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Over educated under achieving one time computer geek, baker, sandwich maker and delivery driver, now certified bookkeeper!

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This is my response to every argument along the lines of "don't fight unless you have good reason to be confident you'll win that specific fight."

Don't fold in advance, make the regime beat you. If you lose, so be it. The govt is powerful. But tying up any of its resources weakens it.

It adds up.
The Trump regime's desire for authoritarian dominance is bottomless, but its capacity is not. Tying up the regime's limited resources means less capacity for malfeasance elsewhere.

Even if the murderous ICE agent beats a prosecution, occupying the agency and its lawyers' time would be a positive.
January 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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DHS is nothing but an org chart created by panicked interns in the wake of 9/11. It's less than 25 years old.

Ditto ICE, CBP, and USCIS, all of which were just INS back before we created the DHS.

We can reconfigure them again, strip them of their hardware, put them in non-militarized departments.
January 8, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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Roasting! This is right st "first crack"
January 7, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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Final roasted product! It went a little farther than I wanted, but the headlamp I was using ran out of batteries and I had no visual of the roast at the end. These are halfway between first and second crack, I believe. I was aiming for slightly lighter. This is […]

[Original post on ai6yr.org]
January 7, 2026 at 3:11 AM