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sturg33 said:
I wonder. What % of people who dye their hair blue or purple vote republican? Like 1%, maybe?

What % of them look more attractive after doing so? 0%

Makes you wonder why they do it
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Anime/Manga is the answer.
 
In the latest "please stop talking about Epstein" news the DoJ has announced they are opening an investigation into Jack Smith for violations of the Hatch Act. The act says federal employees can't use their job for political activity. Which is quite odd since Smith wasn't a federal employee until hired as Special Prosecutor. So the DoJs claim is that a Special Prosecutor hired violates the Hatch Act by prosecuting the person who he was hired to investigate/prosecute. That's Special. The kind of Special that gets lawyers disbarred. The only punishment in the Hatch Act is to fire the person, but he isn't even a federal employee anymore. So this will never even make it to a grand jury. I wish it would because I would lovecto see Jack Smith lay out his whole case and for a Judge to rule he can't be prosecuted for prosecuting a guilty person but this will be laughed out of court if they even tried. It's just for headlines to distract people. The doJ doesn't really make announcements of opening investigations into individual people. I hope Dems subpoena any investigation material. I am just dying to see their work because I don't know what angle they could even pursue. Jack Smiths not even a Democrat and Trump spent his whole election cycle saying Jack Smith prosecuting him was helping him. So by Trumps own words they would have to prosecute Jack Smith for helping Trump. Unless the DoJ wants to take the position that the President is a liar and shouldn't be taken seriously.
 
sturg33 said:
Do you really think deporting illegals is some horrible position for a country to take?
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It’s the rhetoric, the targets and the tactics. You’re not going to find me personally supporting the removal of non-criminal (besides the obvious) migrants regardless, but I don’t take a hard line on it when it comes to condemning the effort. But Noem, Trump, Miller and DHS have fueled a propaganda machine that I find truly despicable. Any reproach of their often needlessly aggressive and dehumanizing treatment of non-violent migrants, many of whom are contributing positively in their communities and/or posing no threat to public safety, is met with some of the most pathetic, vile propaganda I’ve ever seen this government put out. The DHS Twitter account is indistinguishable from an internet troll account, and the topic is humans being shipped to, at best, their home country, and at worst a fucking torture facility in a third country. It’s pathetic and lacking in any trace of morality, even if you agree that deportations should be happening.
 
mqt said:
It’s the rhetoric, the targets and the tactics. You’re not going to find me personally supporting the removal of non-criminal (besides the obvious) migrants regardless, but I don’t take a hard line on it when it comes to condemning the effort. But Noem, Trump, Miller and DHS have fueled a propaganda machine that I find truly despicable. Any reproach of their often needlessly aggressive and dehumanizing treatment of non-violent migrants, many of whom are contributing positively in their communities and/or posing no threat to public safety, is met with some of the most pathetic, vile propaganda I’ve ever seen this government put out. The DHS Twitter account is indistinguishable from an internet troll account, and the topic is humans being shipped to, at best, their home country, and at worst a fucking torture facility in a third country. It’s pathetic and lacking in any trace of morality, even if you agree that deportations should be happening.
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I think it's fair to say you don't appreciate the tone of excitement about it... but if you zoom out, it makes more sense.

For starters, the country has been intentional about letting in millions of people over the years. The people who voted for Trump are sick of it and out for blood so to speak, so the people who are hired are leaning in

Secondly, we see police enthusiastilaly post pictures of drug busts, or take pride in catching a murderer or whatever. ICE's job is to catch people who have broken our laws. Why should they be ashamed of successfully doing their job?
 
sturg33 said:
I think it's fair to say you don't appreciate the tone of excitement about it... but if you zoom out, it makes more sense.

For starters, the country has been intentional about letting in millions of people over the years. The people who voted for Trump are sick of it and out for blood so to speak, so the people who are hired are leaning in

Secondly, we see police enthusiastilaly post pictures of drug busts, or take pride in catching a murderer or whatever. ICE's job is to catch people who have broken our laws. Why should they be ashamed of successfully doing their job?
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First, it’s not the excitement I find so infuriating, it’s the cruelty. There’s a lot of excitement around decisions I don’t agree with that I take little umbrage with. If people want to celebrate tariffs protecting American workers or boast about the Trump Administration’s efforts to cut regulations, I’m not all that upset. But I find the politics of cruelty to be soul-crushingly disgusting, and this group has embraced it in the worst ways.

Second, I don’t really enjoy when police do it either, but even they don’t critically spend their time berating any dissenting voices online and posting ASMR videos of convicts in chains.
 
mqt said:
First, it’s not the excitement I find so infuriating, it’s the cruelty. There’s a lot of excitement around decisions I don’t agree with that I take little umbrage with. If people want to celebrate tariffs protecting American workers or boast about the Trump Administration’s efforts to cut regulations, I’m not all that upset. But I find the politics of cruelty to be soul-crushingly disgusting, and this group has embraced it in the worst ways.

Second, I don’t really enjoy when police do it either, but even they don’t critically spend their time berating any dissenting voices online and posting ASMR videos of convicts in chains.
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If a policeman finds and arrests a murderer, and is happy about it... proud about it... gets drinks at the bar from his colleagues... is that "cruelty"?
 
sturg33 said:
If a policeman finds and arrests a murderer, and is happy about it... proud about it... gets drinks at the bar from his colleagues... is that "cruelty"?
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This is simply a false equivalence that I can’t really engage with in good faith. Finding a day laborer to deport after renting out a Penske truck is not the same as catching a murderer, and celebrating at a bar with colleagues is not the same as trying to make viral social media posts taunting impoverished migrants being deported.
 
mqt said:
This is simply a false equivalence that I can’t really engage with in good faith. Finding a day laborer to deport after renting out a Penske truck is not the same as catching a murderer, and celebrating at a bar with colleagues is not the same as trying to make viral social media posts taunting impoverished migrants being deported.
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You see the criminal sympathetically where others see the criminal as a criminal
 
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