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Narauko

@ Narauko @lemmy.world

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  • How long will people be in denial that america is now a fascist regime? You all really going to wait until trumps third term until you come to terms with it, arent you?

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  • I am pro-border in the fact that I think borders serve an important purpose and that laws surrounding immigration should exist and be enforced. That said, I think fixing immigration requires following the god damned laws and constitution, you don't enforce the law by breaking it. Fuck! Immigration courts and the entire immigration bureaucracy needs to be beefed up to handle this, and law enforcement of any kind needs to be working under the judicial system. Warrants are needed, you can't suspend habeas corpus, cops should never be masked and anonymous, and all law enforcement should be held to a higher standard than everyone else.

    I think Trump is causing the legitimate action of enforcing our laws to look bad, and he is harming law and order for decades or longer. It should not be controversial to enforce laws, and if it is those laws need to be changed.

    Despite how scofflaw this administration is, however, I do not think Trump will run for a third term. I don't think we as a country or even the Republican party as a whole is willing to that blatantly flout the constitution, and I think that at least 60% of both parties want what is best for the country. I don't think actual Nazis or true jackbooted fascists are more than 10% of the right (I can't believe I now think it's that high), but do believe 20-30% are exploited by grifters and opportunists. That might be naive, but it seems like.everyone is abandoning their faith in the fundamental good of others all across the country/world and I think that is sad.

  • Let's stop arguing and do something.

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  • Very true, and everyone should keep that in mind. It's also true that there is an outsized visibility and impact that instances like ML and hexbear have on the zeitgeist/perception of the platform. It doesn't help that the creators are ML.

    The Internet is not obsessed with speed running just because there exists websites on it obsessed with speed running.

    The Internet also sends greeting cards and is used for business/stock market trading, but everyone knows that the Internet is FOR porn.

  • Let's stop arguing and do something.

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  • It depends on the instance and mods I think. I got a temp ban from an instance just citing "bad faith" for asking if there was a source article and getting flamed for "standing in the way of the movement". I accept that the Libre/FOSS space trends towards more niche user bases, and Lemmy is infinitely better than any other alternatives, but sometimes it feels a bit to close to Emo Phillips "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912".

  • Protester shot and killed at ‘No Kings’ rally in Utah, police say

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  • Maybe guns are bad, and maybe if you bring a rifle to a high tense situation and hold it in any manner that may seem threatening, you deserve to get shot.>

    Maybe guns are tools, and maybe if the majority of protesters were visibly armed then the police would not escalate tense situations to high intensity riot conditions and beat the protesters. Had the state had to hesitate to use violence on peaceful protesters, at least there would be a bunch less abuse of the media and civilians.

    The Black Panthers proved this, which is why Reagan started gun control. Modern open carry armed protests have also proven it's still true. Cops are cowards, Uvalde proved that, even with superior equipment they will find a reason not to start. Getting the left to disarm and put their protection into the hands of the very governmental authority they continually protest against has got to be the biggest con job in history

  • National Guard troops have temporarily detained civilians in LA protests, commander says

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  • The question they replied to was where the pro 2A people were. The point of 2A is that the armed populace meets or exceeds the armed tyrants. One person with a gun can't stop hundreds of cops with battle gear, that's the point of everyone having a right to be armed.

    I would hazard a guess that in this context their answer is probably yes, they expect to need to protest with other pro gun (armed) protesters if they were going to be armed.

    Ask the Black Panthers how well only one or two people being armed in a protest worked against the cops, compared to everyone being armed. There is a reason Reagan started gun control, and it wasn't because his supporters were the ones that were armed.

  • "This is so dangerous!", laments the woman driving directly into a Critical Mass bike ride

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  • Yeah, but this is a little like protesting against gun violence by juggling loaded handguns and putting everything on the safeties working perfectly. You don't protest an unsafe amusement park by going on the unsafe rides standing up.

    Point being, most people would probably not want to serve as the example of what not to do. Most rules/regulations are written in blood, but most people aren't volunteering to be the ink to pen those regulations.

  • Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who Is American Citizen

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  • Certainly, it is perfectly valid to just want ideal outcomes for all individuals regardless of the system. You are also not required in any way to discuss your viewpoints with anyone. I will thank you for your time up to this point, and wish you a wonderful day.

  • TIL that the actor for McGruff the Crime Dog is in prison for drug-/weapons-related charges.

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  • I do hope the judge looked him dead in the eyes at the sentencing and said "Bad dog" before rubbing his nose in the evidence bags.

    On the positive side, he should be out after 2.13 human years. Sooner with good behavior and completion of an obedience class from a licensed training academy.

  • Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who Is American Citizen

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  • That makes the conservative talking point of anchor babies a real thing. Make your way onto US soil to give birth by any means necessary, and suddenly you are granted a pathway to citizenship and a guaranteed legal status from day one?

    That kind of massive shortcut of the immigration system would break the system. Birth tourism would skyrocket along with all other forms of illegal immigration. There is a reason no country on earth allows that.

    Do you not think that doing so would be a huge incentive driving illegal border crossings or visa overstays to take such a shortcut? Do you think that creating a parallel alternative immigration pathway such as that is a good thing?

    I certainly disagree with how the trump administration is operating, and fuck anyone who says non-citizens don't have a right to a day in court, but how can carving out loopholes and shortcuts be good for the long term health of the system? Unless crippling the system to the point of implosion to cause a reform is the goal, but I find that to be too close to the conservatives crippling other public sector programs to cause private sector reform to profit off it.

  • Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who Is American Citizen

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  • This is a bit of a catch 22, the child wasn't deported her parents were. I don't even doubt that ICE was lazy and didn't make sure the mother knew what was happening and every option available to their child. This is a shit show how Trump is handling mass deportation instead of expanding the immigration courts to process the backlogs and get everyone their constitutionally protected day in court. ICE has been done a disservice by Trump and deserves a lot of the shit the department is getting.

    The child is a US citizen, 100%, but that doesn't offer protection from prosecution to their parents. A 2 year old who's US citizen parent or parents commit a crime will have their parent/parents taken away when put in jail, and then be given into the custody of a relative or taken into foster care. This is not unique to immigration.

    Would you rather the child have been unilaterally taken from their mother and placed into US foster care when no family was identified that could take them in the US? Then we are separating children from their families, which is fucked up.

    There historically have been limited stays of deportation available for illegal immigrant parents of US citizen children, but this administration is obviously being extremely tough on those. If you want to give automatic deportation immunity to anyone who has a child on US soil until those children are legally adults, you turn "anchor babies" from being basically a myth into an actual reality.

    There is no perfect solution for any of this.

  • AI will replace programmers

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  • I hate shopping at Lowe's now because they physically removed the regular checkouts and only have a square of self checkouts. They did this so one "cashier" can watch over everything, saving labor on multiple cashiers. They also paired down every other department so it's just as hard (or possibly harder) to get assistance in a department as at Home Depot. Feels like I'm watch the death spiral in full swing.

    Less shoppers means less staff. Less staff means service suffers. Poor service means less shoppers. Rinse and repeat. This is happening at almost every brick and mortar retail business though, not just Lowe's. It's like the entire economy has turned into Circuit City trying to keep the lights on.

  • I want to like more fantasy books written by woman but they alway feel targetted at woman, what are some good neutral series like ROTE?

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  • I was very concerned scrolling the comments that it looked like no one was going to mentioned Margaret Weis. She is an amazing author stand alone, and Dragon Lance was one of the first big Fantasy series I really cut my teeth on.

  • Former Colorado deputy gets 3 years in prison for fatally shooting man who called for help

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  • I totally misread 'good viable' as good vibes, and immediately agreed despite having no substantive idea what that would be. Fleet of Magic School buses driven by assorted Ms. Frizzle's? Cheech and Chong's Uber service? Limo service where you get to answer suggestive Family Feud surveys with Steve Harvey? I don't know, but I'm totally down for good vibes alternatives to driving.

  • Retirees 'stunned' as market turmoil over tariffs shrinks their 401(k)s

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  • Good point out, and I should have said not unique to either conservatism or hard leftism there. The "extremities" of the spectrum really highlight it obviously, but I think almost everyone is guilty of and/or capable of the same rationalizing over anything that forms a part of core identity, consciously or not. The stakes are just higher when it comes to politics than something like an odd food preference, and thus get stronger reactions both from external observers and the person holding that viewpoint. I try to apply a "never attribute to malice that which can be explained by something else (I know incompetence usually goes here but in this context comes off maliciously)" for most people. Everyone is the hero of their own story, yada yada.

    I fall into the same trap advocating for left leaning libertarianism never being implemented with the correct mix of government guardrails (both from and against the government), and it will be funny when we all surprised Pikachu face when it turns out 500 years from now it was the Anarcho-syndicalists who were right all along ala South Park Mormonism.

    Also I haven't heard the Professional Left Podcast before but I'm definitely going to check it out, thank you for mentioning it.

  • Retirees 'stunned' as market turmoil over tariffs shrinks their 401(k)s

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  • This is a holdover from Reagan, and the boom times through the 80s and into the 90s. Deregulation works.... until everything implodes/explodes. Revenue was up alongside the tax cuts because of the huge gains across the board, it just wasn't sustainable.

    The economy is like an engine, you can squeeze massive horsepower out of it for a few races or regulate it to run for millions miles. There is a happy spot that produces the highest output with acceptable longevity, but since Reagan the Republican strategy has been to crank it to the max.

    The Democrats also continued the deregulation and government has abdicated it's duty to enforce anti-trust laws, protect the commons, and ensure level playing fields. Add to that the lag time between government action and results, and you have the "Republicans do economy good".

    We have been a runaway diesel for decades, and the engine is close to detonation.

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  • True, but sadly not unique to conservatism. It's a human condition, lots of psychology involved with self-identity and worldview. See "communism just hasn't been actually implemented properly yet, and the Soviet Union and China were/are actually capitalists pretending to be socialists/communists" for examples on the "opposing" spectrum.

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    FL wants more child labor

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  • USA is importing everything I had exported to third world countries

    Jinkies, it was old man @reddit_sux spreading human suffering to the third world the whole time!

  • U.S. border officials have caught more people with eggs than fentanyl this year

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  • Just about the only hard shelled reptile eggs are crocodilian, some turtles, and a few outliers like some geckos. Very few of any of those would be confused with chicken eggs. There also are (hopefully still) wildlife experts as part of border patrol who can and do make those determinations.

    That said, there are endangered bird and reptile species that we don't want trafficked and smuggled eggs get rescued by animal control portions of border security unfortunately all the time and they should keep doing their job.