But you’re moving the goal posts.

You said the high burden of proof needed to prove criminal guilt is what prevents Trump from arresting his political opponents, but it literally doesn’t do that. What it does, after they’re arrested, is give them a potential pathway to regaining their freedom. Kilmar Abrego Garcia comes to mind, his life was hell for most of last year fighting against his deportation to El Salvador. He’s walking free, for now, while he awaits even more bullshit trials. His ordeal hasn’t even ended yet.

Will Kristy Noem or Stephen Miller or Greg Bovino spend a day in jail for what they’ve done? Where’s the justice?

We don’t seem to have rights, we have a system of privileges that can be revoked if the wrong people get elected.

But you’re right, the system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as it was intended.

We’ve been calling magnesium hydroxide “milk of magnesia” for 150 years. This isn’t some new, confusing thing.

Liberation day has been canceled. 😞

You specifically used the word “prevent” but, if you have been paying attention, we aren’t seeing prevention. What we see are our rights being violated by the regime and then the Courts ordering them to stop. That’s not prevention.

Also, I won’t hold my breath. I don’t think Renée Good’s murderer will face accountability under this regime.

Maybe if we are allowed to have elections and different people take power we’ll see prosecutions, but that just demonstrates the point we’re trying to make to you. Whoever is in charge decides what the law is and what rights you have, and while Trump is in charge he decides that his Gestapo has a right to murder anyone they want. If he loses power, that might change.

I’ve spent six years building an AI startup

We should trust this AI huckster that the AI is good now.

I’m begging liberals, think farther than one (1) presidential election into the future.

Elect the lesser evil now, by the time elections come around everyone hates him and they vote for the other guy. Then it repeats, the greater evil gets elected, everyone hates him, and so the lesser evil gets their turn. Over and over until we’re all dead.

You can see what they show you. I don’t see a reason to assume they aren’t just lying to your face. Social media makes it easier to lie, but it was always possible to lie in person. With the carnivore diet, if they’re drinking orange juice in secret you’d never know.

The ones that end up in the hospital were telling the truth.

If there is no legal recourse for people brutalized by ICE, then it is de jure legal for them to do anything they want.

Remember what you said: “It also prevents people like Donald Trump from simply arresting his political opponents, based on nothing more than an accusation of guilt.” It demonstrably doesn’t prevent him from arresting, or killing, his political opponents.

He can, in fact, arrest his political opponents. He’s doing it right now. There’s no legal mechanism to stop him.

The real complication is the militia. Chavez and Maduro armed and politicized the masses, undoing that will be extremely difficult for any right-wing government. That’s how civil wars start, and civil war serves the empire just as well as colonization does.

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Well like I said, I don’t know how successful the colonization is.

What I’m waiting to see is what happens to the Bolivarian militia. If Venezuela is being colonized I think we’d expect them to reorganize the explicitly political and anti-imperialist paramilitary under the regular armed forces to depoliticize them.

Well of course, Chomsky was the one with the right friends to make sure “his” book was well known.

Isn’t Chevron colonial? It’s a US company trying to superexploit Venezuela’s resources with the backing of the US military.

I don’t know if they’re successful colonizers, but they seem to be trying.

I’m sick of AI wearables that spy on everyone around me, where’s my robot tail??

I’m sure there are people that have actually done it for more than a week, what I should say is for the most part they’re just liars. Yes, you can technically survive if you eat enough raw organ meat, but they aren’t doing that. They just lie. It’s easy, because what social media does is enable liars to lie more effectively than ever before.

There’s a lot more people lying about doing weird shit than you seem to be giving credit. Whether it’s people lying about the carnivore diet or lying about beating themselves with hammers, they just lie for their brand or clout or just because it’s fun.

It’s just a good, but light, introduction to mass media as propaganda.

There’s also the co-author, Edward S. Herman, who isn’t in the files. So why don’t we just… y’know.

Chomsky who?

We briefly experimented with democracy during the reconstruction period, but white terror quickly put a stop to that.

According to the regime there was no crime committed. They are permitted to shoot and kill anyone they want and there are no legal means of redress, they have total immunity. In what world does that sound like a “right” to you?

They blew a woman’s head off for the crime of talking back.

But tell me more about our rights.

“And now that we no longer have to fear popular revolts, we can crank up exploitation on the workers so they can’t afford consumer goods anymore.”

Really sawing off the branch they’re sitting on, huh?