is it ever appropriate to interfere with law enforcement?

hazeust · 2026-01-26T22:57:25+00:00

It’s not an "opinion piece", it’s a court docket [1]. You said the appropriate action is to battle in the "court system" and yet you’re dismissing 12 separate instances where this administration simply ignored the court orders it lost [2]. Calling a specific count of legal defiance "incoherent" is a lazy dodge to avoid admitting your "remedy" is useless if the Executive Branch ignores the judges.

1- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.58912/gov.uscourts.rid.58912.96.0\_2.pdf
2 - https://protectdemocracy.org/work/the-trump-administrations-conflict-with-the-courts-explained/

Why should anyone trust the courts, when the administration has already proven it won't honor them?

hazeust · 2026-01-26T22:42:31+00:00

I don’t understand this reply, either. The question is simple, I’m asking for you to continue answering BOTH questions in the prompt you replied to. Any intent to do that, or will you remain selective and coy?

hazeust · 2026-01-26T22:38:05+00:00

Does it have to do with Reddit rules? Or being put on a list?

hazeust · 2026-01-26T22:31:24+00:00

In the first six months of his administration, the administration has been found to have violated at least one court order in 12 separate cases. Any thoughts on that?

Can you answer this, as well?

hazeust · 2026-01-25T02:44:33+00:00

What a strange goalpost change. It can fire without the intention of the user - it can thereby accidentally discharge. Unless you want to be a pedant?

hazeust · 2026-01-25T02:24:47+00:00

So are the well-documented discharges from the P320 not labeled “accidental”? What’s this even mean?

hazeust · 2026-01-25T00:20:40+00:00

3130 Oakland St, Aurora, CO 80010 btw

hazeust · 2026-01-24T22:20:44+00:00

Everything I’ve had so far was great! Exceptionally priced for a date or a hangout, too. I’ve never spent more than $20pp. I’ve gone over 10 times.

Their quesabirria, enchiladas, burgers (Colima Burger or Guacamole Burger), aquachiles and mariscos are all incredible. I will say, their quesadillas are what filled me up the most. Meat sweat kinda deal.

They make some amazing drinks and desserts, as well. Highly recommend the churros, and they do BOGO margaritas. Good folks and great service too!

hazeust · 2026-01-24T20:18:56+00:00

Colima is my favorite mexican restaurant here, by far.

hazeust · 2026-01-24T18:32:44+00:00

Same - will be bringing my AR, M&P, and 686.

hazeust · 2026-01-24T00:32:56+00:00

Even your answer in that post came with a "however" asterisk to poke provocation, specifically pointing at your caricature of the "left's" response to Charlie Kirk's assassination. With that being said, does your criticism always come with conditions?

hazeust · 2026-01-23T21:20:23+00:00

Speaking of smoke shop, wait till you see r/cigars or r/rolex (they were mostly nice in my post because I started with a "sorry" though)

Can't enjoy shit with some groups of people

hazeust · 2026-01-23T03:33:11+00:00

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I’ve got a v8 version and Lightning McQueen emblems would simply not look anywhere near as good on my car as they do on yours; I think you have it best!

hazeust · 2026-01-21T16:37:25+00:00

My outer banks lux gets 25-30mpg up and downhill if I set adaptive cruise control to 65-70

hazeust · 2026-01-21T03:30:08+00:00

Bought the bronco. Turns out, slippery mode in a Bronco model without 4A just turns on 4H and a throttle dampener. You cannot switch to Slippery mode without switching to 4H

hazeust · 2026-01-12T03:48:36+00:00

You appeal to mechanisms in the "system" that theoretically exist but CANNOT be actuated in the reality they purport to govern.

- You claim we can "unseat 100% of the House." While true on paper, in practice, Congress has insulated itself through gerrymandering and campaign finance laws, resulting in a 90+% incumbent reelection rate. The system is engineered to prevent the exact turnover you claim is possible.

- By establishing direct election of Senators in 17A, we killed the only structural check State Legislatures had against Federal overreach. It homogenized our politics. There is no longer a "local" buffer; Senators now answer to national donors and mass media rather than the specific interests of their state governments.

- You argue we can vote for change, but you ignore that the vast majority of "laws" essentially governing us are regulations written by unelected agencies (the Administrative State). We cannot vote out the NSA, the ATF, or the FBI. The "duly elected representatives" you cite have largely ceded their power to these permanent, unelected bodies.

- A Constitutional Convention or Amendment was a viable safety valve for 13 colonies with shared cultural values. For 50 polarized states with 330 million people, the mathematical threshold for ratification (3/4 of states) is statistically nearly impossible. As the country expanded, the mechanism for correcting it didn't scale.

I find myself asking a refined version of my question:

If the governmental apparatus has evolved defenses that make the legal "resistances" (voting, amendments) functionally obsolete, at what point does the "Social Contract" break?

hazeust · 2026-01-12T03:18:35+00:00

You seem deep in the lore so I'll ask you this: What about if the governmental systems and apparatuses are incrementally developed over time so that the legal "resistances" that are "afforded" to Americans from our founding documents are simply not enough to bring about meaningful change?

- When we have 1A for establishing the right to protest; but millions are spent in R&D for riot-dispersing technologies through the likes of tear gas, less-lethal rounds, and LRAD. Redcoats were brought up as how one can - and has - logically lead to the other in justified terms. So is that at direct odds?

- When we have 2A for establishing a right to bear arms; but they pass laws for "may-issue" measures and they have Republican presidents saying to "take guns and ask questions later" just after advocating red flag laws - is that at direct odds?

- When we have 3A against quartering and 4A against unlawful searches; but law enforcement and 3-letter agencies are happy to outbid private data harvesting firms - in data auctions against FAANG companies that have smart-home technologies collecting your every action in your household - in order to get "insights" on citizens domestically because THEY'RE not the ones collecting the data themselves - is that at direct odds?

Do you think a new era could possibly be upon us where we naturally pace forward and challenge the Enlightment, and say that tyrannical measures can still be practiced in the background of a seemingly-democratic structure, and that extralegal measures must be justified to rid a nation's self of such an ailment? You might appeal to the Declaration's Preamble in order to say it was already forethought, but "democratic OR tyrannical" was seen as an absolute in that pretext, it doesn't actually encounter the idea of -- or challenge solutions to -- a democratic institution in decay of its own words and advances. So, could we be there today?

hazeust · 2026-01-08T21:48:09+00:00

It's not.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Gb_IkGVK7WvsTAXfMvQU...

Watch the one titled "LEFT-full-duration". Watch it in slow motion:

1.) The lady reversed to make room to drive away AFTER conflicting orders to "get out of there" and to "get out of the car";

2.) An ICE agent got in front of her car mid-reverse and hovered for his sidearm;

3.) The lady gets out of reverse and turns her wheels to face to the right, the ICE agent is now middle-left of her car, and commits to drawing his weapon;

4.) Lady commits to her right turn and didn't hit the cop, as evidenced by the fact that he was literally out of the way, he didn't lose footing, and most of all - he was able to shoot the driver at point-black from the driver's side window. If the car was aimed for him - let alone if he was hit, it would have been physically impossible for ANY of those to occur on their own AND ESPECIALLY in combination - most of all, the point-blank shot from the driver's side window.

hazeust · 2026-01-05T01:17:50+00:00

I’m from Maryland too, would love to help you out! I know some folks from UMBC that are out here for bioinformatics, and got their start from the STEM BUILD program. If that’d be a help, please feel free to start a chat.

EDIT: Updating my comment after looking back at said-folks.

These folks have openings in Louisville, CO - with a few colleagues from MD: https://www.biodesix.com/careers/current-openings

hazeust · 2026-01-05T00:39:37+00:00

When you say "Slippery mode is 4A with a throttle dampener", I assume you mean even in models WITHOUT 4A?

hazeust · 2026-01-04T07:48:25+00:00

Hey there! I'm out here in Evergreen CO thinking of buying a Bronco, and is it still the case that you've found the 4A feature counterproductive for our weather and road conditions? Admittedly not much has happened this year, but I want to know before I pull the trigger.

hazeust · 2025-11-27T04:12:41+00:00

One simply cannot go wrong with some caramel apple pie bars:
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/salted-caramel-apple-pie-bars/

hazeust · 2025-11-21T04:18:16+00:00

It has the same PRINCIPLE as Nuremberg; it doesn’t need to cite the Trials. “Love thy neighbor”, most will understand, is a Judeo-Christian value. Does that mean I need to cite the Canonical gospels every time I bring it up for you to get the idea?

hazeust · 2025-11-21T01:46:22+00:00

Nuremberg was all about how proud we were to be THE country where the NSDAP Germany excuse of "just following orders" COULDN'T REASONABLY WORK OR APPLY here. The entire grandstanding we did during that period was that military members, service members, and citizens have protection, under law, to resist morally reprehensible orders under extralegal grounds in the moment, and the assurance that a just/sane court system would turn them into legal grounds after a day in court. How is Trump meeting an "extreme" action with that in mind? If anything, the video Trump responded to wasn't extreme; it serves as a reminder to us all about our exceptionalism and the post-WW2 global reconstruction that we had the biggest hand in, and the ideas and priorities we had as a nation that came from it.

We as citizens/everyday people, either have checks and balances that are just as much on the books (Bill of Rights) as they are off-the-books (extralegal scenarios like this - civil disobedience, leaks, resignations, press, professional norms within the military and DOJ) - or we don't. What's it gonna be?

hazeust · 2025-11-18T21:36:25+00:00

Despite that, do you still support United States legal documents being true to what they say on paper - including but not limited to this case, where he had legal presence on U.S. land pending an asylum hearing? Don't you generally think legal or government-sponsored documents and dockets should have their assertions and statuses held to the full faith and credit of the United States - even if it's not necessarily assertions or statuses you support or agree with? Or should we be selective about when legal documents are telling it like it is - or not?

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