aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)

This is reading, not writing. USB sends a dummy zero every few consecutive 1s for framing purposes. If you want the details Ben Eater has a great video on it.

The most important part of this is the primaries. If we fill these seats with a bunch of Chuck Schumers/Hakeem Jeffries it won’t make a difference. If we fill them with Zohran Mamdanis, on the other hand…

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Just trying to make the cops feel at home

When you want to feel special but not enough to go to the effort of using FreeBSD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

He did not carry out raids the likes of which we’ve seen in the past six months and he did not sanction them, which is what the comments about the meme are suggesting.

Obama absolutely did carry out and sanction deportation raids. To be clear, I’m not claiming he was as aggressive as Trump is being now. The image itself is an attempt to point out that Obama did so in a more orderly fashion.

My point, then, is that there can be “3.1 million ‘deported’” based on a very loose definition of a practical daily event at the border

Again, your characterization of these deportations all being people showing up at the border without papers is unsubstantiated. Nothing about expedited removal requires a person be present at the border. I could be mistaken about this, but a “removal” implies that a person is not at a border crossing. Indeed, in the MPI report, the tables listing deportation numbers have separate columns for border apprehensions and removals, and the removal column for Obama is at around 3M.

A few points: Obama had fewer border apprehensions and removals than both Bush and Clinton. This could be the case for any number of reasons, one of which could be lighter enforcement. But it is the case that the Obama administration bragged about its hawkishness on the border. My understanding is he did so in a failed attempt to appease the GOP and get DACA put into legislation. But regardless of all of this, it seems ICE under Obama did remove around 3 million people, not at the border.

Snopes rates the claim “US deported more than 3M people during Obama presidency. Most did not have chance to plead case in court” as mostly true. I truly do not understand how your characterization of these deportations follows from the link you posted and your quote from it.

This is not a savvy or mature take, it’s a pedantic take. And I am no stranger to pedantry.

Nobody looks at this headline and thinks the Trump admin is directly putting pollutants in the air.

Maybe I should just be less cynical, but this headline doesn’t make me think “this is satire.” It makes me think “yep, par for the course for republicans.” This is basically what they’ve been promising to do for decades. It’s one step away from a headline like “Republicans cut taxes for the wealthy.”

Guess I’m just lazy :/

It absolutely isn’t, but it’s good that he’s saying so anyway.

I mean, that is a resistor

Ideally a psychiatrist. Failing that, a licensed therapist. If you can get a hold of a social worker they can often point you in the right direction.

[edit: or talk to your doctor about it]

Legit heroes resigned. This coward should be put in stocks and subsequently run out of public life.

TIL https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chicken-tax.asp

Krasnov

Wat?

Wanting someone with disastrous mental health issues to not be capable of launching a nuclear strike isn’t ableism.

Would you loan a gun to a friend who’s been really depressed lately? According to you, you should.

Oh, I forgot that Truman, the only person in history to actually use nuclear weapons, famously only did so because he had depression. Or he was a perfectly mentally well person who was also a racist to the extent that he didn’t care about the lives of Japanese children. One of those. I always get it confused.

Anyway, the answer to who I would loan a gun to and who should be capable of launching a nuclear strike is the same: no one. But I would trust your averaged depressed person with the nuclear codes more than I would Trump. To be clear: if Trump has a mental illness, that is not the thing that is wrong with him. What’s wrong with him is that he’s a fascist.

I had a co-worker who said he didn’t want a woman to be president because “she’d start a war every month.” I guess he’s not really misogynist like I thought.

It’s always disappointing to see how much people on here hate people with mental disabilities. Under no circumstances would anyone be OK with comparing Donald Trump to another minority. I think even insulting him by calling him fat is perceived as too gauche. But ableism? 100% OK by most of Lemmy.

Friend, I’m sorry you read my comment as being an attack or an attempt to lure you out. It’s miscommunications like this that make me want to clarify things, which is why I asked instead of assuming. Another misunderstanding: By “throwing the election”, I didn’t mean being solely responsible for the electoral loss. What I mean by that is if you removed the tankie factor from the election, it could have gone the other way. Elections are won and lost on very fine margins. There may be 100 other things that had a similar impact which you could also say threw the election; none of them are solely responsible for it.

If you aren’t saying that they influenced the election to a degree that might have flipped it, then what is it we are “finding out” from their “fucking around”? And, do you consider having read many comments on lemmy as sufficient evidence to think that might be the case?