To be fair, people have been saying “I’m pretty sure that’s not within his power to dictate” for the past six months or so, and it hasn’t done a whole hell of a lot of good. Granted, this will be more difficult to enforce, but I can see a whole lot of people being arrested on a whole lot of trumped-up charges for wearing masks at a protest.
As illegal as his order may be, it’ll still end up being you that is arrested. You that is put in jail. You that is denied your civil rights. You that will have to face an uphill battle in a MAGA-rigged court system with virtually no resources against the US government. Trump will face no repercussions. He is immune from prosecution. He will not even know your name, much less be inconvenienced by your arrest. He can pardon any cronies who are charged for violating your civil rights. Trump knows this, and he is acting accordingly. He knows that the fact that this battle is so lopsided in his favor is itself enough of a deterrent to make many rank-and-file people back down.
He knows the order is illegal. But he also knows that the overwhelming majority of people aren’t in a position to do anything about it.
Also a lot of people realizing after the fact how much it tore up their bodies in ways that don’t ever get better. Chemical weapons are bad, whether it’s because they don’t work or that they have lasting side effects.
The British soldiers at the Boston Massacre and Nazi war criminals of the Holocaust had their day in court.
That’s what due process is. Everyone -everyone - enemy or not, gets a trial. That’s how it should be, that’s how it needs to be, or there is no justice.
That’s why “expedited removal” is nothing but fascism. No due process, no justice at all.
That’s assuming it gets that far. If your skin is a little too brown for their liking, you could find yourself on an involuntary tropical vacation at one of Trump’s increasing number of third world hellholes. Good luck getting a hold of anyone that speaks English, much less get in touch with your family or getting the charges dropped.
Fascists revel in hypocrisy because it’s another way of demonstrating their power over their enemies: “I don’t have to be consistent and there’s nothing you can do about it!”
Let’s not pretend statistical models are approaching humanity. The companies who make these statistical model algorithms proved they couldn’t in 2020 by OpenAI and also 2023 DeepMind papers they published.
To reiterate, with INFINITE DATA AND COMPUTE TIME the models cannot approach human error rates. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t emulate thinking, it statistically resembles thinking to some number below 95% and completely and totally lacks permanence in it’s statistical representation of thinking.
…yet it’s perfectly fine when the federal agents wear masks and/or fail to identify themselves. Fucking hypocrites.
I’m pretty sure that’s not within his power to dictate people can’t wear masks.
To be fair, people have been saying “I’m pretty sure that’s not within his power to dictate” for the past six months or so, and it hasn’t done a whole hell of a lot of good. Granted, this will be more difficult to enforce, but I can see a whole lot of people being arrested on a whole lot of trumped-up charges for wearing masks at a protest.
As illegal as his order may be, it’ll still end up being you that is arrested. You that is put in jail. You that is denied your civil rights. You that will have to face an uphill battle in a MAGA-rigged court system with virtually no resources against the US government. Trump will face no repercussions. He is immune from prosecution. He will not even know your name, much less be inconvenienced by your arrest. He can pardon any cronies who are charged for violating your civil rights. Trump knows this, and he is acting accordingly. He knows that the fact that this battle is so lopsided in his favor is itself enough of a deterrent to make many rank-and-file people back down.
He knows the order is illegal. But he also knows that the overwhelming majority of people aren’t in a position to do anything about it.
I knew the lead singer had a phd in molecular biology, but how good a story would this be to tell at a party? He must have felt so vindicated.
Wonder what Trump will do to stop this
Ask ICE this question…
I never expected him to be so authoritarian and incendiary. Who could have possibly seen this kind of dictatorship coming???
Also a lot of people realizing after the fact how much it tore up their bodies in ways that don’t ever get better. Chemical weapons are bad, whether it’s because they don’t work or that they have lasting side effects.
Any time ice shows up, declare a protest and they have to unmask. Checkmate.
Fascists don’t care about the courts. If a judge is in the way they’ll just arrest them.
Get fucked. If the police and other agents are masked, the protesters stay masked. Eat the shit directly from my asshole, donnie.
Still pretty common today.
If people are getting paid for protesting, why the heck am I doing it for free!?!?!?
Lol
I do believe the correct response is “make me.”
Yes, Donnie, let’s talk about them. How much are you paying the troublemakers to go in and turn the protests violent?
The British soldiers at the Boston Massacre and Nazi war criminals of the Holocaust had their day in court.
That’s what due process is. Everyone -everyone - enemy or not, gets a trial. That’s how it should be, that’s how it needs to be, or there is no justice.
That’s why “expedited removal” is nothing but fascism. No due process, no justice at all.
That’s assuming it gets that far. If your skin is a little too brown for their liking, you could find yourself on an involuntary tropical vacation at one of Trump’s increasing number of third world hellholes. Good luck getting a hold of anyone that speaks English, much less get in touch with your family or getting the charges dropped.
Fascists revel in hypocrisy because it’s another way of demonstrating their power over their enemies: “I don’t have to be consistent and there’s nothing you can do about it!”
Well that’s not really how civil disobedience works now is it.
Let’s not pretend statistical models are approaching humanity. The companies who make these statistical model algorithms proved they couldn’t in 2020 by OpenAI and also 2023 DeepMind papers they published.
To reiterate, with INFINITE DATA AND COMPUTE TIME the models cannot approach human error rates. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t emulate thinking, it statistically resembles thinking to some number below 95% and completely and totally lacks permanence in it’s statistical representation of thinking.