Dissolve ICE, dissolve DHS, impeach Noem and prosecute and or bar every single ERO agent from future public service.
But that's not who they're going after, it's everybody, with a focus on ethnic cleansing. It is no longer hyperbole to compare what's happening now to Germany in the 1930's.
This is not yet something most Americans have caught onto. The DHS made a tweet fantasizing about deporting 100 million Americans (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-100-million-deportations-...) - which is roughly what deporting all non white people would look like. And Elon Musk posts white supremacist content daily - and I mean this literally. For example he called for “white solidarity” (https://people.com/elon-musk-shares-startling-post-endorsing...) and has also repeatedly called for remigration which is literally defined as “ethnic cleansing” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration).
There will be zero accountability because the Democrats also need the help of those manning the federal machinery to implement their own programs. Even if they might be using it for far less reprehensible things. Civil service reform assures us of that -- it's almost impossible to fire most civil servants so best to just negotiate to overlook misdeeds in exchange for them implementing your campaign promises.
It's all just a bunch of illegal garbage.
The courts have to handle each case and plod around, while ICE as a whole operates without consequence ... except to the people they target. It's a clear pattern of practice at this point, but I'm not sure if the courts are brave enough to act.
It's pretty bad already.
If the US as a whole becomes poorer, being a billionaire will mean a lot less.
I mean I agree they're lacking in empathy, right. But this is not a cartoon. Lacking in empathy is not a goal in itself for these people. It's just not.
Also it pisses me off how nobody talks about certain very relevant elephants in the room on these discussions. And it's more like venting and coping. Nobody will change their minds. Nothing will be done. Nothing is learned.
Note: I am not American.
[1] "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633378 622 points and 886 comments
When a post is of no interest to me, I ignore it. I don't read all the comments and reply to the 20th one.
You are one of the people who replied dude...
I could write about how political discussions reduce the quality (and go against the purpose) of this site, but thankfully Dang has already covered that, so I'll just link to him instead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818
> That’s an incredibly gross personality trait.
On a final note, I'll add that responses like these are a great example of the general degradation of discussion norms that occurs in these types of threads.
Since you're in such disagreement with the rules of this site, maybe, rather than trying to change them, you should take your comments elsewhere.
It’s not an easy problem to solve and is hard to balance fairly, so I think your painting of the content policy as being crystal clear is a misrepresentation that isn’t properly taking into account the subjectivity of what is viewed as political and what counts as intellectually stimulating to different HN users (as it seems if something is “interesting” then that tends to override the “political” in many instances on the home page, and is entirely subjective).
[1] > "I know there are many users (actually a small-but-vocal minority of users) who complain that flags are being abused to suppress political stories. What these complainants never seem to take into account is that we want most political stories to be flagged on HN, for a critical reason: if they weren't, then HN would turn into a current-affairs site, and that would not be HN at all." (-dang)
If you don't have anything substantive to say on the topic and want to keep making personal attacks instead, feel free, but I don't think it helps your point.
You’re a dishonest individual
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676214
you don’t actually give a shit about the rules [...] you’re just lying and misrepresenting things
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675325
Nobody else wants you here either. So just leave and take your weird fucking content policing nonsense with you and let adults have a conversation in peace. Don’t you have some kids skateboarding on the sidewalk to yell at instead?
And yet you felt the need to dress up your cowardice as some kind of moral argument. You’re exactly the kind of person I thought you were from the start it turns out. Congratulations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666023
That’s an incredibly gross personality trait.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656285
Just straight up making shit up here. WTF are you talking about?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485800
This is such nonsense and everyone who’s a web developer knows you’re not being honest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46462462
You are the one who replies here looking for a response despite knowing exactly how it was going to go. Don’t be upset when you put yourself in that situation intentionally and it doesn’t go the way you want it to and for no other reason than to misrepresent the data to suit your favourite company yet again. Please just do both of us a favour and don’t reply
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377969
I think you’re odd and I’m not trying to be impolite but you’re going to have to accept the fact that people find your hobby weird.
You have once again however just done the exact same thing I accused you of where you are responding to an argument that nobody actually made and then pretending you’re somehow victorious which again is odd behaviour.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377025
The above cases are just a small sample of how badly you've been doing this. It is a serious abuse of this site, as anyone who has read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html knows.
I hesitated before banning, because you've also attacked the mods a lot and we don't ban people for criticizing us. However, attacking the mods doesn't make it ok for you to attack others, and I believe that's something the bulk of this community can both understand and agree with.
I'm not one to dig through comment history to make a point; but if I did, I'm guessing it would look like more of the same.
So, unless you have an actual argument to make about the moderation guidelines here, I don't think this conversation is adding any value. I'm not interested in trading swipes with a stranger.
I have since decided that this site does not deserve to know.
Some of the posts break thru the wave of people seemingly flagging these stories immediately like the Palantir stories but otherwise your best bet is having show dead on and looking in /Active instead.