Unfortunately now Google is ChatGPT. It provides its own shitty AI answers, and its search results have been corrupted by an ocean of slop.

The beauty of this is approach is that even the American Service Member’s Protection Act is irrelevant here. The process I outlined would occur at the direction of a future administration. That law you cited only gives the president the option of interfering with the ICC. The president is still perfectly capable of allowing prosecutions at the ICC. It’s purely voluntary.

When this is over, we will need to find ways to hold admin officials and ICE agents accountable. Trump will issue a blanket pardon at the end of his term, and SCOTUS is no longer a legitimate institution. So we need to look for other routes to bring these criminals to justice.

I’m sorry, but if you’re working at a concentration camp, you are committing crimes against humanity. So, who assuming the US justice system can’t hold them to account, who can? Well this is where ICE agents are boned. Operating these concentration camps, they’re going to be responsible for the deaths of scores of citizens from dozens of foreign countries. And those countries don’t give a shit about US pardons. We need to ship ICE agents off to Venezuela and other countries whose citizens they have killed. Rendition them there, and they can put them on trial for the deaths of their citizens. ICE loves shipping people off to random countries. Let’s ship ICE agents off to countries where they can be held accountable for their crimes.

Anything related to food it is!

If you do, post a link, I’ll watch it!

I love the old Melody Sheep version.

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are men!

Maybe Janeway was just secretly really racist against Asian people. Just because society has left bigotry behind doesn’t mean all members of that society have.

When this is over, we are going to have to try, convict, and hang thousands of ICE agents for crimes against humanity. They are committing capital offenses. Many of them need to hang for this.

Time to fly high the flag of the proud Island of Lesbos.

Fine. “Everyone except Evangelical Christians are welcome here.”

I think there are a whole lot of young US citizens right now watching their own relatives being deported, sometimes leaving them as orphans. ICE is creating a generation of ICE hunters that will chase them down to the ends of the Earth.

Exactly. The prosecutions of people in their 90s were mostly low-level guards in concentration camps. So there is no comfort in knowing you were just a rank-and-file ICE agent. And it’s not like they can argue they don’t know what they’re doing is wrong. If you’re covering your face while working in law enforcement, you know damn well what you’re doing is morally unforgivable. These people are not going to be able to plead ignorance. They know what they’re doing is wrong.

And they need to feel fear every day of their lives. Just like the people they are terrorizing now, they need to live in fear that any day, a knock on their door might come that will tear their whole live apart. They need to know the fear they took so much glee in instilling in others.

Daily reminder to all ICE agents. By signing up for ICE, you have signed yourself up for a lifetime of fear and criminal liability. There are Nazi concentration camp guards that were tried for their crimes in their 90s. There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Your names are recorded; your deeds are known. And you will face justice for your crimes. And do not count on a blanket pardon saving you. Crimes against humanity are violations of international law that cannot be pardoned.

Daily reminder to all ICE agents. By signing up for ICE, you have signed yourself up for a lifetime of fear and criminal liability. There are Nazi concentration camp guards that were tried for their crimes in their 90s. There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Your names are recorded; your deeds are known. And you will face justice for your crimes. And do not count on a blanket pardon saving you. Crimes against humanity are violations of international law that cannot be pardoned.

Daily reminder to all ICE agents. By signing up for ICE, you have signed yourself up for a lifetime of fear and criminal liability. There are Nazi concentration camp guards that were tried for their crimes in their 90s. There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Your names are recorded; your deeds are known. And you will face justice for your crimes. And do not count on a blanket pardon saving you. Crimes against humanity are violations of international law that cannot be pardoned.

I like settings where FTL doesn’t exist, and interstellar travel times are dealt with by simply making humans biologically immortal. If you think about it, curing aging is actually much less of a stretch than FTL, scientifically speaking.

The real irony of all this is that the people being genocides right now in Gaza have a much closer genetic relationship to the actual human beings who wrote the Torah than those who are genociding them. We’re watching the actual descendents of the ancient Israelites being exterminated right now.

On the other hand, there have been Jewish states before modern Israel, and it always ended in tears. Maybe believing that you’re God’s chosen people inevitably causes you to act with an arrogance and belief in your own invincibilty that eventually causes your country to be destroyed. If you believe God literally wants you to have a piece of dirt, why practice good diplomacy and have good relations with your neighbors? Your only concern is keeping God happy. In the Old Testament, the Israelites suffered invasion only when they somehow let God down. With that as your cultural foundation, what does that do to your nation’s foreign policy?

Part of me really is starting to wonder if giving folks who think they’re God’s special chosen people was a terrible mistake.

Yeah that does seem odd. Cabinets, closets, and cupboards don’t generally require ventilation. What little ventilation they require is provided by the fact that their doors aren’t air tight.