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CainTheLongshot

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  • Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting

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  • To be fair, the question asked was only, is there a benefit and i did answer that. So, don't go moving the goal posts!

    On a serious note, to answer your question briefly as one of those "American people": i do sense a change in the air. I don't think it's a general strike or civil war, but there's definitely people paying attention who hadn't otherwise before. And that engagement? They are pissed.

    The long answer is this: Everyone just watched a government agent kill a white mother and then lie about what happened. They see the news coverage spreading that lie. Everyone knows the poem, "First They Came" by Martin Niemöller and with this, they realized we are already 4 lines into it. Racist fucks can't just hand wave this away as a statistic anymore.

    And it's not like shit is getting any better for us, it's not like prices are going down! Between the Epstein list shit, Venezuela and Greenland, inflation, shrinkflation, and products being recalled for listeria or lead/metal/glass shavings, now we have masked fat asses terrorizing/killing us then opening lying about it?! And then calling US the terrorists? Nah. That's not even mentioning the absolutely bat shit levels of corruption happening that's practically being admitted to right in the open.

    So some good news about us. Something i noticed start in 2020 with covid lock downs was that our culture started to shift towards "homesteading" or trying to make everything yourself, because you knew the quality is better than store bought, and in the majority of cases, cheaper. But recently, people have started to go full in, and i think this is the angle where a general strike can foment from!

    People DO NOT want corporate slop anymore. There's a growing want for local businesses, and they will start to come back offering better, locally made items. Sure it'll be a bit more expensive, but the prices for those lower quality goods are going up too.

    This is hopefully going to reduce corporate influence and bring communities closer together, since not every individual can make everything they'll ever need. With stronger communities, this "fear of the other" dissipates. I've started to see it in my neighborhood. As word spreads, more people start to see what is happening. I've already been to city and town halls discussing AI data centers and the places are FUCKING PACKED, to the point they move it to larger areas and it's still over flowing out into the halls and parking lots.

    We were already banding together, but every one of their fuck ups, brings us even closer together. Just look at those bad asses in PA; the Black Panthers, resurfacing and showing up for their community. More will come.

  • More Americans support abolishing ICE than ever before, polling data shows

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  • I saw a reel today from what i consider a credible enough source, (still plan to look this up but i feel it's credible enough to base this comment on).

    There's a major problem that needs to be dealt with when talking about any kind of enforcement.

    Firstly, US citizens DO NOT require to have any form of ID or papers on them, at all, for any reason. Yet visa holders, immigrants, vacationers, etc, have to carry their papers AT ALL TIME or that's a federal violation.

    Secondly, ICE has no jurisdiction over US citizens. If they ask me anything, i don't have to comply. As long at I'm not interfering with their job, as to be arrested for obstruction of justice. Their job is solely to enforce immigration laws.

    So the problem this creates is that they can just claim I'm not a citizen and arrest me for not having proper documentation. Best case scenario, they look me up in the system, see I'm a citizen, and let me go. Worst case? Well, yeah, we are seeing that unfold every day in the news.

    Boot lickers will say, well just carry your ID, and comply! And miss the entire point. There's due process violations happening all across the country, people being arrested just because, to intimidate us into cowering in a corner while they kidnap and torture folks. So either we cave and start to carry our IDs, which won't help when they claim it's a fake ID, and allow them to ratchet up again to only allowing certain people to have IDs, or whatever fascist BS they have planned next for their white, christian ethnostate.

    Or no one needs to carry around an ID and just abolish ICE all together because we don't need to enforce immigration laws, just make it easier. Think of the extra tax dollars that could be had if non citizens could spend their money without worrying about being deported! Plus the extra money for not paying another useless enforcement agency. For those one off cases, i would rather a percentage go to the FBI for a division that investigates non citizen crime, and let the courts handle deportations.

  • Kristi Noem impeachment will "move forward"—Lawmakers

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  • A lot of people are forgetting how a minority whip works in Congress. The term "whip" comes from a fox-hunting expression—"whipper-in"—referring to the member of the hunting team responsible for keeping the dogs from straying from the team during a chase.

    That vote went down in one of two ways, either of which is the leader and the whip's direct responsibility.

    1: those Democrats voted on their own, in the exact number needed to pass. In which the whip is responsible for whipping up their votes to No and failed here, and Democrats need to promote a new person and primary the congressperson responsible, along with the ones who voted in favor.

    2: that Whip caved under pressure and grabbed the exact number of votes needed to pass, from Congresspersons in "safe" districts or who were already planning on retiring. In which case, Democrats need to promote a new person and primary the congressperson responsible as well as primary the ones who voted in favor.

    The Senate Democratic leader is Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) The Senate Democratic Whip is Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)

    The Eight Senate Democrats/Independents who voted in favor were: Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) Sen. Angus King (I-ME) Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)

    The House did not have enough votes to defeat it, and all voted against but here are those leaders too. The House Democratic leader is Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) The House Democratic Minority Whip is Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA)

  • Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting

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  • Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting

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  • It's not that we haven't come to terms with it, it's just that any resistance will need to be legitimized by outside forces to be recognized. If you look at the long history of tyrannical governments being overthrown, American and European figureheads always talk about whether or not the local resistance groups are legitimate in their concerns or not, which ultimately determines how much outside help is given.

    Look at Gaza, there's a resistance force over there that has been branded as a terrorist organization (in certain cases, deservingly) which they now also have to fight a PR campaign online.

    Going full blown delegitimizes any movement, and can justify further fascist ratcheting vs them just "claiming" violence happened against them, which EVERYONE can fully see is not happening. Sure they will claim it regardless but that loses them potential allies and any high ground.

    We still have a court system. We still have elections. And both of those take time.

    For anyone talking about where the lines are, that's them. Functioning legitimate courts, and functioning legitimate elections.

    Until then, we are out there demonstrating peacefully, building up our communities, and giving them the rope to Nuremberg themselves with.

  • Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting

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  • Can't be held liable during the next set of Nuremberg trials?

  • Trump seeks $100bn for Venezuela oil, but Exxon boss says country 'uninvestable'

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  • An article i read states that with China and India fully investing into EV technologies, we could see oil demand peak in 2030 and:

    “The tragedy is that we’re fighting over barrels that look huge on spreadsheets but shrink rapidly when confronted with physics, economics and time,” said Guy Prince, the head of energy supply research at the thinktank.

  • Venezuela’s interim leader defies Trump and calls Maduro the ‘only president’

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  • I've always said, "you can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into".

  • Europe’s generals are warning people to prepare for war || Economist

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  • I agree on just about everything, except:

    At this moment, Europe's the only real democracy left on the planet that can't be taken over through social media targeted ad brain washing like the US.

    I wouldn't be so sure:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/29/number-people-britons-must-be-born-in-uk-rising-study

    I can grant that the UK isn't "Europe", but this kind of mentality is rising all over.

    I'd also say that it's really about billionaires subjecting the working class to their will. I think they salivate at the idea of Chinese or Russian type government, implemented everywhere. Unruly or undesirable populace? Round the whole lot of them up and send them to a work camp! Hell, they are already doing that in the US with amendment 13. Not too big of a leap if they are already rounding people up and deporting them to random ass countries they had no affiliation with.

    And if they get their data centers built, they'll be able to "parse" through all this data they've been collecting and storing on us for over a decade now. That parsing will be AI based but will it really matter if it gets it wrong and the wrong person gets caught up in it?

  • TIL the number of pedestrians killed by drivers in the U.S. rose by 70 percent between 2010 and 2023

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  • Thank you for putting these links together! I'm about to be in the market for a truck and have been researching current models, and noticed the trend of larger and larger vehicles for a few years now, and wondered why. It couldn't just be because of lifted truck culture. I'm about to just go to a junk yard and try to restore an old one.

  • Trump Says Critical Coverage of Him Is ‘Really Illegal’

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  • I only say somewhat because he doesn't actually support (or voted for) this admin. He only voted for him in 16, and quickly realized how stupid he is. He has voted Democrat the last few elections, but differs in how we actually fix things.

    So basically your average centrist right now.

    What's strange is that he was a huge Bernie supporter back in 16, and that was the reason he flipped to R that election. So it's odd he's deepthroating billionaire propaganda now. He also doesn't watch any news outlets, and mostly gets his info from TikTok, which his feed is probably all Joe Rogan clips at this point.

  • Trump Says Critical Coverage of Him Is ‘Really Illegal’

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  • My somewhat conservative brother told me the other day that if we tax billionaires, they will be forced to lay off employees.

    I just don't have enough time and dry erase markers to break down how to effectively setup a BETTER economy where we can tax billionaires and still have a low unemployment rate, and not be beholden to fake job creators who were going to do layoffs anyways because line needs to always go up.

  • TIL- The idea of how much you can afford to buy with your income is called “real income.” And if real income falls, that’s called a recession.

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  • Does the median income track the boss's newly increased wages, then?

    It's something I've been thinking about for awhile now. That labor wages are stagnating but because "management" level, and higher, salaries are increasing with productivity, these Median Real Wage statistics are skewed, showing the increase.

    I would have no way of separating out labor wages from the management level wages though, was just curious how it's calculated.

  • Honestly, I still love the setting despite my dumb meme

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  • Old buddy of mine with that name pronounced it Tea N, not sure the last name.

  • Must have been the wind

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  • In our game, the DC is just the passive perception of the enemy, unless they are on active watch duty then they make a contested roll. That usually requires us fucking something up to put them on alert though.

  • What's a good slow paced shooter game?

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  • I would also recommend Hell Let Loose. We recently had a game night with about 6 friends who all come from call of duty style, faster paced games. All of them mentioned how slow it felt and half of them were able to adjust to the new style and did pretty good. I would compare it to Battlefield but in a hardcore mode with less destructable environments.

  • TIL labyrinths and mazes aren't the same. Labyrinths have a single path. Mazes have branching paths

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  • This could just be due to usage change over time, similar to how "literally" can mean the same thing as "figuratively" now a days. But I'm not an etymologist.

  • TIL that tracing phone calls by keeping the phone line open is a totally outdated trope

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  • The issue was more that they needed to identify only the ones that illegally entered the premises, and separate those from people legitimately working there. They then had to cross reference those IMEI/MACs to camera footage of them illegally entering the building. Some of those dipshits were ID'd and picked up immediately, others used burners and covered their faces with masks (ironically) and had to be tracked similarly to how Luigi was caught; establishing a timeline of events with that same individual using other cameras in the area until you find one of them without a mask on.

  • Black Myth: Wukong Dev Bemoans Lack of Xbox Version, Points the Finger at Xbox Series S - IGN

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  • I have been saying for a few years now that i think Microsoft is getting out of console hardware, and pushing cloud gaming and Game Pass to the switch and PlayStation marketplaces.

    We're already seeing game pass on certain Samsung smart TVs, all you need is a Bluetooth controller, which means the mobile phone market is right around the corner.

  • Proud Boys claim they'll be at polling places as Trump ups violent rhetoric and election fraud claims

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  • Preemptive blanket pardon, which Ford used for Nixon.