When school staffing has one teacher per forty or so students? Yeah.

That said, I still think these measures are stupid and punishing the group for society’s failure to fund and staff our schools appropriately, but I can understand why teachers often support them.

I wish there was some sort of organization that would push back against them, maybe like some kind of political party that emphasizes a democratic approach to politics

Oh but I’m sure forcing these 800,000 people to list their names, identifying information, and residential locations with federal immigration agencies to qualify for this program in the first place won’t have any negative consequences /s

Those people spend almost all of their time focused on not getting caught, the rest of us spend almost all of our time trying to remember groceries to buy and after school events kids need to be transported to and Co workers birthdays and etc.

Also, we’re generally social creatures who want to trust each other and cooperate and stuff

This source is misrepresenting his quote, it was essentially 95% “we’re not for sale, fuck off” and 5% “when you’re ready to be reasonable we can talk about real issues between our countries”

I don’t think we’re the only land of hypocrisy out there (like, listen to Russia talk about how they’re the real protectors of human rights, or China say other countries are threatening their national security, or Mexico complain about cartel violence while letting their police do whatever they want, or Israel do so much shit I don’t know where to start), but, yeah, a lot of us are brainwashed as hell, and our government is completely full of shit whenever it’s scolding anyone else about human rights, international law, the climate, etc.

i find it beyond funny that we support israel because ‘they were there first’, but if you mention that maybe the american indians should rise up and take their country back you get very different responses.

Yep, and also the fact that there’s such a vocal anti-migrant movement here after almost all of our ancestors in immigrated here is completely absurd

Yeah, actually that’s a really important point, plus between the insane amounts of essentially anonymous propaganda that’s been unleashed on us through Citizens United and all the state government voter suppression laws that were allowed by Shelby County we’ve really only been a quasi-democratic society at best for most of this. Americans aren’t uniquely terrible people compared to the citizens of any other country, we’ve just got some incredibly shitty rich people who ran the table on political power.

e; forgot to rest of my thought

Hard disagree, Republicans wouldn’t do so much voter suppression bullshit if it didn’t have any effect. People who don’t vote are almost always being oppressed in a variety of different ways.

And this isn’t even the first clown shitshow of a government we’ve voted in this century

Really, governments should make and moderate their own social media services, the basic concept is a great communication medium for everything from like reporting potholes to promoting blood donation drives to quickly sharing updates during emergency weather situations etc., the kinds of basic citizen service stuff governments should be doing, but when profit notices creep in we get all this data harvesting and Skinner-box algorithmic manipulation that ruins things

As in “anything more than the none they have now”

Like, I assumed it was obvious Palestinians (and other humans) should all have all the human rights, my point is even suggesting Palestinians should receive any kind of humane treatment under any circumstances (something far below the minimum of what we should be demanding) will probably get banned by fb

Hypothetically that should go for any crime, but I should stfu myself before I give some bastard grounds for a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge

From a (theoretically) less biased source

Though Huffman and Advance Auto Parts are based in Wake County, Huffman faces an interstate charge because Salesforce, the company that maintains customer messages for Advance Auto Parts, only has data centers in Arizona and Virginia, not North Carolina, the complaint states.

There’s no good reason why local authorities couldn’t handle this but the feds went out of their way to take this case and send out a press release about it because they really want the plebs to know they will come down on you like the wrath of a god if you even think about upsetting their favored people

But I bet “Palestinians should have some human rights” will still be a problem

That number was just over 28,000 less than a year ago

Wherever they can afford to

Far far far from a new problem with Virginia prisons. Red Onion “was the model for and is practically identical to Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap” which had this documentary film made about it that documents all sorts of abuse and awful stuff.

Oh, and one of the principal planners of this system ended up getting hired by the federal government to consult on prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003, prisons which ultimately ended up including Abu Ghraib.

Like when Biden said he wanted a ceasefire but kept sending Israel weapons anyway?

You think you won’t be banned by selective application of the rules for arguing back? I mean, best of luck to you, but this isn’t a scalable solution to the problem.

The Justice Department had to make sure the agreement they entered with the city looked impressive but didn’t actually do anything that could ever lead to anyone being held accountable, that kind of careful lawyering takes time