Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

PatrThom said:
It does not destroy my faith in humanity.
Because humanity would never be so inhumane to another human.
These people deserve the dehumanization they're getting.

--Patrick
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While I am using a joke to point out the irony is dehumanizing people for dehumanizing others, it is a dangerous thing to do. And not because I think you should be 'nice' to the monsters, but rather because we both must not become them, and also because we must acknowledge the inhumanity of man. There is no way forward while trying to deny it.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I fully grok that humans can be extremely selfish and short-sighted creatures. But I believe that in a world rapidly running out of livable space and resources, avarice and xenophobia are not the traits we should be prioritizing and encouraging.

--Patrick
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

GasBandit said:
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While I applaud initiative and can only hope anyone who is getting to be endangered because of who they are escapes...
Technically what is needed is more progressives moving *towards* purple and red states, not away from them.
I forget the exact numbers, but redistributing a ridiculously small number of people (comparatively) from CA to the "correct" states would give democrats a supermajority in the Senate.
This is likely to increase state polarization.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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  1. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy signed a deal with Musk’s DOGE and GSA to cut costs, including potentially eliminating the Postal Regulatory Commission, which has warned of nationwide mail delays.
  2. The White House filed an emergency Supreme Court request to begin denying citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented parents born after Feb. 19.
  3. Two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of workers fired Feb. 13-14. One also demanded a full employee list and reinstatement status of each in 7 days.
  4. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sued FEMA for halting $40M in emergency alert system upgrades, saying it endangers real-time disaster warnings.
  5. The WH withdrew its CDC nominee, former FL Rep. and physician Dave Weldon, who supports the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism and other conditions.
  6. Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the DOJ Inspector General to investigate interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin.
  7. A whistleblower report to the GSA IG alleges that real estate developer Brad Ehikian, brother of the GSA head, asked the government to sell his firm a Silicon Valley property for tens of millions below its valuation.
  8. The White House told Columbia it must overhaul discipline and admissions policies over its alleged failure to protect Jewish students before restoring $400M in canceled grants and contracts.
  9. Trump plans to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as early as Friday to allow the government to summarily arrest, detain, and deport non-citizens 14 and older.
  10. The union representing 47,000 TSA workers sued Homeland Security to block the administration from canceling its collective bargaining agreement.
  11. Representatives of Trump’s family discussed taking a financial stake in Binance US, while its founder sought a pardon from Trump.
  12. The top lawyer at the IRS is being demoted and replaced with a Trump ally who supports Musk’s DOGE unit.
  13. Trump claimed today that the U.S. will annex Greenland while meeting with NATO Sec-Gen Mark Rutte, prompting a Danish lawmaker to warn it would mean war between NATO allies.
 
MindDetective

MindDetective

Bubble181 said:
While I applaud initiative and can only hope anyone who is getting to be endangered because of who they are escapes...
Technically what is needed is more progressives moving *towards* purple and red states, not away from them.
I forget the exact numbers, but redistributing a ridiculously small number of people (comparatively) from CA to the "correct" states would give democrats a supermajority in the Senate.
This is likely to increase state polarization.
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That should be the relatively safe people, though. Middle-class, white, etc. LGBTQ+ should definitely move to safety if they are endangered.
 
Vrii

Vrii

Azurephoenix said:
So theoretically with all the "Strategic risk" that Canada poses if I were vacationing in the USA with my family we could be arrested, detained and deported with no actual reason other than his jack booted thugs were having a bad day?
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Been following the news lately? Tourists are already being grabbed and detained on flimsy (or no) pretenses.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Remind me when the last time was that Rs cos anything even remotely similar? Not even talking about the R leadership but even one damn member?
These ten are literally the pallbearers of democracy, surrendering to fascism. Fear of being thought "troublesome" or "contrary" is bigger than being thought to be on the wrong side of history.
Most of the Republican representatives and senators don't be remembered - these ten very well may be. And I very much doubt it'll be in any good sense.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

chris said:
@PatrThomArtist are not bound by a place to work.
Edit: sorry for the late responds
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I knew about two of them being artists, it was the language I wasn't sure about. "Fiance/Fiancé" is a word meaning "a person who is going to marry" and "Aside" means "next to/not attached/apart/out of the way," so I wasn't sure what the sentence was supposed to say.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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  1. A three-judge appeals panel lifted the block on Trump’s orders to end government support for DEI programs.
  2. Rubio expels black-led South African government’s Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool via X post, calling him a “race-baiting politician.”
  3. Six GOP congressmen introduced a bill to bar Chinese nationals from U.S. student visas and exchange programs.
  4. Greenland’s five political parties issued a joint statement rejecting Trump’s push to control or annex their country.
  5. Trump vowed to “expose” enemies and called for jailing perceived opponents in a rare Justice Department speech.
  6. A federal judge ruled Friday against immigration advocates trying to block Trump’s Guantanamo Bay migrant transfers.
  7. The Education Dept announced more than 40 universities are now under investigation for allegedly excluding white and Asian American students.
  8. Arlington National Cemetery removed references to Black, Hispanic, and female service members from its website as part of a broader Defense Dept effort to eliminate DEI content.
  9. Trump said he would stop the multi-year FBI headquarters move to MD because “it’s a liberal state,” claiming the location—just 14 miles away—was “three hours away.”
  10. Interim Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell wrote to staff after JD Vance and his wife were booed for over 30 seconds at a performance, saying intolerance toward political differences is the same as any other intolerance.
  11. Trump signed an order dismantling seven more federal agencies, including Voice of America’s parent and others handling homelessness and minority business development.
  12. A second Columbia University student who joined campus protests was arrested for overstaying her student visa.
  13. Oklahoma’s GOP-led education board approved social studies standards directing high school students to question the 2020 election, with language secretly added by Republican Supt. Ryan Walters before the vote.
  14. Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney, sworn in today, declared, “We will never, ever, in any way, shape, or form, be part of the United States.”
  15. Angry constituents booed and confronted NC GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards at an Asheville town hall before police removed a man and later escorted Edwards out.
 
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