Alright, I’m going to say it out loud, despite the risk of this being counted as uncivil (via Rule 1) 🤞 🤞

These imbeciles don’t need stern lectures, fines, or jail - they need livestreamed floggings to humiliate or even cripple them. Hundreds of millions should see, record, archive, and openly mock their distress publicly as a stark reminder of the stakes involved.

The Sentinelese are a genetic sub-group so isolated, and so unique that their loss would be incalculable. They’re a living, breathing, irreplaceable time capsule of human culture and genetic information, and the thought that some thrill-seeking wanker could decimate them by passing the common cold to one of their members is beyond worrisome - it’s enraging. As lucky as we were that the last worthless dick-beater - American Evangelical missionary, John Allen Chau - to make their way to the island was summarily killed, that luck may not hold out. We’re talking about a group whose immunity is such a throwback that something like Chickenpox, Rubella, or Influenza could decimate the island’s population. For next-nearest historical comparison, Smallpox, to which the inhabitants of North America had virtually no resistance due to longstanding geographic isolation from infection, is estimated to have killed 90% of the continent’s population via European contact.

May I have some sauce, please?

I mean, I’m not going to spend time trying to duplicate their results, but it wouldn’t even slightly surprise me. Cops have been using ChatGPT to streamline their bullshit cop-lingo incident reports, to the extent that it’s caught the notice of lawyers and judges… 100% I believe that the dolts who shit out Trump’s tariff rates used it too.

Elon Musk’s job approval

It’s phrased in such a way that I’m reminded of politician’s approval ratings, but he’s not an elected official. Are there polls to determine the approval of persons appointed to position by the U.S. President, or are we talking about his approval as Tesla/Space X is concerned?

As is tradition.

Sure, they’re pieces of shit too, but the previous comment was asking about the blowback against Tesla by comparison to insurance CEO assassinations.

The insurance CEOs aren’t making a spectacle of seig heiling during internationally broadcast events, or dogwhistling Nazi references on their personally owned social media platform.

*bussy

Meth, the drug that makes you so horny you’ll move on JD Vance’s ex.

Like some pantomime of those bizarre fictional bureaucracies seen in Beetlejuice, Loki, or at best, Monsters Inc. Imagine getting stymied, deferred, redirected, misdirected, sloughed off, and dismissed by administrators and clerks who know full-well that your life or death is on the line.

That’s the reality for these people getting systematically and entirely legally fucked around, and you’re right, they often don’t have the resources to fighting owing largely to their poor health - being subjected to unnecessary suffering as a means to get them just give up, go away, and die somewhere that no one has to see. Mangione is unequivocally a hero, these people are legitimately, maliciously evil. State and federal legislators either can’t or are *unwilling *to stop them, but so few victims are even able to “air their grievances face-to-face” that the bulk will never see justice for what was done to them.

I was thinking something else, but I’m not sure how flexible the Lemmy TOS is with “inflammatory statements”.

Sound advice that, I can’t stand the stink coming off the boarder, and am won’t even consider passing through via connecting flights until shit’s cleared up stateside.

Absolutely right. Similar scenarios have been playing out for a long time, but the additional, onerous measures were seldom applied to anyone with the resources to fight it in court or put the U.S. government on blast in the media.

Some of the stories from years past are so absurdly improbable that they seem like fiction. Americans who’ve lived their entire lives stateside but whose citizenship/documentation was not “in order” have been deported to their parent’s countries of origin, and where they have no contacts and sometimes don’t even speak the language. Jimmy Aldaoud from Michigan whose parents were Iraqi refugees and who was born in a camp in Greece before the family settled in the U.S. He later died of complications of diabetes as he was unable to obtain consular assistance or even insulin.

The apparent shift has prompted several nations to change their travel advice and triggered a frenzy of questions in online travel forums about whether it is safe to go to the US.

Don’t. Wait at least until the next administration. It’s not safe, even everyday Americans are warning family, friends and business colleagues to stay away.

Roland Lescure, a French member of parliament who represents French citizens living in North America, said… “The home of the free and the brave is turning into something very different.”

A fascist, totalitarian surveillance state whose law enforcement has been granted absolute power, and who act with impunity, the checks & balances which were supposed to protect the Constitutional rights of citizens reduced to mere window dressing. Opposition Democrat politicians have busied themselves with impotent appeals to reason, press conferences, press releases, social media posts and ineffective protest marches which they hope will shed light on the situation and spur change (it won’t).

Well shit, back to the drawing board.

Ah damn, oops. You’re right, I wrote the wrong name even after fetching the Youtube link lol

People call Republicans stupid, but it looks like they may have finally learned a lesson after Naomi Wolf’s headliner in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IYPnnsYJw

“Hey, rural conservative voters. Here’s what his track record is, and here’s what he’s *actually * admitted he’ll do. The policies will harm you and your families. Voting Republican would be like shooting yourself in the foot.”

 *rural voters blast off entire foot with 12 ga. shotgun*

I can’t be the only one wondering at how no one in a closed-doors meeting was able to both contemplate the status of their own security clearance, or how it might be negatively affected by disclosing sensitive (albeit apparently not classified, secret, or top secret) information in the presence of someone who was not legally entitled to hear/see it? According to the source, there were foreign military officers there as well? How the fuck did not one of them stand up and demand that she get the fuck out of the fucking room?

How is it possible for the Secretary of Defense to be so nose-blind to this level of bullshit, as though he thought that it was acceptable to bring his spouse along as some kind of adult “bring your kid to work day”? This isn’t “odd” or “strange”, it represents possible degradation and compromise of national security. Wait in the fucking lounge, Jennifer, Jesus Christ.