Good one, that showed us Brits the right of it.
#Cough# Civil Forfeiture #Cough#
#Cough# Civil Forfeiture #Cough#
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/mapping-w...
> the border zone is home to 65.3 percent of the entire U.S. population
No, they can’t stop you for no reason.
No, they can’t search you without cause or a warrant.
https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Right, except not being white or having an accent is a reason enough to be stopped.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/politics/us-citizen-dies-in-c...
And odd example to pick since it seems like he was a suspect in smuggling? That alone is enough to detain anyone.
Now that the pendulum is swinging back, hopefully we’ll take this a challenge to out-competent you as well.
Britain will never return to the normalcy of EU membership. Things have changed permanently for that country in a way that they might not have if they’d voted remain. Doors are now closed for them.
The abnormal thing is the genie of reactionary populism that the Republicans unleashed a decade ago, starting with the Tea Party, and culminating with the Trump party. Given that prominent republicans (Ted Cruz) are actively trying to marshal those forces behind them[1], I don't think that we'll be going back to normal anytime soon.
[1] He's far more likely to win the 2024 nomination than someone like Mitt Romney, who, for all his faults, is not happy with Trumpism.
The parent is rightly pointing out that it doesn't matter if those specific individuals in power are gone, that doesn't mean the broader movements around them will change.
The problems of the world are rarely due to a single person, and rarely are solved by a single person losing power. Behind that single person is a system, and a new person will take their place if the system isn't also changed.
That’s how you started fighting among yourselves, after all.
Britain: Brexit.
USA: Hold my beer!