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This is probably one of the top ten most incredibly based pictures ever. I love it. Thank you for brightening my day, OP
Yeah, same thing with House Hunters in the US. Those made really good memes. "Stacy, 23, who is a professional whistler, and her husband, Joe, 25, a part time stick weigher, are looking for a more relaxed pace and a smaller, cozier home. Their budget is 7 million, and they're looking for no less than 3,000 sq meters"
Because laws are toothless when not enforced, and guess who controls all the levers of enforcement currently?
Dude, I'm just dead fucking tired of the republicans having like a three seat lead which means that they've got an unstoppable majority to vote for pouring orphans into the shredder just for shits and giggles, but then democrats are one seat shy of a supermajority and it's just excuse after excuse after excuse why we couldn't get the most boring dollar store version of a left wing policy passed. "Oh, well, Kristen Sinema kicked my ice cream out of my hand :(", "fox news is gonna be real upset, guys", "okay, but what if we met the republicans halfway with their counter proposal of 'go fucking kill yourself'?"
… why is that particular bill a problem?
It's like if DMCA fell into that same chemical vat that made the Joker. What the bill says it's for seems harmless enough, but basically it opens the door for anyone to threaten any platform over almost any content they don't like.
According to congress.gov, it specifically covers:
- an adult subject where publication is intended to cause or does cause harm to the subject, and where the depiction was published without the subject’s consent or, in the case of an authentic depiction, was created or obtained under circumstances where the adult had a reasonable expectation of privacy; *
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/146
So, here's the problem, the text of the bill defines the publication loosely enough that a political cartoon about Trump could plausibly get hit by the TAKE IT DOWN act, because he's an adult subject, the publication is arguably causing him harm, and it was published without his consent.
Wait, what are you saying Biden should have done?
The moment he knew Trump, the guy he campaigned against as being a dangerous fascist, won the election, he should have started executive ordering the tools of fascism dismantled immediately. Order ICE dismantled or severely dismantled or furloughed, order the NSA mass surveillance program put on pause or dismantled or furloughed, and if the SCOTUS deems the EOs junk, then the SCOTUS does that, fine, but he could have at least tried to take these tools off the table instead of just trying to shield him and his.
That man is a headache given physical form.
We're not asking if it's true because it doesn't fucking matter. That's up to a court and a jury, which Abrego Garcia never went in front of.
Also, please tell me you're not asking if the ms paint arial black 12 pt font letters are really on his hands. If you are, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
Shut up. Just... There is no way anybody is that stupid. Please, for my own sanity, let this be bullshit. It's bullshit, right?
Quite a bit, mostly because I'm either doing it to challenge myself, or because I think "it'll only take a second, getting the calculator out will just slow me down" (though I'm usually wrong lol)
Calmatters has covered it pretty well. There's been more raids, but this was the first article on it that I could find for you. https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/
A justice recently issued an injunction against them just scooping up brown people first and finding out if they're here illegally or criminals later, but IIRC they went ahead and ignored that and did another raid.
E: more recent article https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/
FTA:
After the January sweep, the man who led it, Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino, said his agents specifically targeted people with criminal and immigration histories. However, a CalMatters investigation revealed that the Border Patrol had no criminal or immigration history on 77 of the 78 people it arrested.
The court also ordered the Border Patrol to document every stop and provide reports within 60 days. During oral arguments on Monday, the government attorney said doing so would be burdensome to Border Patrol agents. Judge Thurston rebuked the government, saying: “They have to make a report for every arrest, not sure what the burden is.”
According to sworn declarations filed in court by those detained, Border Patrol agents slashed tires, yanked people out of trucks, threw people to the ground, and called farmworkers “Mexican bitches.”
Well, now I know for sure that you're not in that state.
Because they got U out
Also, the Spanish named it "Florida", which means "flowered", root word "flor" for "flower". Likewise, Nevada means "covered in snow", root word "nieve" for "snow".
Exactly how much arguing with people on Lemmy do you do that you find it too tiresome to do it yourself, but rather than just not engaging, you have a machine do it for you? Tbh, sounds like some shit a troll factory would do.
I'm going to disregard that first sentence because you're explaining what they do, not giving good reasons for why they exist. In the second sentence, you indicated the principles that their existence is supposedly rooted in, but still fail to provide a good reason. Now, the third sentence: How do they ensure national security and public safety? Is there meaningful, demonstrable, or statistically significant evidence that this is the case, or are you taking it at face value to be the truth?
Well, they're not entirely wrong. The participants should, of course, be accountable, but not exclusively the direct participants. After World War II, we did hold those leaders to account, which is a history lesson that Merrick Garland apparently missed.
BRO SHE RESIGNED?! GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK.
Same, most people assume I'm being a crazy person and I'm about to go off about some sovcit shit or "the moon is a NASA projector they lost control of in 1962!" Or something.
I'm in Cali, I want to believe that you're right, but they've been going up and down the central valley black bagging brown people in home Depot parking lots.
What good reasons?
I was going to be a contentious little shit right up until that last paragraph. 100% agreed on that front. I don't care if how you got there is different from me, let's get this shit done.
I do. As such, I find it mystifying that with such a narrow lead in Congress, the republicans are shredding the constitution with no meaningful resistance. There is no supermajority in the legislature today, and yet the TAKE IT DOWN act sailed through with zero issues, and, in fact, unanimous democratic support. Don't tell me that Biden was too worried about convention, because he issued pre-emptive pardons for his staff and family; he was worried enough about fascism to bend the rules for him and his, just not worried enough about it to do the same for the rest of us.