silence7

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[–] silence7@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Its who the US military was allowed to randomly kill in Vietnam.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Mostly, an effort to shift public opinion against the federal attack on citizens, to in turn pressure Trump

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

They do. Slowly, imperfectly, and some of the time.

It's worth doing in parallel with other efforts.

 

I'll also note this:

Crop insurance companies are already strategizing how to minimize their losses as climate change intensifies. Since they receive federal subsidies, they cannot withdraw from markets as easily as home insurance providers have in fire-, hurricane- and flood-prone areas.

Last year, the federal government blocked insurance providers’ attempts to pull out of West Texas, a region that’s been scorched by heat and drought.

 

ICE is legally required to give them access to inspect it.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It takes active recruitment if we want the military on the side of the people.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Even the big operations break in unexpected ways. Facebook accidentally broke the authentication for their door locks when they took the site down a few years back and had to fly people to a datacenter and break down a door to get to servers and restart things.

 

Note that the violence, as usual, is almost entirely on the part of the cops

 

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Background from NPR

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

ICE has been raiding elementary schools in the past few days.

I dont expect 2nd graders to read the article.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Good luck once locked up without the right to an attorney

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for letting us know what is going on.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Most kids don't have the set of photos you describe in government databases.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Welcome to America

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if they care to

ICE doesn't care if your skin is too dark, or your name sounds vaguely Arabic or Spanish.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

The problem is that you're probably not lying in wait with a mythical concealed-carry shotgun. Realistic sequences that have happened in the recent past:

  • A couple guys wearing utility company uniforms ask to step inside to diagnose a problem. They then jump you and arrest you.
  • Your camera system stops working due to jamming. Then 15 armed men break through your door and surprise you while you're asleep in bed.
  • Several people in the crowd at your kid's graduation ceremony suddenly surround you and zip-tie your wrists before you realize what's going on.

You're going to be dealing with a situation where you don't see in advance what's happening, and where you're confronted with a whole batch of people who are heavily armed and wearing body armor. That's a situation where one individual acting alone is very unlikely to succeed in killing an assailant with a gun.

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