To answer your question, absolutely.

But it’s not limited to ICE and it’s something that’s been going on for generations. Hell, a quick online search will give you stories of cops planting evidence, or tossing flashbangs at babies, or even dropping explosives on citizens from helicopters.

It’s why cities with competent leaders are trying to keep cops local.

Cunts is right.

I fucking hate how our country parses and systematically oppresses workers.

I would like to kindly invite this person to lodge their head in a deeply recessed part of their own anatomy.

I’d love that, but I don’t think (at least here in the US) that there will ever be a meaningful change to how killer cops are managed legally, especially after there was zero accountability for Uvalde.

There are only two ways to fix this that I see:

• Settlements need to be paid out of the cops’ pension fund.
• Send more cops to prison.

Neither of which the US is going to do, because here, the cops and law enforcement are a civic religion. Therefore the best most Americans can do is keep their heads down and avoid the bastards as best you can manage.

My brave browser still blocks everything. Very pleased.

No shit, Sherlock.

This is why I am glad that social media is slowly becoming age gated in other countries.

As they should.

Absolutely, especially when other capitalist countries are doing universal health care and college.

I still have nightmares about the old lady scene.

It Follows is superb. I think their willful decision to make it as timeless as possible really helped it resonate.

As Above So Below got me for similar reasons: the underground inescapability and claustrophobia. Parts of it felt a tad liminal too.

If nothing else, go on record for posterity.

The registration and comment system is, unfortunately, a little cumbersome to use, but I encourage you all to take a few minutes today and submit a public comment if you can. Maybe mention Musk’s many failures and broken promises, and how you don’t want him to be able to integrate his companies further into our governing infrastructure.

They’re getting new beautiful infrastructure and disease cures.

We’re bringing back measles, coal mining, and actively stupefying our kids for profit.

USA! USA!

That’s an excellent analogy. Thank you.

Yep, they did. I got something like 25% more than the Presidents Day sale and free delivery.

It wasn’t $1 crazy, but it was pretty clear to me the chatbot wasn’t programmed particularly well.

They will, unfortunately, be radicalized by AI slop in ways we can’t currently conceive of. The stupidity and ignorance will be a huge problem in decades to come.

Same.

I can close a book and just verbalize myself that: “It’s literally just a story.” But books can get into one’s head. :)

If, as a kid, you were scared of something under your bed or in your closet, it’s a good one.

I actually got a sick discount from Mattress Firm a few years ago just by asking their chatbot if it could give me a better deal on a mattress I wanted.