stickly

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[–] stickly@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Honest question: if the administration's defense is shrugging because he's in another country, doesn't the judge have an easy layup to shut down CECOT deportations?

They can't have it both ways, either follow due process or keep your slave detention camps domestic. It's not interfering in foreign policy to point out they need to choose.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/politics/due-process-supreme-court-alien-enemies-act/index.html

That doesn't sound like like a 9/9 slam dunk shutdown. It's a 5/4 vote to remind the administration they need some fig leaf of due process. The article goes over all the ways that this isn't really a check on the unconstitutional deportations.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Side rant: I fucking hate the phrase "unseasonably warm/cold".

It gives the impression of a one off aberration that will go back to normal. We haven't had a normal season in decades, maybe we should just admit we broke the seasons instead of tiptoeing around it.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Destruction of property

Already happening with tesla, already being targeted as terrorists, personal safety at risk and still not good enough for you. Why not just start an insurgency to satisfy you?

Cyber attacks

Not anything that matters as an individual, especially against a state actor. One of the goals of the admin is destroying federal government systems so they don't give a shit anyway

Catfish

Are you fucking kidding me? Every one of them has been exposed as a rapist, racist, pedophile and everything else. Nobody gives a shit and they're not going to jail for it.

Corporate Sabotage

This isn't even directed at the government? What could this possibly accomplish?...

Deny MAGA service, fire them

Unless the customer/employee is in the White House, who fucking cares? And if anything, MAGA is the most protected class in America right now.

It's not that your suggestions are morally reprehensible, they're fucking pointless. Mass protest is massively more impactful if only because it builds solidarity deep down in our primate brains. The 1M people showing up at a protest are much more likely to tell ICE to fuck off in the future.

If you're not giving useful advice, your family and friends aren't at risk, and you're not willing to get on a plane and do something: keep your mouth shut. Nobody wants to listen to your armchair-revolutionary takes.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hold on everyone, get your pens out. This guy has a carefully detailed plan to solve all our problems

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Except what you're suggesting is not a nice controlled egress through the emergency exit or calling the fire department. The only "other thing" that you could possibly want is violence in the streets. Easy to call for when it's not your neighborhood or safety on the line.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You know what follows a large scale protest at critical mass? It's not shrug and go home...

Dumbass commenters in this thread will be finding flaws in a literal insurgency...

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was nothing constructive about it, literally just said "not good enough" lmao

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do they have control over that? I assumed that was handled by feds

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

An official language is not a lingua franca. A lingua franca is a bridge language. It is –and can only be– the most common shared language between native tounges.

They could add Esperanto as the official language for government beuraceacy, road signs, laws, public schooling and anything else under the purview of the state. That doesn't automatically expand the utility of the language beyond those use cases.

The population of the EU is ~450 million people. Let's look at how that stacks up against language demographics today (combined first+second languages for 2025):

  • English 1.5B
  • Mandarin 1.2B
  • Hindi 609M
  • Spanish 558M [the biggest non-english European tounge]

If we take out the EU's 44% English speakers and make everybody speak Spanish (who doesn't already):

  • English 1.3B
  • Mandarin 1.2B
  • Spanish 931M
  • Hindi 609M

So putting aside the logistical and diplomatic difficulties, the math just doesn't add up.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can't just declare a lingua franca 😂

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