“Please be aware that I have instructed ICE and/or Border Patrol to be very forceful in this protection of Federal Government Property.”

Well, they just gassed a bunch of peaceful protesters in Portland, including children, so I guess that part is true.

It would be naive to think race isn’t a factor here, but documentation of the crime is also a huge portion of it as well. I have seen the murder of Renee Good from at least 3 different angles, and Alex Pretti from 4, including the exact moment they shot him in the back. There are certainly a lot of Americans that would be more likely to justify this if they had been PoC, but there was also a lot of national outrage over Eric Garner and George Floyd because of how heavily documented those murders were.

True, but then again, there was that tow truck driver in LA who towed that ICE car, with flashing police lights, in the middle of a stop. I can’t imagine someone getting away with that if it had been a normal LAPD stop.

They had this grand plan to weaponize the DOJ, but no one stopped to ask, “wait, what if everyone on the jury fucking hates us?”

Trick will be that pressing the murder charge would be federal since a federal agent dies in the line of official work (though illegal), which would give the president grounds to push for death.

Federal prosecutors are having a real tough time getting juries to convict, and sometimes even indict, citizens accused of assaulting ICE and CBP agents. They have 30 cases against Chicago residents, and so far they’re 0 for 15. They couldn’t get a felony indictment for the sandwich-throwing guy in DC, so they went for a misdemeanor; he was aquitted despite clearly having done it. It is not at all clear to me that the feds could get a conviction for killing someone during what is, legally, a home invasion.

(This is not an incitement of violence towards any federal agents, nor am I advocating for anyone to break any state or federal laws. To any FBI agents reading this, I think you’re very smart and handsome.)

After careful examination, I have determined it can’t be set to Mr. Brightside.

“You Europeans need to learn how to stand up to Trump and the far-right fascists! Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to my podcast, where I platform people like Steve Bannon, Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk, rest his soul.”

Yes, I seem to recall some kerfuffle between LA citizens and their local authorities over a fellow named Rodney King. If I remember right, things got pretty rowdy

I grew up in NYC, live in Boston now. I would say that New Yorkers are rude, impatient, and short-tempered. Bostonians are mean, with a deep-seated rage that’s always threatening to burst to the surface. I don’t know much about Minneapolis, but if they’re anything like the midwesterners I’ve known, they’re kind, polite, and helpful folks. If a large-scale ICE operation provokes that kind of reaction from them, they are not prepared for what they will receive in the Northeast.

They’ve done two big, “operations,” in New York, and both of them failed spectacularly and immediately. The population density of that city basically means, no matter where they show up, within minutes there will be several dozen angry people chasing them down the street. They’re getting constant harassment in fucking Minneapolis, they’ve got no hope of getting anything done in NYC.

Sure, ICE should be scared that someone might kill them, but a more interesting question is if a prosecutor could find 12 people in an ICE-occupied city that would convict someone of that killing.

Yeah, if you’re going to use a phrase like this, you need to make your intention crystal clear. If this was an attempt to satirize old, racist tropes, casually using one of those tropes in the first panel of a comic with an unrelated punchline does not achieve that goal.

I mean, I take your point, but compared to Reddit, where there is no record unless a third-party website happens to archive it before the mods remove it, the Modlog is very transparent.

The difference is the Modlog, which means everyone can see the receipts. (For the record, while it might not have been the most tasteful comment, I think that removing it and labeling you an SA apologist is bullshit.)

It just looks that way because they’ve got very narrow heads. Its much clearer on owls, which have very broad faces, that birds of prey have fully forward facing eyes.

My point is that they’re entirely forward facing. Calling it a mammal rule isn’t really accurate. It’s about whether or not the animal needs to judge distance to attack. Sharks use their vision to scan for prey above and below them, but they use their other sense to attack. Hawks and cats have a significantly different sense of vision, but both need to be able to accurately judge distance with their eyes when attacking.

That article says exactly what I said about Panda’s:

Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivoran, the giant panda’s diet is primarily herbivorous, with approximately 99% of its diet consisting of bamboo. However, the giant panda still has the digestive system of a carnivore, as well as carnivore-specific genes, and thus derives little energy and little protein from the consumption of bamboo. The ability to break down cellulose and lignin is very weak, and their main source of nutrients comes from starch and hemicelluloses.

While primarily herbivorous, the giant panda still retains decidedly ursine teeth and will eat meat, fish, and eggs when available. In captivity, zoos typically maintain the giant panda’s bamboo diet, though some will provide specially formulated biscuits or other dietary supplements.

They have developed some minor digestive traits that help them process bamboo, but they don’t have the four chambered stomach of a cow or the extra-long hindgut of a gorilla to thoroughly digest plant matter. They have to seasonal migrate to get the amount of nutrients they need from young bamboo shoots and mature bamboo leaves. Their bodies could easily process a carnivorous diet, but their metabolism has become too slow for then to manage to hunt almost anything besides plants.

I don’t think there’s a hard rule you can put on it. Sharks are ambush predators, but they need a wide field of vision to scan above and below for prey. Monkeys are mostly herbivores or opportunistic omnivores, but they have forward facing eyes to jump through trees. It’s just about what they animal needs their eyes to do, and forward facing eyes are mostly used for trying to grab another animal.

Pandas aren’t true herbivores, they’re more like vegetarians. Their teeth, digestive tracks, and eyes are all better adapted to eat meat, but they’re too dumb and clumsy to catch any, so they’ve settled on bamboo. If a smaller, dumber, clumsier animal moved into their ecosystem, they would start eating it immediately.

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