Even if any of them believe they are praying, their "faith" is a sham in support of their real religion: power. To Republicans, "politics" is the religion founded on increasing personal power through performative speech and conduct.
They are hollow, nihilistic simulacrums of human-like virtue, expressing themselves only to drain the actual human value and agency from the public.
The DHS views the situation differently. In a statement to NBC, a department spokesperson said that “Garcia assaulted and verbally harassed a federal agent and that he was subdued and arrested for the alleged assault”.
They say this every time, whether or not there is footage obviously proving otherwise.
Apart from being so insulting and pathetic that this is the government's generic response to unconstitutional arrests (though he is suing under a tort law due presumptively due to qualified immunity), it's also outright defamatory to falsely claim that someone has committed a crime and assaulted ICE.
The story doesn't provide evidence either way, but if this just is their typical Baghdad Bob propaganda, I hope the victims of ICE start to sue for defamation as well - drain the new bill's obscene funding with a wave of court-ordered compensation to ICE's victims.
Yeah, Match.com isn't satisfied until everyone is miserable.
It's weird to think about how dominantly successful any app that took a principled position and resisted enshittification starting in 2010 would be now.
I think civilization is probably just ending after these last few generations, frankly.
Probably for the best...
Yes, but it's legitimately different when you are a huge company versus a struggling artist. A company like Nintendo has the capital and staying power already to reap generational rewards from embedding their IP into a culture.
We've seen the exact same playbook with universities. Pull federal funding for racist political priorities, and other funding if they don't start toeing the line.
It's just the creative writing variant of shitposting.
Sometimes more literal than others.
Don't forget to bathe in raw sewage.
I think a general strike would be effective, but dangerous when people are kept so close to poverty.
Remember the pandemic, we "all" stopped going into work? Except the grocery store workers, and the food processor workers, and those that distribute the food, and water treatment plant staff, and the power plant, and hospital staff, and taxis, and drug store workers, and so on and on. Do those people stop working? How many people can't obtain the things they need beyond their next paycheck? What if in addition, the store shelves are empty?
I agree, it's the most feasible way to fight back, so don't get me wrong. But just like union dues and preparation enable a local strike, accounting for food, water, amenities...a general strike would need to do that or else we would be fighting a war of attrition not just against billionaires with multi-year bunkers but also against ourselves.
Well, Jan. 6th was that too. Every boundary push is a practice run to push further.
The things that happened earlier - arresting US citizens before grudgingly releasing them, deporting them and legal residents - was a trial run for today. Today - planning denaturalization based only on Trump's mood at the time - is a trial run for tomorrow. And we can guess what that is.
At least there are no official death camps in this bill.
Sorry to be a downer, but ICE's funding is now high enough that one of the few plausible explanations for it is that they plan to create concentration camps of immigrants (and, hey, well we have all this money and space, maybe just all other undesirables too...?)
They say he was arrested for the "assault," but yep, they intentionally phrased it to conflate "verbal harassment" with actual (if true) criminal conduct. It's a meaningless phrase.
If anything, they put it there because to the right wing base, it justifies police violence or could support disorderly conduct, or one of the other catch-all pretextual "crimes" used when police want to arrest someone for no real reason.