What people voted for 14 months ago and how ICE is being used are two different things. Polling shows a majority of Americans do not support how ICE is behaving and do not feel like it is making them safer. There are not plenty of people "violently rioting" at this point. Blowing whistles and yelling at federal agents isn't rioting. If you want to see what violent riots look like, see the Iranian footage.
I think your second part of the most makes my point -- most americans are overall OK with what's going on because of the underlying issue. That's why it doesn't look like Iran.
On the first part, I hope the last few elections made it clear that polling is... unreliable at best. For example, asking the question like "in light of the recent shooting of Renee Good, do you feel ICE is making your city safer" vs asking "Do you feel like having removed X,XXX illegal immigrants with prior convictions has made your city safer" would yield a very different result.
For what it's worth, as an immigrant myself and a typical over-educated NY liberal (at least, formerly) I don't like the details of what's going on but I understand why it is.
Minneapolis mayor told protestors to remain peaceful. The Democrats always want to follow the rules even when the other side has abandoned them. To be fair to Mayor Frye though, Trump wants to provoke rioting to invoke the Insurrection Act, which he threatened to do today if the Democratic officials don't "fall in line". So there is that.
To be fair DOGE was the ultimate SV neo-libertarian power fantasy. Just get a bunch of hackers together, screw the rules, get root on the government and start deleting shit. Doubly so after a "leftist" administration.
> He radically restructured operations, splitting the company into thirty, and later forty, different units that were to compete against each other. Instead of cooperating, as in a normal firm, divisions such as apparel, tools, appliances, human resources, IT and branding were now in essence to operate as autonomous businesses, each with their own president, board of directors, chief marketing officer and statement of profit or loss. An eye-popping 2013 series of interviews by Bloomberg Businessweek investigative journalist Mina Kimes with some forty former executives described Lampert’s Randian calculus: “If the company’s leaders were told to act selfishly, he argued, they would run their divisions in a rational manner, boosting overall performance.”
Video from last night where ICE agent shot a kid in the face with non-lethal round, dragged him across the pavement with a bloodied face, then put a chokehold on him inside. Kid went into surgery and lost sight in his left eye.
I'd be surprised if it's acceptable to give that question an honest answer.
Precise historical examples of specific acts of rebellion against legal systems perceived to be unjust, like the 1943 Amsterdam civil registry bombing (for which the Wikipedia page is illuminating alone) show the problems with such acts: even if everybody in a particular urban centre goes along with the rebellion, the long-term results are minor. As Kotkin says, successful revolutions need an ideological throughline that can produce coherence by itself.
Also from last night, a father who had nothing to do with the protests leaving the area to get to somewhere safer. He had six kids in his car and they threw a flashbang at him, and now all six of his kids are in the hospital [1]. Incredibly barbaric shit.
I think they're getting real close to triggering armed riots in Minneapolis.
Does this argument still work if LLMs end up increasing unemployment and making it a lot harder for graduates to find good jobs? Who is it good for in that case, the shareholders? It's nice if humans can always create more jobs, but that's not what the tech bros are promising investors. They're making claims about how AI is going to seriously reduce the need for human labor. Programming, writing and art are just the starting ground for what's coming, if their predictions are anywhere close to being correct.
Because consumer demand is infinite, the only way to majorly and permanently increase unemployment is to completely automate all labor or maybe almost all. We have been automating away jobs for hundreds of years and unemployment is still ~4%
unemployment figures are a joke. What matters is how much able bodied people that could work, actually do have a job. And this number tells a completely different history from the feel good libertarian narratives such as this one.
ICE Is acting like a paramilitary force and they need to get the fuck out of Minneapolis as the mayor told them to after murdering Renee Good. BTW, Mayor Frey did not rule out the possibility of using force against ICE, although he stated that he does not want there to be a blood bath if at all possible. Most likely Federal courts will rule against how ICE is operating, as they have done before in Portland and Chicago. LE can't be tear gassing protestors, breaking down the doors of private residences and using choke holds and kneeling on necks, not to mention dragging people from cars as they're trying to go down the street. None of that is legal.
There is a video today of ICE dragging a disabled woman out of a car as she was trying to drive down the street to a doctor's appointment. Then there was the video yesterday a citizen they beat up and dropped off in another part of town. His face was battered and he was crying. And there are many more similar videos.
This is not defensible in a democracy. Never mind that ICE is not wanted in these cities by the citizens or their elected officials. This is massive federal overreach for political reasons.
The US isn't Norway, we're the world's largest economy and 4th largest in land area. Immigration has always been a net positive for the country (setting aside how negative European immigration was for the Native Americans). Migrants perform all sorts of work, and they offset declining birth rates. They also add to the cultural melting pot.
"Suicidal empathy" sounds like a far right talking point, because you don't want too many brown Muslisms in Europe.
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