• @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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        Expiring contract? You got traded to El Salvador for a 3rd round pick in 2048 and cash considerations.

        Time to get a new agent for a real contract. Unions won them to begin with, which is why they’re a main target of every authoritarian regime.

      • Geetnerd
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        246 days ago

        It’s done.

        BUT… some of the more sane sympathizers are starting to realize the King is insane, and are pushing back. Not saying that’s going to save us peasants. but it’s a sign.

        • @hansolo@lemm.ee
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          186 days ago

          Yeah, the Republic fell a month ago with the first times they ignored the courts and some people seem to think they can give it TV style CPR and get right back to where we were on Jan 18 like nothing ever happened.

          Babies, the damage is done. And it’s not even over yet. Place your bets now on 2040 turning the corner back to stability. A lot will come to pass between now and then. That’s 15 years from now. We have passed a generational level of work to rebuild after only 80-some days.

          If you don’t already have an actionable plan for what to do next, with defined tripwires of when to do what, you’re very late to the party. Not too late, but late.

          Source: career in the developing world. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it only took one day to sack it it ruin.

  • @Jaysyn@lemmy.world
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    A hearing is part of deportation.

    Without Due Process it’s literally just human trafficking, which is a felony in every single state.

    • @TON618@lemmy.world
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      Without due process Trump would be in jail, so he’s very much aware if it’s importance.

      “Cannot give every person it wants to deport a trial” can be freely translated to “nobody would get deported”.

  • @andrewta@lemmy.world
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    So due process is no longer a thing.

    Got it.

    Hey Maga when Trump turns this on you and you piss and moan about no due process… My response will be this

    🖕

  • @cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    As someone outside the US, I was told that people were very keen on keeping lots of guns to react in case the government tried to pull this kind of shit. When’s the part where they react?

    I’m sarcastic; I know why it isn’t happening, and realistically it would be a terrible thing, but, you know, we’re living in the weirdest time.

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      Better make sure you always have your passport and birth certificate on you. And even then, that might not protect you.

      • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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        386 days ago

        Won’t work. That kind of evidence would be presented at a trial. For your average ICE agent, your documentation, and lack of criminal record makes it obvious that you have ties to a powerful street gang who is hiding your crimes.

        This is literally what ICE has argued in the past few months.

        • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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          266 days ago

          Yeah. They literally said that that the lack of evidence is actually the evidence, and that it is proof of a hyperintelligent criminal who has lead a life of crime without ever being caught. And that is why they have no criminal records… because they are criminals who haven’t been caught yet!

      • Venia Silente
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        126 days ago

        ICE agents don’t know nor care to know how to read, let alone how to ask for a passport.

        If you are approached suspiciously by men in black, have your gun at the ready.

      • @neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        76 days ago

        I haven been to the US since the end of 2019.

        I’m a citizen, but live abroad with my wife. I will be visiting my family this fall and I’m so happy my birth certificate is here. I’m totally bringing it with me just to be safe.

        • @DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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          56 days ago

          Is your wife from a background that could be remotely linked to something “bad” by crazy radicals?

          that basically boils down to being from any part of the world that constitutes as Brown, Socialist, Controlled by China, or Controlled by Europe, in the Radical’s view.

          • @neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            56 days ago

            She’s not joining me on the trip. We debated about it while Biden was still in office and mainly decided that I’d just be catching up with friends and family and her getting a visa and a plane ticket is too costly and time consuming.

            After current events, it was a no brainer.

      • Humanius
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        146 days ago

        You should probably also make sure to have a copy at home in case they take it from you

      • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        Better make sure you always have your passport and birth certificate on you.

        Won’t save you from an ICE that’s happy to tear them up and deport you anyway. This isn’t a legalist regime. Residential “legality” is just a talking point to justify totalitarianism.

        If you believe a piece of paper is going to be a shield against a bunch of thugs with guns, you’re going to be in for a hard and sharp awakening when people you know and love end up on the next round of deportation lists.

      • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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        56 days ago

        Better still, avoid travelling in the US and hope the Americans can reclaim their country from Trump and his merry band of fascists.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      386 days ago

      “THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

      ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

  • @brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    716 days ago

    The US CAN, you fucking asswipe. You don’t WANT to.

    You are like a petulant child, only caring about what you want, you narcissistic prick.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      286 days ago

      Holding trial for the millions of people Trump wants to deport runs the very real and obvious possibility that not all the judges will rubber-stamp the deportations. In fact, you might start running into judges who deliberately obstruct the process because they have a visceral disgust for the practice of mass deportation.

      Can’t have that, because the goal is to ethnically cleanse the country. Once Trump decides deporting people to El Salvadorian death camps is too difficult / expensive, we’re going to start seeing them spring up all over the interior of the country as well.

  • badbrainstorm
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    156 days ago

    Yeah, Elon and Bezos really need that money for important things. Like to fake sending plastic millionaires into space

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        Idk for sure. It just seemed off. Like, it seemed like a big PR stunt. No pressurized suits or helmets, for a bunch of old ass siliconed up ladies, with no astronaut training. No frizzy zero g hair. Video of one of them falling down in zero g… The video of it landing at like twenty five miles per hour, and kicking up a ton of dust and then immediately after the ground shot with no dust still in sight. Then they opened the door early and then shut it, so Bezos could come open it with his special tool. And the door opened inward, as opposed to outwards like every other spacecraft or airplane designed to withstand that kind of pressure… I don’t understand what the purpose of faking it would be, and it seems stupid and conspiratorial, but it all just reaked of bullshit

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          a bunch of old ass siliconed up ladies, with no astronaut training

          That’s because they’re not astronauts, they’re space tourists. You don’t need to train someone how to fly a rocket when the only machine they’re controlling is their seat belts.

          No pressurized suits or helmets

          That’s because the cabin remains pressurized and oxygenated.

          And the door opened inward, as opposed to outwards like every other spacecraft or airplane designed to withstand that kind of pressure

          That’s probably because they didn’t need to open the door in space, unlike almost every other spacecraft. It’s actually more secure to have it open inward when the pressure inside is higher than the pressure outside, since the pressure difference pushes the door closed rather than pushing it open.

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    196 days ago

    Lol.

    America the brave is sitting by while a fat, orange felon rapist shits on our Constitution and tanks our economy.