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"Come right in, the water is fine" said the frog in the pot.
As a legal immigrant, I’m not in the pot because I didn’t enter the country by breaking the law.
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The older I get the more disconnected I feel from some of the posters on this site. I can't remember exactly when I joined, 2012ish maybe? But the takes people have seem to be getting wilder and wilder.
Most users here are American, have you seen what is happening in America? The funny (sad) thing is all the hot takes about the UK or Europe being a "police state" because porn is being blocked for kids, or persistent abuse on social media actually has repercussion (as it does in the real world already). Meanwhile ICE are murdering US citizens in the streets. Turns out American "free speech" doesn't prevent an authori…
Many people in the UK were detained or interviewed by police for protesting Israeli actions.
Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
#633One way to use this data is to increase the success rate of random stops. 1) Take the medicaid data. 2) Join that with rental/income data. 3) Look for neighborhoods with cheap rents/low income and low medicaid rates. Dragnet those neighborhoods.
Much easier just to ask a local cop "what neighborhoods do the illegals mostly live in?"
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#634Don't you at least need to legally migrate to be in medicaid? I thought I had to be a citizen? Are they full in a full on SS mode now?
They are targeting undocumented parents of children who are on medicaid, using the medicaid data to build that list.
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#635Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Come right in, the water is fine" said the frog in the pot.
As a legal immigrant, I’m not in the pot because I didn’t enter the country by breaking the law.
Nor did the Navajo enter the country by breaking the law.
All the same: https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/navajo-man-opens-up-ab...
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#636FWIW, people here illegally are already not eligible for Medicaid, [0] so it's hard to see why ICE having access to a roster of Medicaid enrollees would help them with their stated mission of enforcing removal orders. Then again, we have ICE shooting American citizens in the streets, so I guess the law is whatever they decide it is, not least because our legislative branch is uninterested in laws. https://www.congres…
> FWIW, people here illegally are already not eligible for Medicaid, [0] so it's hard to see why ICE having access to a roster of Medicaid enrollees would help them with their stated mission of enforcing removal orders. Presumably, it's because a lot of them are getting Medicaid despite not being eligible to. Isn't the point of every audit, investigation, etc. to find things that aren't being done correctly?
ICE isn’t auditing Medicaid FFS. And no, there’s absolutely no evidence they’re getting access to Medicaid.
They’re single mindedly looking for undocumented immigrants to deport.
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#637Right now, in Belarus, amateur radio operators are being considered "enemies of the state". Naturally they all are registered with the govt, and thus easy to pick up, jail, or murder. This is the type of danger where last year amateur radio was legal, and now it gets you jailed. Thats the danger of this sort of data.
If you have, you should post articles in English about that. People would be interested.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703694 (5 days ago, 7 comments) Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708996 (4 days ago, 1 comment) HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty
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#638Earlier quoted context omitted.
They haven’t turned against their principles. Party is the principle. You’re just confused because you thought their stated principles were real. I spent too much of the 90s listening to Rush Limbaugh and consuming other conservative media and the exact same contradictions were prominently on display then. They absolutely excoriated law enforcement for things like the Waco siege. The phrase “jack-booted thugs” got us…
It's important to distinguish between their stated principles and their actually held principles. They are quite principled.
Most people understand this. We're just using fewer words because most people understand
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You're right. I guess that means we should deny them any due process, target them (and anyone who looks like them, even vaguely) indiscriminately, and murder anyone who deigns to get in our way.
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When your whole system works by giving absolutely ridiculous amount of power to a single individual who has nobody above or at least on the side capable of interfering and changing things, this is what you eventually get. Crossing fingers and praying given person isn't a complete psycho or worse is not going to cut it forever, is it. Especially when >50% of population welcomes such person with open arms, knowing well…
If the Democrats didn't allow SCOTUS to become corrupted by the fascist right-wing, we wouldn't be in this situation. RBG refused to retire and died while Trump was president. That gave them one seat. Obama could have McConnel refused to let Obama replace Scalia after he died. I'm not sure that had to happen the way it went down.
People do realize that Republicans have agency right? It’s more fun to blame democrats but it’s fairly striking to blame them while hand waving away that the right wing fascist project has been ongoing since at least 2010. They could have also stopped the fascist corruption.