Why is it that every normalizing "this is fine" commenter invariably drops into the same nonsense about "enforcing federal law" after a few short comments? The problem in Minnesota isn't that [some] federal laws are being enforced. Rather it's that federal law enforcement "officers" are abusing their immunity to work as lawless terror squads, abducting citizens and attacking protestors, backed up by a demented chief executive who has no respect for our American ideals of individual liberty or limited government.
I don't understand how you can continue referencing narratives like this one, wear your minority identity on your sleeve like you're still competing in the DEI Olympics, but yet keep failing to see that you're personally responsible for doing exactly as this book bemoans.
If you're really concerned about preserving American culture against dilution by immigrants bringing other cultures, have you ever thought that maybe it's time for you personally to hold back with the developing-country-style populist strongman boosting? Not some vague "other" that might come here and do even more of the same, but you personally, right here, right now.
If this lauded western European culture is based around consensus, process, and compromise (rough points you've made elsewhere about the importance of culture), surely you can recognize that this culture has something to say about the wisdom of attacking longstanding allies (regardless of any perceived immediate benefit). Essentially, if you see value in the incumbent culture then maybe you should be content deferring to it a bit more while you're still assimilating.
I'm sure you're going to have rationalizations aplenty in response to this comment, so all I can really say is perhaps try some self-reflection.
I think it's just a small segment of terminally online people that are still hardcore supporters. Shamelessly killing an American citizen in retaliation for protesting and overtly alienating our long-time allies means it takes a much stronger firehose of rationalizations to keep fooling yourself that these things are about "immigration enforcement" or "national security". My direct observation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642922
Not that I expect the latent supporters to ever really own up to their mistake (I mean, who even supported that Iraq War anyway? Must have been some liberal conspiracy). And of course the main question is still how do we actually immobilize and evict this piece of shit from the White House.
> I think it's just a small segment of terminally online people that are still hardcore supporters.
On HN alone there are thousands of Trump supporters. It's completely insane because you'd think that they have zero excuses but it does not make any difference at all.
Six months ago they most likely couldn't point out Greenland or Denmark on a map and now they have many opinions and all of them are informed by the same crazy reasonings.
My "small segment" was in the context of everyday people in the offline world, as opposed to the terminally online which HN clearly has a higher percentage of.
And yes, we had all hoped that more access to information would help people reason better. But it mostly seems to help them rationalize more.
"The Left" (by which I presume you mean any American who still believes in the US Constitution, individual liberty, or limited government) understands that our position as world leader hinges upon the trust of our allies, and that we already had all of the access to Greenland that we needed.
It seems more like the little-boy-o-sphere. Who over the age of 15 is following these performative preeners who spend all day at the gym? Tough men lift steel, not iron.
The bar is made of steel, the weights are made of cast iron. Steel is stronger, hence its use for the bar that must withstand deflection. Tools and equipment that are used to get things done are mostly made of steel, as the primary thing they need is strength.
Any such plan requires evicting the fascist grifters first, and rejecting these fake calls of "fiscal responsibility" that have been running interference for the past several decades. Then, proceeds from having the world reserve currency could be spent deliberately (re)building our industry rather than just being dumped into handouts for the rich.
But in a way the reelection of the New York conman was the final nail in the coffin assuring that this will never happen. The red tribe found it more appealing to turn their frustration inwards and attack our country rather than working with the blue tribe to constructively address these types of problems. And with the subsequent destruction of most everything that had made us a world leader, it's questionable whether we will even have the world reserve currency for much longer.
Maybe some type of long physical probe you have to sit on and it generates a hash from the exact shape of your "cavity".
Seriously, am I the only one who was happier without any of this "2FA" crap? VPS/Domain/Google with a hardware token is the one narrow scope where I see any value, and even those I could do without. Every other site is just a non-consensual nagging that hassles me when logging in. Bank accounts are the worst, as every bit of friction for checking my balance/transactions actually decreases my security!
And at the very least, 2FA should be a much more "openly open standard." Which is to say, just do TOTP everywhere, let people have their initial generating key and be done with it.
I generate mine from my computer when I can, but I'm surrounded by all this magic that implies that something different is going on, e.g. the Duo system which I'm forced to use by my job and doesn't make this sort of thing easy, if possible at all.
I used to be like you. But overall the return culture changed drastically - "no fault" returns where stores have zero care to hear about how their items are defective. And then Amazon's constant games with pricing has pushed me into "buying" (ie caching) something if it's a good deal, and then making the actual purchase decision of whether I want it sometime later. Much better than "I'll think about this tonight", and then going to buy it and the price has jumped 30%, making me feel like a sucker.
If I've already got pending Amazon returns to do, adding something to the queue costs me very little. If the queue is empty, then I'm a little more deliberate. But this time of year Nov-Jan is great for this, as the return dates are further out and all on the same day Jan 31 so it doesn't catch me by surprise.
The slow spiteful shipping also pushes me into this behavior when I'm in the middle of a project. Order a few different types of a thing, decide exactly what I need when I'm in the middle of doing, and then when I'm done with the project, return the pile of leftovers.
It's felt like something enabling this dynamic has been waiting to break for years now, but so far it hasn't. The only time I've gotten pushback from Amazon is a nastygram interstitial for a while after I returned a motherboard that I opened and tested (the manufacturer could have avoided this return by documenting the IOMMU groups, but once again... return culture). I have no idea if the problem there was the opening (seemed to be fine under their published policies), or whether something else happened to the item after I handed it to their return agent and they blamed me.
At this point I assume they just have it on macros like the old MUD days. And to extend the analogy, they're playing as low-wisdom trolls.
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