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Awesome; I'll check it out. I'm not saying I necessarily agree ahead of time, but you're not wrong that I have no real idea about it beyond some stereotype guessing.

In practice, hold closed door meetings with the police enforcers and tell them to be more comprehensive in their enforcement before setting them up with drones and computers and guns needed to do it

he's going to tap into funds created by Congress for general purposes and placed under the administration of the executive branch to give grants or directly purchase computers and drones and guns

Do you have citations about this stuff? If you wanna replace my flip high school understanding of how the VP can (and has been, under Biden) impacting foreign policy with something more factually based, I'm down for that idea.

I thought this was gonna be about societal change

I mean, certainly the US isn’t uninvolved in fuckin up the economies and safety status of all these places that have gradually been becoming hellholes. You didn’t mention Honduras or Venezuela I noticed… yeah I mean not everything is our fault, but some is.

To the Biden administration’s credit, it was trying to pursue some kind of theory that what Harris was gonna be in charge of was addressing the root causes of this huge surge in immigration from the South. But even if we posit that she’s making a sincere effort in that regard (which, okay fine, I am fine with positing), what’s she gonna do? She’s gonna show up in her little Vice President cape and order the whole of US government and industry “Hey! I need you to stop stealing resources and destabilizing a nearby part of the world that’s not strong enough to prevent it! That is NOT COOL!” and they’re just gonna think it’s funny and keep doing it.

If you’re interested in seeing an upstate NY cop getting in a drunk judge’s face and screaming at him, as well as a whole bunch of peak upstate suburbia, this might entertain you.

Oh, I think it’s 100% plausible that they sourced some shitty Chinese titanium and are now trying to make that someone else’s fault. I’m just poking fun at the idea of them demanding paperwork from their suppliers (even if that’s a sensible thing to do now at this point) as if they just now learned about the issue and all their OWN paperwork and processes are in perfect order.

Some of the graffiti fonts are really quite good

Oh yeah it’s all that fuckin Chinese titanium

People were so worried thinking about titanium that they just plumb forgot to put the bolts in, but yeah if we can fix the titanium I’m sure that’ll clear right up

FediDB says Lemmy is steady. There are some interesting stats in there. There are about 44k monthly active users, which has been true for a while, and there was a huge influx of new instances shortly after Reddit Day, but most of them dropped off and the number of users per instance has been steadily climbing and the total active instances steadily falling.

Totally normal.

If I went into a Brazilian political forum and was super enthusiastic about telling the Brazilians who they should be voting for, and then after I made it sort of a part time job for a while, someone realized that I don't speak Portuguese and asked hey what's up with that, where are you from, and I said not, oh my wife is from Brazil so I'm into it, or yeah I moved here I'm living in Rio for the year for work but I haven't learned, or none of your business why but yes it's of interest to me, but HOW DARE YOU AD HOMINEM ME and receive it as an attack... yeah that would be super normal. Totally ordinary stuff.

Don’t forget getting CIA assets killed by the dozens and regularly shitting on himself

Surely it is a mark of the solid correctness of all of their views.

Just like Russia is the world’s most awesome military and economic juggernaut and it’s super not fair for anyone to be allowed to attack inside their borders because that is cheating.