Biden's brain was melting live on stage and it was still considered extremely risky to call for him to step aside. Schumer is just bad at his job and failing to meet the moment. There's no way Hogg comes away better both by publicly declaring his enemies list and including one of the most powerful members of the party on it.
They've been told for years that if they let their guard down or give an inch of kindness they're going to be killed by dangerous minority criminals, and that just made them more violent. They ride around in military surplus vehicles like they're going to be dodging mortar fire and regularly kill unarmed people because they "feared for their lives". They'd need to be experiencing significant and sustained violence before it becomes anything but validating their worldview.
We appreciate the perspective. I would say my concern is that there won't be much of a cost for going along and abusing citizens. There are a lot of voices on the left of our political spectrum that are very much stuck in the "law and order" and "back the blue" mindset, so even when those forces are clearly contributing to the degradation of orderly society, no one is willing to put pressure on them from above. And pressure from below is met with extreme force that's then propagandized by our news media to be a justified reaction and that anything less than full compliance with law enforcement is inherently illegitimate.
The cops are mostly already aligned with the American right, they've been training to be "warriors" for decades, and the left of center power centers never want to criticize them. Some of them got tired during BLM and would whine about not being appreciated enough, but that's mostly still just a social consequence, and they have so so many voices calling them heroes and encouraging them to be even worse.
Yeah, there's a problem in the assumption that this is a decision for Trump to make and that everyone under the executive just needs to wait for a decision from above about whether court orders should be obeyed. When the courts say an act was illegal, the default stance for a public employee should be to implement that instruction.
Friday at noon Gavin Newsome is their commander, whether or not Trump agrees. If they're going to refuse that, that's the guard itself deciding to act illegally, not a choice by Trump that they just have to follow.
Greenland isn't a particularly hard place to conquer. It's a tiny population and we literally already have military there. The challenge isn't tactical, it's diplomatic. It'd be a lot more meaningful to ask whether we have contingencies for war with Europe or losing all our bases there.
These aren't undocumented workers. These are the ones "doing it right".
Adding to Scardina’s annoyance, the men had valid work permits and pending asylum applications, according to their attorney Regilucia Smith. “They are legally here,” she said. “Valid work permit, not even close to expired… again, no criminal records—not here, not in Nicaragua.”
Or was just semi-famous in general. Some peon caught up in their shitty AI/shitty moderators wouldn't generate news stories or have reach elsewhere. Certainly there are plenty of examples of just how bad FB moderation is, with reviews rarely fixing the problem.
Yeah, there's a critical difference with law enforcement wearing masks. Antifa, and I guess very theoretically the Nazis, wear masks because they are private citizens opposing structures of power. Police aren't. The only people they have to fear is the public, which is who they're supposed to be working for.
Plus, it's not just their faces they're hiding. They also aren't giving badge numbers or any other way for the public to lodge a complaint against a bad agent. That's not a system of justice, it's a political gang.
I'm not convinced it would lead to civil war. It could, but it still takes a lot of manufacturing consent for us to go to war with random brown countries. It'd be no easy task to convince the US population and military we needed to start dropping bombs on Hollywood. Soldiers would desert and other states would think about joining.
When it gets to the level of a component piece of a country leaving said country, it doesn't really matter what the law is. The South isn't part of the US because it was decided that secession was illegal, they're there because they got their ass beaten.
Biden's brain was melting live on stage and it was still considered extremely risky to call for him to step aside. Schumer is just bad at his job and failing to meet the moment. There's no way Hogg comes away better both by publicly declaring his enemies list and including one of the most powerful members of the party on it.