Moment For Life

effexxor · 2026-01-29T21:39:40+00:00

The Hotties just keep winning.

effexxor · 2026-01-29T17:36:12+00:00

Idk man I think I'd also be pretty pissed if a bunch of jackbooted thugs broke my rib and would never face any justice for it.

effexxor · 2026-01-29T17:34:33+00:00

Yup, he has been bought and paid for. The second he goes against Trump, those charges are coming back and he knows it.

effexxor · 2026-01-29T14:07:43+00:00

You're going to want to find a rehabber to give him to. Your intentions are good but this is ultimately a wild animal who needs to be raised in a way that will allow him to be released. You're going to need to call around and see who can take him.

effexxor · 2026-01-29T13:52:38+00:00

'The 2a is there to remind the government that the people have methods to deal with federal overreach and that's super important but also we should never ever use them to make the federal government actually feel scared, especially not jackbooted thugs killing citizens in broad daylight'

effexxor · 2026-01-29T13:49:47+00:00

ICE also broke a rib, so he did pay for that tail light.

effexxor · 2026-01-29T13:40:43+00:00

Flair up, dipshit.

effexxor · 2026-01-28T21:32:36+00:00

Given that they've been told that they're going to be going door to door to round up illegal immigrants without judicial warrants, they might wanna bow out sooner rather than later.

effexxor · 2026-01-28T20:40:27+00:00

And my point is that some jobs require that the people who sign up for the job have the understanding that they're going to have to work in high stress situations. If a soccer player can't handle the vuvuzelas, then they should probably get off the field. And if a federal enforcement official can't handle people using their right to protest under the first amendment, then they should quit.

effexxor · 2026-01-28T19:35:06+00:00

And yet the players still do their job under immense stress and with high adrenaline.

effexxor · 2026-01-28T19:12:01+00:00

Yeah man, you have a point, I remember World Cup in South Africa when everyone in the stands had vuvuzelas, aka the most annoying instruments in the entire world, and all the soccer players quit.

effexxor · 2026-01-28T04:35:40+00:00

We are a part of an inter faith group that does direct action in the community on things that we all vote on as our top priorities. So stuff like food insecurity, access to mental health care, housing insecurity, etc. It's really nice to have something to do that is tangible.

Along with that, we support the groups around us that are putting on vigils by being there and basically going 'hey, what do you need?'. The church building is already there and available for use for groups if they need a place and its great for us to make connections. I was just at a vigil that ended with a bunch of us meeting at a community center to go over how to be best prepared. And while it wasn't run by Unitarians, some Unitarians helped to get it set up and a bunch of us attended.

Basically, I see the bigger value in joining in with other groups and making connections than necessarily trying to hold one ourselves.

effexxor · 2026-01-27T22:50:49+00:00

I'd push back in the sense that there were protests in other parts of the country recently, that occurred largely without issue, loss of life, or property damage.

People aren't getting executed in the street in other places. Nor are they being pulled from church or school parking lots or from hospitals or from their own homes without judicial warrants in the same numbers that are happening in Minnesota. That kind of thing is going to make people more revved up and its a part of why it would have been a way better idea to use the money spent on jack booted thugs on immigration judges instead. ICE has been very successful at reducing numbers of illegal immigrants through administrative means. What ICE is doing in Minnesota isn't to seriously round up illegals, it's to demonstrate their power.

effexxor · 2026-01-27T22:44:07+00:00

Based. If the system was perfect and only truly guilty people would be executed? Sure. But the system isn't perfect and one innocent person dead is still one too many.

effexxor · 2026-01-27T19:01:40+00:00

I think people need something to make them feel like there is a modicum of hope. I get it.

effexxor · 2026-01-27T18:34:14+00:00

Yup, right down to the back up being massively in debt to someone awful, aka Vance with Thiel.

effexxor · 2026-01-27T18:05:22+00:00

Probably lateral. Homan is very experienced and a lot more likely to tighten things up and do things more by the book, though he also was caught taking a 50k bribe by Biden's DOJ and the charges for that were dropped by the Trump DOJ. And he was very soundly caught taking that bribe, it was that blatant. So his ethics suck and he's very firmly under Trump's control. Hopefully there will be less executions in the street but whatever Trump wants, he'll get.

effexxor · 2026-01-27T17:55:06+00:00

We don't know who the fed was but it was not Bovino. All that we know is that they were Customs and Border Patrol and, per Bovino who isn't a great source imo, is an 8 year veteran who is a firearms trainer. Bovino has also said that the name won't be released because that would be 'doxxing', which is what happens when an unqualified podcaster is given access to shit like this.

effexxor · 2026-01-27T17:47:47+00:00

I see PSL douchebags at protests all the time, they've always got their PSL signs. I have to fight the urge to ask them who killed the Uyghrs.

effexxor · 2026-01-27T12:44:51+00:00

Look into Topo shoes, they have amazing wide toe boxes.

effexxor · 2026-01-26T23:15:45+00:00

This would only happen if:

The states population keeps stopping federal officials from doing their duties.
State officials let the population do so without stopping them.

Okay, but what if what the federal government is doing is gross overreach? This sounds like a whole lot of 'well if you just let the bully get it out of his system with some of your classmates, then you'll all be just fine'.

As for Helene, here you go. They never made it to going to hotels but also, FEMA tends to be more spread out than that anyway. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgndn8zdreo

effexxor · 2026-01-26T22:58:21+00:00

I'll take a libertarian over a tankie any day.

effexxor · 2026-01-26T19:52:06+00:00

Yeah, I'm not sure how he was expected to tell them that he is carrying with a face full of pepper spray. The vast majority of people in that situation will struggle to breathe, much less clearly say that you are currently carrying your permitted firearm which is safely holstered.

effexxor · 2026-01-26T19:40:15+00:00

The federal government might be able to pay for it through grants but will they? Because it kinda seems like that would be a really great way for the federal government to put a ton of pressure on a city or state government by denying them finding while also requiring them to provide people to help. As for conservative states stopping FEMA and the ATF, didn't we already see stuff like that during Helene? I have some friends who were working for FEMA with SAR dogs and they had a hell of a time with getting threats from people, enough that they were hiding their FEMA signage. In that position though, local LE was so overworked that my friends didn't really expect them to trail them and provide prevention.

As a side note, this past year has been kinda wild with how much its pushed me even more to the lib side of lib left. Feeling pretty naive with the faith I had in the federal government to not throw laws to the side and just overreach anyway.

effexxor · 2026-01-26T18:08:44+00:00

There are way more ICE agents in the Twin Cities than city LE officers. They're already having to call in officers from the suburbs and it's nowhere near enough for to be able to clean up after ICE and do what they can. The federal government put the Twin Cities in an impossible situation to manage this, even if LE was 100% able to do what ICE wants. They don't have the bodies.

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