Amezarak

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by Amezarak 9mo ago
This is also a problem with special collections in libraries, unfortunately.
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The FBI in particular is notorious for warrantless raids and break-ins, a practice that has seemingly subsided more because of the modern ease of electronic surveillance than because of the bad publicity and court actions.
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Most of the time there’s a brief internal investigation and then nothing happens to them, because they’re given enormous latitude and discretion, even when the victim was totally innocent. If you want a very notorious and similarly politici
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
What fourth amendment violations do you think are unprecedented? The Alien Enemies Act is one of our oldest laws and was passed by John Adams during peacetime to suppress perceived foreign influence from migrants. Deportations to third coun
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
There’s more than a thousand fatal US police shootings every year with various levels of justification, many impacting people totally innocent of anything, even if we accept your propagandized mischaracterization of what happened. (I don’t
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Yes. https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-job-ads-green-cards-targeted-im... https://www.jobs.now/
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Obama actually pioneered non-judicial deportations. Under his administration, 75% of removals took place without the established immigration hearing process. Many (most?) ICE deportations taking place today are after "due process"
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I found this very distressing and dispiriting when I read it was mostly used books from sources like BetterWorldBook. That undoubtedly means many rare books have been permanently destroyed, even some last remaining copies. The least they co
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Materially impeding law enforcement operations, interfering with arrests, harassing or assault officers, and so forth is not 1A protected and is illegal. There’s lots of this going on and some of it is orchestrated in these chats. They may
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Inside a tech company's secretive plan to destroy millions of books(washingtonpost.com)
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I regularly leave my backpack with my laptops in it in the front seat of my car in the south US and nothing has ever happened in ten years of doing this. It's crazy to me other people just live with this. Dramatic action is needed and
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Requiring voters have identification is very controversial in the US. The Democratic party generally opposes it. Even in states requiring ID, there are almost always options to bypass it (by signing an affadavit, for example), and in almost
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
> There is no country in the world where inciting arson of housing counts as free speech. Wrong. In the USA that speech would have been protected. It obviously does not meet the imminent lawless action standard and is not meaningfully in
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Uh-huh. Here's the problem. Here's the way this almost always works: "Author X would have been BIASED because he belonged to Culture X that fought these people - so this is all fictional propaganda!" Nearly all the time
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Yeah. That’s another good example. There are fads and trends in some academic circles that burst out into the Internet scene and become common “actually” rejoinders. Of course, some older claims about the Dark Ages were exaggerated and simp
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
There’s revisionist claims that all the primary sources, even those corroborated by people of the cultures in question, are either just invented propaganda or actually just isolated instances because actually, everyone throughout all time a
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
You can find many ancient cultures who tortured babies for sport when they captured them in raids. Exposure and infanticide was also very common in many places.
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
> Factually incorrect Feel free to post a video showing the conflicting orders. As best I can determine, this was just early (and very typical) misinformation. I could be wrong! > responsibility of ICE to make it avoidable I disagree.
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> shouldn't have issued conflicting orders There were no conflicting orders, unless you mean ICE telling her to get out of the car while Good's partner yells "drive, baby drive!" > shouldn't have gotten in fro
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Too late to edit, but: > I wonder if Europe and Australia and New Zealand and the rest of the world know what they're missing by not having LEO as qualified as ICE running their streets. "Europe" is of course not a place,
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
> One does not need slow-mo to see she wasn't trying to kill anyone. She accelerated her car before turning the wheels knowing people were in the path of her car. (Even if you argue that the wheels spinning before the wheels turn do
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
The argument is that people recklessly driving their vehicles with a total disregard for the lives around them are a danger to the people in front of their car and anyone else on the street, which is recognized by the Supreme Court even whe
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
I think, having been arrested and had other encounters with police, I am going to be the most docile lamb in the world and talk to my lawyer later. I haven’t seen anything that’s not very typical cop behavior. If you think revolution is the
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
That’s what they’re doing, once you peer through the mad filter of propaganda that’s popular in some small circles.
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
“Due process” is not a magic incantation. This is emotional, moralizing rhetoric that doesn’t persuade anyone. People who insert themselves into operations involving the state’s actors who have a monopoly on violence are risking their lives
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
That’s not an answer. Please explain why it’s a bad thing that Palantir had produced an application that shows ICE agents the probable addresses of people they’re supposed to deport along with information about them. If the answer is “I don
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
You're going to have to explain to me why it's a bad thing or immoral for the government to be aware of where immigrants who legally need to be deported live.
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As a matter of fact, arrest is the proper remedy for obstruction, which is at least a misdemeanor and sometimes a felony, and it may include those first two things, or even the third if they violently resist. And despite widely spread misin
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
> They don’t make economic sense and impossible to secure anything in the bed. I've never seen or known a trademan that drove a van. They all drive pickups. Maybe this is a regional thing.
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by Amezarak 9mo ago
Don't know if this is what the OP is referring to, but: https://archive.is/2EObp sounds like a very similar thing. Here's another one on perpetual forbearances: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/cov

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