The beatings will continue, not simply until morale improves, but because they enjoy giving the beatings.

A good laugh in this trying time. Mental health is one of those things we need severely.

This is based on the administration acting in good faith, and this isn’t military deployed on foreign soil as is the case for typical peacekeeping. This is an at-home escalation, knowing force is going to be used against US Citizens by its own military. It’s extremely irresponsible at best and unusual enough that the Pentagon is scrambling to understand how to even address the situation.

Make no mistake, use of force on US citizens by the military is the predictable and intended outcome of the deployment. I don’t believe this is a good faith peacekeeping mission. This angle strikes me as saying that there are inherent risks to being shot. Of course, the effect of being shot was the intention of firing the shot.

The Pentagon was scrambling Monday to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil[…]

What the fuck timeline is this shit. The rule is that you can’t do that you absolute glue sniffers. I know this sub demands civility but this is truly madness.

“No statutory authority Trump has invoked so far permits this.”

Right, because this is newborn fascist shithole.

The damage is done, but I guess that’s good.

Do not visit the USA. Just don’t. Spend your money elsewhere for your sake and for our sake. It’s no good to anybody for you to spend it here right now.

Go visit Canada. Nice people, beautiful country this time of year. And they won’t disappear you. I know because the Canadians have always been our good friends. It’s very sad how they’ve been treated.

A third of us that wants to kill another third.

You may underestimate user dedication. I love my instance and totally would come back after a few months away temporarily.

You got me on the communities though.

Fediverse is designed to handle servers with less than stellar reliability.

I wouldn’t count on these people helping anyone but themselves.

AI is not healthy. Our mental health is nowhere near good enough to handle even this level of machine intelligence.

Who wants to hire a law firm that caves under pressure? It’s a fantastic litmus test of who’s worth hiring.

Do you want Mr. Caves Under Pressure on your case?

Money today, money now. That’s about as far as they think.

He took inspiration from the NK military parades.

It did not backfire. The oligarchs made tons of money in the US through insider trading. One of those dudes made like 1000 million dollars in one day.

It was an extremely successful grift.

Demand that the US pay for the deportations.

The fallout in general. The USA will not rekindle the trust and respect it had in my lifetime I imagine.

Doesn’t matter. Anyone with sense wouldn’t believe it, and those without sense have already finished activating their xenophobic fear centers. The lie was successful.

Great move for Facebook. It’ll let them claim they’re doing something to curb horrid content on the platform without actually doing anything.

He’s a baby man.

Wow! They managed to make our healthcare even worse.