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Here’s a transcript of an Opening Arguments podcast episode in which an immigration lawyer talks about the U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) case as well as Plyler v. Doe (1982) which says all school children have a right to go to school regardless of their immigration status. I recommend listening to it since their focus is to triage what is actually likely serious and what is just political grandstanding.
Hard to execute your Machiavellian overnight decapitation conquest when so many people believe in the checks and balances designed to inhibit takeover by a King.
The relevant section of Machiavelli’s The Prince (1532) that Trump, despite having four years to have his loyalists prepare a government takeover, has failed to do over the past few weeks:
… on seizing a state, the usurper should make haste to inflict what injuries he must, at a stroke, that he may not have to renew them daily, but be enabled by their discontinuance to reassure men’s minds, and afterwards win them over by benefits. Whosoever, either through timidity or from following bad counsels, adopts a contrary course, must keep the sword always drawn, and can put no trust in his subjects, who suffering from continued and constantly renewed severities, will never yield him their confidence. Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, so that they may be more fully relished.
The trailer music was also a track on the “Rock” radio station.
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The Internet is just a fad. Wait until everyone logs into a single central server in Virginia. One database is all you need for Earth.
What would be really neat is if you got some external heat sinks for your brakes that would make the letters glow incandescent.
Session, an Australian fork of Signal with onion routing and no phone number requirement, seems promising.
“Trust the Fungus.” –Luigi
For an academic text on this subject with footnotes, I recommend Chokepoint Capitalism (2022) by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow. It calls what you describe “moat buulding” and an “anti-competitive flywheel”.
The US didn’t even get the excuse of being forced to pay obscenely high war reparations to justify their fascism. Instead, it’s dissatisfaction with inflation which, in turn, is the predictable combination of the exponential depletion of scarce resources (real estate, water) and the consolidation of property into the hands of an ultra wealthy minority. If one must frame the emergence of fascism in a “war” context, then the cause is plutocrat beligerantes strategically fighting a social class war while most of everyone else think it’s a culture war.
Background:
Benjamin Weiser. (2015-05-29). “Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Website, Is Sentenced to Life in Prison”. New York Times. Accessed 2025-01-21.
Ross W. Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, a notorious online marketplace for the sale of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other illegal drugs, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
Mr. Ulbricht, 31, was sentenced by the judge, Katherine B. Forrest, for his role as what prosecutors described as “the kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise.”
Mr. Ulbricht had faced a minimum of 20 years in prison on one of the counts for which he was convicted. But in handing down a much longer sentence, Judge Forrest told Mr. Ulbricht that “what you did in connection with Silk Road was terribly destructive to our social fabric.”
By pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists, Trump legitimized political violence so long as it is done in his name. This is fascism since it views political violence as an acceptable means for strengthening nationalism. The pardon bolsters his political power by quelling dissent from those who may check his power (e.g. the Supreme Court, Congress) since they show he will physically attack them through his supporters.
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Americans have been so fat and happy that they’re literally sick. They need a few more LA fires and pandemics to wake up from the intellectual coma they’re in.
Driving time distance from any interstate highway would reveal regions most likely to attempt seceding from the Union.
we need it to be more than this
That goes without saying?
Come and get me.
So, League of Legends is officially a hostile foreign adversary to the US?
tl;dr: Immigration law isn’t safe, but we should prioritize our worries on the most plausible immediate problems within it.
Trump may be pushing to break immigration laws to invigorate political support with his MAGA base, but ICE still deports people in an orderly manner.
Verbose:
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For criminal warrants, which require a federal judge to sign off on, they may take into custody all people present to collect evidence and, conveniently for them, to run identity checks so they can deport undocumented individuals. US citizens may be temporarily detained until ICE can determine their legal status, but the Massachusetts immigration lawyer in the podcast, Matt Cameron, is not aware of lawless sweeps of neighborhoods or workplaces occurring today in which ICE does not perform identity checks during criminal warrant enforcement.
From a triage standpoint, more concerning are administrative warrants that require no federal judge generally comes in the form of ICE camping courthouses to interrupt local judicial proceedings to capture individuals be they defendants, witnesses, or victims. However, even this potentially unbounded method for accelerating deportations is limited by the number of ICE officers directly involved in enforcement removal operations. Cameron estimates only about 7,000 currently are active. See OA 1100: Mass Deportation is Much Harder Than Trump Thinks (2024-12-16).
I am not saying that Trump wants to follow the law. What I am saying is that the judicial system, and people’s belief in its efficacy, present roadblocks to even Presidential power. Judges must be replaced with loyal syncophants, corrupt ICE officers must be hired and retained, buy-in from local law enforcement (often annoyed that their criminal cases are being disrupted by ICE) must be obtained, and people’s expectations that paperwork accompany law enforcement must be eliminated. And at every step of the way, educated people like immigration lawyers are aware of the exact details of the evil being pushed by Trump. So, find one you can trust who is not fear-mongering; listen to or read their publications so you can spend your mental energy tracking developments that matter rather than less likely scenarios, such as US citizens being removed through accident or malice by ICE.
I hope other areas of government do not differ in that similar roadblocks exist to slow down Trump’s lawless orders. What I am saying is that within each domain of government under attack, we need to prioritize which norms deserve focused protests and which can be considered safe for now.