He wasn’t even Jewish. Santos insisted he meant he was “Jew-ish” because his mother’s family had a Jewish background, even though he was raised Catholic.

Straight outta a Mel Brooks movie…

Yeah. There’s a Webley and an Ak laying around too.

But the FC9 (3d printed 9mm AR “pistol”) was hidden away in a loft even tho it wasn’t in a firable state. So there’s very little chance they left operable machine guns just laying around

They’re not airsoft, and I doubt they’re replicas. Most likely decommissioned collectibles

Usually they get the firing pins removed and then the action welded shut thru the frame, or a cut made in the same location. Sometimes the barrel gets plugged too.

But at one point they were actual guns.

While definitely a serious issue…

The picture of one of their bedrooms is fucking hilarious. You can’t get any more on point for assumptions than the juxtaposition of Nazi flags on one wall, and the kind of wallpaper you put up in a nursery on the other wall.

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I’m saying we need to listen to the people actually fighting the fascists…

And not to the multibillionaires who are all talk an no action, just because other billionaires have the media corporations they own trying to convince everyone a billionaire who only talks but never acts is the best we can hope for…

Like, you saw what four year of “moderation” between trump terms resulted in. Right?

You think the best response to this trump turn is another moderate who cares more about billionaires than Americans?

Pritzker isn’t your friend, he’s not on our side.

If he was he’d be doing more than blowing wind.

I was in Compton a couple years ago, and it was great. Didn’t go into Watts or any of the PJs though.

I used to make it a point in my younger days to walk around “rough” areas, Compton felt like a suburb compared to something like Chicago or NYC.

Most of those “high crime areas” are because of drug dealing and gangs trying to control turf and the violence that comes with that When that stuff is going on, fucking with a random just isn’t worth the police attention it might bring.

In my experience the most dangerous areas are almost always 10-15 minutes away from a “rough” area. It’s far enough away from the action that random crime won’t negatively effect the drug trade. But close enough drug users are looking for stuff to steal to feed their addiction.

When I was skateboarding in highschool, we used to go into the city and intentionally pick skate spots within eyeshot of a manned corner. It meant cops weren’t likely to come thru the area, and no locals would start anything like a mugging/jacking because that might bring cops into the area and get the dealers pissed at them for interrupting business.

On the other hand, if we ever saw cops we were out of any area immediately. Even if we weren’t doing anything wrong, there’s just no telling when a cop would decide to fuck with someone, even planting drugs or making up random bullshit

“Local” police…

In virtually every metropolitan PD, a lot of the cops don’t just live in subdivisions, they live way outside of town.

It’s easy to abuse a crowd when it’s not neighbors and people that know you.

Is it a fantasy on my part that there’s some mythical law firm or society that looks for these violations?

Yep.

That’s what the justice system is supposed to do.

The types of organizations you’re talking about in America, instead work on saving innocent people from our justice system. Or at least ensuring punishments are fair.

As far as I know (I don’t know everything) there’s virtually zero organizations with the goal of getting guilty people charged by the state/fed.

Not saying your idea about documenting is a waste. Just that it’s the equivalent of people using plastic straws while billionaires and AI data centers do irreparable damage.

If cities/states actually wanted to press charges, they’d identify with cell snoopers, or just send 20 cops with a warrant to a field office, or look at pay records. Get their identies, then drivers licence photos, start comparing to social media profiles, identify similar picture of kit.

There’s a hundred better/easier ways to identify them. And this is the type of thing AI can actually be used to speed things up. Any average sized city has the resources to identify every ICE agent in their city. They’re just too chicken shit to escalate to that, out of fear ICE will retaliate personally.

So they pretend that tiny piece of fabric over half a face is just unbeatable.

Because city prosecutors won’t bring charges unless it’s a guaranteed win.

So even tho it happens on camera, and they could start at the top of the chain and work down applying pressure to find out identities to press charges…

They’re too scared of bringing charges in a case they might lose to even attempt to hold anyone accountable.

Our justice system has been fucked for decades, but Biden refused to fix it (because he literally “wrote” the bills that got us here) and trump wants a broken system to abuse it.

We can’t just keep letting Republicans break shit, then electing “moderates” who refuse to acknowledge there’s even an issue that needs fixed. We need people willing to fight, even if they don’t win 99.999% of battles. We need people who aren’t afraid to lose. Because they understand what happens if we abstain.

Quick edit:

Don’t forget how accurate the system was at identifying college students at protests despite them covering their faces too.

Anyone telling you a small piece of fabric over someone’s face means they’re impossible to be identified by law enforcement is lying because they think you’re dumb enough to fall for obvious bullshit.

Obviously…

Every innocent brown person they deatin, increases the percentage that are violent criminals and out of the streets.

They don’t want to solve crime, they want to convince people crime is bad so that they support the total removal of everyone brown.

Yellow isnt hot enough.

Sometimes that’s because of grease and shit that’s burning less efficiently, and you just need to let it run and it’ll fix itself.

It doesn’t look like that though, so maybe carbon is built up?

So you can try to clean it, use a toothpick.or something to make sure there’s nothing clogged.

There’s a chance the fuel is just old, but I’d imagine you checked that first and probably even a new container, but worth mentioning in case you haven’t.

Don’t worry guys!

Multi-billionaire JB Pritzker said ICE had to go thru him first, and obviously a fucking multi billionaire wouldn’t just lie about something like this…

/s

We can’t afford to let neoliberals hold positions of authority, they’ll never have what it takes to fight fascism, because even if they’re not a multi-billionaire themselves, that’s who neoliberals look out for over anyone else.

They’re still stuck on bullshit Reaganomics, despite anyone with two braincells being able to figure out it’s bad for 99.99% of the American population

They’re too chicken shit to go after actual criminals, because they’ll fight back…

Like, obviously not all immigrants are violent criminals, but it’s also true that some immigrants are violent criminals. Just like literally every demographic.

If Trump’s admin just cares about total numbers, they’re going to keep going after the easiest targets, even if they’re in the country legally.

Doubtful.

ICE, CBP, and DHS have all drastically scaled back any activity against actual criminals.

They’re going after the easiest targets possible, the cartels are probably loving trump. All he’s doing is driving a wedge between governments and giving them more opportunities

I mean…

The US military has been using various media like videogames for propaganda for a long time.

Obviously SA is going to influence things too.

Lot of talk…

We can’t afford to give credit for people talking about shit. If it happens later, give credit to the prosecutors and low level government employees who make it happen.

The reason every primary is the same wealthy neoliberals, is they suck up all the media attention.

Nobody wants to do science anymore…

I wonder if we grew them on a greenhouse at the top of a mountain in Peru if they’d retain shape better?

Gravity is clearly winning, so take them to the place with the least gravity.

Or a species that was acclimated to India’s stronger gravity, grown in a place with less.

It’s not about having the funds…

Every payment is using funds authorized to be spent in fiscal year 2025, being spent in fiscal year 2026.

You know the stories about the military/government buying up a bunch of shit in the end of September? That’s because they can’t use the money in the next fiscal year.

They don’t actually spend every cent because that’s be crazy, but right now we’re coasting off the money in the couch cushions and everytime we use it we break federal law.

Like, there’s about to be as many violations as active duty military, and I can’t help but think Vought is using this to normalize doing away with budgets and using one gigantic slush fund with zero oversight or accountability.

It’s good their getting paid…

But this flagrant disregard for budgets is not a good sign of things to come.

Not from the article, but apparently there are funds in the account for the 10/15 pay day, and pay should go out to all military like “normal”.

No idea how it’s legal tho. Pretty clearly an anti-defiency act violation, but at least this time there’s a good result to trump’s admin breaking rules and norms…

Fucking depressing if neoliberals snatch the party back because you all fall for this and Newsom’s shit