MnemonicBump
@MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 8 hours ago:
INS was basically an entire different agency with an entirely different directive. That was also a time when our immigration system was bifricated. So there were, in fact, several agencies, who all had a specialized directive. DHS changed all of that. Not to mention the budget increases.
I grew up 200 feet from a HUGE Border Patrol station in southern California, and about half a mile from the Mexican border. Just because they weren’t coming into the city centers and making big show about it doesn’t mean that they were terrorizing people all over border regions for a loooong time. Murder, rape, racketeering, etc have all been extremely common, and they pretty frequently destroy water and food stashes that good samaritans have left for folks, which has led to uncountable deaths.
Source it? No. I’m not going to show you the last 20 years of federal legislation that removes your freedoms systematically. My point was that we are not in a better place now than we were then, and the place where we are now has everything to do with where we were then
- Comment on How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company? 2 days ago:
This is actually one of the better privacy policies I’ve read
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 2 days ago:
Bt ICE was literally created by the Bush admin align with the rest of the DHS, and the Patriot Act wasn’t reversed so much as disseminated into earmarks attached to various spending bills so it’s actually even harder to get those freedoms back. Even our current immigration system is descended from Bush era policy, including the fucking wall.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 2 days ago:
Yes, but I only because people are afraid to admit that virtually every president has been an evil fucker. We have presidents that OWNED PEOPLE.
- Comment on Nice 4 weeks ago:
Christians control the Vatican, not all Christians
- Comment on It's like salting a slug 5 weeks ago:
This is the way
- Comment on If you've had a bad day 5 weeks ago:
Of course she didn’t, but by continuing to associate with her abuser in a profusely positive way, and as a person who has pretty much always backed up all of the weird stuff about her that her father said, she is tacitly giving retroactive support and permission. Victimhood stops the moment you begin victimizing
- Comment on If you've had a bad day 5 weeks ago:
Nooo? Your father being a piece of shit doesn’t mean that, as an adult women with independent thought, that you are not also a piece of shit.
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 5 weeks ago:
No, I’m saying that real estate developers are overcoming the NIMBYs by instilling themselves into their local politics, and then calling for “future forward” mix-use development, obstensibly thinking about the “changing demographics” of the local area, wanting to build GIANT developments that mix high-end condos, affordable housing, and senior care (both assisted and independent) into the same space. This enables them to essentially control the housing market, and then buy up all of the nearest single family dwellings and repeat.
This is to say nothing about the massive developments going up all over our farmland outside of city centers, as gentrifiers are now bored/sick/scared of the city and seek to once again suburbanize.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I believe you mean DOOM
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 5 weeks ago:
apartment owners
people […] trying to build affordable housing
Unfortunately, these are often the same people. A developer will usually make a deal with a municipality that requires that x% of new units built must conform to “affordable housing” requirements. That’s it. It’s kind of a whole scam used so big developers can just develop MORE AND MORE.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure those are called people
- Comment on Hail power! 5 weeks ago:
Books. Like paper.
- Comment on Hail power! 5 weeks ago:
Encyclopedias existed.
- Comment on there's a Costco at the other end 5 weeks ago:
They’re real
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Really? Because even before Trump, things were sliding into authoritarianism around here pretty quick. Maybe pre-9/11 USA? But honestly, that was our biggest period of economic exploitation of developing countries. As long as I’ve been alive, I cannot think of a single time my home country has been a good guy on the international stage.
- Comment on "you should come to…" 🤚you're obviously already in hell 1 month ago:
Pretty sure that’s Mads Milkelson
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
Thank you
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
You can’t even answer that you were right about? I’m sorry, I just feel sorry for you. So sorry
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
Right about what, exactly? Again it’s like you’re having a conversation with yourself.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
Also a fascist police state
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
So you’re a deeply unserious person, then, and this has been a waste of time? That checks out
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
Again, it’s like you’re having a conversation with yourself. You reduce your self to ad hominem and don’t actually reply to anything that I’ve said. That’s why I said it seems like you’re embarrassed
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
You’re embarrassed, aren’t you?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
I did not. If that is what you took out of it, then that’s one you. I was specifically referring to the number of people who participated, and you challenged the “hundreds of thousands” part ( I suspect because you couldn’t t challenge anything else of a actual substance?)
I literally said > you don’t seriously believe that the CIA was able to convince hundreds of thousands of Hungarian citizens as well as virtually every socialist party in Hungary to fight against their own better interests, do you?
Which is apparently the part that you’re hung up on
That is separate from when I said > And even if true, how does that in any way take away from the thousands of Hungarian civilians killed or maimed?
Which, I suppose could imply some victimhood if you literally didn’t know what an uprising was, but that wasn’t the part about “hundreds of thousands”, so I’m assuming you were talking about the first part, which again, doesn’t contain any “words or phrases synonymous with the word victim” so I’m just confused, I guess, as to exactly where you got that from if it wasn’t from the conversation you’re having with yourself.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
I never said anything about “victims”. If that’s was your assumption, that’s on you. I said there were hundreds of thousands of people who participated in the uprising. Whatever assumptions you’re making are based on a conversation you are having with yourself
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
“Crumble” is a an interesting way to describe an ongoing and active revolutionary project
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
You do what Rojavans did when they had a fascist uprising like the Islamic State, I suppose.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 1 month ago:
I’m not trying to be an asshole, my evidence is anecdotal, but widely approved but other people in the front-end customer service business. It’s not a value judgement. Assholes are just in a state of… becoming? Most of them are just ignorant. But it takes one to know one, I guess?