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Not much that won't land us in prison or dead

Cool. Are they gonna act like it, or should I expect more texts asking me to donate?

This is crazy apologia. For the cops to be blameless here they would have to have told the employee calling them to fuck off and ignored the call.

My one year of German from high school translated that into "I am (Joe) Biden"

Then you are providing infinitely more to society than all landlords combined. Dont let despair and feelings of inadequacy burn you out

You're an idiot who should suck on a lead pipe and encase your mouth and hands in epoxy resin so nobody is ever subject to hearing your thoughts again

But i don't mean that as an insult, so don't you dare be offended by it

Not beyond engagement bait he doesn't. Fuck that guy

English is the dominant language in the US, nobody argues that. But making it the official language has a lot of implications, both symbolic and bureaucratic.

Needless to say one of the "unintentional" side effects of this EO is the nationalist posturing, giving some ammunition to chuds who like to shout things like "speak English, this is America", and general eurocentric colonial sentiments.

It also has the possibility of introducing barriers to migration, which given the administration's expressed interest and prior action, is a guaranteed motivation. The fact of the matter is that the people coming here who are most likely to know English (thus be admitted entrance into the country and approved for citizenship following this EO) are going to be white. Having worked in higher education, this would be massively damaging to so many international students, never mind all the many other people who might be seeking entry to the country for all the myriad of reasons one might do so.

There are also significant legal ramifications for the millions of current citizens for whom English is not their primary language. The implementation of an official national language is certain to erode accessibility of bureaucratic systems to those who rely on multilingual resources, which were previously mandatory for public services to provide. Moving forward, we're very likely to see many of these resources become unmaintained (if not be scrapped altogether), while the material published in English is kept updated. Again, this is absolutely going to disproportionately impact people of color in the US, who are more likely to not speak English as a first language, or be fluent in it at all.

And while I feel like those points speak for themselves, I'd also like to add that I grew up being preached to about how great the US is for its multiculturalism. I was taught a whitewashed and distorted history, but the benefits of multiculturalism were never overstated. We benefit from being surrounded by people with experiences vastly different than our own who we can learn from. Language is intimately tied to our capacity for understanding and developing knowledge, so any attempts to suppress the presence of languages other than English block us from any growth we might experience from them, either on an individual or societal level. For so many minority groups, particularly indigenous peoples, language is one of the most raw connections we have to our history and culture.

Tl:dr (but please do read it all); designating a national language, in the US, with its current administration, is a transparently nationalist effort to harm minority groups, both prospective migrants and current citizens.

Merge is blocked

12 tests failed

You make yourself a danger to officers

Hell yeah

And it helpfully installs a scareware antivirus that changes your default search engine so you don't have to go through the trouble!

I mean, I fault Mozilla for that, and a lot of other things especially in light of recent developments. But Brave still fosters user dependency on a google project, ceding browser engine market dominance toward google. I might be bale to give Brave a pass for its faults if it was making strong moves in creating a truly free and open internet, but as-is they've basically taken an open-source project, applied their own branding, and baked in functionality that on a better engine can be replicated with more granular control by extensions.