Recommend growing what you know is safe. The amount of “could kill you” mushrooms in the US is fairly low IIRC, but the amount of “this looks almost identical to an edible species but will make your day/week Not Fun” species is high enough in most places that I wouldn’t chance my luck on foraging.

There’s a reason El Salvador is outsourcing and staffing this place with foreign soldiers. Makes it easier to rotate people in and out, makes it easier to keep things hush in-country.

Middle Manager syndrome. There’s a lot of people out there who will happily do horrible, terrible things to their fellow humans so long as doing so allows them to exert a little bit of power.

This. To quote my favorite podcaster: mental illness isn’t your fault, but it IS your responsibility. Recognizing that you did wrong is an important first step, but you should definitely seek professional help and treatment if able.

Actually no, he doesn’t. Don’t give the fascists leverage by playing their game - they only believe in the words they say when it’s convenient. Trump already tried to counteract sovereign statehood in 2020 by forcing lockdowns to end early.

Even worse now. Remember, that DOGE whistleblower said he got a physical, taped threat on his door, with what appear to be drone photos of him walking his dog.

Imagine having to fight for your parental rights against a dude who has the Literal US President for a friend.

Not even that, that idea is driven, deep down, by seeing autistic people as less than human, or at least a less “valuable” human. Don’t mistake it - Moms of Autism types absolutely, deep down, hate their children.

TBH, our Constitution has lasted an awfully long time for a nation. Most other nations, in the same time, have gone through at least one, and sometimes a dozen governments in the same timeframe.

And the death camp is only a formality. If they thought they could get away with it, they’d have the police gun you down in the street and start issuing death warrants.

A department of random college kids with unfettered and unmonitored access, who have Marshals to force access to ANYWHERE THEY PLEASE, seems ripe for recruiting by an intelligence agency.

Their runaround is stupid. “Well it said we only need to FACILITATE, and he’s in Salvadorian custody, so all we can do is ASK them. Since Bukele doesn’t WANT to, we can’t really do much else, we’re just some backwater little regional power compared to the mighty El Salvador.”

Nah, these guys want a war. War is incredibly profitable, can last forever especially against a near-peer, and wartime presidents tend to get power expansions. They’re hoping this is the push they need to go full Palpatine and say “well we’re in a war, no elections until the war is done, also we’re taking a page from Lincoln and suspending habeas.”

They know. It is literally why they chose the name. Al Qaeda was arguably the most successful insurgency against the US since the VC, and these neo Nazis specifically seek to emulate their strategies of decentralized, religiously motivated terrorism.

No, because everyone below him is bucking for his seat.

Honestly I welcome the extermination. It might be better this way.

Yeah, I’m thinking they’ll do the “he attempted to escape/kill one of his guards in transit, we had to shoot him” thing - I feel like the entire entourage of armed guards will provide cover for the news networks to go “well he was incredibly violent, anyone could’ve seen this coming”.

There’s also the fact that the prisons are NOTABLY deadly. So if the administration winds up actually being forced to release a person, they can just have an “unfortunate accident” and now that’s ANOTHER court case to determine whether they have to ship the body back (which again, is easily handled by “well it’s in one of these mass graves.”)

Depends. Trump is still trying to bring DC police under DHS control.

The plan is “get the other countries to capitulate and offer me everything”. This is a classic Mafia power play - strangle out trade for everyone, show how much power you can exert with one stroke of a pen, and then walk it back as a flex. The message is “give me everything I demand or I can strangle trade with your country from the US” - this unfortunately only works when your diplomatic position is good enough to get OTHER countries to agree to the same thing, like with Cuba or Russia (sorta).

Road trains are too Australian.