rpaxton.bsky.social
Trees, numbers, wires, stories, moons near and far, humanist Pagan, blue voter, married, Wisconsinite. Makes sparky rocks think.
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I will never understand why so many rejoice at *hurting* people, in as many petty little ways as their power allows.
That's the part I can't forgive on the part of Trump voters: they knew this, they cheered it, and they're pleased to this day.
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He's rank enough without us outsiders piling on.
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Even more so with Oath Keepers - 2/3 of them are ex-military or LEO.
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If it hasn't been, it surely will be now.
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It's plausible that at least some of the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers etc pardoned by Trump have either been directly hired by ICE or are subcontractors. The rag-tag mix of clothing & gear suggest they're at least irregulars.
No proof, just vibes. Vibes go a long way here on the interwebs.
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I thought the Iraq invasion debate would be the dumbest political moment of my lifetime, because nobody could possibly assemble an administration with more losers and maniacs than GWB did.
The only real difference is the Trump admin has *no* quality people working for it.
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MN AG Ellison announced 2nd-degree murder charges among others, and is seeking a grand jury indictment for 1st-degree murder. MN does that a little weirdly.
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This poll pays out points which can be accumulated and disbursed in gift cards. There may be a different set of biases.
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Do you want entire crowds of protesters shining lasers at anything flying overhead? This is how you get entire crowds of protesters shining lasers at anything flying overhead.
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Because it saves me from doing that in the winter. Safety!
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Oh. *That's* why he waved in a group of white South African refugees last week out of nowhere.
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Mmm, JET databases.
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Saw a thing recently to the effect of "LA can handle 1 10,000 person rally but not 10 1,000 rallies". You absorb all the resources and energy - could think of it as a DOS attack on the executive branch.
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I'm not a coder, I'm a sysadmin who must occasionally write "good enough" code under pressure. AI is *perfect* for that -- "hey machine, I want *this* to happen, and you can translate that into Python for that other machine over there."
Machines for machine audiences, humans for human audiences.
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Once again: who determines who a foreign terrorist is?
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Oh I have - but a version that doesn't have a goofy little ifunny.co watermark like yours does.
That still doesn't answer the underlying problem: the President is not a monarch, and it's gross to see you licking his boot. Don't know when Republicans got so goddamn servile, honestly...
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Tell me this: who gets to declare someone a "foreign terrorist"? And why should anyone believe them without review, let alone ship them to another country?
This is America. We don't do things that way, for good reason.
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Sure. But you have to get it right, and for that you need judicial review. Otherwise, the citizenship status of ANYBODY is whatever the nearest ICE agent says it is.
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Start over, bearing renewed generosity of spirit and vitality of imagination, that we can figure out how to build anew with every willing hand. (4/4)
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Start over, having reckoned honestly and directly with our history of breaking families extending back to slavery times, make reparations, and resolve to do better. (3/4)
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Start over with the principles that no person is illegal, that those who seek refuge are our brothers and sisters, and that America remembers how to be gracious and hospitable. (2/4)
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I wonder what future generations of service academy students will make of what's happening today.
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Yes, freakishly so and I don't understand how.
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US citizens elevated that shitty human being *twice*; why should we get the benefit of the doubt that it's just trolling?
I've voted and agitated and donated against all this, and I'm sorry things got this way.
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I was hoping nobody would ever need these again, but...