I know, right? It would be insane to claim that trying to hire more judges is an exercise in deliberate cruelty. I am glad to have you as an ally in this assertion, because there are lots of people who are claiming all kinds of weird things about what Biden's attempting to do at the border and why.
Anyway, like I said, I won't keep you; I'll go and sealion somewhere else I guess.
Interesting. So, if you want to clarify that "the only action he can take is deliberate cruelty" doesn't apply to hiring more judges, and that you think hiring more judges isn't deliberately cruel, then cool -- obviously, I agree with you about that.
If you want to seize on that one sentence to pretend I'm engaged in bad faith and flee the conversation at this stage -- and not engage with anything else I said or asked you -- I won't stop you. I think actually it's probably a good idea tactically for you to do so. Cheers.
That's awesome -- an actual answer. I can work with this. Follow-up question: Why is "nothing" the right answer to this and this? Why would you describe hiring more judges as deliberate cruelty?
I do actually agree on some of the actual cruelty things he tried to offer the Republicans, as a compromise, but that's a very small minority of the things this administration has tried to do about the border, and when they did it didn't happen anyway. The majority of what they're doing as far as I know has been things like hiring more judges (i.e. obviously the right thing to do) or limiting the number of people coming in the country (which was an attempt to deal with problem #2 which also worsened problem #1, but it's hard to see it as some villainous act, to me, given that problem #1 exists).
You gotta get the little potato some friends, otherwise they'll develop mental health issues
I’ll ask you, then, the same thing I have asked a few other people who have made this same assertion: what should Biden do, then? If presumably we can agree that it’s bad people waiting in ICE custody for over a year for their cases to be heard, then what solution to it should he pursue, that you wouldn’t then criticize as cruelty?
If the court adheres to a strict history-centric approach, as Thomas favors
I do not need to read this article. Clarence Thomas does not adhere to a strict anything centric approach unless the centric is money for him, and sexual harassment.
There absolutely is a border crisis, just not the type that the right is claiming there is. For the most part, it roots back to a sudden wild spike upwards in the number of people coming into the country, which causes two big problems:
Then, add to that that the whole agency in charge of the border police is for the most part made of racist people, and then add overcrowding and shortage of resources, and it's fuckin bad for the people who are winding their way slowly through the system.
Biden is unable to fix the problems, although (aside from the racist police) they do have legislative solutions, because the Republicans block anything he does, even when he tried promising to do some cruel or racist things as a compromise in order to get them to also agree to some badly needed things (mostly, increasing ICE funding so they can at least house the people they have in better conditions, and increasing the number of judges to process cases so people don't wait for a year before their case is heard).
And, any time he tries to do anything about it, e.g. reducing the rate of people allowed to come across the border or increasing funding for ICE, everyone on the left as far as I can tell thinks he's just being cruel on purpose for no reason and gets really mad at him.
"Look, Abby, as you mentioned, I'm a Democrat and the mayor of the largest city in the state, and we're proud to host the Republican National Convention."
You know they're going to have a list of all the registered Democrats pulled from voter data, ready to go, if Trump wins, right?
I don't know what they're going to do with it, exactly, but the endgame is that you are functionally unable to vote for a Democrat in the 2028 election one way or another. Probably just whichever way winds up being less trouble for them. You should not under any circumstances be hosting their convention, let alone saying you're proud to do so.
I think you broke the code 🙂
Look back through the channel's history, it's all breakthroughs and advances and disasters for Ukraine, and has been for the last 1.5 years, as the front line has been in fits and starts and stalls working its way back out of Ukraine and towards the Russian border.
The polls are absolute shit. You can draw a little bit of a conclusion that if Biden went up by 2 points, that probably means that wherever the real answer is, it might not be crazy to think it went up by somewhere from 1 to 3 points because of something that happened. That part may be worth being slightly happy about. But whether that real answer is +2 like they say, or -10, or +20, modern polls actually can't tell you, and all these people that are telling you they can, are lying. In my opinion.
Source: I looked through the methodology they actually use for this polling and found it to be dogshit, and then looked up a few polls for recent elections and found that the poll differed from the actual result of the election by an average of 16 percentage points.
"Well, he tried to kill the vice president and many congress people because he lost the election and wanted to seize power anyway and they wouldn't help him. Also, he got dozens of CIA agents killed by just handing over top secret information for no reason at all to our active enemies during a shooting war. He stole, he lied, he got people killed, he put Hispanics in concentration camps, and during a second term he wants to do it all again, but with less guard rails of the people who were able to stop him doing much much worse the first time. He wants to shoot protestors and have the military seize the voting machines. He wants to do away with term limits and make it illegal for the media to criticize him. He wants to put all his enemies in prison. He wants a nationwide database of any woman that gets an abortion. It's literally impossible to even list what he has done or wants to do without missing something so grave that it would disqualify any other human being on the planet, but there are so many that they begin to blend together and you can lose sight of how terrifying they truly are individually."
"But wait, now you're telling me he fucked a lady who wasn't his wife and lied about it? Well, in that case, I gotta tell you my mind is pretty much made up about this guy then."
I had one of the lemmy.ml people tell me that this was all Putin's plan from the beginning, just to invade like 100 km across the border and stop there for 2 years to bleed the West dry in an extended war of attrition, and it's going perfectly according to plan, and now that the whole of the West is running out of industrial capacity to even be able to sustain the war anymore, they're almost ready to move on to phase 2 where they start winning again and take over Ukraine.