I mean the Lemmy devs are objectively assholes. You don’t gotta be anti-communist to recognize that.

But if there’s more to this story than just vibes I’d be interested to read about it. Did they make some statement or where did you hear this? Because I’ve never heard anything about this.

lol what

It’s quite complicated. Basically state law can never contradict federal law. So the question will come down to whether this masking is a legitimate exercise of federal law. While I think it obviously isn’t because there’s no law requiring ICE agents to mask, I’m sure they will make the argument that it’s part of federal discretion in how they choose to execute laws that do exist. Again, it’s hard to make any reasonable argument that masking materially helps them in executing their duties, but the courts have traditionally given a pretty absurd amount of leeway to the Feds when it comes to this kind of thing. This will probably give the SC just enough wiggle room to expand federal dominance over state law and strike this down.

But who knows, that’s just my slightly educated prediction. I’m not a lawyer or anything.

Unfortunately I think the chances are high the corrupt supreme court will strike this down. But you gotta try.

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Just find a group to join, doesn’t matter if you know anyone. LGS or online. Could be a good way to make friends!

This is pretty standard in the media but I do agree that we should always distinguish between the people that live in a country and its government.

I was also defeated by this book lol.

I enjoyed listening to the summary by Champaign Anarchist on YouTube though. Not to say it’s going to be the same as the original text but it’s better than not reading it at all.

Too bad Bookchin was such a terrible writer. I think his ideas were an important contribution to leftist theory.

I believe I read that standing all day is worse than sitting all day. Listen to your body folks.

Think of how many kids we could protect if we just locked up the entire adult population. Don’t you care about children?

Honestly that hasn’t been my experience but either way there’s always room for improvement.

https://youtu.be/vvANy49Kqhw

Also, I hope we can all make a concerted effort to be nicer to each other. It’s the internet so that’s not always easy but I do think that’s one of the things holding us back.

Great. Now what about the hundreds of other people Trump has illegally sent to other foreign prisons?

I think you’re exaggerating a bit here. I never said it was easy but society is chock full of people who have exited religion. For the ones that are more cultlike it may be more difficult but otherwise it’s fairly common for people to realize it’s nonsense and leave.

The ones where it’s truly borderline impossible are where the religion is intwined with the state. In Islamist countries you can be prosecuted for leaving your religion. But is that a problem with religion or with government? To some extent it’s both but the real issue is the ability of people to do violence to you with impunity. In modern society this is a feature of government and not religion.

Well specifically with genital mutilation and pedophilia it seems to be common across all abrahamic religions (maybe not equally in every sect though).

We can quibble about what is truly voluntary but I just mean you’re free to stop participating any time. If you decide you no longer want to follow their silly rules then you don’t have to. Governments don’t have that option unless you want to leave the country but that’s not reasonable.

Fair but it’s still more voluntary than stupid attempts by the government to tell people how to dress.

The solution is to cultivate an educated, tolerant culture. This rule is a step in the opposite direction.

How we dress or adorn ourselves is a fundamental part of human freedom of expression and I think it needs to be taken way more seriously than it typically is in most societies.

True but I mean no one respects child autonomy anyway, so we would need to levy that criticism far more widely if we want to take it seriously.

Plus I’m not sure I trust governments to protect child welfare more than their parents do. Parents are imperfect but when governments get it wrong the consequences are far more catastrophic.

They’ve never been for small government. This lie needs to be called out every single time.

It’s a little weird to call out specific religions here for behavior they all engage in. Or at least all of the abrahamic ones, not as familiar with others.

Anyway yeah religions are bad but as long as we live in a world where they are voluntary and government is not then I’m going to be a bit more upset about one than the other.