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@FreedomAdvocate no citizens have been deported *because they are seeing judges*. https://web.archive.org/web/20250418013839/https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/lopez-gomez-citizen-detained-ice-florida/index.html

@FreedomAdvocate if I were law enforcement I probably could establish whether you had a driver’s licence, but who’s making me do it? If I tried to put you in jail for driving without a licence, even though you had a licence that I didn’t check, what’s your recourse?

@FreedomAdvocate What’s the process to make sure those get checked before you get punished for being there? I say “you” on purpose - if I said “freedom advocate is here illegally! Take them!” and they believed me and threw you in the back of a van, what would you expect to happen at that point? Who would you speak to? How? How would you make sure they did what needed to be done to establish *your* legality? How would you make them check your papers?

@MutilationWave @chronicledmonocle fun fact: old printers didn’t have it in their font sets so they used to use a Y which is why “Ye” exists as an old-fashioned “the”

@FreedomAdvocate @IzzyJ because you can’t establish whether they’re in the country illegally without a fair trial.

@_core @RestrictedAccount like watching the modern American equivalent of the British right-wing press in action. The Daily Mail was openly fascist until WWII started. Say what you want people to think while it’s profitable, but if the worm turns, find a new opinion…
It’s a good thing. He’s not as bright as he thinks and has few morals to speak of, but he’s a good bellwether.

@TheGrandNagus @Cosmonauticus i can see a very dull future of filling in individual details for all minor-brand/non-US/homemade items in your fridge because the fridge doesn’t have the details in its catalogue. Or the company changes the size but leaves the branding intact (hi, shrinkflation) so the fridge gets confused…

@TheGrandNagus @Cosmonauticus how would a smart fridge know whether a box of something or a carton of something was full or empty? Weight-sensitive shelves? Would you have to show it everything you put in or took out to make sure it registered? Seems like a faff.

@Jason2357 @funkajunk I mean that was the initial selling point for Gmail wasn’t it? Don’t worry about deleting or archiving anything, ever, you can just search for it… Basic file management skills sidelined.

@Almacca @renrenPDX an escalator, surely

@BitsAndBites @Lushed_Lungfish also also, if you’re local library uses overdrive/Libby you can just have free books, easy peasy