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Question: what kind of father would fail to protect his son from an endless bullshit performative Republican inquisition that we all know would have happened?

All historically-stable Western nations seem to be subject to the same influences that brought us Trump, though.

They (we) are all under attack.


ICE isn't the Gestapo. The Gestapo didn't hide their faces.

If history is any guide, ICE may be better compared to the SA. Their job is to make it safe for the future Gestapo to operate unmasked... at which point the unprofessional street thugs in ICE will find that they've become a liability to the regime.


The Gestapo also didn't have smartphones recording their every action in public places being disseminated to the entire planet.

Note that Noem has already declared that any video evidence of ICE's criminal activity is itself illegal and inadmissible [1,2].

As I understand it, the right to record police has never actually been tried definitively at the SCOTUS level. The Republicans certainly have the tools on the SCOTUS bench to prohibit it now, so look for a case to be brought at some point.

1: https://reason.com/2026/01/08/you-have-the-right-to-record-i...

2: https://www.kqed.org/news/12070260/what-you-need-to-know-abo...


She says all kinds of stupid stuff. Nobody out in the real world should take that kind of statement seriously. Which school gave her that law degree?

Ah, the "They don't really mean it" school of thought. Thanks for your input.

Looks like he lost a fight with a Van de Graaff

It's an attempt to appear as a nonconformist that a genius visionary has to be (from their perspective). SBF did the exact same thing.

Reinforcement learning for humans. I like it!

Wreckless incompetence at the highest levels of government

You mean reckless incompetence. There was plenty of wrecking.


Yes, you are right!

Russia invading Ukraine also made zero sense, given their actual capabilities and the likely (now realized) consequences. The leader doesn't always have the best information, it turns out.

Either that, or the leader does have access to the best information, and they just DGAF. That condition seems to be going around too.


I guess I see Chinese leadership as more rational than that, but maybe you're right.

That's nowhere near as true as it was as recently as a year ago.

Navies appear to be obsolete (edit: I'll exempt ballistic missile subs from this statement, though.) You don't even need a navy of your own to sink another country's navy these days.

When $100M in armaments can take out a $10000M carrier, it's time to rethink things.


What are some better parallels? Seriously, no snark, please throw out some suggestions for reading. I can't think of any other country that has done this to itself.

Napoleon, maybe?

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