SaltSong

On the one hand, I suppose that depends on who is defining "basic human rights." I'm pretty sure the Trump Convoys would claim that's what they were doing.

On the other hand, the question was on riots, not on rights. Not all riots are justified.

I'm not saying I approve of what he's doing. Quite the contrary.

But it's what he's asking, and how he's asking, not that he's asking.

There is no legal basis for this fight. Do you pollen to start shooting tax collectors?

Glamour doesn't enter into it.

Speaking as someone too pasty to be bothered by ICE (for now) and who owns no guns (for now) eventually we are gonna have to show the country that a brown shirt does not make you invincible.

None of them apply to LEO.

I have the worst lawyer.

Trying to control the way other countries are run is fucking wild, the notion of which should never even be remotely entertained.

In happier times, we call the process "diplomacy," and mostly limit it to things that affect us, directly or indirectly.

But pressuring other countries to, for example, clean up their corruption so we can reliably do business with them is common. (Also hilariously hypocritical) Pressuring other countries to enact civil rights laws is fairly common, too.

I have to admit, seeing pressure to remove civil rights is unusual, at least from countries not named UAE.

been downgraded to pool membership.

I think a more interesting question would be "how."

This is the same as any major conflict. People want to try to work thing out without violence. The times that does happen are unremarkable. The times it doesn't happen, we can judge later weather it was the right thing to do.

"Critiques of their actual numbers."

He'll of a way to say "reality-based criticism." Or "we are objectively bad at our stated goals."

Courage is not the state of not being afraid. Courage is being afraid, and doing it anyway.