bullying is always not okay
death threats and doxxing really go against the spirit of open source software, which is people are allowed to code what they want, they post the code, and we can all see it. someone also could have easily forked this if they were that unhappy.
i was on the list and my first reaction was "why the fuck am i on this list?" but i also found it somewhat funny and also concerning. am i really that bad?
but why the threats? this guy deserves an apology, despite the list being strange.
I don't know the answer to the following:
Is the current state of the law that a federal appellate judge can say "Okay, for this area of the country, I am issuing an injunction that ICE can no longer operate until they submit a report to a court monitor explaining corrective actions they will take and if anyone violates that order I will have us marshals arrest them?"
because i am under the impression that the new decision is they can't do that. that it would be challenged immediately, the sc would against say you can't issue blanket injunctions that impact federal policy, and nothing would occur.
i believe my unrelated examples were related, so we disagree. this isn't a court briefing, this is the internet: unemotional and narrow language has no place here.
does this mean I'm no longer on the list?
I was saying even if you were technically correct, the original poster was implying that now the supreme court is the only one who can make nationwide policy on stopping illegal nationwide federal actions and your reply implied normal legitimacy and remedy powers, as though it's not that bad.
and if you only meant to provide a narrow technical correction, then you shouldn't consider my reply as criticism, but rather my perspective on the broader perspective.
i wasn't calling you racist, or disagreeing on ideological grounds, i was saying that your limited technical answer so grossly missed the larger situation that it undercut the actual legitimacy crisis that does and should exist for this branch. it is not business as usual, some of the conditions for these detainees are terrible and reminiscent of nazi-regime treatment of others, and the fact that nothing can be done about it at any federal level except at 1 court that refuses to hear most things and is extremely slow to hear matters means that it's not the same situation as it once was
this is not ideological framing that muddies the waters. your narrow technical analysis nit-picking at the literal meaning and missing the implication is unintentionally or intentionally implying there's still some legitimate functional system that is working correctly instead of something completely broken.
it's not muddying the discussion to point on the bigger perspective. Your thinking is similar to a statement like "Many black people frequently broke Jim Crow laws and thus were criminals." Yes, that might be technically true, but saying it like that with no contextualization unintentionally suggests things in a problematic manner. A literal denotative view of words and their meaning and a technical analysis that misses things does not mean someone pointing out the larger perspective is clouding the situation and there is a risk in someone using erudition to distract from the fact of how horrible things are, and that's what you were doing, possibly unintentionally. I can tell you're smart, but a technical correction of something like that risks implying there's no crisis of legitimacy.
I am on the list and am mortified! I am not an extremist and believe in free speech and liberty and normal voting processes. My views mostly align with Northern European liberal political view. How the fucking hell am I on this horrible list? What in the fuck did I do? Fuck these assholes in all their holes for saying this shit about me. I am nice!
There's also no way, that I know of, to get off this fucking shitcunt list. What the fuck do I need to do to not be on this list?
This grossly mischaracterizes things.
The defining feature of the US Court system is how slow it is. We are talking about federal policies that are corrupt, racist, and unconstitutional.
The legal concepts of no injunctions and no legal power are effectively the same when discussing this issue because without nationwide injunctions, there is no mechanism to stop corrupt federal executive policy.
The Supreme Court declines to hear most cases, they cherry pick what they want to review to create the illusion of a fair system, and occasionally when there is a large clear conflict between circuits then it means the Supreme Court may decide to hear the case in a year while harm is ongoing.
You're saying appeals courts are still binding on their own circuits, but we are talking about federal nationwide policy and executive branch that just ignores rulings unless there is enforcement.
The correct way for this to have proceeded previously was for a federal appellate court to rule it's unconstitutional to randomly harass people on the street because it violates the 4th Amendment without probable cause, rule it's an ongoing pattern and they keep ignoring the law and so a simple legal instruction is insufficient, and the instruct the federal marshals to seize ice infrastructure, their computers and phones in DC, and destroy them, and then to stay the order while it gets an emergency appeal, forcing the Supreme Court to rule on this.
But the Supreme Court doesn't even have to rule on these issues now. The federal courts are powerless to do anything and the Supreme Court declines to hear it. Also, the Supreme Court held racism was a valid reason for detaining people, so ICE agents are fully allowed to randomly harass, detain, threaten and subdue people who are not white or not black, because that's what these racist MAGA hicks want: they want a reduction in brown people, and they know they can't easily harass and kill black people anymore, so they are just going after brown people instead.
Let's just call it what it is: racist white people don't like so many Latinos and other brown skinned people, they have noticed that white people are a smaller portion of the USA and white people are having fewer children, so they have enacted racist policies and elected a corrupt Supreme Court and selected a racist government in power to find ways to change this.
To pretend that the federal courts still have some sort of power in this situation is intellectually dishonest and mischaracterizes what is going on. In theory, decisions are binding on lower courts still. But what does it matter? Does a court matter if no one listens to it and then its power is taken away?
The racist MAGA hicks made a calculation that they could come into power, enact laws that would have previously been deemed illegal, pack the courts with conservatives, and start a campaign to reduce the brown population of the USA and also that liberals and brown people would not take up arms and try to physically stop them. And that calculation was right. Liberals are notoriously anti-gun, anti-gun ownership, and for extreme gun regulations; they are also the party of civility. So... MAGA was right.
What happens when things change and liberals come into power? Will there be hearings? A tribunal? The Supreme Court has sanctioned all of this under racist, intellectually dishonest language and so on what grounds can people be punished for evil? There are no grounds unless there's a Constitutional amendment. It won't happen. Even today, eminent domain is being used to seize land for data centers while black people never got their 40 acres or their mule. The horrible truth is MAGA got away with it and will get away with it. Liberals do not have the audacity and courage, nor the voting numbers, to do anything of substance.
I can't believe Microslop would do something like this to its loyal customers!
how did you learn about this?
i thought i was aware of privacy but have not heard about this before.
why are open-source operating systems allowing this as a tracking vector?
what is the smart way to reduce tracking by this mechanism?
is this something sites can actually query on linux system in most browsers?
for example, if cloudflare is checking if I am a human, are they able to read my machine id if i am using firefox, librewolf, mullvad browser, tor browser, chrome, or chromium?
this is really shocking. wouldn't browser makers concerned with privacy like librewolf, mullvad, ungoogled-chromium, etc, try to block this by default? is it that they don't know? is it that it can't be blocked?
how does a regular user of a typical linux distribution like fedora or debian block this?
is this machine-id used to track people on hardened distros like tails or qubes?
can this machine id be read by sites when using tor browser?
i don't understand why debian, for example, who removed telemetry from keepassxc before putting it in their repo because they didn't like a password manager phoning home, would allow a persistent id that could be easily read by many sites.
why would a hacker use windows?
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