Are you sure you’re not thinking of a test of a nuclear-powered thruster for a non-nuclear weapon?

That’s an important distinction.

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I read it carefully enough to notice you didn’t specify which of his campaign’s policy positions you consider extreme left. So I assumed you were talking about his main ones.

Perhaps you could clarify? Is it government-funded childcare?

Freezing the rent on rent controlled apartments has been done by many mayors including Bill de Blasio.

Kansas City has free busses.

I can’t believe the Overton window has shifted so far to the right that you can’t even imagine someone being to the left of de Blasio or Kansas.

I’ve been mistaken for “safe” plenty of times. They still don’t self-identify as racist.

They’ll say things like “the blacks are just genetically more violent, and we need to protect ourselves by keeping them out of our town”, but that’s not “racist” because they’re “just telling the facts” that the libs try to force society to ignore.

They think it’s equivalent to saying women tend to have less facial hair, which isn’t sexist, and we’re insisting that it is because we’re “woke” and living in denial because of that ideology.

When they do admit to being racist, its tongue in cheek to make fun of their accusers, like if I were to call myself a “communist socialist liberal extremist”.

God it feels icky steelmanning them, but it’s important to understand your enemy.

America has the same thing. People ask about New York pizza, but the real pizza is in New Haven.

But for one of them, it’s fantastic.

But those tend to be consenting adults. I don’t think that’s his thing.

How do you see unfolding?

Martial law to respond to ice agents being killed or police turning against them.

They’re already trying to instigate this.

How do different opposition groups respond such as the DNC?

“The Supreme Court says it’s ok, so our hands are tied, but we’re very upset.”

They already have the Supreme Court on their team.

What about blue states?

Governors will either roll over or start a hot civil war.

Which do you think they’ll choose?

How does the administration handle it without losing popular consensus?

By arresting and murdering protesters.

They’ve already identified vague groups like antifa as domestic terrorists.

If they use the military, how do they get the military stay the path when the populous begins to reject their intervention?

If you give ICE a large enough budget, they can act as a new military. And by firing non-loyal brass for not being able to do enough pushups and replacing them with loyalists, you can keep the military from intervening under the guise of neutrality.

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Impressing the bots on Facebook.

The people complaining about these people are also complaining about those people.

Let’s put a semester on the new deal at the other end.

I like the sweet cream and pineapple flavors.

Most local news outlets aren’t local.

For an Atlanta example, 11Alive is owned by Tegna, which owns over 50 stations, and is being acquired by Nexstar, after which they’ll have hundreds.

I’ll play Nazi’s Advocate:

Calling it the department of defense, it’s easier for us to justify the “conflicts” we “end up in”. By removing the new-speak and calling it the Department of War, it’ll be easier to see our actions for what they are: waging war. Since that’s less palatable, it’ll erode public support for war. Nobel Peace Prize, please!

(Which of course is in conflict with his other words and actions, but who cares, apparently)

Well yeah, but even a psychopath’s fantasy would take the no-anti-rejection-meds route.

Traumatic surgery, sure.

But I assume the plan is to build replacement organs with your own dna, not transplants from donors.

Self-hosting is an option if you’re tech-savvy enough

Protection.