Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@funkyboy

iOS text selection has made me want to die. Is it easier on andriod?

Especially the selecting the whole word thing. Who ever wants to do that???

@gleick

TBH when a guy says "I can't stand it when I see a man hit a woman." it's a little red flag for me. The men I know who have said that have always tuned out to be people with little respect for women, or boundaries or... other people.

But maybe my experiences are skewed.

If the executive branch can issue "warrants" why not the legislative branch too?

Could a member of congress draft a "Congressional Warrant" and then go into anyone's house and search for things? For example search for say... missing files?

If you don't need a judge to break down doors just paperwork with the word "warrant" at the top, it seems many things should be possible.

@Brokebattery @wanwizard @TimWardCam

It's seems like you've made an account mostly just to reply to my post. Is this an alt for another account or are you new to the fedi?

If you are looking for someone who will defend Biden you are looking in the wrong place.

People are dead. Dead forever. Their families will never get to hold them in their arms again.

Those who committed the murder will not be questioned or investigated. Engage with that reality. Is it just? Is it right?

@Bookherd @feznander

I think you are correct. Nonetheless, the issue is they are working beyond their remit.

@gigabecquerel @stdlogicvector

This "making of" photo makes it just so so so much better. In fact, I'm boosting this photo, because I think it will be funny if people see it *first* then, baffled they open the thread and see the masterpiece.

I hope I can arrange this experience for a few people.

@wanwizard @TimWardCam

I'm not just saying "they can't read" to be mean. (But it is a nice bonus.) Understanding paperwork takes not just literacy but training. I think the "ICE officers" in their home-made Halloween costume uniforms from Temu, probably do not have even the training of police academy recruit shadowing a real officer to learn the beat.

They seem to have been told not to even try to read any papers as they have not hired people who can learn those skills.

@Kerplunk

I didn't think anyone would find that last paragraph a reasonable suggestion. I am so disgusted with the idea of behaving that way that I didn't think I'd need to say that under no circumstances should you feel compelled to put your sign away, put your head down, say "yes officer" and "no officer" and meekly show your papers hoping that this could spare you a beating.

And really why bother? It might not even work.

@wanwizard @TimWardCam

To be honest I don't think they care about the papers much. ICE throws a fit if you don't have papers to show, but they also will not look at any papers someone might have.

We have multiple stories of them ignoring the paperwork when people try to show it to them.

We can't rule out the possibility that this is because they simply cannot read.

@HeatherMJ

They don't exist. There are just more of them waiting for their chance to "shoot a liberal" because their bosses said they could. Because they think there will be no consequences.

The problem is at some point one gets so angry that you don't have room to feel fear anymore. This is supposed to scare everyone into going home. But I do not think it will work at all.

@peterbrown

So. "Don't help anyone and you won't get shot" ?

Yeah. No.

If you refuse to question those who hold power you will end up questioning yourself and your natural allies.

@melioristicmarie @gleick

I think their families don't "raise" them. They get a smattering of "church values" and internalize that American Dream.

Then realize they are too poor, to ever touch even the hem of her skirts. So when some online "masculinity philosopher" says "you are beta, you need to become an alpha" that makes total sense. Why else are they failing so profoundly to live up to that image?

And maybe this new job at ICE will make them feel like a real man.

It won't.

@gleick

My aunt used to tell my cousin who was, like everyone in our family, a huge nerd, but he was also physically huge. Taller than all of us. Just an imposing figure and a Black Man... she told him to be careful.

"Just seeing a man like you can make some of these cops angry. You need to understand that."

I guess it happens to white men too.

And this government tells them "don't worry, no consequence, express your inner emotions."

@gleick

There are a lot of men who will say "I can't stand it when I see a man hit a woman." They will brag be proud of it. But, then there are the people who really feel this way. Who act accordingly. (often not the same people)

They can't stand to see a bully. A bunch gear-balls knocking people smaller than them over. And they respond. A controlled de-escalating response. To step in the way.

Hit me instead. I'm filming you. I'm calm. Leave them alone. A real hero.

@gleick

I can't prove it but I think they killed him because he made them feel small.

You know, by really doing all of those things we like to say "makes a man a real man"

Stepping up to protect smaller people from the bullies. With calm with honor. Like at his job. Never losing his cool while doing it.

It was an inverted mirror for these little wannabes in all of their mismatched gear looking like boys playing "army" ...

His presence set them off.

We aren't even asking why ICE is even at these protests full of white ICU nurses and moms in vans. Like, why are they there? Looking for a Mexican drug gang in a suburban roundabout? Finding the secret foreign terror hiding in the trunk of a minivan?

They aren't even pretending to do "immigration enforcement" they're just suppressing dissent. Lower your head and put that sign down and they will go away. Say "yes officer" and "no officer" and show your papers and no one gets dead.*

*sarcasm

There are people, like me, who said ICE was a bad idea from the start. Who said "abolish ICE" ten years ago because we looked at what it was, how it was designed and we KNEW this is where is was going.

And we were called unreasonable, crazy. "The American people have a lot of respect for law enforcement your words won't poll well."

Part of the source of that respect is how leaders treat them as if they are untouchable. Who has taught "the American people" this? It's ya'll.

Go back in time, and never make up a thing called "ICE" in the first place. We have a way to do "immigration enforcement" its a weird new idea and it's bad.

If you aren't saying "Abolish Ice" it makes it seem like maybe they aren't just lying all the time about the people they are killing.

What other response is possible? It's supposed to be "immigration enforcement" but they just kill people and lie about why they did it. That can't be "retrained."

You already know body-cameras won't do anything. When we do have video they just ignore it and say our eyes are the liars not their murderous tongues.

Abolish Ice Now.
Abolish it Yesterday.