Are you a hallucinating llm?

Why can’t the school shooters just switch to ICE? Smite someone who deserves it for once!

Hitler declared formal war upon the US.

Exactly. The US has a history of making inconvenient Latin American leaders disappear. The means vary, but the impact is the same.

When was the last time we violently deposed a Western European head of state?

TBF, attacking Venezuela like we did has a lot of historical precedent. The US has a long history of deposing inconvenient Latin American leaders.

But engaging in an unprovoked war of conquest against one of our oldest allies? Collapsing our most important defensive alliance? This is an entirely different animal. There’s no precedent for an invasion of Greenland.

We need more than that. We need potential 2028 candidates to announce that a future Democratic president should just refuse to fund ICE. If Trump can shut down entire departments by fiat, so can a future Democratic president. If SCOTUS commits the most transparent act of judicial partiality in history and wish to somehow rule that a Democratic president can’t do the exact same thing they okayed for Trump? Well tell them to pound sand.

“Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demand."

This is gaslighting by cowardly state officials. If you can get official records great. But they are not necessary. You have countless eye witnesses and multiple angles of video recording the murder. You don’t refuse to prosecute gang hits because you don’t have access to official cartel records. No different with ICE.

This is bullshit stonewalling by cowards in state office who are afraid to hold the powerful accountable.

Holy strawman, Batman!

Yeah, if anything, 1945-2025 may end being a historical anomaly. The US was an aggressively expensive colonial settler state though most of its history. We’re still settler colonial, but we’ve at least not been aggressively expansionist for nearly a century.

Over 300 years of aggressive expansion (if you include the colonial period.) A return to orthodoxy after an 80 year hiatus doesn’t seem so unusual in that regard. Really, everyone who remembered why we stopped acting that way has now died of old age, so we now have only our shared national mythos to guide us. And our culture has continued to celebrate its expansionist past, even if we’ve walked away from it as policy over the last few generations.

I mean, every American voter certainly has more moral culpability than say, any of the millions of Japanese civilians we incinerated in WW2.

The second amendment is still useful. You use the little guns to obtain the big guns.

The ID contains more information than what is printed on the front. There’s a reason it’s digital.

Nothing will change until we start asking why people don’t bother to vote, instead of fruitlessly balling our fists, shitting our diapers, and whining that it’s not fair that so many people choose not to vote.

You can moan all you want about non voters, but brow beating people will only drive them away from your side faster. The truth is non voters don’t vote for real reasons, primarily because they don’t think either side represents them. You can whine and moan that people need to think more strategically, but no amount of crying will change the fact that a good chunk of the electorate simply doesn’t share your values and approach to voting. Some people vote strategically, some only when they feel they can truly support a candidate. Screaming at people, “you simply have to approach voting the way I do!!!” won’t convince anyone.

People have different values and priors, and they do not owe you their votes. In a democracy, saying “I can’t stand either of these monsters. I don’t care what happens, I’m not participating, a pox on both your houses!” is a perfectly valid choice. A core principle of democracy is that we’re allowed to believe different things, and brow beating people will not get them to support you.

Don’t blame non voters. It’s intellectually lazy and a cop out meant to prevent Democrats from making the hard changes necessary to actually appeal to this population of non voters. Trump managed to mobilize millions of non voters. He didn’t do so by whining at them and telling them to vote strategy. He did it by inspiring them and convincing them he was looking out for them. It was all lies, but it worked. If you want to mobilize non voters, you need to find ways and policies that actually appeal to them. Simply complaining about non voters will not work, just as it hasn’t worked for the last 40 years.

And while I’m sure you’re already typing a comment telling me it’s my fault Trump got elected because I didn’t vote, you’re wrong. I did hold my nose and fruitlessly vote for the Cheney lover, for all the good that did. I just have enough humility to realize that those who don’t vote have very good reasons for doing so.

Sometimes fevers break. Sometimes they break you.

Ah, you’re one of those conservatives.

Conservatives don’t masturbate to anything except the thought of controlling other people.

The man who demonizes innocent trans peoples as a threat to society is literally a child murderer.

Up until a decade ago the Constitution officially said nothing about gay marriage. Roe was precedent for half a century.

They really aren’t trying to change it. Greenland has zero practical path to independence from Denmark. They are still firmly a colony, one that Denmark fights very hard to keep under their thumb.

They would have more population if Denmark hadn’t practiced eugenics against the native population. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/hundreds-of-greenlandic-women-and-girls-were-forcibly-given-contraception-between-1960-and-1991-report-says

They only stopped giving native women contraceptives against their will…in the 1990s.