Being an open source program, the Blue States can modify it for their own taxation apparatus. The money intended for the Federal can be held in escrow, then released into service of the states if the Federal doesn’t negotiate with the Blue States in good faith.
I think that California and the Blue States will make good use of this, considering the shit that the Trump Regime has been pulling.
I was thinking feeding him McDonald hamburgers, Matilda style.
Australia does hire foreigners onto their forces.
International Recruitment - Your experience can make a real difference in Queensland.
Besides, history is a wild and wooly thing that isn’t set in stone. Before FDR and the Great Depression, most Americans wouldn’t have considered the possibility of huge socialist programs such as Social Security. Besides, if a civil war happens, what is “American” will be redefined, simply because the respective sides would have different ideologies. Before the War for Independence, many Americans considered themselves to be British.
Crack open any volume of “The Cartoon History of the Universe”, and you will see something very apparent: Nations and their people change all the time. It is just for you and me, history looks slow, so we can’t easily recognize changes when they are happening.
If we want to change America for the better, we must be willing to discard “traditional” thought. It is when we refuse to consider possibilities, that “tradition” decays into “stagnation”.
We can start from scratch - kill one department and replace it at a time. We probably could hire from Finland and other countries abroad to start clean-sheet academies to raise our first decade or so of officers. They put a great deal of effort and time into training their police, and we can pay them for services rendered. Finland might appreciate our supply of MRAPs and other surplus military gear, considering who they share borders with.
If stealth is key, black play-doh and dunking the screws into black paint might do the trick. Biggest problem with that, is that civvies might walk onto them. As with landmines, caltrops don’t care who stumbles across them - be they cop or child, they are the same.
It is going to be a major issue with resistance and a civil war, that our efforts could potentially harm people who aren’t jerks. 😥
Apparently, rawlplugs make for better caltrops than simple nails. The hollow tube permits air, which keeps the caltrop from getting plugged into the tire.
Now, the question is how to get the plugs to stick together. Maybe wrap them with Play-doh? It isn’t like they have to last for more than one tire, long as they get the job done.
I am going to vote for AOC, and serve in her military if needed. I have no faith in the Blue to do good, let alone the Red.
The victims of the Aztecs would beg to differ. Lots of people were fed to the sun god, to quench its thirst for blood, all to delay Armageddon. Like any other continent, Native America had genocidal maniacs and the Five Nations that resembled a federation. Good and Evil has no homeland, just the feelings that grow inside of people.
The money spent on ICE, can be used to enforce regulations. The wealthy don’t like that, and would prefer us to focus on bullying the little people. It wastes our time and attention, so that genuine criminals can get away with casual crimes. In the US, the largest form of theft is wage theft, and I would argue that paying migrants below minimum wage is also theft.
While there will always be a need for some sort of physical authority, we can probably cut 90% of physical agencies, and use that budget for more useful things. For example, mental health outtreach programs that provide free therapy, genuine shelter and food without strings for the homeless, and so forth.
That is why if there are any physical enforcement, agencies need to have very specific missions, tight rules, and to be built from the ground up for the purpose. The majority of police in America were originally slave catchers, but became what we call police over the centuries. That brutal character inherently poisoned our physical enforcement institutions. Outright deleting ICE and other existing agencies, and then building new ones without legacy personnel, would promote peace.
I would argue that instead of ICE, we should have a vastly expanded IRS to enforce regulations upon businesses. For example, every business is assigned state and federal accountants, who check that the books are legit. These accountants are regularly rotated by the nation, so that companies can’t establish “working” relationships with any given accountant, which reduces corruption.
This would increase the amount of money that government receives from the 1%, along with helping prevent wage theft or other criminal activities. Businesses, not migrants, are innately prone to corruption.
I think that universal healthcare would be the key to ending undocumented immigration, and more importantly, wage evasion by employers. It is simple: documented immigrants get free healthcare, the same as any citizen. This would allow the state(s) to track the workplace activity of immigrants, and in turn be able to collect taxes, enforce fair wages, and hold businesses accountable.
This also has the effect of allowing citizens to have equal job opportunities when compared to migrants, because both are paid the same. Companies will naturally turn to hiring citizens, simply because they are closer to home. Everyone who isn’t a ghoul wins.
Fox News and Trump are an Ouroboros Centipede - their shit flows through each other, perpetually.
As I understand it, that TS12 uses three magazines simultaneously. That is asking for a lot of jamming, simply because there are more moving parts.
I think the VR80 would be better, it can accommodate 9-rounder magazines, is a semi, ambidextrous, and Cali compliant. The VR80 has a split or lever action, so you can remove magazines fairly quickly while on the range. If law goes out the window, you should be able to uninstall a small pin by the magazine release. This voids the compliance, but in war…well, who on your side is going to care?
Also, it is AR-15 patterned, so you can modify it a fair bit. About the only downsides is that it takes about 250 rounds to loosen up, and an annoying compliant stock. Initially, it jams a fair bit until you have broken it in.
Honestly, ICE are changing that by being malicious dipshits. Hopefully the good guys won’t do ‘guilty by association’, but I have a feeling that it will be difficult to keep ourselves from descending into madness.
This sucks. 😩
It probably would be resolved in this fashion. :P
Russia’s nuclear arsenal is likely unreliable, the Kremlin isn’t known for keeping their gear in good shape. That changes if the US supplies nukes or expertise in one form or another. Putin is weak right now, and should be tackled before he can tag Krasnov into the ring. Either the EU deals with Putin now, or has to worry about a stronger Russia down the line.
There is no good answer, just the ones with a less terrible outcome.
Considering that Russia is running low on missiles and other war material, and the shield that is Ukraine, Europe shouldn’t be too bloodied if it fights now. A Russia with US-supplied weaponry, possibly launched from a carrier fleet? That can definitely dig into France and Britain’s flesh.
Besides, the saboteurs that Russia uses is already damaging western nations. They destroy internet cables under surf and over turf, power lines, damage factories, hack systems, ect. Sooner or later, they will make a critical hit.
Someone should bring European floats and put them on the parade path.