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He got zapped with a taser, so much worse than just his ears. Those things kill a modest fraction of the people who are electrocuted with them
They’re not being shipped to El Salvador with no recourse to the US courts though, which is what’s starting to happen.
US policing is already brutal, but is in theory somewhat constrained by the legal system. What’s going on is tossing out those few, imperfect constraints
Yes, because so far it’s limited in scale and targeted at non-citizens. Republicans are aiming to change that, but have not yet
Cornell had the attack on them happen at the same time as Harvard. They’re filing a lawsuit and did a similar website redesign as Harvard in the past few days. This implies a coordinated response
Yeah. A few states don’t have an official residence for the governor, but I think almost all do.
What kind of cargo release do you recommend for water balloons?
The Apple thing happened after the policy changes that the above post was about though.
In practice, what I’ve seen people do is to use large crowds. I haven’t yet seen any overt use of guns for that kind of defense.
That’s remarkably hard to do in any kind of reliable way. ICE snatches are fast, and the odds of being there with a gun and recognizing what’s going on are low. The odds of shooting somebody by mistake are high.
To date things like handing out red cards has been far more effective
That too. I think it’s a pretty long list, and I don’t claim to have any deep insight into the order.
If it comes down to that, we’ve already lost.
Right now, I’d advise people to do as much outreach as possible to people you know. If you’re on commercial social media, post a screenshot, put the link in a comment. Send a DM. Put up stickers.
Building the level of support that would be necessary to win a revolution likely makes nonviolent paths such as impeachment possible.
The guns are to prevent violent suppression of that public support. Not as a first choice.
Funny thing is the criteria they talk about would impact Melania Trump and Elon Musk, both of whom became citizens under false pretenses.
The plan is of course to send people whose skin color is too dark or hold left-wing views to the death camp in El Salvador.
I think the plan is to change those demographics.
Showdown maybe. They don’t have a deadline or consequences for failing to act or requirement that they actually take steps which result in his being returned to the US.
Because once outside the US, the Republican position is that they no longer have recourse to the courts. So you can hustle somebody to El Salvador really fast, and then there is nothing they can do about it.
Whereas if you put people through the usual trial process and keep them in a US prison, they can later be freed as innocent.
I don’t expect that to last.
Because in the US you have some recourse to the courts. In a foreign one, the current Supreme Court seems to think you don’t.
Actually they’re spread across the US, Canada, and Mexico, with parts crossing borders many times during the course of manufacture. All this does is make the whole system in North America non-viable. So Chinese manufacturers will take over the world market, and Americans will be left with inferior overpriced options like Soviet citizens in the 1980s
No.