“So you say you’re tired of the weakness and degeneracy of society and want to tear down a government that you think coddles the weak and doesn’t allow the master race to subjugate everyone else under their hierarchy? Well, I don’t think I need to take a political science course to know an anarchist when I hear one!” - cops (actually)
“Well, if a duly sworn law enforcement officer says so it must be true.” - journalists (actually)
The US has been using this kind of logic since Sept 12 2001 (arc)
SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, the George W. Bush administration arrested hundreds of suspected terrorists. Most of them were never criminally charged and eventually let go. Some spent years in inhumane conditions, even though they had no connection to the Taliban or al-Qaida. In 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where many of those prisoners were being held, and described them using this term.
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DONALD RUMSFELD: And one of the most important aspects of the Geneva Convention is the distinction between lawful combatants and unlawful combatants.
PFEIFFER: By labeling them unlawful combatants, the U.S. said it was justified in holding them indefinitely without trial and denying them international legal protections. The Trump administration is now applying the same term to people on board boats it’s blowing up because it says they’re transporting drugs from South America. The language here matters. It underpins the legal arguments presidents make to justify their actions. Here’s current Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referring to the cartels that ship drugs from the southern hemisphere to the United States.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
PETE HEGSETH: So our message to these foreign terrorist organizations is we will treat you like we have treated al-Qaida.
A lot more good information and history in that article, but the important point is that because they’re not soldiers (i.e. lawful combatants), they don’t get Geneva Convention protection, but because they’re not criminals either they don’t get due process protection either. It’s a completely blatant and stupid way to just ditch all the humanitarian guardrails around government violence we spent the 20th century building, it was fucked 20 years ago and it’s fucked today but we never held the people doing it accountable so here we are.
He’s also a piece of shit on immigration issues, the country would definitely be a better place if he got primaried
Maybe our country shouldn’t send those occupying forces next time then, but we did this time, and now the only decent thing for us to do is stand by the people our scumbag leaders put on the front lines of their foreign policy choices
I hope it does, a big part of how we ended up here was because dipshits in the Obama administration refused to go after W’s people who committed crimes because they didn’t think it would poll well
There have been tons of massive protests, the average American doesn’t support this crap and they’re doing what they can
The question should be the fuck is wrong with America’s police officers, service members, judges, and lawmakers and other elected officials
I think it’s also because the minority of people who still identify as Republicans care more about people they don’t like being hurt than their own material well being
The problem with the party leadership route is that party insiders are the only ones who get to vote on it, and when that’s the electorate she can’t even beat Gerry Nadler. If she can run in a race with real people voting on it I think she could beat anyone.
That for profit company would appreciate people doing their advertising work for them for free I’m sure
Has it actually been reported anywhere that the sandwich in question came from this restaurant chain?
Didn’t stay in office tho
The meetings, known as “audencias publicas,” or public hearings in Spanish,
NYT really thinks its readers are this stupid
In this tech-savvy age, when many get their questions answered online by swiping a phone or clicking a mouse, the consulate sessions are a throwback to another era, when problems were addressed face to face.
“Cliche factory on line two, something about overtime pay?”
You don’t understand, he’s being hopeful and positive while being Muslim, and the last “national moment of unity” this fucking scumbag is willing to recognize as such is when “all” of “us” came together after 9/11 to be super shitty to anyone who looked like they were from the middle east. Taking away their easy scapegoat really does feel divisive to these psychotic ghouls.
Calling Major Questions a legal doctrine is like calling the Paper Bag test a medical examination
He will be 82 years old in 2028
Not saying they won’t try all of this, but I don’t think they’ll be able to pull it off for very long if at all
I think there’s also a bit of rationality behind that system, because
a) Trolls will just lie and declare an article says something it doesn’t to “win” an argument or waste people’s time making them read their bullshit article (usually something hosted on a website you don’t want to give traffic to)
b) Some people on those forums might have tightly constrained time-frames for looking at things because they’re students or they’re working in a restaurant or retail shop or some other kind of closely managed service job where they can get yelled at by a supervisor for using their phone
c) There’s a lot of content to get to on the internet
So, I think it’s kind of a dick move to get mad at other people for not reading the article, and it’s definitely a dick move to do that if you don’t take the time to quote the specific part of the article they’re claiming contradicts someone else
I think that’s what this administration want us to think, but in reality
White House officials said that covering the cost of military pay for the first half of October totaled about $6.5 billion. Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst at the American Enterprise Institute
FFS, could the news media go more than two sentences without treating a right wing hack organization like a serious viewpoint, fuck
Ugh, whatever, sorry for interrupting, do some middle school level math for us Todd
Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, said that based on that figure, the new donation will cover about one-third of one day’s pay for the force.
So, yeah, this is a dumb stunt designed to get us to think they just privatized the military, but it’s actually empty bullshit
I came here to say both of those things about the Internet Archive, but I also hope both of those orgs get tons of donations regularly because I wouldn’t want to live in a world without them
While also doing some drive by racism on Native Americans with a stupidly written racist ass headline