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Meeting back up at the reunion in 3 (to 10+ years)
“Oh… hi Canada! You’re looking well.”
“Gah!!.. Soree but do I… Oh, USA? Kinda snuck up on me there… It’s been a while. You uh, you look… different. Didn’t quite recognize you with your new…tear drop tattoos? Also, did you do something to your hair?”
“Oh this? No, it kinda just happened suddenly all at once. Apparently it’s called canities subita…”
I think the “big reveal” is that he’s corrupt as fuck, and cares about nobody but himself and his wealthy friends because they’re all protecting each other while they rape, murder, and pillage their way across the globe and make a mockery of the religions and nations they pretend to care about.
And that like Putin, Xi, and Netenyahu, Trump is probably more along the lines of a middle manager on the national totem pole, at least in terms of the power he holds to make the final calls about what happens in the home base he helps control and desecrate.
That’s it… That’s literally the truth behind every conspiracy “theory.”
A pyramid scheme of creepy predatory psychopaths have basically run the world, create wars, manipulate markets, and high five while they help each other exploit, murder, and escape justice. All while convincing their supporters they were placed in charge by divine intervention or magic, and that upsetting the “natural order” that brought them to power would be going against God’s will. Oh, and warn others about the dangers of globalist governments and international law (obviously).
100 fucking percent. If any part of the current U.S. government should be just scrapped and burned in a fire with bipartisan support, it’s the patriot act and everything that came with it.
Given how these fascist fuckers operate, it’s no surprise they would wrap one of the most unconstitutional and unpatriotic pieces of legislation in American history inside of a bill with a name like that.
Just like Trump sending a small military to invade American cities and murder Americans was for our “safety.” So are all of the crack downs on free speech, protests, constant surveillance and invasion of our privacy. It’s all for our own good, and if you disagree you’re unpatriotic and keeping America from being “great.” The audacious horseshit logic and brainwashing is fucking insane.
I sentence the patriot act and Common good “constitutionalism” to kiss my ass.
“It’s awkshully more patriotic of you to willingly hand over your rights and liberties. For your own safety and for the common good.”
What a shocking twist that the “anti-elitist” Harvard law professor (I’m not even kidding) who came up with the legal theory of common good constitutionalism, just happens to be obsessed with the legal scholar who helped make the German constitution secondary to the legal authority of Hitler.
The idea that “we” (the majority) voted for the leader to hold office, and therefore if he wants to wipe his ass with the constitution and tell us he’s doing it for our own safety and the good of the country, that’s legal order and the constitution working like it’s supposed to, is fascist horseshit, and just an obvious rip off of the laws that allowed Hitler to come to power. Especially when our “leader” also straight up “jokes” about cancelling elections.
Schmitt was the presiding legal expert at meetings during the early stages of the Third Reich that resulted in a formal decision to bypass the process of formulating a new constitution. An approach that would nominally maintain the former constitution was adopted, even though the Führerprinzip (Leader Principle) was given transcendent supra-legal status.
‘Leader Principle’ was the basis of executive authority in the government of Nazi Germany. It placed Adolf Hitler’s word above all written law, and meant that government policies, decisions, and officials all served to realize his will.
How “lucky” are we to coincidentally have a leader who claims to be guided by his own morality rather than any written laws…?
There is literally no need for ice to exist. In fact it didn’t even exist until the early 2000s. Just fucking get rid of it.
This is one of the few federal departments I think most people (even previous employees) seem to agree we would be better off abolishing and starting from scratch. It has been unnecessary chaos and destruction since day 1.
Her doing this and Landry with the DEI stuff this week feels like they’re desperately trying to throwback to their classic divide and conquer America hits in an attempt to distract people from the PR nightmares closing in on MAGA right now.
“Now, now, let’s calm down… We understand the Trump administration getting caught lying about and then doubling down on their support for the ICE agent you all saw murder a mother of 3, call a “fucking bitch,” and refuse to allow a doctor to save her life, after her last words to that ICE agent were “I’m not mad at you,” hasn’t been our most popular moment… Especially when it was then followed by a threat to invoke the insurrection act as a punishment against the peaceful protestors who have refused to be silent following her murder… But…who 'membas DEI and women’s reproductive rights???”
Vance? Vought? Who knows. “Just following orders that came from the very top” chain of command game of telephone.
Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job
This sounds exactly like who I assume ICE is hiring
My point is that people were spreading the narrative/rumor that she was shot in the head for some reason. It is possible to be shot in the head and survive, it’s not as common as surviving gunshot wounds to extremities or even the chest cavity, especially if first aid and stop the bleed measures are started ASAP.
So for some reason, from the very beginning, there was a miscommunication being spread (whether intentional or not) that her survival was probably less likely than it actually was.
Even if that doctor hadn’t been there and hasn’t been prevented from helping, it also seems worth asking why all of the ICE agents who were present at the time had been issued fire arms, but none of the dickheads just standing around letting this lady bleed out, had any first aid training?
Seriously none of them? Nobody even had some kind of common sense inkling hat they should probably try to stop the bleeding? Not even the “war veteran” who shot her? Just more weird shit to add to the long list of how/why did shit go down the way it did that day. So many weird things seem like he set out to intentionally murder somebody that day, and not just because her wife had embarrassed him beforehand.
Why did the ICE agent who allegedly had PTSD from being dragged by a car intentionally position himself in front of her car?
Why was his safety already off when he grabbed his gun
Why did he keep his phone in one hand filming while he shooting at a car that was moving towards him?
Did none of the “trained federal agents” really not have any basic first aid training, despite some of them previously seeing combat?
Why did they refuse to let the doctor help her?
Who started the rumor she had been shot in the head?
Well true, but not having a steady pay check definitely doesn’t keep you out of the gulag.
It’s kinda weird there were/are so many people encouraging this absolutely terrible idea that people should be attempting to join ICE and just dragging their feet while collecting a paycheck as a gulag employee, who will be handed a daily list of people they are required to round up and throw in the gulag to meet their employee quota.
Vs. it somehow being more problematic to keep collecting a paycheck while potentially finding ways to sabotage the billionaire responsible for the destruction of a rapidly sinking institutional ship, which several crew members seemed to make a genuine effort to repair and preserve over the years.
Especially considering the Nazi collaborating billionaire (who definitely paid way more for the ship than he would have ever willingly paid in taxes) suddenly seemed to decide after more than a decade of mainly just insisting he be allowed to take pictures of himself posing at the helm once in a while, that he was captain and nobody would be telling him how to run his ship. Then almost immediately, he either accidentally bet on the wrong horse, or, he intentionally steered the ship directly into an iceberg (on behalf of the horse).
If it wasn’t intentional, it kinda seems like he would have just dumped it/sold it to the highest bidder already, but he hasn’t for some reason. It’s weird he’s still holding on to it since it’s not like there’s much of a need for a solidly right of center mediocre American news outlet in 2026. Almost seems like it’s more out of spite than anything else. Especially considering that historically it was seen as a trustworthy American newspaper that broke some very important stories (admittedly not a history without some questionable missteps, and odd political ties even before Trump, but that’s also true of most mainstream news).
“Somehow you people still haven’t taken the bait so we have to back away from that threat for a minute.”
“We’re gonna try threatening your elected leaders with obstruction, maybe dox a few more of our own agents by total accident, see if we can find any more CIA trained child soldiers in a tight spot looking for work, and then keep poking the bear while we circle back around.”
Wait so she hadn’t been shot in the head?
Hell band together and form their own publisher if they need to.
They should do this, but until they do, even when the economy wasn’t being intentionally tanked by billionaire terrorists who want to replace gold with crypto, subscriber donations have never been the most steady source of income.
When most people can barely make ends meet, a steady pay check is a privilege. Drink the devil’s beer for free and steal his song.
I wonder what other uses Palantir might have for maps of targets in more or less densely populated areas.
Also, can’t help but think about who the Trump administration is actually sending to the most densely populated areas to carry out these raids, and what happens to them if Trump has to kick off a civil war while they’re there…
I knew a guy that had been arrested for property damage during the Iraq war, and had been given the option between joining the military or prison, so he joined the army. Never forgotten him telling me the Army always sent the dumbest guys to drive through dangerous areas first, because they usually wouldn’t pick up on the fact that they were being sent to clear the roads where they were most likely to be driving over IEDs…
Super fucked up, but that was then. Under the deep state… Things are different nowadays. Surely the Trump administration would never do something like that to the people they’re sending out into the field without training or even bothering to run a background check…
I’m sure if Trump was going to use Palantir maps to do something like that to the American people, he would be sure to give these guys in ICE (who might not even have an official paper trail) a heads up, and he definitely wouldn’t allow them to be included as part of the collateral damage Palantir software accounts for in all of its strikes on civilian areas
The Lavender precedent: automated kill lists and the limits of International Humanitarian Law
According to multiple sources, the IDF set pre-approved “collateral damage” thresholds for strikes on Lavender-listed targets, effectively institutionalising a certain level of civilian death as tolerable. In the early weeks of the war, commanders permitted 15 to 20 civilian deaths per airstrike for attacking a low-ranking militant (Abraham 2024) In other cases, “over 100” civilian casualties were allowed for targeting a single high-ranking Hamas commander (Wiese & Langer 2024). These astonishing numbers, disclosed by both Israeli insiders and subsequent investigations, reveal a de facto calculus where the lives of Palestinian civilians were assigned a disturbingly low weight. This may be evidentiary of the international crime of extermination, considering the violently disproportionate attacks launched by the Israeli military.
An Israeli intelligence officer candidly confirmed that during this period “we were told: now we have to **** up Hamas, no matter what the cost. Whatever you can, you bomb” (Abraham 2024). This pressure from above to deliver results “with speed and scale” led the targeting teams to unleash an “unparalleled” wave of bombardments unencumbered by the complex assessment proportionality requires (Shehabi & Lubin).
As a result, magnitude and not precision became the driving metric of the campaign. The practical outcome of these policies was catastrophic civilian loss. By treating every adult male in certain areas or data profiles as targetable, and by approving strikes even knowing that 10% of those targeted could be civilians, the IDF all but guaranteed the violation of distinction.
I guess it’s important to keep in mind that even though Trump just gave Palantir a $10 billion contract and randomly gave a bunch of Palantir executives military rank for some reason nobody has ever explained, all of these strikes were carried out on foreign soil. Palantir’s AI is probably more accurate and less murder droney in 'Merica. Thank God for those baked in American values aMiRiTe?
Trump says there’s no reason ‘right now’ to use Insurrection Act in Minneapolis
That’s why he wants violence. Whether he actually successfully instigates it or her creates a false flag. He needs his victim narrative justified.
That’s why it’s in everyone’s interest to use their intelligence and creativity instead of violence when it comes to fighting back. That’s the one thing billionaires can’t purchase, and even the smarter end of the spectrum of predatory psychopaths are usually lacking
I mean people have to collect a pay check to pay their bills.
Something some journalist did or is doing at one of these old institutions has gotten under their skin, and we should all be watching this very closely for signs they try to escalate against journalists.
They might be hoping people quit in fear. I say just shit on Jeff Bezos even harder than you normally would.
I mean…, I say this with respect for the journalists, but no shit… Definitely call this shit out and don’t let it drop, but hopefully this isn’t actually a surprise
Workers of the world have not been exaggerating when they described the conditions people like Bezos expected them to work in. People die on a fairly regular basis while working in his warehouses destroying their bodies or falling victim to unsafe working conditions. And it’s all just to make one of the richest men in the world a few more pennies he won’t ever spend.
Of course he’s going to stand with his billionaire buddies when they break the law. They have each other’s backs.
That’s how class warfare works. There is no empathy or even loyalty for anyone else that isn’t one of them. He might have even offered one of his own journalists as a public sacrifice hoping to send a message and keep other journalists quiet. That’s a pretty common strategy used to intimidate workers. It means something one of you did (most likely not even the journalist who had her home searched) must have really shook these people up enough to provoke a reaction. Keep it up and keep calling them out for sticking together instead of supporting their workers. When their loyalty to each other starts to really cut into their pennies, they start looking for passive aggressive ways to turn on each other.
Fuck these people and good on you for getting under their skin.
The unfortunate truth is that this doesn’t end. That’s why it’s so exhausting. Even when they die there is always going to be some asshole ready to get rich carrying the torch on for them. That’s also why when you hear anybody say something like child labor laws or other protections may have been necessary at one point, but now they just get in the way, it should be a red flag you’re either talking to an idiot or an asshole attempting to destroy the progress the people that came before you fought very long and hard for.
The battle of Good vs Evil doesn’t end. Ever. It’s been going on long before anybody currently on earth was ever born, and it will continue long after we all die. That’s why no matter what happens, no matter how many millennia pass, if there is one piece of advice we should make abundantly clear for all future generations:
Humanity is not now, has not ever been, and will not ever be “too advanced” to exploit or be exploited.
Your legal protections, rights, and liberties all exist for a very good reason. Learn them. Get them in writing. Teach them to others. Think about and discuss them often like you would anything else you truly cherish and appreciate. Never compromise the ones you have, and once you gain new ones, hold on to them, and refuse to let them go, no matter how “unnecessary or burdensome” anyone tries to convince you they have become in “modern” society.
Even if the oligarchs end up managing to wipe most of us out, or send society back to the dark ages, chisel that shit on the walls of caves. Maybe someday, we won’t have to keep re-learning the same obvious lesson over and over again.
Sorry to hear that 😕
Fuck cancer. Go kick its ass and take good care of yourself. Wishing you a low stress recovery during your time away. Thank you for everything you’ve done here.
In multiple confrontations in the Minneapolis area, agents repeatedly referred to civilians learning their lesson — in an apparent nod to the use of deadly force in Ross’s killing. In a video posted to Reddit, a masked ICE agent can be heard repeatedly admonishing a driver to “go home to your kids.”
"Stop fucking following us,” the ICE agent screams.
But muh gubmit transparency!
The fucking total lack of any logic. Some creepy perv with a camera expects he should be allowed to roll up into a daycare to “check for fraud” as a private citizen, but this guy is out of line for following the secret police in public. The ones who cover their faces, refuse to identify themselves, and apparently just sold a teen’s cell phone after “confiscating” it… Makes sense. Fuckwads
I’m sure she’s just following orders