ICE has no jurisdiction over American citizens. All they can do is detain/arrest someone obstructing their legal role: detaining and deporting immigrants. Further, all law enforcement, federal and local are trained NOT to handle that situation with a civilian by shooting them in the face while they are behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. He acted stupidly and illegally, which one suspects he knew since he fled the scene.

Additionally, federal officials are constitutionally prohibited from forcing their way into your residence without a warrant signed by a judge.

So while ICE has a narrow legal mandate, they have far outstripped those bounds.

Trump just proposed increasing the defense budget from $900 billion in 2026 to $1.5 trillion in 2027. So, I expect you’re correct.

You’re just airing your frustrations with this response. None of this is actionable advice about what Americans should actually be doing that takes in mind the advice of the person you are responding to.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I presume you mean that it was an exercise in preaching to the choir.

But the way you put it seems to denigrate the white liberals themselves. Are you actively scorning valuable supporters?

Prior to the protests, there was a lot of discussion about how people of color, and especially black Americans, were always the ones putting their neck on the line for progress in this country and that they felt particularly vulnerable and that it was time for white people to stand up. I heard that line repeatedly. So why are we criticizing them for standing up when we told them to stand up?

How about you try to be inclusive and encourage as many people to join your cause as possible?!

His misogyny terrifies me. But plenty of gay men believe women are fully equal humans and even enjoy our company.

And what if she just lies? This is more or less true for me: I have an IUD that has more or less ended my periods. Whenever they ask me for a last period I just say I don’t have one and that I am not pregnant. I do not entertain any of their speculation. If you have no intention of remaining pregnant, it’s a good enough answer.

I am skeptical of your story because I don’t think any medical facility would accept the result of a pregnancy test not administered by a medical professional.

The person you responded to was also bashing third-party voting.

Honestly, I’d rather people educate themselves and vote third parties than not vote like 40% of the country did. If third parties got a large piece of the vote, they could get public funding and make their voices heard more. Sure, there’s only two sides to every issue, but you could have coalition style like in Europe.

But our two parties conspire to monopolize the seats of power just like the corporations that buy them.

It’s the one-two punch of poor education and the propaganda of our media environment.

Nothing will change until MAGA Americans have to eat the shit sandwich they’ve been making.

Unfortunately, many of them will be unable (due to a combination of a lack of education and a steady diet of propaganda) to understand the source of their new rations.

While I agree that nothing will change if we just languish in defeatism, look at the list!

https://www.senate.gov/senators/Class_II.htm

I can really only imagine about 4 of those being competitive. Most of those states are deep red, and Republicans aren’t known for stepping out of line to make a moral stand.

The midterms can’t fix this. The most the midterms can do is deliver a majority in the House. We can’t roll back anything and we can’t hold anyone accountable with just the House. You can block legislation, but Trump has basically gone around Congress anyway so that he doesn’t have to compromise with non-MAGA Republicans.

Even IF the election is fair (big IF, if you ask me), it still is basically useless. 2024 was the end of a functional federal government.

When a link is dead, does Wikipedia allow you to change it to an archived copy of the webpage from before it was taken down?

Your baseline assumption here is that interaction with another person is burdensome. Most people don’t feel that way, and if they do, they probably don’t work in the service industry.

So, presuming the doordasher finds human interaction to be neutral (neither good nor bad), and understanding that the customer is not making the joke at the expenses of the door dasher, I fail to see how this is a problem, even if the dasher doesn’t get it. Someone trying to share a joke with you, even if you don’t get it, is usually perceived as friendly.

Exactly. Snapchat could 100% filter and flag this using AI if anyone cared to make them.

I think the adults here were just tech-illiterate school administrators from small town Louisiana.