This is the first stage.
ICE are funded up until the end of FY2029, so that they can act as Trump’s personal army should the election not go his way. They cannot be defunded by anyone. That gives them over 3 years to weed out the weak, harden the strong, and practice urban combat.
So while I’m glad that these crybabies couldn’t hack the path they chose, I can’t be glad about what it’s doing to the overall makeup of ICE.
They’re like 3-6 months behind current news.
I love telling language models the current news. They are blown away, every time. I give them a “how plausible is my novel?” analysis then when they say not at all, I tell them it’s real, then allow them to search the news. Loads of fun, in a “watching the apocalypse slowly unfold” kind of way.
“[…] I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,”
Don’t cry about it online. You’ve discovered your employer is a fucking monster (well done, it took you long enough), now quit.
Yeah, but your solution is what - hope that a large number of Americans stop being dumbasses by the next election?
Much better to assume that a certain percentage of the electorate are gullible idiots, and make sure that you play to that audience, because the other side certainly will.
A lot of Americans chose “something different” over “more of the current shit that is slowly killing us”.
Perhaps if they’d been offered another version of “something different” they wouldn’t have chosen Trump. Or maybe they would, because ultimately Trump embodies the real American dream for a lot of people.
Yes, that’s my point. Trump fucked the economy. Covid, including Trump’s response to it, fucked it further.
Neither of you are wrong. This isn’t going away until a lot of people do something different.
And a lot of people are in your situation - they don’t have the power to do anything, even if they wanted to.
The answer is just that before this goes away, it’s going to get a lot worse first.
By outlawing solidarity strikes, and several other kinds of strikes. It’s difficult to organise a general strike because almost every general strike is illegal.
Democrats slowly move things to the left while carefully following the law.
Are you looking at the same country I’m looking at? From the outside it looks like they’re a right wing party being dragged gradually rightwards by a far right wing party.
So yeah, I’ll keep talking shit about the Dems because they’re supposed to represent my views, since we live in a Representative Democracy.
Not really, they’re supposed to represent the views they said they’d represent. If you disagree you should have voted for one of the other options. The real issue is that this “democracy” only gives you two valid options: right and far right.
Covid fucked the economy, not Trump.
It’s hard to argue against because the first part is undeniably true. It’s just that the second bit is bullshit, and you can absolutely double-fuck an economy.
At least the Americans have something to resist.
Just so I understand properly, are you saying Americans are better than Canadians because your president is so appalling that he requires armed resistance?
Genuinely, I don’t understand what the argument is here. How is having “something to resist” a good thing?
I genuinely think there’s a chance that everyone is completely missing his motivation here.
Trump turns 80 on 14th June 2026. He wants someone, be it Denmark or the US Army, to give him a country for his birthday.
What better gift is there?
The population of Greenland is nearly 90% Inuit, you wouldn’t normally class them as “white”.
To paraphrase a cool movie: There is no winning move, except not to play
It depends what you count as winning. There are some who might consider “give yourself a country for your 80th birthday” the ultimate win, and not give much of a shit beyond that. As an example.
You can’t. They got given $77b. That is now their excess budget which they can carry forward for 4 years. You can, perhaps, claw some of it back, at least nominally. But getting that through the courts, and appeals, and the Supreme Court before it’s all spent? Not a chance.