• ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    Umm, no you stupid fucks. It’s time to abolish ICE and put the criminals in prison. Grow some goddamn balls you fucking pussies.

    Off with their heads. Every dem that capitulates can get in line.

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      The Patriot Act was passed as a “temporary measure” and ended in 2015.

      It was modified and replaced with the USA Freedom Act that did all the same things and added some new crimes on top.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    The rules are there to facilitate the violence, but conservatives just couldn’t bring themselves to stay in their lane.

    Now Democrats will be forced to increase funding for ICE to pay for all the new signage on the kidnap-mobiles.

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    (sigh) I’m so fuckin used to living under authoritarianism that it took me a second to understand what the problem was in this meme

    We really need to burn it all to the ground

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      To be fair, that WOULD help a lot.

      Of course, expanding (and electrifying) mass transit as well as making cities walkable would help a LOT more, but it’s still not like zero emission cars isn’t MUCH better than the toxic status quo 🤷🏻

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        to be fair, if the ICE agents took their masks off and wore body cameras, that would help a lot. of course, better training for ICE agents would help a lot more, but it’s not like maskless agents isn’t much better than the status quo 🤷‍♀️

      • thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au
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        electrified cars would help in the same way a band aid helps a bullet wound.

        sure I guess its theoretically better than nothing, but it won’t stop you dying and it gets in the way of any real solution a competent person would provide.

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          That’s just not true.

          You don’t seem to have any idea how much of the world’s harmful emissions come from cars and the refining of fossil fuel for cars.

          Over 50,000 people in the US alone die from auto emissions every year, compared to 34k from auto accidents.

          To say that getting rid of those emissions “won’t stop you from dying” just because other things would help even more is some tunnel vision nonsense.

          • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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            What did I miss from mangocats? Can’t find the comments in the modlog, just the ban.

            ~Stupid curiosity~

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            auto emissions aren’t just fuel reaction byproducts. you know when your tires and brakes wear down? where do you think that mass goes? its a very wasteful form of transit, and moving tons of steel and lithium for every 1-3 hundred pounds of person is insane. bare bones ICE augmented bikes would be a greener solution than electric cars. if we switched all our infrastructure to electric cars, wed need more sodium and lithium than exists on earth and a nuclear power plant for every truck stop, complete with waste-heat outlets and and radioactive waste disposal.

            electric trains running overhead wire from green or glowy energy sources and ebikes/scooters or walking to cover last mile is of course ideal, the economy of scale and efficiency of form from trains and barges and reducing excess mass moved from using escooters and ebikes for last mile trips may actually keep industrial society viable.

            sorry, but under capitalism you can’t use stopgap measures. natural gas was a harm reduction measure, now natural gas profits and lobbies are a barrier to green energy and electrification.

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              Also parking lots, roads, storage for cars. Etc.

              Even more environmental damage.

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                Even with the added transit time on public transit, it is SIGNIFICANTLY easier and more pleasant than driving since your attention isn’t chained to making sure you don’t kill someone. If you spend a couple of hours farting around on the internet per day you can do that while commuting.

                If you have a long distance to commute then you’re probably not the only one, and your city needs more commuter buses (fewer stops between destinations).