ParentYou said federal troops, and I guess those would be marines as those are the ones that were deployed to California. Also ridiculous overkill for an unarmed guy who’s only crime is handing out stuff to protestors.

Not just a state senator, full on the Senator for California, arrested in his own state.

Is that why he’s wearing army boots and pants? Presumably he was arrested in his underwear?

Golden visas aren’t really that extraordinary, many countries have something similar. It’s just a slap in the face to everyone else that has to jump through an increasing amount of hoops just to get a green card to see that you can just skip the line if you’re wealthy enough (which has really always been the case on some level, but not that blatant).

I mean, Bolivia has a socialist President, so chances are the workers aren’t actually as exploited as they could be elsewhere.

Everything within 100 miles of the border or a coast is technically ‘at the border’ for the purposes of enforcement. That covers pretty much 90% of the US population.

Yeah, that was close enough to kill. She might have internal bleeding for all we know.

No cop has ever been held accountable for whatever bullshit they pull when they’re in riot gear. They’re basically anonymous and the worst that will happen is a civil settlement with the city (which won’t even come out of the police budget!).

But when Hollywood did, nobody wanted to actually talk about Rampart.

There were actually 3, there was a British autistic kid that tried it all the way back in 2019.

He’s broken the rules all his life without suffering any consequence. Even if he doesn’t realise on an intellectual level, he knows you can get away with anything if you’re at a certain level of wealth just from experience.

Yeah, the classic UI was better (and saved you a couple of pixels of useful screen real estate).

Also, everyone hated the UI in Vista at the time.

I mean, it can be effective. It works for the GOP: you basically can’t get elected as a Republican if you’re not anti-abortion or if you want to raise taxes, and thanks to those purity tests, every time they get in power they take steps towards those goals.

With the ‘big tent’ Democrats all you get is basically a small rollback on the worst excesses of the previous Republican president (to the point where you really can’t call them ‘left’ in any serious way).

This is in the ICE detention centre, so it doesn’t violate that amendment.

Even if you get filmed beating someone you won’t get in trouble? They learned that lesson loud and clear.

I mean, it’s the LAPD that did the shooting here, they would’ve done that whether Trump called up the national guard or not.

There were no consequences for the cops that did it during the 2020 protests, so why would this time be different?

One journalist even died from her injuries and nobody even got named for that one.

Yeah, anyone that’s had a job for any significant amount of time realises that the people at the top aren’t there because they’re somehow smarter. Quite the contrary.