Folks from rural areas prioritize cultural signaling for conservativism over economic growth. I'd hazard that Mr. Zink would probably vote Trump again, given the opportunity, if the opposite candidate publicly supported trans rights or was just a Democratic black woman.

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Goosechase.jpg "You won't meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn't vote for this"

"WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN"

This just makes me think even more media coverage of Minneapolis would be good. Fuck the Trump administration.

Its almost like ICE wants to scare off media organizations from reporting on Minneapolis (1) to keep the wider public in the dark and (2) to protect its officers.

More reporters in Minneapolis keeping this front and center for the public would be good imo.

A federated web is a better one than a monopolized web, so I switched on principle.

Terrible headline, it's honestly kind of impressive that the chronological order of just two events could be screwed up in a single sentence fragment meant to convey information in an entertaining way.

I wonder how much rooftop space in Vienna could be cannibalized for solar panels.

😂😂😂

Calling it an "immigration operation" is a fascinating example of doublespeak? DHS wants deportations not immigrations.

Although, the world would be a lot happier and sillier place if the DHS underlings took that language at face value and brought in an extra 2000 immigrants.

There's a concept in law enforcement whereby arresting one person dissuades others from doing similar things.

I wonder if the Trump admin doesn't want reporters in Minneapolis. /s

Just wait until you discover I can have multiple and even contradictory reasons for doing any single action. It's really gonna blow you away

Now there's a guy who missed his nominative determinism calling, he would have been much better at that job too.

You’re following rules no one else does and only wanting to try if it’s guaranteed to succeed.

That's categorically an opposite of what "that said, it’s still worth going after the guy criminally. He deserves prison and the AG should give it a shot" means, right?

I said try even if it's not guaranteed. My contribution to our conversation was opining on the likelihood of success.

Throw his ass in jail for murder with no bail

I'd love this, and think it's unlikely.

He can beat the charges, but he’ll never get the months/years of his life back while awaiting trial

Make it so in the back of every ICE agent’s head there’s a constant reminder: “There could be consequences”.

Regardless of how we accomplish it, nothing gets fixed till that thought is always in their minds.

Yes to all of this!

Fam the reasonable policy is to not stick you're hand inside of a vehicle or stand in front of a vehicle. The same idiot officer did both of those things, which is what this meme points out.

Yikes.

I love that you're providing genuine answers to questions in this thread, it's always needed because the questions are often genuine, but coming from a place of very well-justified anguish or anger.

I'm hopeful that a civil lawsuit would succeed, but I think the officer will escape criminal liability because federal courts get to determine scope of duty/egregiousness of conduct before state courts can touch federal officers.

That said, it's still worth going after the guy criminally. He deserves prison and the AG should give it a shot.

Oh noooooooo I'll make the switch in the future 🫡🫡

There's something vaguely slimy about framing Chevron as the first beneficiary of Trump's actions when it has been operating for profit in Venezuela for decades with the agreement of Venezuelas government under Maduro. Neither of them are really pro-Palestine if the line being drawn is anti-Chevron.

Obviously Palestinians deserve way better than the hand dealt to them, no question there.

Edit; and to spell out why this felt kinda slimy to me at first: if:

(1) Chevron was operating in Venezuela with Maduro in charge for years without any real issue with Maduro,

(2) Chevron supports Israel, and

(3) the fight is against those enabling Chevron,

it follows that fighting for Maduro is not directly fighting for Palestine.

Fighting for Maduro would qualify as fighting US imperialism for sure, and therein lies that pesky question about the utility of fighting for someone who had every opportunity to shutdown the imperialist problem (Chevron) on his own by virtue of his political power, and did not.

I fall on the side that it's fine after thinking it through, but I'm also someone who thinks Democrats are broadly good even if they mostly make for small victories for left-liberal ideologies. Ymmv.

Venezuelan oil MUST remain off of the world markets by and large in order for the current glut of oil production not to be an economic dead end for oil production companies in the US and elsewhere who overcommitted in a world where EV vehicles are proliferating at a rapid pace.

Iirc Venezuelas production is down because it's facilities can't process as much oil as at peak without multi-billion dollar updates and repairs.

I think it's more likely the Trump admin gives US oil companies subsidies to take the oil out despite it being anti-capital and anti-competitive; those two things are his whole MO whenever he thinks capitalism isn't beneficial for him personally.

But this whole incident strikes me more as a case of projecting US power than seeking petrol dollars specifically. Like, that's part of it, and not all of it.

Even from a dictatorship standpoint, Trump manages to be stuck in the early 20th century. Coal and oil are no longer the most important national security resources, the former since 2010, the latter since 2020.

Just look at Ukraine. Drone warfare is the name of the game, and it is extremely electric tech stack: renewable energy, batteries, and smart device components.