Recent content by rodoheel

This is an issue I have frequently as well - not just dealing with complicated emotional situations like the OP's but also just with work and life tasks.

Yes, as with most members of Congress, it's several cycles too late.

Try again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_by_U.S._immigration_agents_in_the_second_Trump_administration

Are you talking about physically hurting someone? Or emotionally hurting someone?

Sooooo basically they just promised Trump the access we already had and framed it like they were giving him something great?

There was a major storm? It's just that it was mostly sleet which doesn't accumulate to great depth and doesn't stick to power lines and trees and make them fall.

I would much rather a country where people are overzealous in peacefully "intervening" in police actions they believe are unjust than one where the population is oppressed by unjust police actions and no one does anything about it.

You literally have a quote right there in that post making clear that the governor and mayor are not "ignoring" immigration laws (which are, in any event, not their responsibility to enforce). You also have numerous posts from people on this thread explaining how one can oppose ICE's deployment...

But you didn't answer the question?

Anyone who has doubt on #4 should consider that the obvious lies the DOJ has told about each incident have been so easily disproven that their credibility is now zero.

We don't just "know now how wrong racism and Nazism is." People knew it at the time - including the people who acted against it, breaking the law while doing so. You either believe that people can and should resist laws that they believe to be morally unjust, or you don't. The people who are...

Sounds like you are part of a dangerous communist cell, as callatoroy would describe it. Scary!

What makes those interventions "good"?

Bizarre. Even if I agreed with those characterizations (which I don't) I cannot think of anything more American than advocating to change our laws through democratic process, whether you agree with the desired change or not. That would have been like saying in 1950 that welfare or the Civil...

This is why I've been stressing to people that public opinion still remains very important in this and similar situations. Trump cares very deeply about public opinion and what people think about it. The deep, ingrained need for him to be loved is why he goes to such efforts to delude himself...