Computers and media to exchange data between computers without much effort, even direct networks did already exist in 1980. You are off by at least one, maybe two decades in that particular regard.LittleRaven wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 10:18 pmAnd they really need to do that, because as much as I love my guns and get annoyed at the fact that the ATF still seems to be operating as if it's 1980...
Trump Lambasting Diverse Congress People
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Re: Trump Lambasting Diverse Congress People
"If you get shot up by an A6M Reisen and your plane splits into pieces - does that mean it's divided by Zero?
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Re: Trump Lambasting Diverse Congress People
@LittleRaven They don't wanna fix the immigration system. The old white bigots in the GOP know it's their last defense against a Latino wave oversweeping the primarily European-descended Caucasians by 2050 and thus a (they fear) mostly Democratic voting bloc. That said, they shouldn't bother. It's white people's fault for choosing not to breed, systematic failure that ensures white people have easier access to contraceptives (hence where you get their religiously-fueled push-back to try and "make" people breed, forced birth, banning birth control, etc... it's fear), and I have met Latinos who lean right-wing. So it's not that hard to adapt ever so slightly to cancel out the growing numbers that will outstrip a majority of whites by 2050.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
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Re: Trump Lambasting Diverse Congress People
Oh, if the GOP had taken the post-Romney autopsy they'd done seriously, the country would be a much stranger place. Even the extant, Trump-headed, "Mexico is sending their rapists" GOP has a much larger share of the latinix vote than other non-white ethnicities. One that dialed that back, dusted off the Bush-era immigration reforms, and put folk like Rubio at the forefront would probably get a larger share for hispanic voters than the Democrats do white ones.
It's nominally possible that all actors in the ICE/CBP pipeline are acting in good faith to process people as justly and swiftly as can be managed in the broken system. However, given the top level pressure from the Trump administration, their agent pool often being rejected police officers, and the fact that ICE since its founding has been primarily dealing in physical boarder crossings to such a degree that policy against racial profiling is a lost cause, it's very hard to believe there aren't bad actors at various levels of the system.
And given how strained and inherently broken the system is, it takes very few bad actors to add tremendous strain and create many more mistakes than the system would produce on its own. A cut corner here, closing of ranks there, adds up quite quickly.
Yuka: uh... alright, but I'm still curious. If someone fails the *checks your wording* far left purity testing you're talking about, what exactly... happens. What consequences were so dire you had to declare it a lost cause.
Oh, put another way-I'm not sure I agree with your first assertion - bureaucratic fuckups are a fact of life. Yes, they suck, and we should seek to minimize them, but they are not necessarily the sign of malicious actors.
It's nominally possible that all actors in the ICE/CBP pipeline are acting in good faith to process people as justly and swiftly as can be managed in the broken system. However, given the top level pressure from the Trump administration, their agent pool often being rejected police officers, and the fact that ICE since its founding has been primarily dealing in physical boarder crossings to such a degree that policy against racial profiling is a lost cause, it's very hard to believe there aren't bad actors at various levels of the system.
And given how strained and inherently broken the system is, it takes very few bad actors to add tremendous strain and create many more mistakes than the system would produce on its own. A cut corner here, closing of ranks there, adds up quite quickly.
Yuka: uh... alright, but I'm still curious. If someone fails the *checks your wording* far left purity testing you're talking about, what exactly... happens. What consequences were so dire you had to declare it a lost cause.
