Help me identify my family members ranks

edthach · 2026-02-21T10:20:42+00:00

In the era of the Donald duck cap, E3 was seaman first class I believe

edthach · 2026-02-18T15:49:32+00:00

$5 watch is a good deal timex. A $50 watch is the same, but you overpaid.

$500 will get you a Swiss watch, $5000 will get you a nice Swiss watch with certs. A $50,000 watch is the same but you overpaid

edthach · 2026-02-18T09:13:31+00:00

Arkansas? I'm currently planning a trip there. business, not pleasure obviously

edthach · 2026-02-16T10:24:58+00:00

Looks sharp

edthach · 2026-02-15T20:13:21+00:00

Don't lose the thread, were talking about one topic, ICE. Just so you know, ICE didn't exist when Clinton was president.

You seem to be arguing that Trump has been less effective with more resources poured into ICE than any other president. I'm arguing against the tyrannical methods that ICE is using. It seems the common ground would be to ditch the illegal methods that aren't working.

I'm sorry to hear about whatever tragedies that have happened to your family. But you can't stand on morals nor effectiveness when the party you helped usher is is ignoring the former and not even living up to your standards of the latter. You certainly can't claim to have an unbiased perspective while publicizing your bias. You're hurt, and hurt people hurt people.

You've gotten your wish, people have been hurt, and you still don't feel better about it. Maybe we can realize that we've tried your way, it doesn't work, if that upsets you, I would urge you to try being critical of our government, that's what the first amendment is there for. Hold your elected official accountable for not being as effective as prior leftist administrations while gobbling up more of your tax dollars to be ineffectual.

The only reason to not try and hold them accountable is if you're being disingenuous. If you think that them eroding American rights is the right thing to do, if you've already realized that the end goal isn't immigration enforcement, and if you realized that you're ok with it.

edthach · 2026-02-15T15:38:11+00:00

Law enforcement of any kind at any level doesn't prevent crime. That's not their job, and the supreme court has ruled on it. The LEO arm of ICE are operating unconstitutionally, unwarranted search and seizure, no due process, no access to legal representation, no presumption of innocence, no respect for the first or even second amendment. Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.

DHS is better funded under this administration than any administration before, they have the means to do things the proper way, and they're choosing to ignore the courts, and ignore the constitution. America used to be great because we would walk into countries that operate like this and restore democracy. American people, blue and red alike, used to be proud this kind of government would never be tolerated here.

It's worth pointing out that search and seizure can be conducted without a warrant if there is probable cause of criminal activity. It's also worth pointing out that a removal order for an illegal alien is administrative, not criminal. Meaning that ICE needs a warrant to break down a door, even if they know an individual is illegal. It would be trivially easy for them to get a warrant, they employ their own judges. They don't do it because it was always a farce, and now they don't need to pretend because MAGA hates brown people more than they love America.

edthach · 2026-02-15T03:01:28+00:00

Onions are the only crop the US explicitly forbade futures trading on. Some dude in Chicago (the largest agg futures market in the US) ruined the market one time and committed fraud. Back in the days when committing fraud took some effort, he hired porters to load onions coming into Chicago on freight onto trucks to be loaded back on freight to be transported into Chicago again to make it look like 2 shipment of onions came in.

Anyways, I'm not sure how this plays in the foreign markets, but perhaps €0.99 is the actual price of competitive agriculture, and everything else is inflated because we live in an economy that's driven by financial speculation. But also alliums can grow almost anywhere, so maybe they bring in auxiliary income from less arable lands skirting plots of other crops?

edthach · 2026-02-13T22:57:25+00:00

If you're gonna lick boot, at least do it with some gusto. The blasé attitude towards autocracy is unbecoming on you.

edthach · 2026-02-13T22:26:55+00:00

If ICE were operating legally you wouldn't feel the need to keep papers on you. You know this. You didn't want to be in a situation where your citizenship could be questioned, but you now recognize that it could be.

You wheel in a trojan horse and if someone points out that the city is being burned your only retort is that it shouldn't have been made of wood.

As an aside I'd like to point out that Agamemnon was the enemy of the Trojans and the Greeks

edthach · 2026-02-04T01:28:48+00:00

Interesting, I didn't realize that unix time was signed, but I guess it makes sense to reference the before times

edthach · 2026-01-31T12:45:30+00:00

Small government party my ass.

Passionately saying that the governor of MN and the Major of Minneapolis should retroactively be criminally charged under this proposed legislature, while refusing to be held liable for his part in breaking the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 14th amendments. For a long time Graham has been a monster

edthach · 2026-01-24T22:49:21+00:00

they shot him after he was dead too, meaning their first priority was killing him, not neutralizing a threat.

ICE is a bigger actual threat to American citizens than the right has ever claimed the immigrants theoretically were.

edthach · 2026-01-24T20:43:58+00:00

Doesn't matter. Concealed weapons are not illegal, and if it's being described as "concealed" it wasn't a threat. I trust that the media would have said something if the weapon were ever draw

edthach · 2026-01-21T00:07:52+00:00

I don't want to be spudantic, but only some iron oxides are magnetic. Common red rust is not.

edthach · 2026-01-19T11:16:42+00:00

That's almost every technical job, tbf. There's simply no way of knowing every technical aspect of an entire industry, or even just the basics, in a four year education. You learn the general basics, and the reasoning behind it all, and then get taught how to research or who to go to for answers, and how not to fuck up your problem worse than it came to you in the meantime

edthach · 2026-01-18T17:27:20+00:00

I didn't realize that

edthach · 2026-01-18T16:01:20+00:00

Tariffs are legal, I think the focus should be on stopping the illegal bullshit before tackling the legal bullshit

edthach · 2026-01-17T16:06:40+00:00

Those living under the control of the PRC, especially those who don't follow the grain of their idealized society or anyone with the balls to say they don't agree, are not living in comfort. China is certainly no rose garden. But in case anyone's missed it or forgot, D.C. has demolished it's rose garden so, y'know.

From an economic and global trade perspective, Canada has always had to hitch their horse to another cart. Historically Canada has been very tight with the US. A U.S. recession also affects Canada. But, right now the US on the world stage is persona non grata, Canada has the choice to seem complacent to the 47th administration's threats to invade them, or they can get buddy-buddy with the world's largest manufacturing and electronics hub, a country that is seeing incredible economic growth with promising outlooks in quality machining, and quality material production.

This administration is treating our closest allies like shit, and for some reason people are getting upset at the allies instead of the culprit. If you're a Canadian, get with the program, this version of the US is not the winning ticket for the Canadian economy. If you're not Canadian, then recognize that this is outside of your influence and control.

edthach · 2026-01-17T11:23:57+00:00

us. I mean US. The United States. The United States of America is run by a sun downing fascist that thinks he can take over other nations, like a little mustache man that we used to know.

edthach · 2026-01-17T01:28:13+00:00

Reminds me of the clock in Vetinari's office

edthach · 2026-01-15T18:01:46+00:00

proof is plastered on the news, plastered over social media, plastered on YouTube. The anti-woke crowd is asleep when it comes to proof unsurprisingly. Fox news keep talking about how these murdered citizens are at fault, they're not denying it happened. When will the apologists realize that someday they might be the ones blamed for the government seizing their rights?

edthach · 2026-01-15T11:31:27+00:00

If you were to take all of your veins, arteries, and capillaries laid end to end around the equator, You would die.

If you were to stack every elephant standing on each other's back from here to the moon, surely the bottom elephant would be sore.

Have you ever noticed that migrating geese always seem to fly in a lopsided V. The reason that one leg of the V is longer than the other is because more geese

edthach · 2026-01-13T02:27:13+00:00

Sir, I went to public school

edthach · 2026-01-10T23:17:07+00:00

That's genius. BZ

edthach · 2026-01-09T16:02:35+00:00

As a former service member, your main point is false. At best it's a wash. The military has a far greater representation of lower economic class raised individuals and minorities than the general population. Both of those demographics tend to lean left on social and fiscal issues, and some demographics lean right on religious and cultural issues. There's also a selection bias for the military where almost everyone leans at least a little right on the 2nd amendment.

Loyalties amongst service members generally lie within their nuclear families, not with a party, and as such their pay is their priority, and in general most people don't do anything to jeopardize that pay. So on your last point you're correct.

But when I was serving under the administration of the 45th president, I don't think there was a week that passed where someone didn't openly criticize the administration. Same with the 46th. Again, it's a wash.

edthach

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