dashundchen

It does not fucking matter. Even if there are drugs on the boat.

You can't kill people who present no immediate threat to anyone without due process. It's a human rights travesty.

What stops them from declaring you or me from being drug smugglers and drone striking us? You won't be able to dispute the accusation after, that's for sure.

That's not even US law, it's straight up murder outside of the law.

Or the Trump coin crypto rugpull and money laundering scheme. Or the open insider trading. Or the $400 million jet "gifted" from Qatar. This year has been one grift after another.

Already in bed with Peter Thiel, and by his twitter, ingratiating himself with Vance, Trump and Lutnick.

Breathless branding with the word "America" in every other sentence.

How long before the Trump admin decides to throw federal funds into the grift so these "investors" get paid?

The poster did not say everyone in the country is here, you're putting words in their mouth. Presumably in bad faith.

Even non-citizens are entitled to due process and the 4th amendment. ICE is violating that left and right, citizens and legal residents included. Fuck ICE.

Government officials arresting people should be required to positively identify themselves and provide the legal reason they are detaining someone.

Otherwise there is no difference between a kidnapper and ICE agent.

Who or what is stopping you from getting a job at a restaurant?

Doesn't seem to be a problem with any motivated person I know.

While this looks pretty slick, i definitely agree with commenters this falls on the moped end of things. I will assume from the features listed that it's loaded with proprietary parts.

I'm an everyday cyclist and when people ask me for recommendations on bike, I almost always recommend they look at traditional bike brands with e-bikes, rather than pure e-bike brands.

Traditional bike shop level bike brands typically have reputable Bosch or Bafang motors (preferably mid drive, not in the wheels hub)and computers, but the rest of the bike will be mostly standard bike brakes, wheel sizes, derailleurs, chains, hubs etc.

Bring one of those DTC e-bike brands into your local shop and there's probably a 50% chance they'll work on it. Good luck finding replacement parts or getting support from the company with no local prescence.

Look on /r/bikemechanics to see the horror show working on some of these bikes has become.

One of the great things about cycling is that almost anyone can learn to fix and maintain their bike. It's affordable and mostly standardized at this point

It's extremely accessible with YouTube Videos, the Park Tool Blue Book, and bike coops or workshops in most cities. Many local shops are happy to share knowledge with their customers.

The closer your e-bike is to a traditional bike, the better time you'll have in the long run.

Last time I logged into Twitter to delete my account, many months post Musk, I was presented immediately with disturbing videos of both people and animals beating beat up in the "For you" tab.

And let's not ignore the owner of the site posting inflammatory/hateful/violent rhetoric.

ICE has been denying due process to the people they've kidnapped, including US citizens and children.

The whole point is people are being arrested and deported without probable cause, or based on their race, and deported without real due process.

There is no chance for these people to call their lawyer or wife, in fact ICE can't even tell you where some of these people are being detained.

Understand what is happening here.

Larry Ellison, major asshole and big ally of the current authoritarian regime:

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said, describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place.

Ellison, Vance, Musk, Thiel, Luckey, Zuckerberg and many of the tech oligarch assholes want us to live in their surveillance state.

They're currently making good progress. What will you do to help stop them?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnip...

There were no riots, you don't get stabbed or shot just for existing in these cities. What planet are you living on?

Violent crime has been dropping for years in almost every major liberal city in America. Are there still random incidents? There always will be, but fun violence rates are actually higher in many rural and GOP led states than in major cities.

You need to get a grip and disconnect yourself from the propaganda the fascists are feeding you. The military does not belong in US cities.

These fascist Republicans are not intending on giving up power. A bit China mixed with the sham democracies of Russia, Hungary or Turkey - this is the model they're going for.

What do you think the push behind the new gerrymandered districts is for?

Why do you think they are assembling a national voter registration database that hasn't existed before? https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-doj-national-...

Why are they creating fake emergencies to justify inserting federal police and the national guard in major cities with big Democratic voting populations?

Right. And a few years ago my doctor's office had orders for both the the quadvalent vaccine and the nonavalent vaccine in the system and almost ordered only the quad for me.

Definitely ensure you're requesting the 9 strain version.

How has it worked already?

Dragging people for public spectacles in Congress, lawfare through frivolous lawsuits, frivolous investigation through a variety of agencies, wasting the orgs time in court, allies doxxing org members to intimidate them with stochastic terrorism.

If you haven't been paying attention to how Trump and Co have been weapoinzing government to silence critics or pressure private orgs, you haven't been paying attention.

What happened to Harvard?

What happened to CBS/Paramount?

What happened with 60 Minutes?

What about ActBlue?

Sounds like he is sucking up to the Dear Leader and his sponsors again.

Under Biden, FTC commissioner Lina Khan was returning the agency to enforcing anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws.

I think she correctly identified corporate consolidation, collusion and legally entrenched middlemen as a threat to the working class and economic competitiveness.

Her record wasn't 100% wins but I think she was setting the stage for a much more impactful 4 years had Biden or Harris won.

I think she was one of the reasons big tech and oligarchs fell into line for Trump. Now we're stuck with the most openly corrupt and transactional corporate administration in US history.

A good interview on her philosophy: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/opinion/lina-khan-monopol...

The party who loves to scream about social credit scores in China is essentially implementing... A social credit score, where only government approved speech is allowed.

Trump and Republicans had a great hand in this (Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, Bush tax cuts, Trump tax cuts, PPP helicopter money for the rich), and are looking to double down with their current disaster of a bill. Hope you're opposing that.

Tesla came out last in a 2-3 and 4-5 reliability comparison by the German inspection service TÜV, for the past two years.

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/tesla-model-3-comes-bottom...

> Get back to teaching, standards and research and stop ripping off students to backbreaking loan debt.

That's not really what the current Trump/GOP/Desantis policy, if you could call it that, is about.

It's about weaponizing funding to exert direct government control on what is taught and how it operates. Government approved speech only.

The current admin's letter to Harvard demanded governmenr direct control over department operation, course materials and teaching staff

They pitch this to thir base as revenge on "woke", because they've primed their base, the majority of whom have never attended college, or have not stepped foot on a campus in decades, to distrust educational institutions.

Especially when the legal basis these tarriffs are based on is a sham of

They are temporary emergency powers with a limited timeframe. The emergency is fake, Congress has declared the calendar is suspended for purposes of the clock running on these temporary "emergency" powers.

The tariff could disappear any day if Congress grows even the flimsiest spine.

Anything with a potentially negative impact on Musk, Trump or DOGE seems to get flagged immediately. Coordinated or not it extremely frustrating people flag rather than honestly engage.

Let's not forget the MBS overriding the advice of the Saudi investment board to give $2 billion dollars to Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner. Funds with hefty fees that have barely been invested.

https://www.reuters.com/world/kushner-has-discussed-us-saudi...

These corrupt assholes don't even try to hide it.

So you take back your claim that the whistleblower was just a choice of words on the journalist?

Did you read the article yet?

Sure, I bet if you found a physically threatening note at your work with pictures from someone following you near your home, you'd be cool with it. Totally normal and non-criminal behaivor.

> Whistleblower is a journalist word used to establish the good guy in a story.

It's not a journalist word, there is an official whistleblowing process to Congress and OIG the mentioned employee went through.

But you would either have needed to have read and understood the article you're commenting on or not be commenting in bad-faith.

I saw a chart passing around from this Cato Institute survey (Cato is a right wing think tank) [0]. It made me laugh.

> America would be better off if more Americans works in manufacturing than they do today. Agree 80%/Disagree 20%

> I would be better off if I worked in a factory instead of my current field of work. Agree 25%/Disagree 73%

[0] https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2024-08/Globalizat...

Stop sealioning. Anyone can read the article. The evidence of suspicious behavior is clear and according to the article corroborated by a dozen experts.

The fact that someone tried to intimidate the whisteblower by posting threatening and stalking messages on his door shows there is something not above board here.

Don't forget the whistleblower intimidation!

> Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.

I'm so sick of the endless attempts to downplay or misdirect on the outrageous things Republicans/Trump/DOGE happening everyday.

If a Democratic admin were to do this they would be howling and rightly so. Trump and the GOP are turning the federal government into an authoritarian mob state.

Everyone should be outraged - even if it's for only the fact that you yourself may be a target of this or future administrations as it becomes normal practice.

Conservative is even more of an echo chamber then your average subreddit. It has to be one of the most heavily moderated and censored sub on reddit.

Flaired only threads, so many bans and and hundreds of deleted posts on your average thread for anything against he MAGA party line.