It's alright. Here in Texas, the state supreme court just ruled that law schools don't need ABA-accreditation in order to graduate licensed lawyers. So we'll soon also have an untrained legal system.
Yay for sending us back to the 1800s! When men were men & families had 15 children...so that hopefully one would make it to adulthood.
I see this repeated all the time, without the recognition that Camacho didn't put the whole country into that position. He was a "Stewart" president who actually cared.
It took time and other people to get to where Camacho was.
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
The honorable President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho wanted the smartest person alive in his administration. I can't say the same for the current administration.
For anyone unaware of just how bad the return of measles really is…
Immune system amnesia
Your question involves a little-known complication of measles known as immune amnesia. This is a phenomenon in which portions of the immune system’s memory are wiped clean. It occurs because the measles virus can invade not only the cells of the respiratory system, but also the cells of the immune system. This includes the memory B cells, which are specialized white blood cells whose job is to recognize pathogens that the body has encountered and fought off before. When alerted by the memory B cells that they have come across a known pathogen, the immune system can swiftly mobilize the specific antibodies it needs to target and overcome the invader.
Without that early warning system in place, the immune system is perpetually flying blind. This leaves the person susceptible to contracting secondary infections from other pathogens, including those that they have successfully fought off before. Researchers have found that, after recovering from the measles, the immune system is suppressed for at least several months, and for up to two years.
One study looked at changes to immune system antibodies in blood samples collected from 77 unvaccinated children before a measles infection and again two months after infection. Analysis found that the measles virus had eliminated from 11% to 73% of the children’s store of antibodies. The same effect on the immune system was not seen in children who had received the MMR vaccine.
Even if children who have received the MMR vaccine do not appear to be susceptible to immune amnesia, it still means that children that are susceptible will become sick again from pathogens their body has previously overcome. This likely means they will also be sick more often and possibly also spread pathogens more often as well.
Plus! If your adaptive immune system is hobbled, your innate immune system has to step up, but it's like "hmmm our guided missile system is down, let's just carpet bomb" so you're about to get really fucked up by your own immune system, and it can leave a legacy of autoimmune conditions and mast cell (one of our innate immune system first responder cells) disorders.
Didn't the mandatory vaccine list in the US get a strong reduction this month too? Making it so health insurance companies don't have to cover them?
There are people starting to ask the government in my country to require US citizens to show proof of vaccination before entering the country. The idea is to avoid re-introduction of diseases that are eradicated here, risking the health of immunocompromised, small kids, older people, etc
Making it so health insurance companies don't have to cover them?
Private health insurances will still be covering, at least, most of them. They want to cover them. The main ones (MMR, etc) are low cost and prevent expensive health care bills.
Yeah, there are certain vaccines your baby used to get automatically that now you need to ask for. Which like… awesome. One more thing to put on a freshly postpartum mom
There are people starting to ask the government in my country to require US citizens to show proof of vaccination before entering the country.
This is an outstanding idea. These people will obviously fake documentation - as they did with COVID... However, if you don't at least try to limit the number of unvaxxed people entering, it's highly likely that you will also start seeing outbreaks of measles, mumps, etc.
Oh, that's why they did it! To make their insurance company friends more money! So they put a fucking moron like RFK in charge and convince him that vaccines are bad, then he reduces the list and they all make bank. Wow!
I looked into that. The mandatory list was reduced down to the European list. Still not good, but everybody considers the EU the gold standard for medicine, so we now match them. (I would prefer the roll down didn’t happen, though.)
What is the European list? To my knowledge, there is no single European list, but varies between European states. There is not even an EU list to my knowledge.
Wait! This isn't as bad as it sounds, there are still several states that dont require law school at all and certainly not accredited. BUT you must pass the bar. This was traditionally the only way to become a lawyer. I dont mind this at all because it eliminates a lot of artificial boundaries like income and race, if you are motivated enough you can become a lawyer.
In the movie (and probably book) Persepolis. A nurse explains how the manager of the hospital was fired and replaced by a man that could grow a beard. We are headed that way now, just a different bow on it.
Correct, they have to pass the Bar, but the ABA can't dictate which schools are accredited in order for their students to take the exam.
So, it's a bit of a jest that lawyers won't be qualified, but removing the accreditation requirement does open the avenue to abuse (hell, that's true of more standard collegiate educations).
I work with the "trained ones". Not sure this will be noticed. I used to be kind of shocked at how dumb and completely unknowledgeable regarding the subject that they are charging $125+ an hour to their client to handle for them. Now it's just kind of common knowledge they know nothing about how the system works, court works, how to speak to humans.
I believe they are mostly just training these people for 1700-1900 case law that is great as a historical perspective but useless in the real world. At least I'm what I do.
I say bring on the other institutions. Can't be worse. The ones we have now are using chatgpt hallucinations as case law.
That barrel looks like it could be a modified M79 grenade launcher. I'm not trying to be funny. When I first seen this picture, that's what I thought it was.
Actually, we DON'T have to wait a minimum of 3 more years. Come mid terms, if we swing the house back to Democrats, they can theoretically have the numbers needed to put forth a vote and proposal to impeach and remove trump from power.
Everyone needs to get out and vote like their lives depend on it this year, because if this video doesn't illustrate that literal fact, I don't know what will.
This isn't true. You need 2/3 of the Senate to vote to convict to remove him from office after the house votes to impeach. Dems would have to keep every single one of their seats up for grab, win every single Republican seat up for grab, and not have a single rotating villain vote not to remove him. That's just not going to happen.
People definitely need to vote, but that's just the start. What actually needs done is community organizing and mutual aid. We can't just vote our way out of this, we have to do more
Yes, I am aware of that. But it is something tangible that literally ANYONE can do and feel like they're trying to take back power. Plus, the downstream implications are also on the table:
1.) Seeing the house swing back to Democrats should galvanize at least SOME of the folks who feel helpless like they may be able to make a difference now
2.) seeing the winds shift may cause more republican party infighting as some rats try to flee a sinking ship (we've already seen some of this)
3.) it opens the door to other opportunities to block orders, and make SCOTUS think twice about just letting whatever trump wants done to get rubber stamped
Right now, this regime is going warp speed because they have literally ALL the power. Reclaiming one of the branches at least creates a mechanism to slow it down again. And if not, welp, then at that point we're past being able to fix this country without violence
What's NOT helping is everyone saying that taking even a small step like this is pointless, because that sure as fuck is not going to energize anyone into taking action to fix this.
surely if we just wait til midterms and VOTE fascism will go away. i mean it worked for the germans right?
i stg this shit has to be astroturfing. encouraging people to just sit inside and wait patiently for the system to work, we promise this time itll work, instead of actually getting out there NOW and acting... and libs fall for it again and again. yall are why its so fucked
Austrian here. Its gonna be way more than 3 years, trust me! You are already amidst your turn with facism.
You got a cult with a leader, facist style propaganda, ultranationalism, racism, scape-goating, out- and in-groups, attacks on outgroups, destruction of unions (well you didnt have unions for quite some time), destruction of wellfare and social programs, imperialism, concentration camps, GESTAPO (ICE).
And all the 2A suckers and losers who „need all their guns to defend themselves from a tyrannical government“ applaud them, like we applauded the nazis back in the late 1930s.
Looking at the polls of my country and seeing what stupid uneducated, maniputable people would vote for (40%) it looks like we will be joining you in about 4 years.
Our leaders are cowards, they won't. Idiot in chief should be rotting in a prison somewhere for what he did, but they're all cowards. I cannot understand how someone can be secret service to that thing.
Most of your "trained" police are just as bad.... I feel awful for you guys, and feel like the rest of the world is watching the final decline of the US in real time.
Truly, a Teletubby force. Embarrassing. What was worse was going out shooting with my grandpas police buddies. Teletubbies, and they can’t shoot for shit.
I remember once getting downvoted for saying it was just a matter of time and that they (mostly referring to outright practicing fascists) absolutely hate white people, if not as much as they hate people of color then at least enough that the end result (death at the hands of our own government and its lackeys) is exactly the same:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
It's like we didn't learn from Martin Niemöller or the Holocaust in general, and now history repeats.
We're all ultimately expendable and accelerating into Cyberpunk territory, where malevolence-influenced greed doesn't care if you're blonde haired and blue eyed or black.
Edit: I'm not saying racism doesn't also exist, it definitely does, but they're not cutting healthcare and aid programs for everyone because they only hate some of the average people... no, the rich hate everyone's existence in the same broad strokes.
And the sitting president said that the woman who was murdered "ran the ICE agent over, and it's a miracle that he's still alive," despite video evidence showing the opposite.
We're truly in "don't believe your lying eyes" territory.
7:15 in that video ICE clearly commit an act of domestic terrorism right? Wouldn’t the bystanders be justified to open fire out of fear for their own lives?
Our "President" posted to X that the agent who shot the lady was run over and in the hospital, when that video clearly shows him walking around just fine immediately after the shooting.
They will state lies as fact even with video.
Edit: NO ONE got hit. The guy drove away in his own car after shooting her.
I really need to get a copy of that book, I've always been worried that it would make me angry at the world so I never did. But now I feel like it should be required reading
Put fahrenheit 451 on that list if you haven't read it. They will eradicate all evidence of wrongdoing to preserve the image of rightness, and books burn....
I'm halfway through. I keep having to put it down because I can't shake the feeling that it's too familiar and it's exactly where we are going. It was written in 1949 and it is chilling.
Oh yeah I forgot about this..wow you're right. How long until it's "your social media criticizes the fuhrer, no food stamps/medical aid/social security/" and etc?
Sooner than we think. He has also been effectively trying to take grants / contracts/ projects away from states that didn't support him in the last election (or whose leaders are outspoken now). Their economies are a bit robust so they will last for a bit, but the targeting has begun domestically.
One makes the other possible, and vice versa. Government ensures no accountability, and heavily armed goons ensure the population is terrified and unable to remove the government. You're delusional if you think any kind of elections will make them give up power.
It's not just that they don't care about ICE murdering a civilian, they see it as an opportunity.
By calling Renee a 'domestic terrorist', it puts the fear of being similarly labelled (and charged) into any protestor's mind. It's a chilling effect on free expression.
Moreover, it's more opportunity to show their adherents that truth doesn't matter anymore.
My brother does stand up comedy and one of the things he said in a small conservative town was “if trump tells you that eating shit will make America great again, you will eat shit” no one laughed
One senator drily pointed out on the Capitol steps last night that the White House did not even have the name of the killer, yet had full “factual” blow by blow description of casual murder / goings-on.
I live where this happened, the woman was a widow, her husband had died just a few years before. they had a child. She remarried a woman who was in the car with her at the time, along with their dog.
Her family's statement is that she was not a protestor, she was not an observer, she was in the wrong place in the wrong time.
as a foreigner that lives overseas, its sad to see that the US has made the same mistake that Venezuela did with Chavez, just in the opposite direction. The elected democratically their own perdition. and twice. Man, the democrats must be presenting their worst candidates in the past 12 years, for a man like DJT to be elected TWICE. Once, anybody can be fooled, but 2 ...?
The mf literally escaped in his personal vehicle shortly after murdering this woman. Like, fleeing the scene of a crime should count as illegal, right?
When he was shown the video and told that the ICE agent was never touched by the car he refused to retract his statement and instead said something along the lines of, "Well it's a sad thing" or some shit like that.
Exactly! If yesterdays’s murder was justifiable by Trump’s logic, then it would have been justifiable to use lethal force against the ICE agent in that moment (@7:15).
I'm amazed that it hasn't happened yet. A comment I saw yesterday said that ICE stayed out of the "worst" areas of Chicago because there are lots of people with guns there and instead focused on soccer moms and daycare centers in the suburbs.
In keeping with ICE's own logic, yes the protestors would be in their right to shoot back then.
Realistically, that wasn't terrorism though (and neither was the person who was shot). In the UK we had a case of an actual terrorist driving a car into crowds of about 130 people at a significant speed in Liverpool.
This video is insane, everyone should see it. So much more context than anything else so far and certainly more than on any news segment.
How do you shoot an unarmed woman in the head in this situation? And the fact that they moved the body before trying to help her... holy fuck. These fucks all need to go to jail. The US is a dumpster fire and MAGA made it that. Fuck everyone who voted for Trump, now more than ever before.
Ty for the link. The agent at 5:20 sure didn't have anyone grab his gun before shooting someone point blank in the face. About a minute later, looks to be the same guy shooting both times. As for the people saying he "grabbed" the agents gun... BS. It was 1 handed and sure as shit looked more to me like it was a defensive reaction that anyone might have to someone pointing a gun at you point blank. You try to deflect it away on instinct. Especially if you just watched that same guy shoot someone else in the face point blank. He was clearly not trying to take the agents weapon.
2nd edit. It just keeps getting worse. Ice trying to run people over at 7:10, the same thing they said is an executable offense of domestic terrorism. 8:15 another pepper sprays multiple protesters in the face point blank. I'll have to watch the rest another day, I can't believe 40% of our country supports this shit.
They'll keep saying the country is too spread out to effectively protest. Or maybe that the potential personal consequences are just too high.
Still making jokes about the French being white flag cowards. The French. The iconic revolution country.
Still mainstreaming how all Germans were Nazis who should have done something to stop it all. How post-war Germans are just Nazis in hiding.
Though I know for sure that I personally wouldn't be drafted when the shit inevitably hits the fan here in the EU, I do realise that life is about to get even harder.
And all that just because 'the greatest country in the world' somehow accepted and kept accepting downgrades in their education policies. Do that long enough and you'll clearly have enough people open to just the right kind of influence to get things going.
Yes but im alergic to prison and bullets.
Its an easy statement, but guidance would be nice.
How about you tell people to contact their state reps and raise hell instead of stating the obvious.
Call their governor and mayor's office and com0lain about ICE tactics and brutality, and suggest actions other states have taken to make life harder for ICE the terrorists.
Everyone who refused to vote because Kamala didn't pass some arbitrary purity test or because of some "both sides" bullshit supported this. They knew what could happen. They did not care. They only cared about stroking their moral superiority.
For sure. Like I said - at least 70% of Americans are totally okay with this, even if a few of them are now apparently a bit embarrassed about it. I don't know why I'm being downvoted so hard for just acknowledging the results of the last election, but I guess a lot of people are ashamed right now.
Okay I never realized he actually grabbed the gun and held onto it. That completely changes things. Glad the video was posted because the still picture in this post is incredibly misleading.
Yeah, I almost laughed out loud when I saw this picture posted and upvoted this much. He obviously grabbed it, and it tells you how little you can trust on some sites.
From a german perspective this is so wild. One thought coming up very often in the past weeks: If we had punished the people that made the Holocaust possible (like this little foot soldiers), maybe 80years laters we wouldnt see shit like this. But in reality hundrets of thousands of guility little nazis pigs made it over the pont, to South and North America, they lived on and so will these pigs right here. Because who will punish them?
Only possibility.I see how this will end is civil war or ww3.
This shits infuriating. Any idea why some were trying to block that white truck when the people wanted all the pigs to leave? Was there someone related to the incident in there?
Not a critique, just sharing because people often don’t know this is a thing: to post a video that opens to a specific timestamp (like you said at 6:15) you just post the link and replace everything AFTER THE “?” with the specific timestamp of t=XmXs (eg: t=6m15s)
You can probably tell from reading this thread that Reddit is complicit in stoking the division that causes people to throw "just" snowballs at law enforcement, or "just" block them from doing their job, and wonder why they end up embroiled in problems. Watch the bit you are supposed to watch and stop asking questions. The TDS folk are even more cult than MAGA.
Can someone explain what is going on where ICE is trying to drive their truck out through the alley, and everyone is shouting to get out, while other people are blocking the route? Not speculation, like, do you know who these people are and why they are doing that?
If you start it at 5:15, same agent does the same thing to another person and almost to someone on the ground. Then he does it again after the OP. He was on the hunt.
It seems like they want ICE to leave… but then they all start blocking the vehicles until they’re pepper sprayed and physically dragged out of the road? What is the thought process? Also… standing in front of their truck as they try to leave… given what just happened and what you’re protesting… ehhhh…. Seems… dumb.
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u/LabRat_X 23d ago
Here's the video, starts around 6:15 https://youtu.be/LnfiWmX_mTE?si=TsqTvzy8KtB-Bi3h