This, this right here. They are stealing American workers and foreign money blatantly in the fucking open and depending on what happens will take decades to claw back if at all. ‘No taxation without representation’ my ass. US Americans have been and still are being taken for chumps.

Same here. Got fed up after every damned update to subscribe to this, want to setup backup to cloud, setup office. Switched to Linux and now not a single subscription popup in sight. It’s been bliss. Spent the weekend with the misses sorting out 30 years of photos and getting to know exif editor 🫣

[edit] exif not exit editor.

Nowadays the Republicans are like trained seals clapping on demand. He was in the wrong era. 😉

Odd that the many deaths in ICE facilities, camps, didn’t trigger this earlier but the very public ones did.

My entire GCSE experience back in the day 🥲

These outdated troglodytes in the cushy retirement home probably wouldn’t know what a VPN was if you explained to them. Half the time they’re asleep on the bench dreaming of days gone by.

Wouldn’t it just taste like Turkish Delight ?

Lets not pretend that he’s grown a conscience. What he doesn’t want is a humiliating defeat that would tarnish any dreams of a legacy he wants going forward. They will be back just not at this very moment whilst the party is super unpopular there.

Indeed. But he still has questions to be answered and his victims deserve those answers regardless of the ‘moral’ high ground he perceives to take. They all do.

Being the sceptic I am. Say even if they get the investigation, court and so forth, wouldn’t it just be thrown out in the United States as there would be no way in frozen hell they’d get a fair trial ?

They would need to find mole people to bring to jury who wouldn’t know what’s going on above ground …

Answers for the curious 🫣

Heh. Renting with extra steps … 😉

Just in case you get board of that one, here’s a Morning one to play around with:

Wouldn’t, speaking from a non US perspective, bylaws handle that though. Noise, trash, unwanted cold calling, I’m looking at you Jehovahs, to enforce that action. Or does this work as a front line against that ?

It is such a strange concept. I’ve never really cottened on to why they exist or what the benefits are to them only the bad news about what they do. I had a gaming colleague in Wales that lived in an area where they had to get permission on what colour to paint their house. Just unfathomably comedic about the whole concept really.

They’ve killed in captivity, had one ruled a homicide by an examiner, publicly executed 2 in front of cameras and so far they’ve managed to at least have their budget increased. At some point something will break.

Edit Removed ‘We’ from the initial start sentence as I’m dumb and can’t type.

I’m sure they’ve taken Tim’s stern criticism on board and will begin withdrawing ICE from the state any day now.

I think people over there are going to need bigger placards to march with. The current ones don’t appear to be getting the lefts current message across.

New to Lemmy, Edited original post.

This weekend. I’ve asked my significant other to check through and backup any files she may need but we’re switching off Microslops ecosystem this coming week. Got it down to Ubuntu or Mint for an ease of use while not jumping in the hole too deep. But we are in agreement at least to turn away.

:: EDIT 17/01/2026 ::

Thanks Everyone. We went with Mint Cinnamon Distro. The hardest part being how to get into the BIOS and turn on the USB boot. Everything that was installed windows wise is now installed mint wise and got the other halfs’ bookmarks up and running in a browser for her (Vivaldi if anyone’s interested). VPNs up and working and so far so good. Didn’t get spammed to death with subscriptions windows which is a major plus.