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[–] [email protected] 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

He very well could be dead, but I think the primary thing happening here is they want to create the precedent that they can't bring anyone back from this prison. That way, they can start sending "undesirable" American citizens "by mistake" and then just be able to say "not our problem".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Oh, believe me, I am in full agreement. This never should have happened, for many, many reasons. I was just attempting to correct what I thought was a factual inaccuracy that does have a material impact on the case.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ah, my bad, I misread, I thought they said he was a US citizen. I've seen people making that claim and wanted to correct it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At least in jail, they get food.

For now. There's already reports of immigrant detainees being starved.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Just for clarity, he's not a citizen. He did have a legal protected status which was supposed to allow him to remain here or at the very least not be deported to specifically El Salvador. Still fucked, but just want to get the facts straight.

EDIT I misunderstood, he is a citizen of El Salvador, but not the US. I'd seen people claiming he was a US citizen and wanted to correct that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

-12th Amendment

Also, succession skips other people who would be ineligible, as the requirements for being a member of the House allow people who are ineligible to be President to serve as Speaker of the House, who is otherwise 3rd in line.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

School vouchers are actually terrible. They take funding from already struggling schools and give it to private institutions which already don't have to follow many of the policies outlined above (they can discriminate in a lot of ways that public schools can't). They also mostly end up being a subsidy for the wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, you didn't hear? He doesn't care about that anymore. Says the rest of us should stop whining about it.

https://people.com/donald-trump-shut-up-about-egg-prices-recession-fears-11694805

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

And remember, their entire reasoning for putting him there was that the military was too "woke" and that that was harming its readiness.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Small note for the summary: "probationary" in terms of government employees does not necessarily mean new, it means new in that role.

So, someone who has been working for the government for 20 years and was just promoted to a senior position is a probationary employee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Except it doesn't

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Let's assume for a second that the claims about the MMR vaccine had merit. It was specifically claimed that the cause was the addition of thimerosal as a preservative agent. Despite there being no evidence supporting this assertion, thimerosal was removed from nearly all vaccines decades ago. Which means that, if he was genuine in his beliefs, he shouldn't have a problem with any of them anymore.

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