This is why the rumors of there being a Department of Remigration is so alarming. It really looks like they EVENTUALLY want to get rid of all non-white people.

Which won’t come as a surprise to anyone paying attention, but there’s a depressing number of people who insist on keeping their heads in the sand.

Voting FOR trans rights accomplishes nothing beyond making sure that trans people have rights.

Voting AGAINST trans rights undermines the freedom and safety of everyone.

I don’t disagree about anything you said, just a quick note because it’s a term that’s worth understanding:

“Newspeak” is a concept based on the dumbing down of language in order to make communication more difficult and complex concepts almost impossible. It’s not just new words or phrases. If it’s not damaging our ability to think and communicate, it’s not Newspeak. For this reason, “politically correct” alternatives (like “POC”), as well as increasingly specific terms (like “omnisexual” or “demi girl”) don’t qualify as Newspeak because they either continue the existing ability to think and communicate or enhance it by being more exacting about the concepts involved.

I’m not trying to be pedantic, it’s just important to me that people understand what Newspeak really is because the fascists really are trying to implement it as a means of reducing resistance against them. My favorite example is “climate change” which was a term introduced by right wing think tanks to undermine the more accurate (and more alarming) term “global warming.” And it worked.

Anyway, again I don’t disagree with your points, so please carry on!

They’re now the most well funded domestic law enforcement agency to exist in the world, ever. With the sole task of deporting non-citizens.

What happens when there aren’t any more non-citizens to deport? Well they sure as hell are going to find SOME way to justify all that funding, don’t you think?

It’s already happening, but the issue is so big it’ll take a lot more than this to even make a dent.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/28/plastic-eating-bacteria-enzyme-recycling-waste

Which is one of those things that sounds great at first but after a few more decades of research we realize it’s actually horrifically bad. Leached chemicals and microplastics are having such profound impacts on life that we’re not even sure how bad it is yet, just that it’s very VERY bad.

A few hundred years from now, if husband aren’t extinct yet, they’ll look back on this the way we look back on pre-modern societies using lead for everything, except the solution to lead was to simply stop using it while a solution for microplastics doesn’t even exist yet. It’s likely that, even after a solution has been found, microplastics will haunt all life on Earth until they get cycled out by geological processes.

The most highly funded police force to ever exist now knows I’m trans. Not that I’m not public about this fact, but sits different when you’re in a searchable dataset accessable to law enforcement.

This also gives them a pretty solid idea of who is disabled.

And with the lack of civil rights in the deportation process, all ICE has to do is accuse you of being foreign and being in the US illegally. Bonus, ICE gets to decide on their own if your case requires judicial review or not, meaning you can be deported to CECOT before anyone even knows what happened to you.

And the public will support it, because they’re being told that trans people are horrible criminals and disabled people are a drain on society. I know this because those are the same reasons they already give for their treatment of immigrants.

The legislative and judicial branches are already cut out of this process, the only thing the executive branch is waiting for is when they feel it’s the right time.

Welfare as just one more method of transferring wealth to corporations, it’s just the money is coming from the government and going through poor people first. Which means it at least generated some economic activity by cycling money from the top to the bottom, but if the tax structure becomes too regressive then that cycle breaks. Both sides acknowledge this problem, it’s just that the neo liberals want to push those limits while keeping the money flowing (so that most of it flows upwards) while the fascists just want to stop the cycle altogether.

This is evidenced by the fact that SNAP is funded by the Farm Bill. It’s not a handout to poor people, it’s a subsidy for farms and the food industry at large.

No, AI did exactly what it does: predict which words were most likely to appear next to each other given a specific context/prompt.

The humans involved aren’t “fucking up” either because this is all intentional. They know the evidence is fabricated, they just don’t care because it provides them an excuse to indulge their biases.

it’s reasonable to suggest you find another

If it’s “just a job” like working retail at Target, sure, that’s a respectable take. It’s still blaming the victim, but it’s also advocating for the victim to address the issue themselves.

But if it’s not “just a job”? If it’s your life’s work, your calling, something you love more than anything else?

That idea is very likely what drove her to the brink. You really have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.

I’ve been there and I almost didn’t survive. Choosing to live isn’t always so easy.

He saw the writing on the wall and decided to make a strategic exit. A definitive defeat now would permanently end his career as a politician, but by conceding he leaves the door open to possible future efforts like a presidential bid.

Accused of a crime? You can be held for to to 24 hours without official criminal charges.

Accused of being in the country without documentation? You can be held indefinitely, but maybe they’ll let you out sooner rather than later if they decide to acknowledge that they were wrong to nab you.

So profoundly fucked up.

Interestingly, Mexico is celebrating a change in their constitution that let’s them elect judges.

I don’t think the problem in America is the fact these people are elected. I think the problem in America is Americans.

In this case, the hospital doesn’t have to do anything like that because the anti abortion law itself is coercion enough. If the family does anything that could even potentially contribute to the fetus dying, such as refusing care, they’ll be prosecuted for murder. That they can’t afford the care is immaterial.

This is just trying to ban access to fluoride entirely

Well yeah. These are extremists, absolutists, radicals. Their dogma must be simple and without exceptions. If they admit even one scenario where fluoride has more benefits than deficits, their whole ideology and worldview crumbles. Nuance is an existential threat.

Related to this, there’s a Google translate button at the top that reads, in Turkish, “translate to Turkish”

Which could be evidence that the screenshot comes from somebody who speaks Turkish, which increases the chances that the person receiving the email is in Turkey.

That doesn’t answer your question, but it suggests that Bluesky may only be honoring requests regarding accounts they believe are subject to the local laws.

Two very important points:

• This is proof of nothing
• I personally will continue to use Mastodon instead of Bluesky

Only if you’re assuming benevolence on Trump’s part. What if we assume malice? Undermining a country’s water security is a big accomplishment.

That’s so fucking rage inducing, and then I read the article.

First paragraph

citing the 24-year-old’s future as a gynecologist

Holy fucking shit that’s fucking EVIL

Well, Sears went under because the CEO was a True Believer in the Libertarian/Atlas Shrugged/Starve The Beast method of running a business. He genuinely thought that making stores and even individual departments fight for ever reducing funding was going to make them better. What he learned is that when people have their livelihood at stake, they fight dirty and lie.

When Sears finally closed forever, he said he regretted it. Probably not as much as the people whose lives he ruined.

Afaik they’d have to go through customs for the country they’re trying to enter. I can’t recall ever having to deal with US customs when leaving the US, it’s always been the country I’m traveling to.