Fascinating! What other countries do you think would start taking over places without immigration laws?

What certain countries? And are you alleging there is a coordinated “take over”?

I get that it’s legally wrong, but do you think it’s ethically wrong?

What if someone thinks the laws and systems in place aren’t morally perfect?

Thank you for a good reply, but I’ll still push back on your general conclusion. They can do nearly all of that from Canada, the only exception that they won’t face arrest for doing so.

The larger point: I think “slightest bit” is way underselling what we’ve seen over the last couple months. Attacks on the academic systems, legal systems, and of course on the most vulnerable people in society. I think we’re already at “really hairy”, and waiting to “flee” until the administration is executing professors in the street is too late.

To make a different point: not everyone can do their best resisting while under serious pressure. Not everyone is a fighter. We need medics, we need logistics, we need reporters, we need people abroad supporting us. If they can’t handle the pressure, but will keep up the flight from afar, then more power to them. It doesn’t necessarily make them cowards, but cognizant of their own needs and how they can best help. Maybe they are fleeing out of cowardice, but the point I’m trying to make is that it isn’t a given.

Again I ask: what do you suggest they do that they cannot do from Canada?

…or now is the time to leave while/if you can. Maybe they’ve decided they can fight the regime more effectively from outside the country. That they can use their voice and experience unburdened by fear they’ll be arrested. What do you suggest they do that they can’t from Canada?

Truly, I can’t fault people for leaving. Especially people that are being targeted. I’m a scientist that works fighting against climate change, so I get it.

For more than a decade I only rode a motorcycle in Florida. I even made trips - with a passenger - to Costco. It required plenty of straps and saddlebags and a big backpack, but it was doable to get groceries in it for two people.

This was on a Triumph Scrambler, and I had added a luggage rack etc, so not something you could do easily on a stock sport bike, but you don’t need a big touring bike for this kind of living, either.

The times I needed to haul something big, I rented a truck from a big box hardware store. Saved a ton of money over the years, and only now have a Prius (with a roof rack to haul stuff) because I live in a place with harsh winters. No sidecar yet, but thinking hard about it…

Not Lemmy specific. There was US legislation related to the word being deemed offensive fifteen years ago (given the slow nature of Congress, it wasn’t a new sentiment then, either): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa’s_Law

Fair enough that plenty of insulting words could be cast as abelist: but my guess is that a word like “idiot” is old enough that most folks called that in a medical context aren’t around any more. Maybe I’m wrong though: plenty of folks do push against saying things like “crazy” in an insulting manner.

Exactly. 15 people in Gitmo is still a moral stain on the nation, but at least some semblance of progress was made. Not fast enough, still terrible, etc.

Trump is vowing to make that - just numerically - 2,000 times worse than the current numbers. And that’s just looking at raw numbers, not even getting into the ethics of the people themselves (do we really think they’ll be even half as rigorous as the shit level of rigor for former/current prisoners if they’re trying to capture thirty thousand people?).

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

• some guy who doesn’t know much about “Real Communism”

Communism doesn’t argue people are all equal in abilities: but instead it argues that people’s needs should be met, regardless.

This doesn’t mean we all should live in the same identical brick huts, either. We just shouldn’t be so barbaric that we let people starve to death in a gutter, even if it’s because of their own failures.

Have you tried seeing if any sugary snack give you the same effect? Sounds like the effects of a dip in blood sugar.