More accurately I’m more pessimistic about direct resistance. Even if you’re kidnapped out of the country, at least you’ve survived and have hope. That law is on your side, so if we ever get back to following laws ….

My understanding is they succeeded partly by being the bigger force. You can do that when the enemy is a small local police force with the weapons of that time. However it’s not the same when it’s a larger militarized federal force that is already claiming “total Immunity”.

If they have the overwhelming force and believe they have no limits, escalating will only escalate their response.

But legally they don’t have “total immunity”. Legally there are limitations. Legally there are civil rights. Pursuing it through the courts is slow and uncertain, but much more likely to succeed

Something may be better than nothing but escalating without hope isn’t better.

It’s a bad idea to attempt force against overwhelming force. You will never win and you may lose a lot

You’re much more likely to get good results by surviving and following through in the courts. Your strength is knowing your rights, filming everything, ensuring it’s clear on video when those rights are validated.

For example, you may not be able to physically prevent an illegal search. But you can film it. You can make it clear that you do don’t consent to a search (while not physically interfering with their illegal activity). You can ask about their warrant. You can even ask for their grounds for suspicion. When they are on video violating that, it’s pretty damning evidence. That won’t help you in the short term, but it will help in the future. If there is due process, you may get any evidence obtained illegally dropped. You can follow through with a civil rights proceeding. It won’t be fast or easy but you’re much more likely to eventually get justice, than any fantasies of violent resistance

I think this is one of these long tails for rebuilding. Clearly we can’t count on national leaders to uphold the law. The problem is either the massive buildup of ice or the entire lack of ethics and respect for the law and their fellow humans among the workers, letting them fall to authoritarianism

Perhaps if we establish a strong traditionalism of professionalism, respect for the law, strong ethics, then next time around they won’t be so susceptible to corruption. Probably need a strong union as well, so if there are any good ones, they have support to stand up for what is right.

You could be in the right. You could be legally correct. You could even survive. But who is there to enforce the law? Where are the consequences?

ICE is not above the law but when the people charged with upholding the law and investigating abuses are the ones encouraging it, what can you do?

Calling them fascists and authoritarians didn’t come from nowhere

Arguably ICE got all that extra funding because they were most willing to use immoral and illegal actions

Damn, we’re crushing it

I don’t know about most of these - nationalism is not necessarily authoritarian. Maybe authoritarians frequently use nationalism as one of their tools to keep the population in line

Carney giving Trump the bird is obviously not the play

Maybe if it were gold plated, and labelled “peas prize”

The problem is could you get any of those manufacturing jobs?

I’ve been trying to comment more, but we have to post as well

This is not a bad idea. One of my biggest categories here are interesting looking recipes. The problem is they go through a lot of effort to make them unusable - blocking printing and bookmarking. I starters just keeping tabs open when that was useful but realistically most of them auto-reload to show more ads do as soon as the generated link expires they’re gone

There was that announcement about building out freight track up to Churchill as a port for natural resources trade directly with Europe. It’s just an announcement, but a fascinating idea

Wait, really? You’re telling us there are rural areas with unreliable electricity, yet are piped for gas?

Why not both? Even before I understood the indoor pollution caused by gas stoves, I never understood how it was legal to have a “vent” blowing supposedly filtered air back into the kitchen. cooking causes pollutants and should always require venting to the outside

Another warning label is a step. It will raise awareness and convince some. Most importantly it should ease the process for more significant steps.

Given that induction ranges are so hard to find and so much more expensive, I hope the warning can lead to incentive programs to convert. Maybe having a predictable and growing market will help companies with the decisions to manufacture more choices at more reasonable cost

My reading of this article shows the judge issued a temporary injunction saying the evidence suggested looks like the manufacturers will win. That is something a judge should decide.

It’s the wrong decision but we don’t know what was presented or how.

I believe it hinges on “controversial” but how do you give the controversy any credence when it is only manufacturers with a profit motive to disagree with science?

The current one isn’t likely to face justice in his lifetime. It’s not worth trying to hold him accountable: let history be the judge.

However we have tens of thousands of criminals who have not put themselves above the law, are not at deaths door. All those people who denied human rights, issued illegal orders, violated government data protections, enriched themselves are within the reach of justice. Let’s start with the cabinet and the orange family, and work our way down to every ice agent, including effing billionaires buying votes and interfering with government

Does Cuba have oil? Do they export illegal drugs? There really don’t seem to be any similarities

I’d buy Ukraine more as a prelude to regime change in Cuba. Russia may be falling apart but they still have nuclear weapons and historically defended Cuba. Drump needed to return to his master saying Ukraine agreed to cede territory in return for peace, so his master gives the go ahead to attack cuba

Sure, there’s that, and oil.

Also the economy sucks for non-billionaires, and oil