Lucid

How has 'trumpism' made my life worse and why should I lift a finger to stop it

Little by little we become monsters? We're already there and the Nazis have nothing to do with it. We're living in a nihilistic society built on meaningless materialism and the worship of the self where degeneracy is not only widespread but openly encouraged and even celebrated. Wring your hands over that motherfucker.

Lol you don't actually believe that do you

The government is bound by a legal settlement that resulted from the Reno v. Flores case and a subsequent judicial decision from the 9th Circuit in 2016. Immigration authorities cannot hold children in custody until an immigration determination is made, even if they're with their parents. Which means the parents can't be held without separating them from their children

No not zero. But the vast majority of asylum applications are denied

The real solution is clear - get Congress to make a law so that children can be detained with their families until a determination is made

Because it is nonsensical to let people who have nearly zero incentive to show up for their hearing go

The family separation is nasty shit but if the alternative (until Congress alters the law) is letting them walk and hoping they show up at their hearing rather than pulling a Houdini, so fucking be it

Ridley Scott is a hack, Alien and Blade Runner were flukes

All emotion and outrage and no solution. Should we embed GPS trackers in these kids' skulls or what? Is it really surprising that the government can't keep track of people that are facing possible deportation? Hmmmmm I wonder why such people would want to disappear off the government's radar...

Just trying to imagine what a chris nolan 007 movie would be like hurts my soul. The modern bond flicks are already dour and joyless enough thx

Mortimer Adler nailed it- "Atrophy of the mental muscles is the penalty that we pay for not taking mental exercise. And this is a terrible penalty, for there is evidence that atrophy of the mind is a mortal disease. There seems to be no other explanation for the fact that so many busy people die so soon after retirement. They were kept alive by the demands of their work upon their minds; they were propped up artificially, as it were, by external forces. But as soon as those demands cease, having no resources within themselves in the way of mental activity, they cease thinking altogether, and expire. Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And when we cease to grow, we begin to die."

Bailey