People with a sense of honor, strong moral compass, a willingness to hold people accountable. These are "Bad People"(TM) who will hold grifters accountable if they are allowed to.
The best thing to do is turn them into the next target. MAGA is always looking for an other to target and this is as a good group as any.
I would say this is a clear situation where rules only apply when I say they do.
But this is getting much worse, its "Tow the line or face my wrath". We're clearly in a situation where Trump favors a business that business gets lots of benifits for doing awful things or simply allowing Trump to do awful things. At the same time any business thats just doing its own thing is at risk of being run over.
This is obviously resulting in a job and business market that is totally stuck since you already need funds just to pay the bribes to Trump to get around all the roadbolocks he put up.
Moving to shooting back is just a line people on the left loath to cross in mass. Honestly this is for good reason.
If one person crosses the line, he's just a target. If he's really good, like the DC sniper who took ages to get caught, The Gov will arrest "Someone" simply to close the case.
Even then you need to pick your targets so the left wont be mad at you. So shooting the killer of civilians, problem ok in public opinion. Shooting a random ICE agent with a wife and kids, Your going to get roasted.
So lots of people want this to happen, but they are also clearly afraid of becoming what they hate, and even if they are ok with it they may find the community is not yet ok with it.
Not to mention your local cops are not going to arrest ICE. So your going to need to call in the national guard.
Assuming you can then know which hotels ICE are using, you could arrest them by blocking all the hotels and waiting them out. Opening fire is just off the table and clearing room by room will get people killed at some point.
Deploying the Guard as cops to peacefully arrest a huge chunk of ICE just gets the military deployed or like you said, Trump does something more insane to prove he's the one in charge.
What makes me laugh is that they could have easily made stuff like Netflix and HBO and premium priced services based on not trying to capture every house in the US but instead sold a good product at a sustainable price, where growth comes from a slow influx of new customers who see value in the service.
Obviously our Tech bros are so addicted to the "Market share at all costs" mindset that they've destroyed the idea of premium media.
HBO and other premium legacy groups could have easily adopted this, they came much later to streaming, at much lower costs then Netflix. People can then buy into the channels that give them real value.
Instead we get this...
I see it coming with all the voter rolls going to the fed. The fed is going to challenge every democratic voter nationally. This means they all get 2-3 days to fix their voting registration or they cant vote the mid term. They will file challenges as close to the election as they can.
Musk fired his most costly staff and replaced them with AI bots. His internal team cant tell whats going on and may not even have direct access anymore as Musk went all in with AI for his company's.
First step is to then file a writ of Habeas corpus for every single detaine. The judge can then release them in the court room. I assume the judge would also order ICE to not re-arrest these people.
Disobeying that court order is not something the Supreme Court wants to let happen as Habeas corpus is s core element of the courts power. Trump on the other hand can keep appeals going for years
My issue is that once air travel stops, thats basically it. There is some min staffing point where the whole thing falls apart. You cant replace ATC like trump thinks he can. Its 2 years to get a small class of new staff in the tower and thats noobs.
This is an economic collapse greater then the teriffs. These guys were being told "go to woek" while landlords foreclosed or gave eviction notices. I assume this is under the radar, but it feels like a big deal.
Trump just wants to get everyone to quit, hes trying to pay his people enough to make them quit later. Enlisted obviously cant quit, but even Navy Fed realized this is not a normal shutdown. Ice he needs, so he will find money to pay them.
30 to 45 days was enough stress that ATC started to quit, this time who knows what hes doing with ATC but at 60 days your looking at the end of civilization air travel.
If you cant mass fire people then create a hostile work environment.
Not a word? No kings day said a lot for how little media it got. No pushback? The gov is shutdown. Now i know its Trumps plan to drag this out till enough gov workers quit, while playing at attempting to blame democrats. That said people are pushing back, its just required new methods as the ones we had are broken.
State governments must already be talking to each other. That means things like calling a convention are coming up, and just calling one is enough to get congress to do its job most of the time.
So things are not sunk, we're still voting at mid terms and can enough to at least impeach Trump again.
As someone who is Autistic and has a problem with hyper fixation, I spent 2 years of covid learning about mRNA Vaccines. How they work, metabolic pathways, unintended side effects down to what the broken down mRNA "cells" do after they fall apart.
So I can say clearly, mRNA is safe. Its like a virus cell, but no payload, heck it doesn't even have the normal stuff that holds cells together, so it falls apart in the body super quick. This means it runs around the body handshaking your cells, letting your immune system find it, and not long after goes poof as it self destructs.
But all these "Do your research" types don't actually want to get a hyper fixation, learn all the things related to the topic at hand, they want to look at the ingredients, call something with a long name poison. They want to create Doubt, push some non vax agenda, and I guess cause people pain and harm by being carriers. They do desperately want the conspiracy to be true.
The truth is sadly rather normal, they work, really dang well too.
Anything I can think of can also be abused. Amendment that lets states do a vote of no confidence, red states would just veto any dem they dont like.
We would have to be absolutely radical and move to multi party proportional representation to even get free of all the current problems, make the president more like a prime minister I guess as well.
Point is, no easy solution that you can use to stop a king that cant also stop a progressive.
The difficulty is that Trump is a true Bully, with the power of the DOJ and FCC and many other 3 letter agency's. People are clearly just trying to dodge his vision at this point, when noticed, they find it safer and more cost effective to give him whatever he wants instead of having some long drawn out engagement.
Trump is different from other political people, he will go after you for any slight till your bankrupt or he is. Problem is he has unlimited money now. So he can effectively sue anyone he wants into bankruptcy. At this point its a cost benefit analysis with an infinity on the bad outcome.
I assume they just make a new TicTok and start over. Republicans will run the current one into the ground as a new fox news clone and chase away everyone they wanted to monopolize anyway since no one cares about Republicans messages
End of the day there wasent a legal way to end this. The petition today is a good way to get targeted by Trump. Thats why so few signed it. Nor is the petition actully a legal means of anything but expressing displesure that he is allowed to make statements.
Charlie Kirk was going to continue to use coded language to incite violence from now till the end of days. He chose his words to never clearly say something that would cross the first amendment. Sadly this is the case because the courts have rejected the idea that coded language is a thing at all.
Outside his death this is really a conversation on if the first amendment needs an adjustment. At the moment with Trump's administration I'd say no, At some point in the future I'd ask for non violent ways to shut down someone whos figured out how to get around basic safeguards and be able to call out coded language for what it really is, calls to violence.
The difficulty is the vary issue we call the paradox of tolerance. Charlie Kirk was not a tolerant man. In fact he was the embodiment of the right wing drive to create boogeymen out of normal people so he could create out groups.
The paradox to be resolved his that he lost almost every formal debate, his world view had no grounding in reality, yet as long as he did his life's work, a great many people suffered and will continue to suffer.
I don't know what legal avenue was left, ignoring him just lets him recruit and push his agenda. Interacting with him just let him push his message. Laughing at him made him want to spout more nonsense. Ultimately he was going push his message of hate, cause small harms to others, and we would just have to accept this as the price of free speech.
I can't say what the solution is, but in a post Trump world, we need a response to the paradox of tolerance that is better then just allowing it to continue. We need something better then violence that's for sure.
Its all a cost benifit analysis, right now if your in the National Guard you have rights like the ability to go back to your job.
"Just following orders" is highly dependent on the orders given. Deployed on guard duty for a federal building or as cleaning crew in DC is still legal. Most people the line is when you take people's freedoms away, as the guard are not cops.
This is of course the problem, Trump's admin is riding really close to the line of whats legal, they want something to happen without being the ones taking the opening shot. The best way to do that is to put a bunch of bodys in front of court houses and other federal buildings. So far no one is dumb enough to see the guard as an actual threat. So what the guard is doing, asking people to talk to the PR team, is the only passive restance they can do till something changes.
Conservatism never fails, you fail conservatism. Trump owns the party, its his till he lets go or dies. You can only suck up to him, do what he says, and if you fail, its your fault for not paying the correct bribes.
Legality be dammed, Daddy Trump can always give you a free pass. Just don't be to good at your job or he will toss you under a bus for coming after his job.
Not sure if Mastercard cares. Gaming is small potatoes to MC. Like all the BG3 sales is a drop in the bucket, the entire segment is only $455 Billion last year or perhaps a few billion in revenue to the banking sector (split up 10 ways from Sunday between points, banks, MC, Other Cards like AMX)
Heck, AMX lost a Costco, with $255 Billion in annual sales a while back, since Costco is so big it could get a sweetheart deal with Visa that AMX would not match.
For us the numbers are mindboggling, for MC its a Tuesday.
Autistics are the bad guys to them.
People with a sense of honor, strong moral compass, a willingness to hold people accountable. These are "Bad People"(TM) who will hold grifters accountable if they are allowed to. The best thing to do is turn them into the next target. MAGA is always looking for an other to target and this is as a good group as any.
Rules for thee but not for me
I would say this is a clear situation where rules only apply when I say they do. But this is getting much worse, its "Tow the line or face my wrath". We're clearly in a situation where Trump favors a business that business gets lots of benifits for doing awful things or simply allowing Trump to do awful things. At the same time any business thats just doing its own thing is at risk of being run over. This is obviously resulting in a job and business market that is totally stuck since you already need funds just to pay the bribes to Trump to get around all the roadbolocks he put up.
Moving to shooting back is just a line people on the left loath to cross in mass. Honestly this is for good reason. If one person crosses the line, he's just a target. If he's really good, like the DC sniper who took ages to get caught, The Gov will arrest "Someone" simply to close the case. Even then you need to pick your targets so the left wont be mad at you. So shooting the killer of civilians, problem ok in public opinion. Shooting a random ICE agent with a wife and kids, Your going to get roasted. So lots of people want this to happen, but they are also clearly afraid of becoming what they hate, and even if they are ok with it they may find the community is not yet ok with it.
Not to mention your local cops are not going to arrest ICE. So your going to need to call in the national guard. Assuming you can then know which hotels ICE are using, you could arrest them by blocking all the hotels and waiting them out. Opening fire is just off the table and clearing room by room will get people killed at some point. Deploying the Guard as cops to peacefully arrest a huge chunk of ICE just gets the military deployed or like you said, Trump does something more insane to prove he's the one in charge.
This is quite funny
What makes me laugh is that they could have easily made stuff like Netflix and HBO and premium priced services based on not trying to capture every house in the US but instead sold a good product at a sustainable price, where growth comes from a slow influx of new customers who see value in the service. Obviously our Tech bros are so addicted to the "Market share at all costs" mindset that they've destroyed the idea of premium media. HBO and other premium legacy groups could have easily adopted this, they came much later to streaming, at much lower costs then Netflix. People can then buy into the channels that give them real value. Instead we get this...
Re: Trap
I see it coming with all the voter rolls going to the fed. The fed is going to challenge every democratic voter nationally. This means they all get 2-3 days to fix their voting registration or they cant vote the mid term. They will file challenges as close to the election as they can.
We know what happened
Musk fired his most costly staff and replaced them with AI bots. His internal team cant tell whats going on and may not even have direct access anymore as Musk went all in with AI for his company's.
Habeas corpus
First step is to then file a writ of Habeas corpus for every single detaine. The judge can then release them in the court room. I assume the judge would also order ICE to not re-arrest these people. Disobeying that court order is not something the Supreme Court wants to let happen as Habeas corpus is s core element of the courts power. Trump on the other hand can keep appeals going for years
Difficulty with this take
My issue is that once air travel stops, thats basically it. There is some min staffing point where the whole thing falls apart. You cant replace ATC like trump thinks he can. Its 2 years to get a small class of new staff in the tower and thats noobs. This is an economic collapse greater then the teriffs. These guys were being told "go to woek" while landlords foreclosed or gave eviction notices. I assume this is under the radar, but it feels like a big deal.
Get everyone to quit
Trump just wants to get everyone to quit, hes trying to pay his people enough to make them quit later. Enlisted obviously cant quit, but even Navy Fed realized this is not a normal shutdown. Ice he needs, so he will find money to pay them. 30 to 45 days was enough stress that ATC started to quit, this time who knows what hes doing with ATC but at 60 days your looking at the end of civilization air travel. If you cant mass fire people then create a hostile work environment.
Shutdown?
Not a word? No kings day said a lot for how little media it got. No pushback? The gov is shutdown. Now i know its Trumps plan to drag this out till enough gov workers quit, while playing at attempting to blame democrats. That said people are pushing back, its just required new methods as the ones we had are broken. State governments must already be talking to each other. That means things like calling a convention are coming up, and just calling one is enough to get congress to do its job most of the time. So things are not sunk, we're still voting at mid terms and can enough to at least impeach Trump again.
Research
As someone who is Autistic and has a problem with hyper fixation, I spent 2 years of covid learning about mRNA Vaccines. How they work, metabolic pathways, unintended side effects down to what the broken down mRNA "cells" do after they fall apart. So I can say clearly, mRNA is safe. Its like a virus cell, but no payload, heck it doesn't even have the normal stuff that holds cells together, so it falls apart in the body super quick. This means it runs around the body handshaking your cells, letting your immune system find it, and not long after goes poof as it self destructs. But all these "Do your research" types don't actually want to get a hyper fixation, learn all the things related to the topic at hand, they want to look at the ingredients, call something with a long name poison. They want to create Doubt, push some non vax agenda, and I guess cause people pain and harm by being carriers. They do desperately want the conspiracy to be true. The truth is sadly rather normal, they work, really dang well too.
What can we do to fix this?
Anything I can think of can also be abused. Amendment that lets states do a vote of no confidence, red states would just veto any dem they dont like. We would have to be absolutely radical and move to multi party proportional representation to even get free of all the current problems, make the president more like a prime minister I guess as well. Point is, no easy solution that you can use to stop a king that cant also stop a progressive.
Rock and a Hard Place
The difficulty is that Trump is a true Bully, with the power of the DOJ and FCC and many other 3 letter agency's. People are clearly just trying to dodge his vision at this point, when noticed, they find it safer and more cost effective to give him whatever he wants instead of having some long drawn out engagement. Trump is different from other political people, he will go after you for any slight till your bankrupt or he is. Problem is he has unlimited money now. So he can effectively sue anyone he wants into bankruptcy. At this point its a cost benefit analysis with an infinity on the bad outcome.
Just start over
I assume they just make a new TicTok and start over. Republicans will run the current one into the ground as a new fox news clone and chase away everyone they wanted to monopolize anyway since no one cares about Republicans messages
End of the day there wasent a legal way to end this. The petition today is a good way to get targeted by Trump. Thats why so few signed it. Nor is the petition actully a legal means of anything but expressing displesure that he is allowed to make statements. Charlie Kirk was going to continue to use coded language to incite violence from now till the end of days. He chose his words to never clearly say something that would cross the first amendment. Sadly this is the case because the courts have rejected the idea that coded language is a thing at all. Outside his death this is really a conversation on if the first amendment needs an adjustment. At the moment with Trump's administration I'd say no, At some point in the future I'd ask for non violent ways to shut down someone whos figured out how to get around basic safeguards and be able to call out coded language for what it really is, calls to violence.
The difficulty is the vary issue we call the paradox of tolerance. Charlie Kirk was not a tolerant man. In fact he was the embodiment of the right wing drive to create boogeymen out of normal people so he could create out groups. The paradox to be resolved his that he lost almost every formal debate, his world view had no grounding in reality, yet as long as he did his life's work, a great many people suffered and will continue to suffer. I don't know what legal avenue was left, ignoring him just lets him recruit and push his agenda. Interacting with him just let him push his message. Laughing at him made him want to spout more nonsense. Ultimately he was going push his message of hate, cause small harms to others, and we would just have to accept this as the price of free speech. I can't say what the solution is, but in a post Trump world, we need a response to the paradox of tolerance that is better then just allowing it to continue. We need something better then violence that's for sure.
Its not bad enough for them yet
Its all a cost benifit analysis, right now if your in the National Guard you have rights like the ability to go back to your job. "Just following orders" is highly dependent on the orders given. Deployed on guard duty for a federal building or as cleaning crew in DC is still legal. Most people the line is when you take people's freedoms away, as the guard are not cops. This is of course the problem, Trump's admin is riding really close to the line of whats legal, they want something to happen without being the ones taking the opening shot. The best way to do that is to put a bunch of bodys in front of court houses and other federal buildings. So far no one is dumb enough to see the guard as an actual threat. So what the guard is doing, asking people to talk to the PR team, is the only passive restance they can do till something changes.
To Add
Conservatism never fails, you fail conservatism. Trump owns the party, its his till he lets go or dies. You can only suck up to him, do what he says, and if you fail, its your fault for not paying the correct bribes. Legality be dammed, Daddy Trump can always give you a free pass. Just don't be to good at your job or he will toss you under a bus for coming after his job.
Gaming is a tiny business to MasterCard
Not sure if Mastercard cares. Gaming is small potatoes to MC. Like all the BG3 sales is a drop in the bucket, the entire segment is only $455 Billion last year or perhaps a few billion in revenue to the banking sector (split up 10 ways from Sunday between points, banks, MC, Other Cards like AMX) Heck, AMX lost a Costco, with $255 Billion in annual sales a while back, since Costco is so big it could get a sweetheart deal with Visa that AMX would not match. For us the numbers are mindboggling, for MC its a Tuesday.