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Comment · 3 days ago
The law is assumed to be in line with "protect America", it isn't up for ICE to decide that. If you think current laws are not protecting America then vote to change them.

However what ICE gets to decide is what cases to prioritize, they don't get to decide who to exonerate but their limited resources means that they prioritize those who are bigger dangers. Still if they had infinite resources they would take everyone.

Comment · 3 days ago
I agree, but that is not for ICE to decide. Democrats should have fixed this a long time ago, USA isn't a one party state so if Democrats wanted to fix this they could have. But they too didn't want undocumented immigrants to gain full rights, it is very useful to have abusable second class citizens around for the upper classes.

So the problem here isn't ICE, it is Trump and his politics. ICE following the law and doing their job is the wrong target.

Comment · 3 days ago
> Most prior presidents had good sense enough to understand that mass deportation is a major foot-gun, politically and economically. And kind of morally monstrous.

If they recognized this is an issue just add a way for upstanding undocumented immigrants to become documented immigrants, problem solved.

Instead they preserved the status quo where they can use ICE to hammer their enemies, that is a very bad thing. ICE taking everyone is the only way, it robs it of its power.

Comment · 3 days ago
Well the issue is private corporations selling data willingly is not bound by the fourth amendment. So just assume whatever any US corporation knows about you is also known by the US government because they will sell your data for a penny.
Comment · 3 days ago
Deporting people is "enforcing immigration law".
Comment · 3 days ago
Enforcing immigration law is their mission which includes deporting those who aren't allowed to be in the country. So yes it is their mission.
Comment · 3 days ago
Every time the police gets to choose whether to apply a law or not you add more power to the police, I don't want the police to be more powerful.

Anyone who don't say yes just wants a police state, the reason your American police is so dangerous and powerful is because they have these choices and can arrest you for a lot of things that people don't normally get arrested for.

So yes, they should do that. That you think they shouldn't is exactly why the American police is so horrible.

Comment · 3 days ago
Attacking agents of a democratically elected government makes you the bad guy.

If you want to change things then vote to change it, don't attack the people doing the work that just makes things worse. These "protests" are on the same level as the people threatening and blocking abortion centers, don't do that it just makes you a menace even if you believe it is a good cause.

Comment · 3 days ago
Deporting everyone who isn't in the country legally is their mission, executing people is not.

You can argue about how they should go about deporting people, but them deporting everyone even those without a criminal record is their intended purpose.

Comment · 6 days ago
You should have a separation of money and politics, similar to separation of church and state. USA fails at both, the state is way too influenced by both religion and money. It should be illegal for churches or money to tell people what to vote for, it is in many other countries.

Without that you will always run into these sort of issues. The problem isn't wealth inequality, the problem is that wealth buys political power.

Comment · 6 days ago
You do realize more money was spent on the party opposing Trump? Money can lose. Money apparently doesn't like the right wing but the right wins anyway without money.
Comment · 6 days ago
73% of dentists own their own practice, so you are wrong.
Comment · 6 days ago
> Quality indie titles come out all the time.

Depends on how you define high quality, indie games with quality similar to Hollow Knight do not come out all the time.

It just is much harder to have that level of polish and amount of content without a bigger well oiled team, so almost no indie games reaches that level.

Comment · 7 days ago
Looks at least partially organic to me, the guy is very cute and looking at his youtube video it is full of female commenters and has 2.7m subscribers.

So he is a celebrity and not just a politician, probably a lot of women are in love with him.

Comment · 8 days ago
> The moving the goalposts here is people saying it has to outperform humans on literally every task to be AGI

You don't have to outperform humans to run a business, nobody said you have to outperform humans on everything. Humans can run businesses, so AGI should be able to as well.

As long as humans outperform AI on a lot of tasks we have yet to reach AGI, and the easiest way to see that is that business still hires humans to do knowledge work and businesses are still lead by humans.

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