“I’m not at fault, all I did was build Auschwitz!” Yes this is taken to absurdity, but the point is still there. You can’t do bad things and then expect not to be held to account for those decisions, just because it was a job you were getting paid for.

Leviathan on Netflix. Love the idea of tech culture vs monster culture, but the main chars were so grating, and had the philosophical reasoning of a 8 year old.

Such a waste of a premise.

Most of the current immigration laws are due to racist intent. In the 80s they didn’t like how many Mexicans were coming across the border each year to do farm work. The workers would come, stay while there was work to be had, and then return home. When new laws were enacted making it harder for workers to get across the border, there came a class of people that would sneak the workers across. And this came with a fee from the workers. Now it costs them more to get here, so they need to stay longer to make up the money. It became easier to just find a place to live in the US all year round.

The US needs the Mexican workers. To simultaneously demand help, and punish them for showing up to help is dumb, and I suspect fueled by racist thoughts. The immigrants boost our economy, help feed our population, and are less likely to break laws that citizens. There’s a whole (probably many) book about it, and it’s even in comic form. https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960

While we need to know who is coming across our border to prevent spys and terrorists, the current laws make those entrants easier to hide, as there is now a whole industry to sneak people across.

Cities are going to start looking like San Fransokyo (Big Hero 6) soon. Seems like an excellent idea though. If it really gets pursued, I wonder how it will interact with air travel, since I would imagine you would need no fly zones around these, at least at a certain height.

Friendly censorship of an inoffensive word. With the threat of being banned for flavor. SO friendly.

guarantees a regression to centrist parties

The US’s whole political system has been drifting rightward. Our center is more to the right than 20 years ago. So it does not matter if regression to center is happening as the center drifts into the fascist event horizon. Every possible “this is why it could never happen here” is possibly a single event away from being breached, then discarded. The US has had so many of our safety checks blown through, and the only people who can now prevent it have no desire to do so, because they’re on the same team.

I’m sure you will be vigilant, but it takes the whole country. And a person may be smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals.

Rule for thee, not for me!

Aren’t the royal sex workers? Isn’t their job to have sex and produce heirs so the cycle can continue? Country pimps them out to show up to events and smile, and then to go back home and continue the line.

Is the assumption here that the navies, of the various countries that have one, capture commerce ships to bring back to the home country? If so, I have some bad news for you. Hell, even in war they don’t capture said ships.

I’m with you, as Florida resident im so pissed I have to pay for this, but am very glad its not actually going to be operating anymore.

What’s Alan Tudyk doing in that film?

Yoink!

This is neither a Russian or Soviet prosecutor. He didn’t ask about US prosecutors (which has a lot of terrible ones I’m sure).

There’s not a god, because he’s lived this long. But I pray to god he dies soon, ideally while I’m typing this.

I would argue violence/force is very christian. There’s a reason it took over Europe, and in later centuries it sought the rest of the world.

Yes every single lawyer in the US is corrupt… the level of delusion necessary to actually believe that is true is unfathomable to me.

And im not sea lining, I’m saying you’re flat wrong. I’m not giving the side opposite yours the benefit of the doubt, it is the correct position.

This is false, if there was evidence it would be in court. Every licensed lawyer would be filing suit. The fact there is no suit tells you there is no actual evidence.

There is not a ton of evidence, there are rumors and conjecture. I say that wishing there was proof so many people didn’t actually elect him.

I think it also somewhat closely matched a lot of the clothing being worn at the time too.

I saw you hadn’t been asked in a while, had to give you the opportunity.