Yes, but the threshold isn’t a law, it’s entirely up to them whose passports they revoke. Lowering it doesn’t obligate them to revoke anyone’s whose balance is above the threshold, just enables them to. They can just say, “now we’re revoking passports for some people with $300+ of child support outstanding” (so essentially any missed or even upcoming month’s payment), and then only revoke the passports for identified Democrat voters. Or they can just go by names, and target specific demographics. Name sounds “not white”? Revoked.

America: 250 years without violent class warfare.

Um, excuse me? What now?

Don’t be surprised if they lower the threshold significantly before the midterms or 2028.

This, combined with the SAVE act and the voter rolls they’re trying to get from Blue states, is an obvious way to invalidate an ID that would otherwise be ‘secure’ against the SAVE act, and to do it selectively.

IRC is still alive and well, team speak for voice chats. Hell, Nextcloud even has these, as well as video calls.

Just strong pain relief.

Everyone forgets that “Information Technology” was just a rebrand from the more accurate “Information Systems”, which was itself the less accurate rebranding of “Data Processing”, which is what computers actually do. There was also the failed push by IBM for Information Communication Technology (ICT).

It’s been hype cycles since the beginning.

Burn dressings.

Seriously, this is the one piece of “real” first aid stuff (as opposed to the acetaminophen and bandaids I also keep in mine) that I’ve needed to use enough to replenish them. I’ve used my gauze roll once, when I absolutely shredded my hand by stupidly breaking a ceramic bowl in half. Never had to use my tourniquets and hopefully never will.

I recommend Burnshield Hydrogel dressings. They don’t just stop the damage from getting worse, I can tell you from experience that if you use them right they can even prevent the blistering from 2nd degree burns.

If you ever get hydrocodone after a surgery, add that to your kit, for emergencies.

Can’t believe they’ve really been this fucking incompetent, but I’ll take it.

We’re not actually holding China back right now, from anything. We’re not stopping them invading Taiwan, we’re certainly not stopping them genociding Uyghurs, we’re not hampering their influence globally anywhere, so I’m not sure what exactly they’d be doing without us that they’re not doing right now.

This justification for America as the less-evil-superpower feels like arguing to keep the Klan in charge so the Nazis can’t take over.

Every derelict I salvage has so much crap I have to compulsively clean up, including my starter ship…

Keep in mind that these mostly aren’t direct analogues, and not all in the space genre, but I can think of:

• Unpacking +
• Power Wash Simulator 1 and 2 +
• Papers, Please ++
• Space Engineers +
• Ostranauts +
• Besiege ++
• Terra Nil +
• Sunken Engine +
• No Place Like Home +

Cleaning games: +

Detail-driven puzzle or deduction games: ++

The only people who could stop ICE from masking (apart from the people they work for) are Congress or police. Congress won’t, and states are too afraid of being declared “in open insurrection” to try. Also, whether they’d even listen to Congress is up in the air at this point.

Luckily, them being masked hasn’t stopped people compiling lists of them and figuring out who’s who in videos of their abuses.

I’d rather see legislative and activist focus on the whereabouts of the people they take; making sure they’re safe is more important to me than knowing right now who disappeared them; that info can be gotten at any time, through many means (including ones they can’t erase, like bank transfers, healthcare benefit information, etc), when these Nazis are out of power.

It’s important to recognize that all that any “concerned” conservatives are calling for is treating this one white male (like themselves) in the way the law already would dictate, as far as an investigation goes. They’re not objecting to ICE’s mission, or even asking for this minimal level of investigative fidelity for anyone else. Like Renee Good, or the 2,000+ people from the Florida concentration camp who are unaccounted for. They don’t care about what happened to them.

Yeah, absolutely.

As far as ICE goes, absolutely. They are abusing the carve-out for arrests made during the commission of a crime in order to arrest people on the street who present no danger, by treating someone’s immigration status as being on par with e.g. finding a murder in progress, where immediate arrest is “reasonable” under 4A.

Unlike “vote for the single issue you care about” - that works real well right?

No, and I’m not trying to strategize how to win as a non-Democrat, I’m trying to strategize how to get Democrats to actually win…

And the answer is kick out the centrist assholes who keep enabling Republicans, and never ever telegraph to the DNC that if they can just get their preferred candidates far enough, you’ll just roll over and do what they want.

Like it or not democracy means compromise

Wrong. Democracy means voting to make decisions. Some people compromise, some don’t. It’s not required, and you just telling people that it is is deluding yourself.

the US flavor of democracy means compromise between just two candidates.

Wrong. There are in fact more candidates (and non-participation), and people are not persuaded by being told they’re being railroaded towards ones they dislike. If we want to win in 2028, we need a new strategy, that doesn’t solely revolve around winning the primaries. We need pressure campaigns and protests if we get some corporatist piece of shit like Newsom, for example.

Throwing away your vote on other candidates does not change this.

I never said it’s smart for people to do, I said people will do it, and you need to understand and accept that, otherwise you can’t strategize around it.

As much as I wish I could pretend it signals social preference to the people in charge, it doesn’t.

Agreed; people vote according to their own interests, and the actual way to get them to vote for you is to convince them that you best serve those interests. Not to tell them “no one serves it, but we’re not as bad as the other guys”. If their interest is a single-issue, and they as a bloc are large enough to tank your win, you have to shift, or you will lose. That’s just math, and the reality of democracy.

A vote for 3rd parties may have told Kamela to go fuck herself, but now we get trump as the consequence.

Which is why Democrats should have absolutely rioted when Biden first announced he was running again for 2024, rather than letting him wait until 3 months before the election to kick it to another candidate, who had no time to prepare, and who was never selected by the public in the first place. Biden fucked us and Harris.

And it’s “Kamala”.

And because the DNC puts its finger on the scale earlier on, they end up with bad candidates in the General, and then lose. The Democratic Party has been seeing a lot of good bottom-up shifts leftwards to meet voters, but it’s much slower at the national level, and unfortunately the President is the person who most needs to match voters.

Point is, “vote blue no matter who” as a tactic does not win elections. If you just accept that a bad candidate is locked in, you’re just accepting that you’re going to lose.

and everyone has to choose between those two no matter how imperfect they are

No, they don’t. That’s the point. You keep claiming this, and then losing, because in fact there are other choices, and people make them. If this were true, Harris and Hillary wouldn’t have lost.

It doesn’t matter whether you wish everyone had to choose one or the other, you need to deal with reality as it is, and in reality people can vote third party or sit out. If you pretend otherwise, you’re gonna keep losing.

This is great to say in theory, but merely telling people this in a Beehaw post doesn’t actually make anyone vote differently.

If you actually want to win and not just have someone to scapegoat, you have to actually entice people, and if your candidates aren’t enticing people, the only actual, actionable leverage you have is changing the candidates.

4% of Democratic voters want to increase military spending.

70% of House Democrats just voted to increase military spending.

Most important quote from the article, imo.

The Trump Administration IS a Nazi Problem

ftfy