reason why there's violence now... so we need more ICE to deal with Illegals.

I wouldn't say that... there are indeed scams out there that aren't related to trump... at least not until the scammer gets caught and trump pardons him.

So would be more accurate to say on the ven diagram, the trump circle is completely inside of the scams circle, (though the scams circle is certainly bigger than the trump one).

Pretty sure the flow chart for identifying scams goes.

"Is trump in the name?" With yes leading to "it's a scam"