The police running into the crowd are violent, certainly; as is the white mob. The response to a movement being violent doesn’t make the movement violent, any more than getting mugged makes the victim violent.

I understood US Civil Rights movement to be peaceful, as in the people in the movement did not instigate violence. Calling a protest violent because those in power struck back violently seems nonsensical to me.

…I’m honestly not sure if this is sarcasm or not - if you’re pointing out a problematic point of view or if you’re attacking the people the article is talking about.

My first thought, before I realized what I was seeing, was “Palpatine at the beach”…

Garcia is one person, who was already handled by the courts and was not a danger. Is that two year old US citizen also guilty of gang membership?

(whoops, wrong person!)

No, it was notably never proven. There’s been no opportunity for anyone to review ICE’s evidence. That’s a big part of why everybody’s riled up about it.

Have you seen any evidence of illegal immigrant gang members?

…are they in the room with us now?

Sure, and such regulations should be reformed. We should not just start turning stuff off and seeing who breaks!

Yeah, I’m all for proper attribution, but I think making it just a little smaller, or two lines so it doesn’t line up with the main message, could have made it more clear that it wasn’t part of the message.

I’m not even sure how much evidence there is past the galaxyspinning evidence

There was another article posted recently I can’t find now, that talked about the discrepancy between the age of the universe based on the Hubble constant, and what’s observed of the CMB, or something like that. Apparently that discrepancy can be resolved if the universe itself is rotating.

Really hoping someone can track it down and post up a link, I’m probably making hash of the actual article…

I’ve also found it helps to, if you have just a few questions that aren’t really related, break them into separate messages. And space them out a bit, if you’ve got time.

Seconding this - I’m willing to learn the local language(s)!

Last time he was in a position of power, he tried to organize a coup against the US government. It’s not a stretch to think that might be his starting point.

Sure, but how many theatergoers benefit from either of those?

I do think some of this is just fatigue. The usual way to deal with this is to either pick one or a few things to try to actively address, or just buckle down and wait for things to improve. Both lead naturally to a situation where it’s hard to get a critical mass of people to respond on any one subject.

Were you never an asshole as a kid? It’s part of growing up. We work to make them better, but arresting them does nothing worthwhile.

They’re working on it…

I’m remembering that color blindness is actually really good at bypassing certain kinds of camouflage too. Which sounds like the two would pair well together in hunting parties.

As a 41 year old, when I call someone in their early-mid 20s a kid, there’s no derision intended. Think about how you relate to someone who’s 12 or 16 when you’re 20 or so - they might be quite capable, even fun to hang out with; but their life experiences also give them a clearly different outlook. And, like as not, you feel a little more interest in making sure they’re getting along all right (at least I do!)

As you age, that doesn’t really change - but the “target age” where that comes into play follows you up! So at 26, you feel that way about people just coming into high school; at 30-35, about people getting out of college and starting their careers. My oldest kid is 6; and I feel this way now about most of the parents of my kids’ classmates! Makes for a fun juxtaposition, when they have older kids and know more about what we’re in for than I do :p

It can turn into something condescending, depending on the person; but I think it’s usually more of a statement that “I remember being where you were!”