It’s even stupider with the attack on universities. We’ve always benefited from a “brain drain” from other countries where many of the best and brightest come here for an education, and some of them stay no to build companies, improve our science and technology.
We’re not just attacking immigrants who make our country great, drive the economy, and offset declining birth rates, but we’re specifically attacking those who are legal and might improve science, technology, innovation.
A person in this thread above here was talking about being politically unaware of Greta Thunberg. It is valuable to continue fact checking, both so we don’t normalize the lies and to catch any unaware people
Not mine but two from my state? wtf?
“And even after I started realizing it, I didn’t learn anything”
She really is. I was struck by her defense when the leopard started eating her face: substitute a few words and it’s at least as valid against what she thinks is justified
Many on the cultural right are forgetting something critical: [gender affirmative care] doesn’t infringe upon anyone else’s rights. A crucial argument against [sane sex marriage] was the infringement on women’s rights. But …, [gender affirming care] isn’t a zero-sum issue. There isn’t a finite number of spots on the “[childrens sports] team.” My getting [care] takes nothing away from [people who don’t need it]. And I will fight for my right to do so just as fiercely as I fought against radical ideologies that threatened other American values
Plus contrast her outrage over trans rights, with her defense of lgbt rights. When she’s the one being harmed, every argument she tries is also valid when she’s doing the harm
She still hasn’t learned
Stop being obtuse. Giving up advancements in science and technology is stagnation. Thinking it’s a good idea to not do anything until people are fed and housed is stagnation. Again, it’s not a zero sum game. Those unfed and unhoused people are not that way because of investments in technology and science, and not doing those things will not affect those people
Focus your nonsense on corruption, exploitation, capitalistic excess, income disparities and most of all elected people with empathy …… that are the cause and could help
We put too much stock in training here, for things that should be obvious. How do we know you shouldn’t do that? I haven’t had any police training.
This is related to that “qualified immunity” bullshit. Somehow we let what could have been an appropriate thing turn into cops being above the law except in rare cases they were specifically trained for and there is existing case law. Bullshit. All too many of these look interesting headline cases start with “any sane person knows …” yet cops are above the law
But don’t you wish we had status quo now? I could go for a little stability and respect with a side of human rights and investment in the future
Smaller than many “no kings” protests, smaller than the Pope’s thing in Chicago.
“No Kings” protests are planned everywhere! I intended to go in my town, but now im tempted to go into Boston for the bigger one, to help those numbers
I don’t see it as a zero sum game. On the contrary, I see advancing science and technology as an investment in our future that makes it easier to take care of our people, and stagnation as making it harder to care for our people
While I liked both Harris and Biden, this last election proved you need to be a white make and you need to be loud and argumentative. Policies, intelligence, ethics, competence are no longer important. Biden biggest mistake was laying out the foundation that would make america better over a decade, when people are clamoring for immediate action, or at least noise and chaos. Newsom can stand there and argue with the fascists.
I have to try that
AWS might be a big help here. My company likes that their ARM instances are cheaper and keeps pushing to use more software on them. We’re moving off x64 as least as we can.
(Engineering laptops are Macs, so it’s just management on their windows laptops)
We all have different battles. Ours are currently focussed on our colleges and universities, research and innovation. We recently won one where the court decided that mango Mussolini can’t prevent specific colleges from admitting foreign students out of spite. Of course there’s a major chilling effect but it’s a win.
Also, one of our senators has been extremely vocal and active. Not much Dems can do in Congress but speaking up is a start
And yes, we have many “No Kings”protests lined up that will get huge turnout for our population. Thoughts and prayers are on the way, but also gives encouragement for our representatives, our state, our law enforcement to do what they can.
The problem is we’re over-consuming now, over-populating now, but will feel the effects of lower birth rates in 50+ years. There’s extremely delayed feedback on population trends, but that doesn’t make it untrue.
Even conservatives sometime start from a point of truth. The problem is their solution is to turn back rights for women, opportunities for women. Technically correct, if you have no morals or empathy.
For the rest of us concerned about this possibility, society needs to change a lot to remove obstacles from people who do choose to have children. And this would take a couple generations to take effect so we need to start now, to stabilize the dropping population in 50-100 years
Sure , there’s always been some deportations. We’ve always patrolled the southern border and arrested and deported people trying to cross illegally. Sometimes it’s less humane than other times.
We’ve also usually granted refugee status to places having a hard time. We’ve usually not worried much about employed people. We’ve usually not kidnapped people from immigration court. Weve usually not had masked thugs terrorizing anyone not white enough.
Elon musk is probably the typical illegal alien. Came here legally on a student visa. Overstayed when it expired, but wasn’t really a problem and no one trying to hunt him down. He became a productive member of society. At some point he caught up on the paperwork.
Sure but Harris already win NY, so it doesn’t affect anything