Yeah, until the danger is passed at any rate. Homeless doesn’t need to mean in the streets though.

I know, that’s why I was talking about the political consequences of doing stuff. I fully expect there will be illegally fast deportations for anyone they believe is undocumented. Citizens and green card holders need to keep their documents and copies of their documents accessible in case they get swept up in that, (It’s happened before). But actually going after citizens and green card holders as the objective, without due process, creates a lot of problems for them. And they have 13 million undocumented people to work through with a system capable of doing 2 million in a 4 year period right now. It’s entirely possible they just never get to the next part of their list.

I’m not sure at that point that they would care. Why do all that when they can just deport people and block them at the points of entry. They could deport a citizen, turn off their passport, and if they show back up detain them for fraudulent ID documents and then either deport them again or send them to the concentration camp for “hard cases”.

Burning the naturalization documents assumes they even care about courts and bring people in front of them.

That said it would be a massive risk. If they didn’t do about a hundred things right the first time they’d end up quickly removed from office by a mob, escorted by the very NG troops sent to stop them. Americans care about citizenship, but that goes both ways. Removing that without due process would lead to activism and if that’s not disrupted properly they get the bad ending. If they fail to secure the capital, it ends badly. If they fail to secure congress, it ends badly. If they fail to ensure wins in the 2026 and 2028 elections, it ends badly. (and not holding those elections also ends badly, like a civil war at best)

So they’ll most likely continue to use the path they used in Trump’s first term. They’ll challenge naturalization documents in court. The good news is courts are slow and dockets fill up fast. There’s only so much they can do with that.

If you have a union…

This isn’t the movies. They aren’t sending one person you can get into a fight with. They’ll just shoot you and ransack your house to make it look like you died in a robbery gone wrong. Just don’t be there.

Do

• Live on cash from different ATMs;
• Stay at a hotel/motel that changes weekly;
• Rent a car and change it at different rental locations every week;
• Communicate only with your lawyer;
• Record everything in an official manner as soon as possible.
• Stay offline
• Get a dumb phone, and if you must have a computer get a new laptop with no wifi or mobile data hardware;

Do Not

• Go anywhere you don’t need to go;
• Tell anyone where you are;
• Go to the middle of nowhere, this reduces your escape routes unless you’re Bear Grylls;
• Confront anyone, they can have you arrested and prison violence makes their job much easier;
• Go to the news without your lawyer;
• Use a smartphone, or any device that was yours before and is capable of connecting online;

And most of all don’t listen to the billy badasses in here. If a multi billion dollar corporation wants you dead and is willing to break the law they can afford a lot of very nasty people. You aren’t getting the tactical training to stand against them in that short amount of time, that takes years and dedication and even then you’ll be learning how to run away in a deadly manner. Your best defense is to be ghost except when you show up for court dates and depositions. That’s what the Secret Service Witness Protection Program does and it works if you have discipline.

These are rules that are supposed to already exist though. Foreign political influence is always considered a bad thing by the country receiving it. The UK and Germany should have strong protections against it but apparently they don’t.

We can expect it to change actually. We’ve known for decades that we’re entering another multi polar era. One of the biggest criticisms of GOP presidents since Reagan is their cavalier attitude to this fact. They keep trying to strong arm other countries like there’s no alternatives and every time they do that they generate political will to move away from the US in other countries.

Hilariously Arizonans are super afraid of the CHP. In Arizona all you hear is they’ll get you for speeding too fast. So they will drive 95 all the way to the state border and then do the exact speed limit in California. It’s also fun in reverse. I lived in Northern Arizona for a while and every time it snowed the tourists from California and Southern Arizona had no clue what to do in it. So many cars in snow banks, just so many. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person in the American Southwest that knows what to do in Sand storms, Blizzards, and Thunder storms.

My parents have been very clear, there is no inheritance. I love them but when we were young adults they bought into the idea that getting college degrees would set us up for life and they decided to coast on their early retirement instead of buying property and getting real assets to hand down.

Yup we just need to travel back in time, attend a select private university, have parents who can give us a living space until we save up for a house, and get a job directly into the C-Suite off the networking from that private university. It could totally happen! We don’t need any workers, everyone can be in the boardroom!

The entire article is more than mildly infuriating. They’re interviewing the well connected and winners of the economic lottery. Furthermore there’s no mention at all of what that period of depressed earnings does to long term financial gains. With bias like this I don’t even trust their numbers for things like adults reporting they’re doing okay. Another day, another bullshit piece of economic propaganda.

People have a real problem grasping the wealth of 500 Billion dollars. At the Median US household income it would take 12 years to make a million dollars; 1,200 years to make a hundred million dollars; 12,000 years to make a billion dollars; and 1.2 million years to make a 100 billion dollars.

His wealth is essentially limitless. It is that of a moderate sized country like Norway or Israel. When he can have an effect with 100 million dollars he could influence 5,000 elections with 500 billion dollars. And that’s not even talking about his investments in social media, PR cult of personality, and straight up vote buying in broad daylight.

I sincerely hope he and X end up banned from Europe, with a warrant out for his arrest in relation for doing this. Because America has proven unable to stop him. Another country might though if they come down hard on anyone accepting his money and as hard as they can on him without using their military.

shot an Arizonan which is the correct response.

Please don’t abuse Arizonans they already abuse themselves by attempting to live on the actual surface of the Sun.

Elon’s actually come out against EV subsidies. It seems counter intuitive until you realize he’s so detached from any one product that the power he’s derived from his wealth is more important now.

Okay but did you fall?

Break into the diamond company vaults and just take it. Bam, free diamonds.

To be fair, the whole shitting yourself thing hasn’t changed.

World wide communications are going to get obliterated in a peer level conflict. Drone operators will need to be in the area to communicate with the drones.

I rode a vehicle into combat. It’s really not all it’s cracked up to be. You’re sleep deprived, terrified, and every now and then something happens that reinforces the randomness of who gets to go home on their feet and who goes home under a flag.

That’s only going to get worse as we get things like turrets that can acquire targets on their own. Ever seen an aimbot video from a game? How do you take out a line of weapons that have pinpoint accuracy and fire as fast as they can physically move their barrels?

The next big war is going to be World War 1 all over again. And the old wars with Knights and Cavalry killed more people with dysentery than the fighting.

Just let me play Doom in a cubicle.