Makes sense. Peak of the “America can do no wrong” hubris.

I didn’t find a direct reference to the creation of immigration courts but maybe I missed it.

The immigration courts being subordinate to the executive branch seems so insane and in contradiction to the entire way the American legal system was designed. Who thought this was a good idea?

It’s growing quite well! Needs a lot of moisture and nutrients but when provided that it seems to like the summer temps and soils here.

I am pretty firmly settled here although I will admit that the recent bill to confiscate people’s passports gave me pause… hoping that does not pass.

In any case, I always love some plant recommendations so let’s hear them either way.

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Great resource and very timely. Thank you!

Thanks. Unfortunately that’s how the system works so I don’t know if I can blame him too much. But it also demonstrates why politics can’t start and end with electoralism. We need to have a base of power that is outside of these types of pressures, which can match the pull of the institutions politicians are subjected to.

No one tells me to put clothes on.

What did he do?

This probably won’t help but I get excited when I see people in these mobility scooters. It’s nice to see options for people with mobility issues to get around without having to drive (or be driven) everywhere.

I think we gotta normalize considering these being rad as hell but I know we’re not there yet.

I agree. This person is a conservative. The other “conservatives” are just fascists who inherited the label and it no longer fits.

There’s a difference between the legal concept as it relates to the constitution and the broader ethical principle on which the first amendment was based.

We can still talk about the ideal of free speech outside of the government. In fact, this ties into the myth of “free enterprise” which suggests that everything companies do is about freedom but everything the government does is about tyranny. This is obviously nonsense but we’re so indoctrinated to it that we rarely question it fully.

None of this relates to what I was saying. The UK already had its own sovereign government, otherwise it wouldn’t have been able to leave so easily.

I’m just saying the feds didn’t have so much power people wouldn’t pay so much attention to them and would pay more attention to their local stuff. Which would be good for democracy.

I’d like to see government focused on the neighborhood level whenever possible. Only move up to the next one if there is an unsolvable issue.

This is not the only change that’s needed so it won’t fix everything on its own but it would allow people to make much more effective decisions about their own lives instead of people in Kansas deciding things about local DC law enforcement like we do now. That’s bonkers.

You’re in an echo chamber. There’s been conflicting evidence but no clear ideology that I have seen confirmed. The left is only focused on the evidence he was a right winger and if you go to right-wing forums they’re fixated on the things that suggest he was left-wing.

But we really don’t know for sure. Which still makes Trump’s actions unhinged but that usually goes without saying.

If the feds didn’t have the power to control everything in society this problem would solve itself. Also there shouldn’t be a president either.

Has he clarified? Death is specifically a thing that happens to individuals, not organizations, so it does not read this way to me.

They’re not a monolith. Some are friends, some enemies. But eventually they will get crushed too is my point.

Several million? That still makes you a peasant to these guys. You need like 100 million minimum. The millionaires need to join with us whether they realize it or not.

“Accidentally”

This is absolutely not a thing that is happening. It is your prejudice and xenophobia combined with dishonest media coverage that has convinced you of this.

Neither am I dipshit. That’s what I’m trying to explain to you. Unlike you, I’m responding to your behavior and not some imagined category.

Note I didn’t say Europeans are xenophobic. Just many of of them. And you.