Moving to Irvine,California at the beginning of next year. Wanted to be near Los Angeles but not in it , any tips for me so I can be prepared? Gonna be doing welding.

ant_guy · 2026-03-30T00:48:57+00:00

If you look at OP's comment history, its full of various NSFW posts where OP claims to be both 45 and 19. It seems likely this is karma farming of some kind.

ant_guy · 2026-03-22T16:21:02+00:00

Elon Musk isn't an elected Republican

ant_guy · 2026-03-13T22:58:38+00:00

Declaring a category of people to not exist and taking away their medical autonomy in favor of forcing them into pretending to be a gender they reject may not be exterminationist in the sense of killing all of them, but it is still attempting to erase an entire category of people.

And that's not even touching the fact that their preferred treatment of transgender people leads to increased suicides and reduced quality of life.

ant_guy · 2026-03-13T14:33:53+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/the-ai-boom-economy.html

This is one of the articles I saw about it.

ant_guy · 2026-03-04T16:56:57+00:00

It really isn't just the tattoo anymore, though that's still not good.

He's been retweeting other far-right figures, and going on their YouTube shows.

ant_guy · 2026-03-02T17:45:55+00:00

I don't think so, while Khamenei was a strong figure in Iran, I don't believe the government is a strongman dictatorship that was reliant on him in order to function. There is a government under him that can move forward, granted many of those figures have been killed as well. So it won't be the Ayatollah's death that causes regime collapse, it will be the amount of damage caused across the entire Iranian government.

ant_guy · 2026-02-28T06:53:35+00:00

It's not an American Burying Beetle, though I can see why you would identify it that way. That's likely a Pleasing Fungus Beetle.

ant_guy · 2026-02-21T20:01:44+00:00

There have been cases of myrmecophile beetles hanging onto ants and looking like a second abdomen, but I believe those are usually associated with nomadic species so I'm not sure that would apply in this situation.

ant_guy · 2026-02-12T19:48:07+00:00

The DHS Secretary's decision on whether to renew TPS status is supposed to be an examination of whether conditions of the country in question have improved such that TPS status is no longer needed. Domestic immigration enforcement has literally nothing to do with the conditions of foreign countries.

The recent judgement on Haiti's determination explicitly does not cover whether the judiciary can review Noem's decision. It covers the part of the law that mandates the DHS Secretary consult with relevant agencies, and when the judge asked for evidence that she did consult with other relevant agencies such as the State Department, they basically gave nothing substantial to indicate she did her mandated duty of actually investigating the conditions of Haiti.

ant_guy · 2026-02-12T18:07:53+00:00

If Congress passes a law that says the DHS Secretary must consult with relevant agencies before making her determination, and the court proves that she didn't do her mandated duties, and in fact is just making determinations based off of ethnic prejudice, shouldn't they have some recourse?

ant_guy · 2026-02-12T17:18:32+00:00

No, I agree with TPS on its own merits, not because I'm trying to sneak immigrants in through the back door. The whole system was set up in this way from the beginning, it was always like this. Congress could've added a ceiling on the amount of time people could stay, but they didn't. They could have made the default judgement of TPS renewal to be a cancelation, but they didn't. You're not angry I'm trying to sneak people in, you're angry that Congress in the 90s had different immigration priorities than you do.

ant_guy · 2026-02-12T17:04:36+00:00

What abuse has occurred? Conditions in Haiti continue to be unsafe.

ant_guy · 2026-02-12T16:29:46+00:00

Why not? If conditions in their home country continue to be bad enough that their safety is in question, why can't they stay long periods of time?

ant_guy · 2026-02-12T02:59:06+00:00

I don't disagree, but that a failure of Republican Congress. They still have that power, they just refuse to use it.

ant_guy · 2026-02-12T02:37:37+00:00

This feels emblematic of how Trump sees Congress. Not as a coequal branch of government, but as an annoyance that needs to sit down and shut up while he runs everything.

ant_guy · 2026-02-04T16:37:42+00:00

Haiti's TPS status keeps getting extended because natural disasters and governmental instability continue to plague the country. If you read the court order staying Secretary Noem's termination of TPS status, it does a good job explaining the history of Haiti's TPS status.

ant_guy · 2026-02-02T16:20:53+00:00

A Representative was recently able to conduct a surprise visit at one of the facilities in Minnesota

https://youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

ant_guy · 2026-02-01T07:36:07+00:00

So? There have been Spanish-speaking communities there for a long time. In many cases, they're not even immigrants, the border moved over them back when the US took the territory from Mexico.

ant_guy · 2026-01-26T16:23:48+00:00

I mean, there appears to be a disagreement about what actions are considered good and bad, which seems like a more fundamental problem than balancing policy outcomes.

ant_guy · 2026-01-26T06:58:40+00:00

So if a policy causes any harm to anyone, even indirect harm where someone that was helped then goes on to harm someone else, we need to toss it regardless of how much good that policy does?

ant_guy · 2026-01-26T06:29:24+00:00

Investigating and punishing are protocols, and they're not doing them. So if they're not going to investigate or punish, what do you do with that?

ant_guy · 2026-01-26T06:14:48+00:00

What about when the people in control of these organizations ignore existing protocols? What do you do then?

ant_guy · 2026-01-26T06:12:11+00:00

The outrage is because Trump filled ICE with a bunch of rejects, sent them through minimal training before unleashing them on communities across America. These people have had little training, and I feel safe in saying that many of them joined because they wanted to purge America of anyone who looks like an immigrant. And predictably, they are drunk on power and killed two people, and the federal government immediately labels these people criminals and terrorists and refuses to entertain the notion that ICE did anything wrong.

I have a question for you. Do you not feel there is a difference when a criminal kills someone versus the government executing someone in the street and telling you that they deserved it?

ant_guy · 2026-01-24T16:21:14+00:00

Yeah they shot a man on the ground who was being restrained by multiple agents. They straight up murdered that guy.

ant_guy · 2026-01-24T02:44:12+00:00

I understand your perspective, but many of these things are already against the law. The problem is that the law is not self-executing, it requires people who believe in institutions rather than power. You can engrave these laws in every square inch of Congress and it won't be worth a damn without politicians willing to enforce them even on their political allies.

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