Remember how people used to say "Why did the vast majority of people, non-Nazis, just go along? Why did nobody do anything about the Nazis?". We're seeing it right now. ICE is now an organization acting with violence outside of its jurisdiction, like the SA were for the Nazis.
Given the comparison was already made, what do you think of the Nuremberg laws, then? They were laws that, in as many words, made being a jew illegal in Germany and stripped them of their own citizenship status. That is just "the law being carried out", too, I guess.
ICE carried out it's mission without all the theatrics before, and deported more people in previous years. The theatrics, and the collateral damage to American citizens or those with actual temporary rights to be here, is the point with this current administration. A fair and apt comparison.
I have no skin in the game (being neither American nor immigrant), but you do realize how much of a stretch you've just made? Comparing Nuremburg to a sovereign country preventing illegal immigration (literally a crime everywhere on earth)? Are you serious!?
Deportation isn't prevention. It's inherently reactive. Securing a border has to be done at a border (as opposed to, for instance, at people's homes, churches, and schools).
So why isn't ICE carrying out its mission without all the theatrics, and why so poorly? Obama was able to deport 470,000, whereas Trump did somewhere around 600,000.
The laws are a pretense for action. The goal is racial fear-mongering by any means. Citizens are getting caught up in this and the administration doesn't care.
OP's comment was "why did no one stop the Nazi's". Because it didn't start with the gas chambers. It ended there. We can always make slippery slope arguments. But when that slope starts to look steep....OP's original question kind of answers itself.
People rationalize it, they downplay the atrocities, they don't care for the victims, "it's just the law", any excuse. Current citizens and illegal immigrants are thrown in overly packed cages, starved, no water, and unhygenic. I mean, how close to the gas chambers do we have to get? When they actually start stripping them of their possessions and clothes and wealth? When they start the labor camps?
OP's question is salient. Most people don't act, because it is never bad enough. It never will be. Until one day it finally is. That's why the Nazi's got so far.
Trump isn't going to gas immigrants. No, I don't think that will happen. But the slope looks steep.
Fair enough, but then it's the atrocious execution of enforcement that is to blame - not the laws themselves. Conversely to your own argument, you can't just do away with immigration laws as an option to stop ICE antics, that would be absurd.
Again, the Nuremberg Laws were just that, laws on the books in Germany.
Immigration laws I am fine with, some I disagree with, but that's the nature of government.
Interesting how all the laws ICE breaks aren't part of the discussion. Just the ones immigrants break. Should we engage in overly violent reactions to minor infractions by ICE? Why aren't we?
You see the asymmetry of application of the laws? Obviously, if this were about "law and order", this would be done in an orderly fashion, and disorderly application of the law would be punished in a lawful and orderly way.
But it isn't. Because, obviously. The laws do not matter to this administration. They are a post hoc justification for action. It's why Trump just does whatever and then waits for court challenges. It's why he stiffed his own contractors for decades. He doesn't care for the law.
This focus on "what the law says" for immigrants is bizarre, given Trump obviously does not care what the law says. Trump unilaterally re-allocated funds to ICE to engage in his witch hunt.
When will we stop navel-gazing about "the immigration laws" and start seriously asking "why does Trump continue to find innovative ways to shatter every legal separation of powers"?
Seriously, compared to that, immigration is a far-gone minor issue. And that is precisely how you get to Nazi Germany. So much ink spilled on minor infractions by people with no power, but nothing said about those in the highest positions of power abusing and breaking it daily.
The immigration laws of this country still require, on the paper that most of trusted until not so long ago, due process, which ICE are flagrantly violating, to include "arresting"(kidnapping) people following the written law to gain citizenship and cancelling the programs that people have been living under for decades that granted them legal non-citizenship status.
You can call that "enforcing the law" once you admit that the "law" is, at this point, the whim of a despot and his cronies
YMMV and a lot of people hate it, but I've run Nextcloud for this for years. It has pretty comprehensive support for WebDAV and CalDAV. Has sharing and lots of different authentication options; I use OIDC with PocketID.
It used to be a constant headache to keep running, but ever since I switched to the TrueNAS/Docker plugin it has worked smoothly. I know a lot of other people also have had good luck with the much lighter Radicale if CalDAV is your primary concern.
> It used to be a constant headache to keep running
It’s been very easy to run for me since version 15 or something. Basically i just use the stock docker image and mount a few files over there. The data folders are bind-mounded directories.
As usual with anything php, it’s only a mess if you start managing php files and folders yourself. Php has a special capability of making these kind of things messy, i don’t know why.
I think its a bit more complicated than this. Disputed outcomes are decided by votes from UMA token holders, which are anonymously owned. I remember reading a theory (with evidence, can't find the article now) that the venn diagram between Polymarket owners/stakeholders and UMA whales is close to a circle.
For the same people accept Tether's claims of solvency even though they refuse audits and obviously lie about ownership of various assets. For the same reason people ignore wash trading. For the same reason people continue using Sam-coins even after FTX's implosion.
Because A) they're not paying attention, B) they're in denial and C) because they think they can profit in the short term before it collapses, or that the odds are in their favor to profit despite the risks.
I don't think this government particularily cares about convincing people about anything, they are just doing whatever they want public opinion be damned.
People like this CHOSE to use github despite it being a walled garden and now are complaining that they want to destroy the "open source" ecosystem.
You see, here's Stallman being right once again. Stallman many times on many topics said he wouldn't use a product that's a walled garden and where his presence would contribute to that products dominance (i.e. network effects - everybody has to use it because everybody else is using it). People like the author said "I'll use github because it's beneficial to me in the immediate horizon, despite the fact that I'll be indirectly contributing to their assault on free software". Well, hard for me to care about the author now.
Anyway Forgejo[1,2] is FREE and COPYLEFT software, and Codeberg[3] is a pretty big forge. Forgejo also has on their roadmap to add some federated-type features, so that different people/organizations can host their Forgejo instances, but interact seemlessly with projects on other instances.
If this stuff matters to you, donate to Forgejo[4].
Federation should be the way but time and again we have seen federation fail, first for chats (XMPP) then for Blurbs (twitter vs mastodon), and social networks where there's not even a big enough name to mention for federated social networks.
Depending on what specifically you're talking about, what you say might or might not make sense.
For chat, it depends on what you mean by fail. What actually happened/is happening, is that XMPP the protocol works so well, that most chat apps start by just being another XMPP app, and if they ever get traction they make their servers incompatible with XMPP. That's what WhatsApp did for example.
For social networks, Mastodon is quite large especially in the tech space. It's just not facebook-size. But given that Facebook's success is driven by getting people addicted to their phones, I see this as a sign that Mastodon is doing better. Mastodon doesn't try and get you addicted. And the federation aspect works AMAZINGly. I don't know/even care whether a user I'm interacting with is in the same instance or not. And I can subscribe not just to publications of Mastodon users but also blogs, photo apps etc which implement the ActivityPub protocol.
So yeah, what you said is not nonsense, but I 100% disagree with "doesn't have 1bn users therefore federation failed".
If federation really works that well, then it sounds like Mastodon/ActivityPub is ripe for carrying Git repository metadata and discussion. Obviously Git development works very well with mailing lists, other than the centralized server requirement, awkwardness (for most users), and technical limitations of mailing lists. So then you just need your federated discussions to carry patches or point to publicly accessible repos and put some decent UI (of choice) on top of that.
Even issues are mainly just discussions with some metadata attached and as long as they can be surfaced in a way to be attached to a project, then they could be created by anyone.
Hmm.. Surely there is already effort being focused in this direction?
You're right about federation having failed in those instances, or at least failed to take over the world as was expected.
But Forgejo is a git + associated services application first and foremost. It's clearly on the up, and this federation is no more than a planned feature that may or may not catch on. You make it sound like Forgejo will fail because of it, but it's just an add-on.
BTW Forgejo seems to be very similar to GitHub when it comes to bug tracking. There are so many project management systems and bug trackers out there, and I think GitHub (and as thus, Forgejo's) way of doing this is limiting.
I wonder if people would rather prefer Jira, Redmine, MantisBT, Bugzilla, or something completely different, or a choice to have X and Y and why, and so forth.
Great, that's exactly how I feel with any style that demands "each class in its own file" or "each function in its own file" or whatever. I'd rather have everything I need in front of my eyes as much as possible, rather than have it all over the place just to conform with an arbitrary requirement.
I said this at a company I worked and got made fun of because "it's so much more organized". My take away is that the average person has zero ability to think critically.
If those demands made any sense they would be enforced by the languages themselves. It's mostly a way of claiming to be productive by renaming constants and moving code around.
If there's one thing we learned from the Snowden leaks is that the NSA can't break GPG.
Look at it from the POV of someone who like me isn't an expert: on the one hand I have ivory tower researchers telling me that GPG is "bad". On the other hand I have fact that the most advanced intelligence in the world can't break it. My personal conclusion is that GPG is actually fucking awesome.
My impression is that GPG when used correctly is secure. But there are so many problems with it that the chances of shooting yourself with one of the footguns is too high for it to be a reliable solution.
The alternatives support newer encryption methods but nothing has fundamentally changed that doesn't make them less secure, but they have less footguns to worry about.
The weakest link in cryptography is always people.
The NSA can't break GPG assuming everything is working properly. This blog post (which to be fair I only skimmed) explains that GPG is a mess which could lead to things not working properly, and also gives real life examples. You may also want to see https://gpg.fail (you can tell they're from the ivory tower by the cat ears). The blog post also mentions bad UX, which you and I can directly appreciate (if anything I might expect ivory tower types to dismiss UX issues).
I am well familiar with that presentation at CCC. Yes, the presentation are by people who live in the low stakes world of theoreticals as you can tell by the cat ears.
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