I don’t think the user you responded to was defending ICE. They were bitterly pointing out how the court system is rigged and how there is no oversight to enforce the law on the executive branch.

Just goes to show how much people ranting on the Internet know what they’re talking about…

My guess is they are still gun shy from the defund the police movement after George Floyd.

ICE has no jurisdiction over American citizens. All they can do is detain/arrest someone obstructing their legal role: detaining and deporting immigrants. Further, all law enforcement, federal and local are trained NOT to handle that situation with a civilian by shooting them in the face while they are behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. He acted stupidly and illegally, which one suspects he knew since he fled the scene.

Additionally, federal officials are constitutionally prohibited from forcing their way into your residence without a warrant signed by a judge.

So while ICE has a narrow legal mandate, they have far outstripped those bounds.

Trump just proposed increasing the defense budget from $900 billion in 2026 to $1.5 trillion in 2027. So, I expect you’re correct.

His misogyny terrifies me. But plenty of gay men believe women are fully equal humans and even enjoy our company.

You should keep your pet indoors too. Lots of well-fed pet cats like to hunt small mammals and birds because it’s what they’re wired to do. Many many housecats bring their owners gifts of dead birds and mice.

You’re deflected from blaming pesticide >manufacturers and real estate developers, so that >you can scream your head off at your neighbor’s >SPCA rescue.

I literally said that habitat destruction was a larger effect, you just chose not to quote that part of what I said.

I haven’t seen any numbers on wild cats prior to the >arrival of European settlers. But given the lack of >demographic analysis, I’m betting these figures >have enormous error bars, even assuming you’re >conjecture is correct.

For bobcats, wiki cites a journal from 1996 that said population density of bobcats varied from 1-38 per 25 sq km (numbers from surveys in the 80s, when I read the journal). Making an assumption that pre-European settler numbers averaged out across North American habitats to be more like the 38, and given that the lower 48 is ~8 million sq km, that would make the pre-1500s bobcat population ~12 million. The estimates for the current free roaming domestic housecat is about 100 million. You mentioned a couple other types of cats, but mountain lions are bigger and not the ones preying on small birds. Ocelots are more akin to the domestic cat, but their native range within the United States is much smaller (AZ to LA), with large portions of that area probably not able to support nearly as many animals. But even if I generously said there were another 12 million ocelots in the US, you’d still be only at a quarter of the current domestic cat population.

domestic cats have no natural predators. But again >- that’s not due to the cat population. It’s due to the >human population.

No. It’s due to the fact that they are not native to the United States. They don’t have natural predators because they aren’t naturally here.

Your visceral defense of housecats is just another example of the hypocrisy of humans. Everyone is willing to sacrifice the desires of someone else. No one is ever willing to give up their own destructive vices though. I didn’t even say people shouldn’t own them! I just said they should keep them indoors. Obviously, that’s not what cats want. Cats want to go outside and explore…and kill small animals. Because they are naturally predators and it’s their nature. But if you want to take responsibility for your personal impact, you would keep it indoors.

And again, while I agree that the industrial amounts of habitat destruction is a bigger effect, it doesn’t change the fact that the main impact you as an individual can have/ affect, is reining in your cute murder bot.

Domestic cats’ population is orders of magnitude larger than the native cats population was or is.

While you’re correct that humans are also devastating the habitats of native birds, and that that is likely a (much?) larger effect, the invasive species that is the domestic housecat is also talking a toll of a couple billion birds per year.

There are multiple well-regarded studies providing those numbers. You choosing to disbelieve them is about as valid as believing vaccinations are more harmful than diseases, that climate change is a hoax, or that illegal immigrants are responsible for the housing shortage.

Domestic cats are not native to the US. Their presence is absolutely human caused. And lack of efforts to contain them is also the fault of humans. People should not feed the strays in their neighborhoods. People should not let their own cats outside. Etc.

While I agree that nothing will change if we just languish in defeatism, look at the list!

https://www.senate.gov/senators/Class_II.htm

I can really only imagine about 4 of those being competitive. Most of those states are deep red, and Republicans aren’t known for stepping out of line to make a moral stand.

The midterms can’t fix this. The most the midterms can do is deliver a majority in the House. We can’t roll back anything and we can’t hold anyone accountable with just the House. You can block legislation, but Trump has basically gone around Congress anyway so that he doesn’t have to compromise with non-MAGA Republicans.

Even IF the election is fair (big IF, if you ask me), it still is basically useless. 2024 was the end of a functional federal government.

When a link is dead, does Wikipedia allow you to change it to an archived copy of the webpage from before it was taken down?

Your baseline assumption here is that interaction with another person is burdensome. Most people don’t feel that way, and if they do, they probably don’t work in the service industry.

So, presuming the doordasher finds human interaction to be neutral (neither good nor bad), and understanding that the customer is not making the joke at the expenses of the door dasher, I fail to see how this is a problem, even if the dasher doesn’t get it. Someone trying to share a joke with you, even if you don’t get it, is usually perceived as friendly.

Exactly. Snapchat could 100% filter and flag this using AI if anyone cared to make them.

I think the adults here were just tech-illiterate school administrators from small town Louisiana.

If they’re driving an older truck, it’s possible they’re getting 12 mpg or something.

I think that if someone works enough hours to be full-time (although, Google says 30 hrs/wk, which is less than full-time) the ACA requires the employer to provide some kind of health insurance option or assistance to the employee. So the post is saying employers have multiple part time employees instead of full time employees so they don’t have to pay for employee health insurance. I.e., the employer is shitty and unethical, or “smart” as it’s considered in Trump’s America.

I am really shocked when I hear these budgets that more people aren’t trying communal living, or at least roommates. When I was young and broke, that is what I did.

As an American, I don’t know. Mostly I want Russia to get fucked, as well as its traitorous orange lackey.