Being the mess and the chore that it is I still love trimming 'cause it is a necessary step towards our most beloved flower. Yet the term "trim jail" made me laugh
FabioTheNewOrder
Sit down and enjoy the ride, my dude
Again, you're narrowing the discussion by focusing on this specific administration, my reasoning is general and should be referred to any presidency or state. These kind of authoritative behaviour can be enacted both by the left and the right, we should always be against them no matter what.
Questioning someone coming to your country makes no sense, if he has ill intentions he'll conceal them to enact on them once inside the country. The reasoning behind the questions you face entering a state is that, if you tell a lie, the state can arrest you for having commited a felony. What's the advantage in that if you have made yourself explode in a supermarket? You're gonna put bit and pieces of the terrorist in a cage for 40 years?
And what happen when the people questioning you find your answers to be not in line with the current political climate? When you're being detained in a separate room with no lawyer or witness capable of providing an independent account of the questioning and the consequent actions taken by the police? I personally am much more scared of state enforced violence rather than of citizen actions given the disparity in power these two type of violence entail.
All border questioning today usually take place in a well lit room full of other people keeping the law enforcement accountable and under scrutiny. If you don't think moving these kind of interactions in a closed room to be alarming or, at least, unprecedented I'm sorry to say you haven't thought about the extreme consequences this new policy may bring us to.
Lastly I return to my previous point: who has the right to identify a group of people as "terrorists"? Because if the answer is the same entity who then enforces the punishment against this group we are circular situation unacceptable for the legal standard we have set for our societies
So you're saying all documentarists and journalists who have been studying and interviewing people related to terrorist organisations should also be detained and questioned because interviewing someone is also supporting them? Or Anyone questioning the "terrorist" label, because questioning is supporting?
Beware of asking such restrictive reading of complex issues for your enemies, you can't always be sure to be on the side of the "good guys" and you might find sooner rather than later that your inability to understand the complexity of any matter could bring you behind bars with those who you felt were supporting a terrorist organisation
He hasn't had anyone from the Netanyahu administration on his stream. Maybe you're mistaking him with someone else
It also didn't mean that those who were wronged by the American state should have remained silent and peaceful in front of mass killings perpetrated by all kind of administrations leading the American government. Especially when no legal recourse was given to them.
Were you an Arab who lost his entire family under American bombardments because of the oil stored in your nation soil wouldn't you had wanted some kind of retaliation against that nation? Can you empathize at all?
Nobody's asking you to "give Hasan a pass" but we're asking you to see the Palestinian issue from the eyes of a neighbour who doesn't see any recourse from the international community against the heinous acts perpetrated by the Israeli regime and the IDF against civilians in Gaza and other regions nearby. If nobody punishes a bully am I a bully myself if I intervene to defend the bullied person? I personally don't think so, especially if the teachers and the principal constantly side with the bully against the bullied.
This will never sit well with me, I'll personally take matters into my own hands anytime I see a situation where someone powerful acts against someone poor, especially when the institutions tasked with defending those who aren't powerful sit in a corner fiddling their fingers and not acting in line with their declared objectives.
This being said I despise any kind of religious extremism (any religion at all in fact, but I don't expect everybody to become atheist all of a sudden. I completely expect everybody not to be an extremists tho) so I also despise the founding reasons of Hamas, the houtis, the islamic brotherhood or any other religious organisation. But still I understand and justify their reasons for being in a fight against Israel.
I don't understand and I don't justify the stances of international organisations which should be defending the Palestinian people and who are the cause why I have to support religious extremists in this specific context (looking at UN aggressively)
There's no concept of "casual bigotry" as there's no "ranked bigotry". A bigot is a bigot the same way as a nazi is a nazi even if he only shares a meal with other known nazis.
No amount of sane washing can change their nature, only re-education and facing consequences for their choices will.
It's time to stop being polite and understanding with people who have no sense of community or care for others around them, keeping this attitude will never solve the problem. If you show mercy to this people they will continue to resent you while feeling as victims of an unjust system (in their eyes) and will continue to spread their worldview to their spawn presenting it as a "counterculture" to the mainstream way of life keeping this circle of hate and victimisation alive.
We have to break the circuit by showing to their faces why they aren't adapt to be living among us and we need to be clear in our messaging, otherwise any small window we will leave they will use it to maintain their positions and preach their gospel of hatred.
Is a MAGA neutered and rendered incapable of voting and/or reproducing?