Yes, I was not clear enough… I was referring specifically to the slurs here. They are not planning their every move, they have a goal to mount an autocratic government and that brings nasty people out into the public.
On that note they do not even need to “test the waters”; the population of the USA already handed them over all the power they could ever need. Short of massive protest and a Nation wide strike, what was left of Democracy in the USA is completely over.
Write to your MPP then, those are jobs for different people
They are not testing the waters, there isn’t a plan. They are just bigots doing hateful things
You are right in that there may be escalation because sooner than later these assholes will realize Trans people are so few as to be invisible to them, they’ll once again see their own lives are pitiful and move onto hate someone else just to feel good about themselves for a hot minute
is anime a form of Piracy?! One Piece I guess?!
They grabbed people ostensibly from battlefields. They aren’t collecting evidence in a firefight. This isn’t a cop tv show. Theoretically battlefield combatants do not have the rights you seem to think they do.
I do not know what rights you think I think they have… but they do have some rights in International Law, not that the USA cares but they do.
Also, if all it takes is for someone to be in a “battlefield” to be automatically a combatant, well, it only shows your very American view of the world when you have never fought on your own soil. These villages, some of the poorest places on Earth, are the battefields. Where did you expect these people to go? their summer houses while the conflict passes? maybe take a sabatical from gathering dirty water from the only river while the solutions fixes itself?
If you think Im defending this choice you are mistaken.
Fair… my point against your line of thinking is that I would bet my left nut there was less than zero consideration for the safety of the detainees… In fact, the #1 reason they were put in Guantanamo to begin with was to “respect” somewhat the USA constitution, you know back in the good old days when they were at least pretending the constitution meant something
No you don’t get it. They did this because the Bush administration didn’t want to confront the problem of potentially innocent people being murdered
If this was their concern, why didn’t they just let them go? take them back where they took them from? after all, they didn’t have enough evidence to even charge them
Side note, you should really check your reasoning here bud. You are literally arguing that the USA, in an abundance of care for the safety of certain people, they took them and left them to rot in a concentration camp for decades…
Same here… even when Twitter was not even in the sights of fElon I found it to be super toxic. I signed up because “it was the best way to get the news” and left in about 4 days
confirming circular logic is circular… got it
why are people frothing over Bluesky? this is just Twitter but owned by a different oligarch
So instead they are kept uncharged and untried forever in Guantanamo??? where they are nicely safe and comfortable and not being tortured at all? for THEIR safety? got it
Well if what they are doing is not hitting ANY news outlets (even informal ones or their own sites) I sincerely doubt they are doing anything worthwhile (unless it happens to be some covert operation)
The other issue is that they really have little recourse when all branches of government AND the courts were handed over to the Orange Turd on a silver platter… what are they actually going to do?
The ONLY proper recourse left here is a general strike and I see Redditors helping on that front more than Unions
Isn’t that what jails are for? in USA you have a ton of those I hear… if these people were guilty of anything, surely there would be zero trouble charging them (specially in the Kangaroo Military courts of the USA). Once convicted you can put them in any jail of your liking
Only if the lose…
Some of those people were guilty and should have been tried and jailed here
if so, why weren’t they tried and sentenced?
Ok, commercials on no add streaming services are akin to renting a beach house all for your fam but the landlord shows up and takes a giant dump in the only bathroom available
Those were willfully ignorant and they will remain so until they hurt bad or die, no amoubt of information will change that
if the unions decide to do something… so far they have just been docile like lambs
Americans voted for this (or didn’t bother to vote to avoid it)
hmmm this was clear as day before the election… so a more accurate headline would be “the majority of people who voted, voted for Elon… the majority of the rest couldn’t be bothered”
Putting that aside, I am holding predictions until the Feb 05 marches and I am willing to give the dormant populous of the USA a couple more weeks to go on a general strike and stop this madness… but it increasingly seems the people in the USA are now too numb, too busy, too stressed out, too ignorant to realize they are sheep being taken to the slaughter house
Texas officials also said it was ok to ban abortion because they would end the posibility of rape… how is that going?