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Look into why AIR surveillance in Baltimore was considered unconstitutional and what sort of racial grievance group sued the city for it to stop being used. Jurisdictions in the United States have previously been using much more, by legal definition, invasive forms of surveillance much more recently, and it wasn’t uhhhh, regular working folk who seemed to have grievances to say the least.

The UK is covered in a network of CCTV cameras, the average citizen might be filmed upwards of 70 times a day Those cameras weren't used to stop the rape gangs, but they were used to track down citizens who protested the rape gangs Why would Flock cameras be different?

@barbarikon @JeffreyASachs Because it is by every conceivable definition of the word, impossible, to be even mildly critical of a Black person, Black people, Black culture, Black organizations, or even Black historical figures, and be considered Liberal, Democrat, or Left-Wing. Ipso facto

In some of the instances you cite, you are equating blatantly offensive (but protected) speech with conservatism. Why is racism considered conservative? The firings were wrong because they policed speech, not because they were anti-conservative. Buying into the idea that today’s right-wing radicalism is conservatism is the worst possible insult to conservatives. Remember also that private institution are not bound by the First Amendment. If they fail to protect offensive speech (which they should), that is not illegal.

I was recently challenged to produce examples of profs who faced significant punishment for having views (or were perceived to have views) critics associated with conservatism. The implication was that these examples don't exist. I'll give you an incomplete list in a sec, but...

@BillyGribbin Many people in the replies saying doing this is pointless because she is a cow and a cow doesn’t know its retarded. But the shame isn’t for the cow, it’s for the people who didn’t know she was a cow at all! Which is always going to be a greater than zero amount of people.

In all seriousness, a vital part of salting the earth and ensuring that peak woke never returns is making “serious” people answer humiliating questions about it that they never want to hear again.

"hey man, how are you? I noticed you weren't at Roblox church this week..." "yeah I've actually been going to the Catholic Roblox church. Tradition is very important to me."

@aidannonx People might say sour grapes, put the Ivy League dropout to CEO pipeline should have been one of the first indicators that something was terribly wrong.

In some way, I think it’s a good thing. I’d rather know upfront that the house I was about to buy was full of termites instead of signing on and finding out later. Certainly is going to open up space for actual elite institutions to take their place if Harvard doesn’t simply decay on its own

Idk if this girl still watches my Twitter, but she would beg me up and down to come to UVA, saying I’d be such a good fit She got into fucking Yale. She is a REGULAR literary topic for me She is easily the hardest-working girl I know, but she will never know what it’s like to work for something you are forbidden from having So I very much have an antagonism towards the system as it disenfranchised me of all people and all things belonging to me Learning the system was rigged, I resolved myself to try and escape it as quickly as possible to allow myself to succeed on merits Young White men, often to prop up girls like her (who are usually antagonistic) or other races, are discriminated against It’s a crime I refuse to forgive. It denied me my birthright and my life path. I was not “unqualified” in test scores, extracurricular competition, or in any faculty Worse, not only does it deny us our education, it denies us access to networks of power. It denies us the opportunity to marry the women who confer on us dynasties It is the theft of our future. People will pay for it. That is one thing I will never forgive. Am I bitter? Resentful? Envious? Jealous? Sure. That doesn’t invalidate my perspective. I have a deep-seated bitterness that my talent and special personality weren’t rewarded or recognized by my country in a pivotal period of my life. I have no shame admitting that my insecurity and perhaps narcissism will be rectified, along with the rest of my generation

This one’s easy, besides culture, it’s just the mountains/hills. Most regular people stay in shape by doing low intensity exercise for longer periods of time, usually stuff they enjoy, or commuting. Taking a walk or going on a casual bike ride sucks when you have a ridiculous incline to deal with. Combine it with the more modern trend of the cheapest foods being the most calorie dense and the relative lack of manual labor jobs which can support your family, it’s a recipe for disaster in these areas.

One thing that confuses me about rural mountain towns in TN, NC, North Ga, KY & others is the amount of morbidly obese people I see who live there. There is so much beautiful nature, hiking & outdoor activities, it’s strange to me how obesity can be so prevalent in areas where Mother Nature beckons you to be outside and active. Went in a Walmart the other day in the small town in TN where my land is and every scooter cart was being used, not by old people, but by people in their 30’s & 40’s who are in their pajamas in the middle of the day, weighing 350 lbs. Like, how can you sit in the house all day and not want to be outside exploring, moving around, active or productive?

@Tolvir475803 @9mmsmg Likely would be way more accidental deaths among inner city gangs than any kind of effective use in perpetuating that kind of violence.

@9mmsmg Inner city gangs arent usually going for a ton of collateral damage. There's a reason why most gang shootings arent mass shootings. They likely would not actually use these. Plus in this theoretical scenario of an unimpeded 2A things would look very different anyway.

Harsh 2a reality that people can't swallow: Inner city black males would be tossing them like snowballs if you they were readily available. You would have drive-by grenade tossings. Your average Chicago teenager would have them thrown in their backpack like a Caprisun.

@9mmsmg @facefuklibtards Are you at all familiar with the history of dynamite in the U.S. and its use in radical terrorism? Not really making a point, but you might be interested.

@ASaltWeapons @extradeadjcb Pretend that Tyson Chicken is majorly noncompliant with immigration. All the admin needs to do is use large amount of resources and prosecute their business to the fullest extent of the law, and everyone else in that industry will fall in lockstep real quick.

@ASaltWeapons @extradeadjcb Easy solution to this, it just requires some spine (slouch is okay) and more stomach than we’re used to. The Chinese call it killing the chicken to scare the monkey. Find a large noncompliant business, or the worst of the worst immigrants, and focus on them.

Also raids on strip-mall businesses - small IRL shops used to be the engine for ordinary Americans to enter the middle-class, & now they are dominated by immigrants leveraging illegal foreign labor & (maybe even more important) capital networks Not just ICE - IRS, FinCEN, FBI

I think most of what you’re saying and what the general vibe on flock cameras is, could be correct by corollary, but wrong on the source. I think this is part of that general libertarian ethos that still infects Conservative or Rightwing thought in America, where you’re not allowed to do anything because “what if someone who hates you gets a hold of that tool huh?” Flock cameras exist because of an evidentiary problem for convicting actual criminals. If the judge, prosecutor and your defense attorney are all in agreement that you should go to jail for voting for Trump, then you are going to jail. No amount of surveillance or data collection was needed for them to do that because evidence is up to the Judge. Flock cameras exist now because less intrusive forms of data collection have been considered constitutionally invalid for reasoning that doesn’t really make holistic sense for privacy concerns, and has largely been built piecemeal as philosophical concepts of racism as well as technology have evolved. Take the AIR surveillance program in Baltimore. It took grainy photos of the city all day, but individual people were largely indistinguishable, so when a crime occurred, investigators could track the dot (which represented a person) on the screen to see other places that person went and then go investigate those places. Even though the court had previously held that you have no right to privacy in public, too many individual observations become a search at some point, sometimes called “mosaic theory”. There was also a large underlying aspect of its use in Baltimore that the court (and almost every 4th amendment case grapples with), and that was, too many Black defendants getting convicted; because this type of realistic non-intrusive surveillance was incredibly effective at catching run-of-the-mill retard crime that Black criminals, gangs, and thugs do the most of. Shooting someone and going home, or stealing a car and then going to work. The court wouldn’t actually say this verbatim, but that was a large reason. If the AIR program in Baltimore wasn’t so good at providing evidence of Black crime it likely wouldn’t have been ruled unconstitutional. The organization who sued the city and made the program illegal was literally “Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle” a stereotype of a Black socialist organization that thinks Black people categorically cannot commit crime. At some point society and those on the right who have taken the libertarian pill will need to actually reconcile with their anarchist impulses. Do you think law enforcement should be abolished? Do you think they should be stuck at some arbitrary amish level of technology as some libs have interpreted the 2nd amendment to mean for guns; in a desperate bid to protect people’s privacy? The whole feeling here is a vote of no confidence for any authority structure anywhere in the States, so its no wonder the Right seems depressed, when they don’t even trust their own county government (pop. 30,000) to not scumfuck them at the first opportunity. If thats the general rightwing consensus on all authority that would explain why the right is full of backstabbers.

I’m totally ambivalent about flock cameras. The digital panopticon is already here and they’d be like the 15th most intrusive thing in my day to day. The real problem is having footage of city crime doesn’t matter if the people running the city are committed to not arresting criminals. This would mean every crime becomes a matter of prosecutorial discretion which means the general crime stats would be unaffected, but if you fall on the wrong line of the law and you’re an enemy of the regime you’d be fucked.

@CSandbatch Many turning is also something your dad does when he’s completely lost on the road, so I think it works in that context too.

What *everyone* does, Emily included, that I'm a little bitchier about is not translating πολύτροπον directly as something like "the many turning man" or "man of many turns" etc etc. That diastrous Penguin prose edition downgrades it to the (feminine, passive) "resourceful". Emily uses "complicated" and Lombardo goes with "cunning". In this alone, I think Fagles got closest with "the man of twists and turns" but my thought is literally leave it active and aggressive as "many turning man" FWIW, and so you can see kinda how I go about this sort of thing, here is my botched ass shot at the controversial subject lines, and you can see my Latin tendencies here: Begin at any point among these things, and tell us too, O daughter born of Zeus.

What I'm doing here, that the grammar purists are trying not to do, is apply the *concept* of temporality & allow her to interpose *modern* (yes, ideologically loaded, but can be ideologically loaded in several ways) for "tell us, also". The implication is *certainly* there that some caesura exists between "us" and Ulysses himself, and in Homer's own time that caesura was also historical/temporal. Ezra Pound *abused* his source material far more violently than she is here, and the very same (totally forgotten) purists snapped at him too.

@jack226RE @WomanDefiner The 5th circuit is a combination of the federal district courts of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Blue states can ignore it, but it would now be difficult for a migrant to get to a blue state if they are allowed to be detained awaiting trial or deportation in Texas.

@WomanDefiner What is the practical consequence of this? It seems like it's a "MS13 no longer has key to the city" headline, but I guess this ends all catch and release in blue states? Won't sanctuary states just ignore this?

This is actually a huge win.

Adam Carolla has this story about Howie Mandel who is a known germaphobe with OCD. The story goes that Howie was sharing a bucket of popcorn with everyone in the room along with eating the kernels himself. Adam pointed out to Howie that other people were touching popcorn kernels with their hands and then Howie was putting those same kernels in his mouth. It didn't fit with the germophobe image. Howie said, "Adam, you have to understand. I'm crazy!" You have to understand at some point that your parents are crazy.

@Laiiyylaa Your therapist is a retard, humans aren't snakes. I didnt agonize over why some random dog bit my leg 10 years ago. My parents beating the fuck out of me when I was still learning words kinda sticks around yk? Just a little bit.

My therapist once told me: Imagine being bitten by a snake and, instead of treating the bite, you waste time chasing the snake to understand why it bit you and prove you didn't deserve it.

@o____five @ThomasSKidd And if a university said that, but only ever accepted White students, what would you say then?

@ThomasSKidd “tests of faith” is a made-up phrase to introduce false correlation between faith & education Universities review applications & interview candidates to assess whether experience, scholarship, pedagogy is a good match for institution mission, curriculum, research, & students

The snark actually proves the point. Confessional schools are quite clear about who they will and won't hire. Typical colleges and universities also have their own "tests of faith" that aren't publicly acknowledged but are just as ironclad.

@cvltteuton8001 @bumbadum14 Yes, this is the moral of Adam and Eve and the serpent.

@bumbadum14 Why every woman's worst nightmare is an autistic problem solver is beyond me. They would sooner follow a social chameleon into damnation itself.

Be American trying to work: - apply for 1500 jobs - get 2 callbacks - 1 callback turns into interview - 5 rounds of interviews for job - aced them - finally get job, it pays 28.50/hr - working 3 week long “probation” period - ask boss (woman) why she uses a phrase all the time - “why go back when we can go forward?” - boss: >:( - fired after “probation” period

@SlovenlySeal @realJeremyCarl Real talk, President could go enforce it with the national guard like desegregation. That only worked because the segregationists had broken wills by that point. Could be similar here. Trump is much more of a deal guy than enforce the deal guy, so it’s hard to say if he’d do it.

@realJeremyCarl What's the counter to this? DOJ sueing them?

“When you’re Harvard, they let you do it.” The notion that Harvard is not directly defying the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action while having an 11% African-American freshman class is absolutely absurd.

@APLeDeluge @ThomBrady5 No, Anarchists and Libertarians have been broadly opposed to property taxes. Actual Right Wingers have never been opposed to property taxes in the U.S.

@ThomBrady5 Hardly. Right wingers have broadly always been opposed to property taxes until Twitter two seconds ago and now many are supporting communistic plunder through taxation naively thinking that money will go to benefit them instead of the black hole of government waste and welfare

Abolishing property taxes is a huge wealth transfer to Boomers, which is why they support it. Florida Boomers are seeking a $200 billion wealth transfer. In response, younger generations realized we could extract money from Boomers by tripling property taxes.

@collector1924g @lsferguson Brother, you should be tarred and feathered for this pro slavery nonsense.

I would like to see you pick the produce in the fields for your family. I bet produce prices would skyrocket without the help of these great people. If you deport all the people you want to see deported, the Mcdonalds, Walmart, Coke, Pepsi, Chipotle grill many other stocks in your 401K would tank along with US GDP and you would cry then. Be careful what you wish for. The US economy can not be saved by Austerity any longer. We have crossed that bridge long ago. Do not bite the hand that feeds you. You are so brainwashed by Fox News it's beyond belief.

A new agriculture bill just dropped in the House of Representatives. It features: Granting amnesty to illegal aliens present in the United States as of May 31, 2026, who meet minimal agricultural work history requirements. How many illegal aliens will claim to be agriculture workers? congress.gov/bill/119th-con…