I couldn't make myself vote for Biden. But last year I was desperate for anyone but Trump, and the Republican primaries didn't excite me either. I voted Harris.

Them not showing IDs is trouble brewing. The first case of self defense against unbadged law enforcement will turn this country inside out no matter how the ruling comes down.

Yes! It needed it. I agree that we need to unify our AI laws but preventing states from governing themselves was never an acceptable answer. The bill is still full of pork, but this is a step in the right direction.

I'm not sure this is a good fit for this community. Voters made their voice heard, a mostly blue city elected a blue mayor, then it's fear mongering and identity politics. I feel the article boils down to "get a load of a this guy! ha, we don't like him, right?" Not because of his policies, not his actions, but mostly his party and his race. It's an attack with zero substance.

I'll leave it up for now and see how people vote. I'm aware you bring a couple of downvoters, I'll keep that in mind.

It is not illegal to work without being a citizen. It is illegal to knowingly hire non-citizens. I've read a few articles on this raid and it seems although they used "identity theft allegations" to start, nobody was arrested in relation to those allegations.

So they raided a company under false pretenses, arrested hard workers, let anybody who actually committed a crime off without even a warning, and now the people arrested are going to be removed from the country to a "shit hole country" that they probably have never been to without a trial for the non-violent crime of not going through an unnecessarily restrictive, slow immigration process. This is not integrity. This is human trafficking.

I know it sounds like I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth here trying to say these people may have committed a non-violent crime but the real criminals are those people who committed a non-violent crime, but it's pretty obvious to me that ICE did not improve America with these actions. I have doubts that it opened job positions that'll actually be filled because statistically speaking they were probably paying the immigrants next to nothing and Americans have more pride than to work for that amount, hence why immigrants were hired to begin with. The company failed but the people are punished.

Behave.

You're right, I didn't ask.

I don't like political labels. There's too many false dichotomies. Conservative is the one that I feel describes me best, though. Things can change, but I appreciate them more when they change slowly. If nobody is the voice of reason in the room, things can change too quickly for me and I believe for all of us. Before too long we won't recognize ourselves in the mirror.

Is allowing any progress too progressive?

I guess there are a few people I want to set myself apart from: bigots, nationalists, fascists, that ilk.

They are the loudest assholes at the moment. So I'm setting out to make and be something different. I'm hedging my bets on not being alone. I don't think it's radical to say that we shouldn't start wars on a whim and we shouldn't snatch people up at their legalization court hearings. Where I lose some people in my neck of the woods is that I couldn't care less what sex or gender they are. What they tell me is good enough. Want to change it? You do you. I'm already married to the one person who's genitals I'm going to have any preference about. And as long as they only pull it out at home, I don't care what's in their pants. This gets filed under "freedom" for me. Simple.

When I got up this morning, opening this community was not on my to-do list. Also, I've never moderated anything before. That is to say, I'm making a lot of this up as I go and I'll tell you it's hard to write something when you're not responding to something. This first post was a shout into the darkness without much forethought. I'm glad anybody was there to hear it.

All I know is that the conservative voices on Lemmy are not speaking accurately for me right now.

I'm not interested in setting myself apart from anybody else. I believe that's a part of how we got into our current constitutional crisis.

Something closer to an actual answer to your question might be that I value strong institutions over strong government. I believe in the collection of experts more than the accuracy of the masses. Since we'll never elect experts on "How to Human" it's better we ask everybody, hence democracy, but infrastructure isn't a place where we can have everybody paint the shed. I want to believe in a free market where companies and consumers can converse better than "did the consumers buy it or not." The dollar is not god.

I want to establish early that posting negative things the administration or conservative talking heads do is fine. This is not a pro-conservative/anti-democrat comm.

The quality of the party is dependent on what they do, not what they claim to stand for. This action is abhorrent and utterly unAmerican.