He’s protecting the trove of blackmail itself. It’s not about a specific who that’s in it— blackmail material loses its value once it’s released and that is decades and dozens of powerful people who will suddenly be useless. Epstein and Maxwell weren’t making their money from trafficking. They were making their money from collecting and selling all manner of secrets.

So Venezuelans don’t have the right to go across an invisible line in their own sea because the United States will murder them? US boats of all kinds frequently leave US waters. Should every other country just start calling us terrorists and blow us up?

Do you just stop going to work because of workplace shooting? Do you just stop sending your kids to school because of school shootings? Do you stop going to church or the grocery store because some maniac might light it up? Do you stop dating as a woman because you’re most likely to be murdered by the man you’re dating or married to?

But the short answer… poverty! If they’re fishing it’s for work and if they’re running drugs it’s also for work. They’re doing their jobs bc their kids don’t eat if they don’t. Just because someone drives a boat with cargo you don’t agree with doesn’t make them a demon. That’s _if _ these people are doing that which the US government is giving zero legitimate proof of. But even if they are drug runners, it’s work and good paying work, and probably even a bigger payoff now that the US is on a murderous rampage. If you survive the payoff may just be worth it. They’re people. People with families and with needs.

Your last paragraph is the key one here. They could detain, stop and seize and/or turn them back but they are actively choosing to murder them instead. No trial and no evidence beyond “I say so”. This is state sanctioned terrorism. It’s about the fear, the chaos and the domination. It’s not about protecting anyone or preventing anything. The pain and fear is the purpose.

Classy. Such presidential behavior. I expect no less from one of the most powerful global leaders. Good job world. Keep kissing that ring world leaders, he’s really worth it.

Or they’re just going to keep letting them have their pointless parades and nothing will change except the public will feel they’ve “done” something until a few months when they have another parade again…

Absolutely the mentality of the majority unfortunately. And the rest don’t believe in any type of civil disobedience unless their fearless leader, the t-Rex handed orange man, incites it.

Yes. Marked by opulence and a distracted upper class, depending on foreign born nationals and the impoverished to defend them from the mob. A military class they eventually spit on and denied access to anything “Roman” which wasn’t a great incentive for you know, defending them from their own disgruntled citizens or enemies at their door. They cared more about their money and orgies and pedophelia than they did at maintaining the cogs of Empire of which their lifestyle depended. Bread and circuses and a whole lot of arrogant prejudice.

Oh ducking hell no. Are you serious? God damn. Oofta ouch. Just wow. Damnit.

So no excuses anymore. You got your POWs back. Any aggression on the people of Gaza is just for your bloodlust (as it has been this whole time). No more hiding their genocidal psychopathic behavior behind false pretenses.

And we think the people trained by Israel are going to not attack journalists? They’re trained to attack journalists just like Israelis.

Almost like it’s a bad idea to come out and mass threaten the livelihoods of employees you need. Weird.

And this is the exact reason nothing will change. We’re whipped and the world sees it.

You can actually do this which is the wild part about memory and cognition. It’s basically what a lot of therapy practices are.

If you lose your memories, are “you” dead?

No, because other people hold many of those memories for you. And while memories and conditioning play a role in personality they aren’t the end all on who we are. We are still us, even if a bit “different” from before.

If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still “your relative/friend”?

Absafuckinglootly, because I carry that friendship and _I _ owe that loyalty. Just because they can’t remember us, I don’t get to abandon them. Loyalty. People need to learn it.

What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?

Memory to me is often jarring and annoying. I suffer from unrequested flashbacks frequently.

But, memory is kind of amazing because you can have a shared memory with someone and it be completely different from their experience. Memory is so malleable, and often a coping mechanism, both natural and taught, for dealing with traumas is literally rewriting your memory to something you can live with. Shaving off the pieces you can’t or making them more “dull”.

I had night terrors after a bad accident until my brain literally rewrote the visuals of some of it and while I could verbalize it to you, I couldn’t “relive” that piece anymore which was a huge physical and emotional relief when it finally happened. And I didn’t do it, my brain did it on its own. Memory is weird.

Memory is often deceitful anyway, so relying on it as heavily as we do is actually kind of odd. Our perceived memory is stronger than the real event. We catalog all kinds of other information on top of what is actually the “present”. Think about when you wake up and commit a dream to memory. The retelling of the dream to yourself is actually stronger than the dream itself. Our “story” is the memory not the “present”.

Neat question. I could ramble on this topic for a long time…

Are we ready to believe victims now? Are we ready to act?

Communialism?

I mean we’re in a mass extinction event already…

Hegseth: Be ready for war Trump: You can practice on our cities!

I hate to be that guy but this whole thing has frustrated me deeply. It shows we’re willing to fight back and do know how, but our selective use of that power is rather superficial.

Yes, I understand this was very important in the realm of speech but it still has an overtone of celebrity culture. Most people can’t be bothered to boycott to end genocide or to protest legislation or support the courts or to advocate for worker rights or healthcare, but to save a celebrity that makes this nightmare easier for them to swallow every night? Sign everyone up!

It feels less about protecting free speech and fighting fascism and more about them protecting their humor drug that makes “the bad place” more palpable.

Americans know how to fight back they’re just unwilling to do it unless their TV personality who gives them feel good juice is on the milk carton. I know that’s harsh but it’s just frustrating watching everyone cry about how helpless they are until their feel good nightly placebo(s) was/are on the line.

Again, I get the importance and the way the target was clear etc. It’s just frustrating to watch people cry they don’t know what to do then step up big time for famous people but not their communities, neighbors or their own family’s wellbeing.

This is a huge win and I don’t mean to detract from that. Please keep boycotting and hopefully this drives it home to more people that this is an effective tactic across the board. I just needed to vent a little.