WeirdGoesPro

We don’t really know if the friend was ok with it or not.

I’m with you on this one. Lemmy has some bipolar opinions when it comes to cops. Definitely glad that January 6th failed, but we don’t need an ounce more hero worship for law enforcement. Their violence against the citizenry cancels out their credit for good deeds.

I can like them too, but I’m not going to do them any additional favors. It’s part of the cosmic balance.

TRIPLE SIX FIVE FORKED TONGUE!

Republicans: Our values are for Americans only! Those immigrants may prefer to deal with us afterwards, but we real Americans prefer to deal with Americans only! The only method for world domination that Americans need is American weapons and American boots on the ground until the only people left alive are Americans only!!!

Your information comes from the news, my information comes from personal experience of crossing the border several times per week and seeing it with my own eyes. Which one of us has the primary source?

I never said the word victim, but since you brought it up, 50% of the US are victims to this. A large number of us were actively fighting against this outcome and lost. We have been deciding what to do next, and many educated people are in the process of leaving the country. Those without that ability are stuck to suffer under the current conditions.

I’m not even going to address the first and third points because we simply disagree, but you missed what I was describing about the border.

It isn’t more secure, it is less efficient. They aren’t doing a more thorough check, they are checking exactly the same documents twice, and the first time they aren’t even scanning them to see if they are legitimate. They simply stop you and look at them which creates a bottleneck in the line and causes understaffing at the real checkpoint two minutes further down the walkway.

This understaffing has actually caused them to not have enough people in the checkpoint building to man the x-ray machines, so it is arguably less secure than it was before. If I cross at night now, I no longer even get my bag scanned, which used to be standard procedure during the previous administration.

They can afford a googol.

Not the person you asked, but I have answers.

A friend of mine depends on government assistance to get his psych meds because he is very very crazy, but he has been doing well for a decade as long as he gets his pills. The unstable rollout of DOGE created a temporary situation where it seemed like his meds would no longer be paid for, and the stress of it drove him into a delusional episode. That episode cost him his job, which cost him his housing, which has nearly destroyed his life in a matter of months. Now you have one more unmedicated crazy man on the streets until someone like me can find a way to get him help again. All that due to piss poor communication and giving huge power to a billionaire who has never worked in government before so he can take a chainsaw to any program he wants—a decision that even the administration seems to realize now was a terrible idea.

I live on the border. I used to be able to cross from Mexico to the US in under 15 minutes on the average day. Customs was well staffed, and the process was orderly. Very soon after Trump was elected, they started spreading out the border patrol staff to have a bunch of them stand directly at the border line and check for passports and/or immigration documents—exactly the same documents they will check for 2 minutes later at customs anyway. This has led to understaffing at the actual customs checkpoint, and now it takes around an hour a lot of the time.

One of my best friends is a trans woman, and now her identity isn’t even acknowledged by the President of the United States—a disrespect towards a citizen that should be unacceptable in a democracy.

I can keep going if you like…

Username checks out.

Definitely, but it takes a while to chop through a thick rope like that. If we sink too fast, a lot of other countries are screwed.