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But in that case, the Constitution is irrelevant. It would be impossible even if there wasn’t a 5th amendment.

All that matters is who is in charge of the heights of political power, the law is a fiction they use to legitimize their authority.

Are we still pretending the constitution matters?

It gets medical questions wrong 15% of the time.

The problem with your question is that there’s never going to be a question it gets wrong every time, because it’s probabilistic. You might as well ask “what question can I ask my dice that will reliably produce a wrong answer?”

Maybe to some extent, but prison slavery only provides about $9 billion in services and produces over $2 billion in goods annually.

For comparison, the total cost of the U.S. prison system is approximately $445 billion annually.

The thing is, being repressive becomes more and more expensive past a certain point. It’s not cheap being the prison capital of the world or building a surveillance state. The US is one of the only countries that can even afford to do as much repression as it does.

They’ll ignore this and just claim that the deaths were covered up.

I would like to point out that Democrats consistently vote to increase the military budget, even when Trump is president. The most recent defense authorization act received 115 yes votes from Democrats to 94 no votes. On domestic issues you can make the argument that Democrats are a lesser evil, but when it comes to the empire the evil is bipartisan.

The main difference between Republicans and Democrats on foreign policy is that Democrats are better at it.

That’s not good. Iran was in really bad shape before the war started, another few years of the maximum pressure sanctions campaign and they’d eventually be dealing with enough civil unrest that justifying a “humanitarian intervention” would be possible. Instead of the US and Israel attacking on their own, NATO would have helped topple the government like they did in Libya.

Instead we got Republicans, who fumbled this so hard that Iran is winning and on the cusp of being a regional hegemon. The US empire is spiraling towards collapse at this rate and I am 100% here for it.

Wouldn’t this essentially eliminate burner phones?

Now I want to see someone recreate this scene with one of the hallucination machines.

Yeah, it’s actually more complicated than just being mask-on vs mask-off. It turns out that only the competents wear their mask, because they’re competent enough to know why they’re wearing a mask. The incompetents think that masks are woke.

Harris had the same foreign policy goals as Trump, the difference between them is that she would have pursued those goals with more competence i.e. she wouldn’t have bombed Iran, she’d have kept up the economic war to cause the country to collapse. She might have bombed Iran by 2028, but the economic war was working. Iran was in really bad shape before the war.

With this in mind, in terms of foreign policy, Trump is the lesser evil. Thanks to Trump, Iran has a path to victory.

I can only think- “Chocolate? I remember when they first invented chocolate. Sweet, sweet chocolate… I always hated it!”

In addition to the older generations thinking queerness is yucky, there’s also the problem of the West using our rights as a bludgeon to justify sanctions and wars. I’ve seen Westerners try to justify the genocide in Gaza because “they’d throw you off a roof for being queer!” As if Israel isn’t actively blackmailing us into being informants by threatening to out us to our families.

This is all to say that anti-queer sentiment has become deeply rooted among the masses, themselves.

The violence requires death, is the thing. People don’t just allow themselves to be forcibly relocated (as per your example), they will fight to stay on their land unless they face the threat of death (and many do stay, and die). Behind every “nonlethal” process is a death machine that makes it possible in the first place. That’s why colonization is always accomplished through mass death.

China isn’t preventing or discouraging intermarrying or intermixing with Uighurs, which is a key feature of apartheid. Neither do they have to use separate lanes of the road, carry special IDs marking their ethnicity, or forced to use different emergency shelters.

I use those examples because the real-world example of apartheid, Israel, is currently doing all of those things today.

When we look at how colonization in the real world happens we see it is accomplished, again, through mass death.

See: Israel

In the real world there hasn’t been a genocide that didn’t involve mass death. 3, 4, and 5 all require a lot of killing to actually work.

Downplay what? A reeducation/deradicalization program isn’t fucking genocide on its own, it has to be accompanied by mass death, and when you say it is you are the one that’s donwplaying the crime of genocide as a concept. Even the boarding schools they used in the genocide in North America had mass graves, because genocide is always accompanied by mass death and to claim otherwise is whitewashing.

It’s the crime of crimes because it’s the worst violence that can be inflicted on a group.

You are doing genocide denial when you claim that genocide can happen without being accompanied by mass death. Genocide is the crime of crimes because it always involves mass slaughter of innocent people, to bring about their end. The invention of “”“cultural genocide”“” without any of the accompanying mass violence effectively whitewashes genocide as a concept.

In a lot of cases the people they detain might have several months or a year or more of procedure to get through, but they’d be allowed to stay after that, and in normal conditions they’d simply be let go and made to report to court for their proceedings. They’ve short circuited that process and now are just keeping people in detention while their cases are heard in immigration court. The goal here is to make people give up on their cases and choose to “self deport” by placing them in inhumane conditions. It’s why so many people have died in ICE custody, their detention is designed to be unhealthy and dangerous to increase the pressure.