gAlienLifeform

gAlienLifeform , 8 months ago

Worth noting both former aides are denying what this congressman said and he’s only come out with this story after a video of him screaming at these two aides came out

gAlienLifeform OP , 8 months ago

Businesses have an easier time exploiting people without legal status, and dumbass bigots are dumbass bigots. With their powers combined, you get the idiotic and evil monstrosity that is our imagination system.

gAlienLifeform , 8 months ago

Somebody needs to tell Zach Fox about that time the Dutch ate one of their leaders

gAlienLifeform OP , 8 months ago

I mean, for my own personal opinion - I’ve got no problem throwing money at Ukraine because Putin is an asshole and we can afford it, but throwing asylum seekers under the bus to do it is a moral abomination and political malpractice

gAlienLifeform OP , 8 months ago

The thing almost nobody wants to say that’s driving this (imo) - the ruling class sees the writing on the wall for global climate change and knows that lots of poor desperate people are going to be fleeing for their lives over the coming century, and their response is to tighten things down as much as possible so all those people die quietly away from the cameras

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

I mean, considering colonization and things like that, the rest of the world’s allegiance to India has always been about convenience too it seems.

That absolutely doesn’t justify them trying to murder an activist, and Modi’s whole career of Hindu supremacy can fuck all the way off, but if we’re gonna bring up India’s history it seems like that’s an important part of how we got here

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

That’d be wonderful, but seeing how things worked out for Mr. Bone Saw over in Saudi Arabia makes me a little more pessimistic

gAlienLifeform OP , 9 months ago

That’s a really good point I hadn’t considered. However, I’m still concerned that evidence of police misconduct or things that might support an arrestee/defendants innocence is going to be contained in these broadcasts and that we could lose access to that. If this encryption does go forward, recordings of the broadcasts should be kept and their should be a process where defense attorneys and journalists and the like can ask a court for access to them.

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

This bit of an interview with a sociologist who studied wealth managers seems relevant

So this wealth manager and her boss had been summoned to a country outside of Europe by a client who was sending a private plane for them. She showed up at the Zurich airport with her boss waiting for this plane. And she discovered that she’d left her passport back home in a different purse. And she said to her boss, I’ve got to go home and get my passport because we’re leaving Europe. And he said don’t worry about it. And she said again, no, they’re going to check my passport. They won’t let me leave Switzerland, much less enter another country. I’ve got to go home. And he said, no, really, don’t worry about it.

So she didn’t say anything further, figuring, you know, it would be his problem if she got refused the right to leave. Sure enough, the private plane pulls up. They get on it. Nobody checks a passport. It lands in this other country outside Europe. Nobody checks a passport. They get into the private car sent by the client. They’re taken to the client’s home. They have their meeting. Private car takes them back to the private plane. Private plane flies them back to Switzerland. They get off the plane and go home. At no point has anyone encountered passport control or a customs agent.

And this wealth manager’s comment was the lives of the richest people in the world are so different from those of the rest of us, it’s almost literally unimaginable. National borders are nothing to them. They might as well not exist. The laws are nothing to them. They might as well not exist. It’s potentially very, very dangerous. And I think she’s right about that.

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gAlienLifeform OP , 9 months ago

That’s a great point I should have thought of, thank you for mentioning this

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

No, it seems like they just had their tents and possessions taken and then we’re forced to find a different street to sleep on. The sad thing is something like Trek’s Sanctuary Districts would take a government that is way less cruel to the homeless than we currently are.

gAlienLifeform OP , 9 months ago

Well put

gAlienLifeform OP , 9 months ago

The wheels of justice move slowly

I can’t imagine any good excuses for these delays

Gregory Yetman, who was arrested by the FBI after a search last week, had been reported to the bureau as a Capitol riot participant by the military shortly after Jan. 6 – yet continued to serve in the National Guard for more than a year, and was not charged until this month, court documents show.

But a New Jersey National Guard official told USA TODAY earlier this year that Yetman continued to serve in the guard for more than a year after that time. He was honorably discharged in March 2022.

The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command identified Yetman to the FBI on Jan. 14, 2021 — eight days after the insurrection, the documents state. Army investigators sent the bureau screenshots from Yetman’s Facebook profile in which he brags about being at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and states “I’m not fighting for this country anymore.” A few days later, FBI investigators interviewed Yetman for about 10 minutes, the documents state.

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They knew who he was and what he’d done, he was being reported by other cops, and yet nothing happened for years, until

Yetman was identified in a USA TODAY investigation in March that examined the more than 100 Jan. 6 suspects who could be identified from the FBI’s “Wanted” photographs, but had not yet been charged.

Members of the online amateur investigators known collectively as the “Sedition Hunters” provided USA TODAY with names and information about many of those people, whose photographs on the FBI site matched their social media postings or other public information.

Fuck the FBI, who have been fascist goons since their inception, and thank goodness for online amateurs and a free press that makes them actually do their job and protect us

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