https://nitter.net/LaikenJordahl/status/1709615785524793509

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Oh, so the dumb fucking wall is still happening? And we can just waive laws now? Since fucking when, and how come the California High Speed Rail Authority doesn't know about it, or does efficiency only apply when we're increasing suffering?

      • GoebbelsDeezNuts [any]
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        1 year ago

        Getting closer and closer to the Allied Mastercomputer reality everyday.

    • Posadas [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      California high speed rail = inconveniancing white landowners

      Boarder wall = getting to destroy indigenous graves and harm people displaced by US foreign policies

    • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      And we can just waive laws now? Since fucking when?

      I started looking into it and found this:

      The controversial work, which included construction on federally designated wilderness, was permitted under the Real ID Act. Created in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the act grants DHS the authority to waive any law, including bedrock statutes meant to safeguard the environment and areas of cultural significance, to build border barriers in the name of national security.

      Source

      • Parzivus [any]
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        1 year ago

        Bulldozing wildlife habitats and native burial grounds to curb the threat of (checks notes) Mexican terrorism

      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Because the richest people in the US wanted to undermine a left wing government in Afghanistan in the 1980s they funded an army of appalling reactionaries which eventually turned against the US. Because of this, it is now legal to build the border wall regardless of the consequences.

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      And we can just waive laws now?

      astronaut-1

      the laws have never applied to the ruling class.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      And we can just waive laws now?

      We cannot; they can. The ruling class has only practical constraints on what it can do, but in truth bears no legal obligation to anything but itself. Individuals in the ruling class may receive punishment for lawbreaking, having violated their obligation to their class, but when the ruling class moves in a unified fashion, there is no such thing as them being bound by their own laws, because they are the ones who write the laws, enforce the laws, and rule on allegations that the law was broken (or, more accurately, they own the people who do those things). In a capitalist society, what has the general support of capitalists and thereby the major parties is always going to be "legal" unless a divide forms in that coalition.

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Literally burning a pile of all the money budgeted for this would be better for society.

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    oh cool wasn't this part of why people were mad at trump's border wall concept? Like migratory bear species won't be able to migrate north anymore

  • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    Wait. I know Biden was basically continuing everything trump did but the border wall? Pardon my ignorance but fucking why?

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Because the Democrats' issue with what the GOP does at the border isn't the cruelty but the inefficiencies. They could run the immigrant-mulching machine so much quicker and cheaper.

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      It's impossible to be a capitalist and not eventually turn to ethnic scapegoating to explain why everything is so shitty.

  • Retro_Unlimited@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    I have been to the wall several times.

    A wall is something that you can go over, under, around, and through. It won’t stop anything. Just takes resources to build and destroy.

  • NeelixBiederman [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    biden-point I want the floating saw blades and razor sharp concertina wire to be made with American steel!