faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
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faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
1mo ago
It sounds fine to me for the message they're trying to push. Am I turning into a boomer?
faul_sname
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1mo ago
- Yeah, agreed on that. They can, however, cultivate a narrative that further increases the salience of the things that the mainstream-left media already loudly objects to. And this seems to be their strategy, at least with their decisions with the Hyundai plant (I haven't seen the "gotta catch em all" video)
- I think they are strategically trying to instill a sense of impotence and anger in a specific group of people (specifically the group of people who vocally backs sanctuary cities and similar things), on the working theory that if those people feel angry and impotent they will do counterproductive rage-signalling things instead of actually-obstructive process things.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Radio is now a "medical treatment" in the sense that unlicensed people are no longer allowed to do it without a license from the board, yes. It's not a medical treatment under the lay interpretation of those words. Terms within a legal context sometimes mean something different than terms outside a legal context. It's quite obnoxious as a layperson trying to understand laws.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Agreed :(
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Yes, the fact that one of the three branches of government has decided not to do their job does seem to be the root of the problem here.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
... that sure sounds like "ICE is intentionally cultivating a particular narrative about who they are" to me. I don't get why people here are so averse to the idea that ICE has PR people and those PR people are decent at their jobs.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
So if ATF started releasing videos like that you'd think it's fine and not a worrying sign about how they see themselves?
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Or evidence that their optics are exactly what they want them to be and they're reasonably competent at cultivating the appearance they want to have. So far I see no evidence that ICE wants to cultivate an image of professionals who dot every i and cross every t, and quite a bit of evidence that they want to cultivate an image as badass thugs who are getting shit done in terms of kicking anyone illegal out of America, no matter who they are and no matter why they think they're safe.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
but there isn’t really a replacement for illegal labor on farms
Actual visas for the particular types of workers you want to bring in would be the way a functional country would handle this.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Why should the $25-50B go to Trump? I would think it would go towards the federal budget.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
They're not particularly slow though? They do go on the freeway now. And they've rolled out in Atlanta, which does sometimes get snow and ice, though not nearly as badly as you see in the north or midwest.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
If people can make radio transmissions without a license from the state medical board and they would face no repercussions for doing that, the state medical board is not regulating radio transmissions.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
A decade ago everyone was saying more or less the same thing about autonomous vehicles, yet a true AV seems further away now than it did then
Waymos are already doing paid autonomous rides. They're not quite as adaptable as good human drivers but they're way way ahead of the SOTA of 2015.
it's also a problem which can be solved through the approach of "deport illegals and other foreigners before they take over neighborhoods and fundamentally change it" bringing us back to the subject issue
Again, see Detroit, Birmingham, etc. Basically no immigrants and yet they are the way they are. Keep foreigners out before they change the neighborhood did not work in those cases. Why expect it will in others? Especially why expect that when the most desirable cities to live in are the ones with the most foreigners?
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Wow, thanks for the scholarship. Amazing!
To actually fingerprint and process the defendant requires them to get him into the facility or a similar facility (which local municipalities won't let them use), and then he'd have to be taken back to the hospital.
This seems like it could plausibly be the thing I was missing. Although I don’t think they need to take fingerprints to issue a NTA. Could be wrong about that though, not a domain expert here. If that's the case, and if ICE mentioned it in the documents that are not available through PACER but the judge ignored it, then I no longer think ICE was egregiously in the wrong here. Two ifs though.
Anyway, I'm pretty baffled by this case, it'll be interesting to see how it develops.
I'm implying that ethnic spoils systems aren't a particularly interesting or significant part of what's going on with NYC or LA. If you ask people "what is New York an engine of" or "what is LA an engine of" you're very unlikely to get an answer like "ethnic spoils" even from the most race realist types.
places with high numbers of illegals are dirty, overcrowded, dysfunctional, and foreign, in addition to them having higher crime and being generally low-trust
This sounds like a problem that can be solved through the approach of "don't live in such places". There are plenty of such places. I will say, having grown up in a majority-hispanic area of southern california that "overcrowded, dysfunctional, and foreign" is not a description that fits LA very well. LA is a sprawling, wealthy, soulless suburb stretching to the horizon with occasional pockets of city sprinkled throughout.
even willing to commute multiple hours to live outside of these places
People who commute for hours into LA are largely doing it because they're priced out of anywhere closer, not because they're trying to get away from immigrants. The exurbs have more immigrants, not fewer - e.g. Victorville (most stereotypical LA exurb) is 55% hispanic and only 18% white.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
tl;dr: Anti-ICE protestors look far more reprehensible and contemptible than the officers do.
I agree with this, particularly the ones in those videos. I just disagree that "better than the worst protestors" is the standard we should be aiming for.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
The Constitution is dead. America is dead.
Man, fuck that noise. America is the best country. We have problems, but there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be. The whole reason this thread exists in the first place is that America is a great place and too many people want to live here.
I am beginning to wonder if patriotism is going to flip towards being blue coded, it sure seems to be trending that way.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Where are you seeing the sealed documents? I see some paywalled ones that haven't yet been added to RECAP but nothing before Sep 30. Am I looking in the wrong place?
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Looking at foreign-born fraction, I see
- Birmingham AL: 4.36% foreign-born
- St Louis MO: 6.47% foreign-born
- Memphis TN: 7.38% foreign-born
- Baltimore MD: 8.67% foreign-born
- Detroit MI: 5.87% foreign-born
For reference 13.8% of all US residents are foreign-born by the same metric. If you're going to Notice things about the populations of those cities, the things you notice are not going to be immigration-related.
Unless you're saying the hispanic people have a sense of racial solidarity with other minorities, to which I have to ask whether you've ever talked to a mexican person because they are usually second only to indians in expressed racism.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Temperature check: do you think ICE should do whatever it takes to accomplish their goals, even when those goals involve behavior which is clearly unlawful, as long as they mostly limit unlawful behavior to people who are in the country illegally? If your answer is "yes", I'm not sure how productive of a conversation we can have here.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Top 5 are Memphis TN, Oakland CA, St Louis MO, Little Rock AR, Tacoma WA. Oakland is the only one of those I particularly associate with immigrants. Also I don't really like the methodology of weighting larceny equal to murder. Looking at murder rate alone which is harder to fudge the top 5 are Birmingham AL, St Louis MO, Memphis TN, Baltimore MD, Detroit MI. Larceny theft alone does put Oakland and Portland near the top, which tracks.
Regardless, the "immigrants specifically make cities bad to live in" hypothesis doesn't seem particularly reflective of reality.
faul_sname
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1mo ago
Right, and this is why the cities with the largest foreign-born fraction (Miami, San Jose, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco) are the poorest, most crime-ridden cities in the country, while the cities containing the lowest fraction of foreign-born Americans (Detroit, Louisville, Memphis, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City) are beacons of safety and prosperity.
On the one hand, selection effects are absolutely a thing, and will explain at least some of that trend. On the other hand it sure doesn't look to me like foreigners turn cities into ethnic spoils engines, except to the extent that they make cities wealthy and some of that wealth goes to spoils.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
1mo ago
Before 3 happens you get "the price of food rises enough that the voters get unhappy, and unhappy voters are bad for reelection chances".
My understanding is that this is basically accurate and that by redefining certain types of speech as "professional conduct" states can indeed regulate those types of speech. But that the courts will slap them down if they try to push it too far.
That said, I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and the fact that you see that disclaimer everywhere is a case in point.
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