For everyone’s awareness, Congress hasn’t voted on a Declaration of War since 1942. Every single conflict we’ve been involved in since WWII has been initiated by some sort of executive fiat, with Congress claiming authority over war through “appropriations and oversight.” This particular issue has been fucked for decades.

Typically that is a customer-provider relationship, and ideally (but probably not in reality) that relationship is tightly regulated. At best this move is a breach of ethics.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power

-Benito Mussolini, some dude who probably knew something about fascism

Would any psychologist risk their entire career and criminal liability to grant anyone a pass to obtain a firearms license? For what is ultimately a hobby?

“Because once we have that power, we’ll use it on you if you speak out.”

I think basically everyone except North Korea is. Anyone who allows goods and people to move through their borders with any level of freedom can theoretically get attacked like Russia did.

American Christianity is a death cult straight out of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign as the transparently evil bad guys. They should not be allowed to steer modern society in any way.

For the record, this should always be the assumption if you have an interaction with ICE and are allowed to walk away. They’re not going to just forget about you. Prepare accordingly.

The audacity itself is a destabilizing action. Kind of like how Putin has hinted in public statements that he helped rig the 2016 elections and that he and Trump have close ties. He wants to break down trust in our system from all sides, not just one.

Regarding the thumbnail, I figured procedure would be to remove your sidearms while on riot detail, being as you’re getting within melee distance with multiple people at once, thereby risking it being snatched. It’s more of a liability in that context, prison wardens do the same thing.

I guess asking a beat cop to give up his emotional support pistol is a nonstarter.

I’d be careful with that last point - when a modern people is suddenly forced to turn to the land for sustenance instead of the industrial supply chain, overfishing and overhunting become problems quickly…you won’t be the only person out looking for a meal.

Nebraska is definitely not within 100 miles of a land or sea border, the claimed jurisdiction of ICE. It’s probably about as far as you can get, actually.

Throw it on the pile.

Posse Comitatus Act, yes.

The fascism is continuing to escalate.

I don’t think the SG actually believes that, but whatever serves the goal of European military independence.

The more concerning shorter term threat is a rogue United States, but that’s a hell of a thing to admit publicly.

If I had a nickel for every time Fox News rolled that clip of the alleged gang members holding rifles in that apartment hallway I’m sure I could buy something quite nice for myself.

100% he takes 4chan “looksmaxxing” seriously, and that’s why he’s doing it.

Republicans are the ones committing domestic violence. “Arsonist is against the fire department buying a new ladder truck.”

Family annihilators are almost always conservative men, and their reasoning invariably involves the belief that women and kids first and foremost exist at the pleasure of the patriarch. He was likely emasculated by his divorce.

I’d imagine it’s a fool’s errand to try and find threads of logic and consistency in the profoundly schizophrenic.

So you’re saying a Trump pardon is in the pipeline?