Same source says 110k non-citizen veterans, so not all get it.

Like I said, the process often takes longer than a single four year enlistment. They may have legal right to stay here, but not full citizen. And would just rather get out and become a citizen another way.

The military kind of sucks bro…

Because their power came from threatening to have the DNC cut off funding to state parties…

Something the DNC had been doing for a long time, it was a credible threat.

Then a month later the voting members of the DNC elected Ken Martin as chair and he proverbially and literally made it rain on state parties. They’ve all been operating at campaign levels the last year, he’s giving back the “victory fund” money that was stolen from them in the first place.

Why do you think so many politicians are suddenly so comfortable talking shit about them?

Why does no one listen to them?

They’ll be “lame ducks” till midterms, but there’s nothing really going on.

Schumer and Jefferies literally don’t matter, but billionaire owned media is going to desperately try to make it seem like they do, same as with Newsom.

Meanwhile, everyone’s acting like the literal DNC chair didn’t say we need a presidential candidate like Mamdani (in charisma and policy) to save the party.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani

Shits fucking good right now with the party, better than it’s been in 50 years honestly. Shit just moves slow and we got fucked by the order of things beyond an average voters control

He’s sued over it even and won, but that won’t stop idiots from spamming it everywhere over a decade later.

He did a good deed and explicitly wants zero recognition. Just let him have that

Not even that, just too on the nose.

But a lot of people do join up for citizenship, the shitty part is it gets slow-walked so people end up needing to re-enlist at least once before they can gain citizenship.

It’s one of these weird quirks of today, like, if trump ever does deploy the military to do what ICE is doing, it’s going to be non-citizens detaining US citizens…

I served with people whose only citizenship was Nigeria, Ghana, and a lot of the Caribbean countries, but I think they’re pretty lax on what countries can join. A guy in my boot camp was a Russian ex-cop who was in his late 30s and barely spoke English, I’m pretty sure he didn’t even live in the US before boot camp.

I was curious and looked it up, right now 40k US military members are not citizens:

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48163

So about 2% of the US military, not huge, but not zero either.

I’d kind of be surprised if this was real, especially with that name.

That being said, recruiters are all pieces of shit, because if they’re not then they’re going to get taken off recruiter duty which is the cushiest posting in a lot of branches. So they do what they have to do to make their recruitment quotas.

So it’s possible some idiot really tried this, but no one should believe anything a recruiter says.

With how easy it is for banned accounts to just make a new one somewhere, there really needs to be some kind of account age limiter. As far as I know it’s not an option on any instance.

They’re not.

They’re on the side of wealth and power. And there’s a lot of overlap because extreme wealth is in the hands of a very small amount of people for them to lobby.

Even then, the two groups handles it very differently.

Neoliberals beg for crumbs, MAGA is willing to let everyone starve unless lil Donnie is the only one who gets two scoops. If everyone gets two scoops, they don’t want anyone to get anything because then there’s not a clear sign they’re better.

all the bickering we’ll have about how she’s not left enough or she’s the same as the couch fucker.

Progressives are the most reliable voting block for the Dem party, and have been for decades…

What wins and loses elections is the 1/3 of the country that doesn’t traditionally vote.

But we’re not going to see the same pressure on AOC to move left that weve seen on the Dem candidate back to 2012, because this will be the first time since 08 the candidate won’t be to the right of the voting base. Hell, the last Dem candidates have been to the right of the general populace even.

Obviously some people will want more, but they’ll be statistically insignificant.

<sigh> I wish we had ranked choice voting…

We’ll have a fair primary this time, one that will let every state vote. And if people bomb at first they’ll drop. It’s not the same as simultaneous RCV nationwide for a primary, and I hope someday we’ll get that.

But honestly, most problems with the party were solved last year in the chair election. Billionaire owned media just isn’t gonna talk about.

You don’t know what “neoliberal” means and your “both sides” bullshit has brought about two Trump presidencies.

Oh yeah totally…

The reason trump got elected twice wasn’t we kept running people with zero charisma and policy significantly to the right of the Dem voter base…

It’s because some people online had the outright gall to talk about it, if they’d have just maintained the lie, maybe enough people would have fell for the lies!

/S

Doesn’t matter if she’s ready, doesn’t matter if she even wants to be president

The next presidential is a “stars align” election and we can be deep in some FDR level shit in a decade because of it

It doesn’t need to be AOC, but it’ll be easier for her than anyone else

And maga won’t say anything about her they didn’t say about Hillary, Biden, or Harris. So it doesn’t matter what they’d say, and Obama showed us we don’t need neoliberals to win elections if we have a candidate with any measurable charisma.

So the only “downside” would be the neoliberals becoming Republicans again, which would start moderating that side of the aisle again.

So, what to do?

See things you don’t care about and ignore them.

The vast majority of humans are capable of this, and can even do it relatively subconsciously

Yeah, because they’re gonna disappear people then release AI video of them either saying their fine or saying crazy shit.

It makes sense they’d start with her, because you know trump wants to show off his trophy wife and she doesn’t give a fuck, she’s never around and he gets shit for it, which makes him feel weak.

But watch the video, at least her hands. At any spot in the 5:30 video her hands don’t move. There’s a very slight wristbend at one point, but it’s not natural and the hand stays completely fixed.

You couldn’t do that if you tried.

And the background is obviously fake. Even if it’s her it’s a green screen to make it look like she’s in the White House.

Like, yes, a million things matter more right now, it doesn’t mean this doesn’t matter. If we fall into that trap eventually we wouldn’t bat an eye even at genocide because worse things are happening.

Doesn’t matter if they want to be useless, worst case scenario they’re going to be a lesson to the rest of the neoliberals that this fight isn’t optional.

They won’t lead, they’re not following protestors, and just by existing in office they’re refusing to get out of the way for people who will use what governor and mayors have at their disposal.

They wouldnt do any of the three to help us, but if it becomes clear they’re go down for shit like this even though they haven’t actually done anything…

Self preservation will at least get them out of the way and states/cities can get better representation that will fight for them. We don’t have to wait for midterms to solidify the Dem party, the neoliberals can just run away to their oligarchs now and save time.

If that was true, then why is it so hard to find a picture/video of ice with a single visibly armed protester in view?

Like, by your logic they’d be looking for it, yet I’ve been trying and failing to find an example of them just existing with 100 yards of an armed protestor…

And I can’t understand why people are shocked ICE agents shit and run when they see a gun.

ICE the staff was afraid, and that made them an easy target…

Everywhere is different, but:

Whoever carries a BB gun, rifle, or shotgun on or about the person in a public place is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. A person under the age of 21 who carries a semiautomatic military-style assault weapon on or about their person in public place is guilty of a felony. However, one may carry a pistol or a long gun openly with permit to carry a pistol because, the law states that the prohibition on carrying does not include the carrying of a BB gun, rifle, or shotgun by a person who has a permit under section 624.714.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Minnesota

In Minnesota it’s illegal to open carry a rifle, but only if you don’t have a pistol carry permit. If you have a pistol carry permit, you can open carry a rifle because the rifle law isn’t talking about people with pistol permits apparently.

It takes a form, up to 30 days to process, and lasts 5 years. And they can’t even deny you for smoking weed:

https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/public-services-bca/firearms-information/permit-carry

armed protestors are just the pretext needed for some mass murder by the state.

Name the last time that happened then if that’s the response.

If you’re saying just trump will use it as an excuse, what the fuck makes you think he wouldnt just lie and say it happened anyways?

There’s an alternative…

It’s super easy, would require zero bloodshed.

Armed protest.

I’ve never seen a cop shoot a protester when other protestors were in eyeshot with rifles.

I’ve never even seen ICE where a protestor is visibly armed, because if they see that, they fucking leave.

The reason shit is so bad is because ICE knows they’ll never be held accountable in court. Literally the only way they believe they could ever face any consequences is if someone shoots them in the moment. And rather than behave when they see armed protestors, they just go to where no one is armed.

So fuck it, this Merica. Carry a big scary fuck off rifle.

I guarantee ICE won’t run up on you. And if everywhere they went people showed up with rifles, they’d stop going places all together.

Plaintiff discovered messages which included a picture of Defendant wrapped in a towel; Defendant offered to help Mr. Ammel work through his mental health challenges and Mr. Ammel agreed; Mr. Ammel stated to Defendant he was intimidated by her and Defendant asked why because she only wants to be intimidating to her opponents, not to people she likes; Defendant suggested for Mr. Ammel to bring MDMA drugs on a work trip so that she could guide him through a psychedelic experience.

Federal Judge Richard Stearns said he appreciated the government acknowledging the error, calling it a “tragic” bureaucratic mistake. But he appeared to rule out holding the government in contempt, noting the violation did not appear intentional. He also questioned whether he has jurisdiction over the case.

“It might not be anybody’s fault, but she was the victim of it,” Stearns said, adding at one point that Lopez Belloza could explore applying for a student visa.

It 100% was someone’s fault, but the federal legal system won’t hold them accountable.

And if state legal systems won’t hold them accountable either, that leaves the system we had before legal systems, and the rich and powerful really doesn’t want the 99.99% of society to come to the conclusion that’s what it takes, because mobs tend to focus on revenge more than actual justice…

But revenge is better than nothing, and nothing is what we’re getting from the people we agreed should have a monopoly on justice and violence.

It indicative of the belief that people work for government officials…

Like. Step back and think for a second about all the fucking police resources a city has, all the surveillance and shit that goes on.

If he wanted to gather information on who ICE is, he has avenues to identify them besides asking residents to follow them around with cameras knowing full and well that gets people attacked by ICE.

If Walz was still a highschool football coach and saying this, I’d give him props.

But he’s a fucking governor…

He’s better than Jeffries and Schumer, but that’s not enough for a mayor these days, let alone someone running an entire fucking state. Bunch of words and zero action just like Newspm and Pritzker. If shit was fine they could be decent leaders, but they’ve shown time and time again they won’t take any actual action when we’re being murdered in their states by federal agents.

They don’t have the fight in them, so we can’t afford to let them be leaders during a fight.

Quick edit:

Like, he can just have cops follow ICE and document with their body cams or even a dude with a camera. That would be much better evidence later. And they could actually intervene when ICE breaks the law.

He can use stingrays to ping their phones as the roll out of where they deploy from

He can have cops detain them

There are so many more options a state has to stop federal overreach and abuses than random citizens can.

Walz ain’t asking us to help. He’s telling us he won’t do shit and it’s on us

And if that’s what he wants to do, he can get the fuck out of the way and let someone else lead while he follows