WHARRGARBL @ WHARRGARBL @lemmy.world

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I agree, probably some people did downvote because of the “just working” remark. It also appears that many downvotes are an emotional reaction to feeling empathy for anyone associated with ICE. The problem here is twofold:

1. The McAllen station isn’t ICE, and commenters here don’t seem to understand - or won’t stop feeling outrage long enough to learn - that the objectives, the methods, and the general principles between ICE and Border Patrol are vastly different. It’s like insisting that Grand Canyon and Everglades are identical because they’re both governed under the national parks system.
2. Seeing the fediverse slide into Reddit hive mind is cringey. People here used to be more open to respectful discussion. A mention of potential humanity in a reviled federal department wouldn’t have been brigaded. On that note, I appreciate your response.

Perfect example of my point.

Judging by your downvotes, it looks like many people here neither know nor care that there is a world of difference between Border Patrol and ICE.

Not insane when you consider sheriff Bob fucking Norris is still in charge, even after siccing 6 of his nazi boys on a woman at a town hall meeting in February.

This piece of shit moved to Idaho after 20 years with the LA County Sheriff’s Department, where he finagled $150k annual disability, and has been drunk with power since he became sheriff in 2020.

https://www.kxly.com/news/no-evidence-of-investigation-into-kootenai-county-sheriff-norris-role-in-town-hall-incident/article_3a66d963-fc97-4f2c-a209-1a65f5203d82.html

Looking at the linked map, the raped states are:

• New Mexico
• Colorado
• Wyoming
• Montana
• Idaho
• Utah
• Arizona
• Nevada
• California
• Oregon
• Washington

If these 11 states were to secede, they would have a fiscal advantage because many of them give billions of dollars more in federal funding than the non-donor states receive.

They would also take with them all access to West Coast ports, as well as all western USA water rights including the Columbia River and the Colorado River. Of course, Mike Lee would need to be ejected. Preferably from a canon.

https://wilderness.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=821970f0212d46d7aa854718aac42310

It had launched 4 or 5 years before I joined, so I wasn’t really legacy. I came here to the fediverse when Christian announced the Apollo fuckery, and it was like leaving a collapsing pile of flaming trash to breathing fresh air with good people. Those /r/ stories don’t need to be here.

Reddit is a cesspit. The first time I posted a comment there ~ 15 years ago, someone answered by graphically describing how he would violently rape me.

Since 2017, Utah’s Mike Lee has been on a mission - this time not Mormon - to demolish National Monuments. He began in his own backyard, targeting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, for fossil fuel drilling. He’s been colluding with Trump for 8 years to hand over millions of acres of protected land to oil and gas.

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K

The protester was among tens of thousands of people who took to the streets for the demonstrations across Southern California and the rest of the country.

Tens of thousands? There were over FIVE MILLION protesters.

E OVER THIRTEEN MILLION protesters - thank you, Lucidlethargy

What would you do to hitler before the genocide if you knew what would happen?

While we all like to imagine that a time-traveling assassin could prevent WWII genocide and atrocities, the reality is that nazis didn’t appear in a vacuum. Do you believe that eliminating trump would end what’s happening in the US?

Video shows it gained what appears to be less than 200 feet after takeoff, and it looks like the pilot couldn’t get the nose up. It remained intact until it struck the medical building. The entire flight was just a few seconds.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/12/catastrophic-air-india-plane-crash-near-ahmedabad-what-we-know

Find your area here: https://www.nokings.org/#map

Public education in the US is a system of propaganda-loaded indoctrination designed to stifle critical thinking.

California, Oregon, and Washington are all donor states that contribute a combined ~$160 billion more to the federal government than they get back each year. They also make up $3.1 trillion of the GDP, they have all mainland west coast ports, and they’re major agricultural states. They’d honestly be better off if they banded together to Bugs Bunny off.

It’s 1800 miles from Yaviza, Panama to Oaxaca, Mexico, and these little munchers made it in 2 years.

Oaxaca to Brownsville, TX is 766 miles, so the US could see them arrive in a few months. Seems speedy to me.

It’s ok, everybody. The insurance companies are contracting with 3rd party companies and using AI to make decisions, so we’re all good.

We can thank Senator John “but he’s a good guy” McCain for cramming this fucking land transfer into a 2014 Defense Department spending measure, under the guise of national security. So glad we’re safe, now.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2014/12/12/congress-clears-arizona-copper-mine/20327087/

Or maybe you’re prescient. Roving bands of cocoa robbers who surround armored ice cream trucks is a plausible dystopian scenario in the US, and now I’ll be disappointed if I don’t get to see it.

That method is messed up. Just quarter, pop, and peel.

https://youtu.be/2tzmF9lEZi0