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  • If the usa turned inward on itself any more it would become a black hole.

    I’m no fan of dhs. But on a national scale. On a world scale, This is insane and dangerous. It’s mind blowing how badly our government is behaving and the short sightedness of it all. Multiple countries at war or on the verge of war. Elimination of usaid and most foreign aid. Intelligence organizations decimated by layoffs and budget cuts. Internal conflicts rising and dissent growing. A paramility forming that can ignore our internal rules and arrest people on a whim…

    This is what happens when the people in charge have no idea what they are doing.

    This will take decades to sort out. Maybe more. And we have years more of exactly this sort of behavior.

    The American empire is falling. Torn apart from the inside by greedy madmen.

    As an American, I can’t say I’m thrilled about it. But God damn it is happening quickly.


  • I’m a dairy farmer. A lot of my friends and associates are too. Our community is built on immigrant labor.

    This is wrecking shit. The paranoia is at levels you cant imagine. The workers are scared. The owners are scared. Regardless of income level or status, everyone is stressed to say the least.

    The only consolation I have had was, just this past weekend, I got to look at my neighbor who was stressing and venting about what he will do when ice shows up. And I looked this man dead in the eyes and told him “you got exactly what you voted for, and exactly what you supported”

    And he looked at me and agreed. “Yeah, you are right” he was defeated. To say that to me is an acknowledgement of absolute defeat.

    It’s funny It sounds nice to think “I warned you”. That smug superiority sounds good in your mind. It’s vindication. It’s another thing entirely to watch you community terrified to move because they collectively fucked up. Vindication doesn’t help the people kidnapped from your community. The destruction of generations of work and mutual cooperation.

    What a fucking shitty consolation prize.








  • I own a dairy. We pay a fare wage. I’ve never had a white guy last longer than a week. Jobs for immigrants, legal or not, are important to my community, my local economy, and our nation as a whole. Historically, this sort of thing is old hat.

    I’m constantly torn listening to the comments and replies on Lemmy that are spot on, but also have no context to how anything actually works.

    My " no kings" truck window paint today drew some ire from the locals, but I’ll stand by my employees and friends. It maybe helps that I’ve also been driving around for years with a “Ted Cruz ate my son” and a local NPR sticker as well. They know not to talk politics at the bar with me anymore. But damn it if I’m not trying in my own way.

    All in all, we may be staring to make some headway on this immigration/ice thing. But it’s not happening fast enough. It never should have gotten this bad to begin with.





  • Yeah I’m the idiot for not believing I can outlast a United States government spending spree.

    Have you seen all the wars we’ve been in the last 25 years? Have you seen our defence budget? Our janitorial budget? Our paper clip budget? Fucking hell. For all the financial suffering you are willing to “suffer through”, most goes to corporations. Not the government.

    You aren’t even a rounding error in the feds books. To do that would make you a multimillionaire.

    And the people around you? Yeah good luck. Just a fraction of a percent under fifty percent, believe it or not, they voted for this shit. They have been playing the ‘financial suffering for the greater good’ card since the tariffs started. And they are better organized and propogandized. Trust me, I’ve heard it a lot. And they even have hats!

    Let’s try to come up with some better reasoning before you think your personal morals and convictions can outlast the united states ability to throw money at literally everything…






  • The funny thing about Elon going to war, is that Elon will lose. Fantastically so. The ketamine must still be flowing hard. 5 years ago Trump’s base hated his cars. It’s only when Elon hitched his cart to maga that they started to like him. An unsold cyber trucks are in mall parking lots and his stocks globally are tanking.

    So, now Tesla’s stock is in the shitter. Liberals hate him and don’t want his cars. And now the GOP will flip on him and also not buy his cars. He’s also now going to wreck his government contracts with SpaceX. Mars will never happen for him. And now Twitter will take an even bigger hit. Those ai protections can be drafted to exclude him and his companies too.

    He will absolutely damage trump and split a few people off, but he was in a losing position to begin with. Even with damning evidence and the persuasive media skills and charisma of a much more talented individual, he is so fucking cooked. Without that… Well, now there is only one psychopathic narcissist in the leadership role. So that’s nice.



  • English as a language was seen as too easy. So we decided to mix it up.

    Why would you ever be the global language of trade and commerce and the go between for multiple nations, whose entire structure is a hodgepodge of latin, Germanic, and mistranslated root structures and made up rules, if you didn’t decide to mix it up from time to time and region to region?

    Embrace the bastard language standard. This is the way.