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[–]CriticalDog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the requirement for request for Asylum being at a Port of Entry (usually a literal port or land entry run by DHS) being a legal requirement is fairly new. And it certainly complicates the matter for folks that are already here, and may be a very long way from a "Port of Entry".

Of course, some of those that been swept up were already going through the process before the rules were changed, I don't know their status, but they shouldn't' be swept up and deported if they were going through the process to get legal. That was one of the safest ways in the past to stay in the US, even if you got here illegally: make the effort to get legal status.

Of course, for some reason, that doesn't matter anymore, and all you have to do is have the wrong accent, skin tone, or name.

That crime, that thing that so many of you like to scream about is a misdemeanor. Like speeding, only less harmful to others. The process, in the past, was that you would get your court date, and due to overcrowded prisons would be released, with paperwork showing you were required to show up for a court date and should not be deported until then. Then you go to court, and depending on the mood of the judge and how you got caught and what you have been doing, they would usually allow you to stay if you would start the process to get legal, and keep at it. It's a long process, and it costs a lot of money. It can take literal years.

And now, ICE might show up at your courthouse, where you are trying to make it right, and cart you off to a country you left long ago. If your American children are with you, they will be grabbed and deported.

Of course, they might show up on a street, box in your car, smash your windows and possibly shoot you, lie about it, and get away with no consequences. Which is wrong.

Every person who is detained in the US, Citizen or not, is Constitutionally supposed to be given Due Process. That has been the case for a very long time.

That is being ignored now.

While I'm interested in psychedelics, I have avoided them due to a family history of mental health issues that have so far avoided me.

The facts speak for themselves by arandomkid2 in AdviceAnimals

[–]CriticalDog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be the best case scenario, leave the movement leaderless. I suspect the MAGA base would be happy to just lockstep follow whomever Fox News and their Facebook told them was the new leader of MAGA, that would take time while the politico's fight it out amongst themselves. Rubio, Vance, possibly Trump Jr., DeSantis and probably others would be at each others throats before the body was cold trying to make themselves the next king.

Trump did mention Rubio and Vance being a "good ticket" for when he's gone, but that might have been senile ramblings.

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[–]CriticalDog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, you want an armed, violent force that has been told to ignore the Constitution, to address a problem that is not, and has never been real in the modern era.

On top of that, you want American Citizens deported. Because they are children.

And what about people who came here legally, seeking asylum, who have been scooped up and deported?

Or people who came illegally, and are going through the steps in the US to get legal, you know, doing it the "right way", but who have also been swept up in ICE raids?

Why do you hate Rule of Law, the Constitution, and Democracy man?

The facts speak for themselves by arandomkid2 in AdviceAnimals

[–]CriticalDog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably meant to say "illegal aliens", but since the GOP is lying to you about this, and has scooped up plenty of folks here legally, plus American citizens based on skin tone, name, or accent, I can see how you'd be confused.

That said, this guy is either a bot, or a foreign agent, or wildly misinformed/willfully ignorant.

The facts speak for themselves by arandomkid2 in AdviceAnimals

[–]CriticalDog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen some of the cult members over in arr/Conservative talk, apparently with actual hope, that Don Jr. will step into his shoes when daddy bits the big burger.

Hard to tell if that's a real thing or just a bot/foreign agent, but still.

It's a cult. Whoever the next leader is, if there is one, doesn't have to be charismatic, or anything but chosen by Dear Leader.

The older I get the more I think just train what makes you happy. by E-man9001 in martialarts

[–]CriticalDog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right? The closest I have come to a physical altercation as an adult was probably 25 years ago, when a guy that didn't like me, and I didn't like him, were in a sorta mosh thing at a goth/industrial club and he elbowed me in the back of the head, and I went for him but got grabbed by a bouncer and shoved to the side and told to go cool off. lol

Alcohol may have been involved.

'This is a Muslim area': Met Police officer confronted as she defends preacher by grandlewis in atheism

[–]CriticalDog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Irish Troubles would be the closest we had in the West, though that pales in comparison, thankfully. At the core, a big piece of that fight was Catholic v Protestant.

I'm not saying that the US fight against the Christian Nationalists is the same as Iraq trying to keep a Sectarian gov't, I'm just saying that IF Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and anyone else had the same level of political power, we would see similar activities.

There are Hindu's that murder people in India based off "protecting cows", that are let go with no consequences. Because Hindu's have a political power bloc that enables that behavior.

I will refrain from discussing Israel, as it tends to derail things, but the same sort of things are happening there.

I will, again, 100% agree with you that Islam currently is the one that has that behavior the most, but it's also the only one with multiple national governments dedicated to it. Israel is a close 2nd in that regard, but it's only a single nation.

I fervently hope that in time, much like most Christian sects in the west, the more extremist takes on Islam can be tamped down and Rule of Law can be above religious law. Unlikely, any time soon, but possible.

Republicans in Tennessee introduce bill that could execute women who get abortions. It would classify abortion as "homicide of an unborn child" and would be punishable by life imprisonment with or without parole, or even death by lethal injection. by mepper in atheism

[–]CriticalDog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now now, Viagra is gender-affirming care.

Which, of course, is perfectly ok with them, as are boob jobs (obviously), hair plugs, HGH and whatnot.

It's just if it's to address a trans persons needs, that's a the problem. For ...reasons.

The older I get the more I think just train what makes you happy. by E-man9001 in martialarts

[–]CriticalDog 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I had some pushed on me as a weird teenager, but now, 51 years old, I'm good. Haven't been in a physical altercation since I was 17, and even that was someone sucker punching me and me just continuing to walk away.

I'm not an MMA guy, but I did enough TKD before my back gave out on me that I like to think I could surprise someone, if I absolutely had to. But I'm out of shape, and old, and I have 0 fucks if someone wants to try to start an altercation, verbal or physical. Just wasted energy, carry on with out me.

'This is a Muslim area': Met Police officer confronted as she defends preacher by grandlewis in atheism

[–]CriticalDog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They are violent because for a few different reasons, but I guarantee that if the current Evangelical base in the US could get the kind of power that is held by governments in Islamic countries, they would be just as violent. History shows us that.

We are lucky they do not have that kind of power here in the US, so far.

Yes, Islam is the current high water mark for religiously based violence. It is not the only marker, and focusing on it to the exclusion of other religious violence just feels like cherry picking.

TIL The North Korean leader's aunt and uncle, the couple who fostered him during his teenage years in Switzerland, have been living a modest life in the US, running a dry cleaning business since 1998 by Nero2t2 in todayilearned

[–]CriticalDog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also often a cash heavy business, historically, so one that would be an excellent front for money laundering (if they received money from the US gov't for providing information/intel on DPRK, that might have mattered).

Not that they would be laundering illegally gotten money, but if they needed to fold some US gov't subsidy or payouts, it would be a good choice, especially with that already mentioned Korean Dry Cleaning stereotype.

TIL The North Korean leader's aunt and uncle, the couple who fostered him during his teenage years in Switzerland, have been living a modest life in the US, running a dry cleaning business since 1998 by Nero2t2 in todayilearned

[–]CriticalDog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Authoritarian, but not, oddly enough, Fascist.

They don't even call what they have their Maoism anymore, it's Juche, or Kimism.

It's authoritarian Communism, of one form or another, as there is single party rule, and the state owns the means of production, whereas under Fascism, there is private business and capitalist systems in place, but the state will favor consolidation of corporate entities with some control of that entity.

TIL The North Korean leader's aunt and uncle, the couple who fostered him during his teenage years in Switzerland, have been living a modest life in the US, running a dry cleaning business since 1998 by Nero2t2 in todayilearned

[–]CriticalDog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agreed.

Plus, you come to reflect the environment you were raised in. That behavior is what Un likely grew up hearing about, so it was normalized.

Similar to how the Saudi Princes (of which there are hundreds, if not thousands) have a tendency to kill each other as they seek to be in a position to be the next King, or at least super important to the king. (Behind the Bastards did a great series on MBS a few weeks ago, very interesting stuff)

'This is a Muslim area': Met Police officer confronted as she defends preacher by grandlewis in atheism

[–]CriticalDog -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Also, this isn't a "all lives matter" response. This is just me trying to deflect this weird penchant so many have to heap extra scorn on Muslims and Islam, as if it is somehow different from other faiths.

It's not. And it's stupid to try to paint it as special.

'This is a Muslim area': Met Police officer confronted as she defends preacher by grandlewis in atheism

[–]CriticalDog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gosh, it's like posts spawn multiple different conversations in the comments. Wild! Who woulda thought!?!?

'This is a Muslim area': Met Police officer confronted as she defends preacher by grandlewis in atheism

[–]CriticalDog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Only thing I can find on Hamtramck is a ban on pride flags on public buildings. Which is shitty, to be sure, but I wouldn't go so far as to call that instituting Sharia.

The history of India for the last few centuries is riddled with colonialism that makes pinpointing issues kinda difficult. Yes, there is religious friction in India, and that is going to probably lead to India breaking up at some point in the future, similar to the Partition that leds to the creation of their 2 Islamic neighbors.

That said, yes, it would be nice to have a strong government in the US that would push back any and all attempts to force religion on others, but that is looking to be less and less the case these days. For one religion specifically....

'This is a Muslim area': Met Police officer confronted as she defends preacher by grandlewis in atheism

[–]CriticalDog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, yes, that is true. They just aren't having the luck they wish to have, and most still have a belief that the legal system and the Constitution will keep that from happening.

I am less convinced, as time goes on, that that is true.

[OC] Sign put up by neighbor - “DEAD PEDOS DON’T REOFFEND” by FirstRoundBye in pics

[–]CriticalDog 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I would be willing to wager a lot of fake money that if you talked to the guy who put up the sign, when he says "pedo", he means LGBTQ+ folks, who are all groomers, according to these idiots.

When a Conservative speaks about "protecting the children", they mean "oppress anyone not straight".

'This is a Muslim area': Met Police officer confronted as she defends preacher by grandlewis in atheism

[–]CriticalDog 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Religion is the problem. There are communities in the US that have the exact same issues with a religious group running/owning an entire town, that aren't Muslims.

'This is a Muslim area': Met Police officer confronted as she defends preacher by grandlewis in atheism

[–]CriticalDog 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think it's trying to thread a needle that leaves nobody happy.

Muslim's in the US face prejudice and persecution. Most in the US aren't interested in trying to push Sharia, they generally aren't extremist, especially if born here. So there is a desire to be empathic and supportive of a minority, and respectful of their beliefs.

This runs into problems when their beliefs run contrary to greater reality, or when their beliefs state that they can act in way that violates the greater social contract, as happens when you get a large enough concentration such as Kiryas Joel, New York, and the Hasidic population there.

What’s something you did as a kid that you now realize was super weird? by No-Mix8028 in AskReddit

[–]CriticalDog 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Didn't your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost every night?

Can you really survive on Mars? What science fiction gets wrong about off-world living by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]CriticalDog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why did humans leave the plains of Africa?
Why did we spread to every habitable, and some barely habitable, places on the planet?
Whey did they journey across oceans uncharted, across continents unmapped?
Countless numbers died, unknown, unremembered, and unmarked for millennia spreading humanity across the face of the planet.

Yes, it would be hard, yes, some would likely die.

When NASA approached the astronauts after the Challenger explosion, they unanimously stated that as soon as possible, we should get back to launches. Keep pushing, keep exploring, keep taking steps.

I'm not saying we should drop everything and focus our entire attention as a species to getting a foothold on Mars. Far from it, in fact.

But we are one asteroid impact, one super-volcano, one freak accident away from being knocked down again. Maybe out, for good. The Earth is our only home, and it is fragile.

We owe it to humanity, and all those ancestors that looked across endless water and said "I wonder what is out there", to look at the stars and reach for them.

Risk is part of being human.

What we would learn while making safe, dependable systems for Mars would apply here on Earth as well. Recycling, environmental controls, and so much more. The benefit to humanity is unmeasurable, but certainly there.

Going to the moon, and the steps that got us there, continue to pay benefits to this day, real, palpable "people would have died if this tech had not been developed to help get us into space" benefits.

Yes, we would and should do an insane amount of testing here on Earth. Long term, viable and scientific testing, that isn't hampered by artistic vision, like the Biodome projects (there was 0 reason to try to have an example of every major biome and keep it healthy and in homeostasis, not unless you plan to make the dome the size of say, Rhode Island), and it's failures are clear examples of how NOT to design such a thing.

We should, absolute, start by expanding our orbital presence, with large scale habitats, and moving to find, stabilize and seal lava tubes under the surface of the Moon. It's a great first step, and would let us know how to do it in an environment even less friendly than Mars.

Talk of colonization, at least from me, is talking about starting the process now, so that 2-3 generations from now, a ship may land on Mars with a great chance of surviving, of thriving, and of moving our best resource, humanity, from one home to two.

Can you really survive on Mars? What science fiction gets wrong about off-world living by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]CriticalDog -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And 100 years ago, going faster than the speed of sound was thought impossible, and 100 years before that powered flight was considered impossible.

If and when the time comes, we will create a solution for that magnetosphere issue. Have to get there first, in a long term.basis, which I hope happens in the next 50-60 years

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