“including some with criminal records”
= a couple of them have old weed tickets or driving with an expired license tickets.
they keep saying “criminal records” over and over, because it sounds so bad… but most of the “criminal records” are petty, lower misdemeanors… NOT a criminal record, but in their life they’ve had one tiny “crime”…
went to court, got no jail time and paid the small fine….
wording matters

well they’d probably shoot the helicopter…

i know, however trump was awfully interested in the concept when he learned about it

too bad we can’t hold any elections while we’re at war

they’re using AI to generate system level code?
holy shit this is the dumbest way to destroy civilization

corruptism

fun fact: america never declared itself as capitalist, it was when the power of private companies exceeded the power of the government.
capitalism was a way of defining what happened when they took over….

that’s not a slur, and it’s craven of you to compare being disliked for your beliefs and behavior with being discriminated against for your skin color….
tankies are always pretending like everyone else is a racist liberal yet you keep trying to manipulate racism for sympathy.
tankie isn’t a race, religion, class or culture.
tankie is a descriptive term.
don’t like it? don’t advocate for authoritarian regimes that run over people’s skulls with tanks