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I wonder in such a case if more populous countries like India or China could in theory send over 100 million+ people to our country over the course of a decade, and then once those people are citizens, legally vote for the US to be annexed by China, etc..

You could conquer a country without a single shot fired.

Thanks for taking the time to clarify your position.

So if China or some other country decided to send 10 million people here for whatever reason, you think our official policy should be to welcome then in and provide them food, shelter, etc...?

What about 100 million people?

Should they also be given citizenship and right to vote in addition to food/shelter?

This is such a bizarre argument because the entire reason the two women were there in the first place is because they thought they were following ICE agents. Both women were part of "ICE Watch", an anti-ICE activist group. They had been following the agents around throughout the day, attempting to disrupt them, which is why the car was parked perpendicular in the street (to block the ICE vehicles) prior to the incident.

So to claim the women didn't know it was Federal law enforcement ordering them to exit the vehicle is baffling to me because that was the entire reason the women were there in the first place.

If you believe said women is attempting to attack you with a deadly weapon (an accelerating vehicle that you were struck by in this case) that would fall pretty clearly under justified use of force.

So you agree he was struck by the vehicle?

By this logic anybody could legally kill a police officer trying to arrest them.

Cost-free travel back home, a $1,000 exit bonus, and forgiveness of any "failure to depart" fines. Quite generous.

Over the Holidays they even increased the exit bonus to $3000: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/22/increased-incentives-dhs...

Yet another reason why I find the haphazard comparisons to Nazi Germany/Gestapo so farcical.

Would you support deporting people who are criminals? Or have no intention of ever working and just want to live off various welfare programs? Trying to find some common ground here.

Happy to share: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-officer-who-shot-renee-good...

Agreed. I'm continually shocked at the level of gaslighting still occurring around this event when we have clear footage from multiple angles.

They also used Google, Facebook, etc... as a loophole for suppressing freedom of speech in the past (and could still be for all I know).

The person you are referring to rammed an ICE agent with their vehicle and the agent suffered internal bleeding as a result.

Sorry but there is no scenario where you can strike law enforcement with your car after being repeatedly ordered to exit your vehicle where their wouldn't be a justifiable use of lethal force. Trying to frame it as "shoot U.S. civilians in the face for not listening" is extremely disingenuous.

Godwin's Law invoked in record time. Such hyperbole is not conductive to real discussion.

> He just doesn't have the chops to skewer a lunatic in a live TV debate

Sorry, but this borders on gaslighting.

It's not that he "didn't have the chops" to win the debate, it's that during the debate he clearly demonstrated that his mind is gone.

> when the government is overtaken by brown socialists?

Interesting that you chose this example when nearly every socialist/communist revolution that has ever happened in history started with mass murder.

I wonder what domestic terror operations these brave content moderators have thwarted.

Why do you assume their objective is to decrease toxicity and divisiveness?

Strange comment. I don't see anything about domestic terrorism in the linked thread.

This is basically how the 1st Amendment is "backdoored" in this country.

The government cannot be so brazen in curtailing freedom of speech directly so they use Big Tech as the cat's paw. Any complaint over Big Tech's censorship/narrative control can then be met with the “it’s a private company, they can do what they want” retort.

Why would anybody trust this after they faked the last Gemini demo?

Exactly the same here. Gaming time slowly tapered off during university. Anytime I have picked up a game since then it has been short lived. I'm at the point now where I won't even bother trying a new game (or revisiting an old one). I know I'll get bored of it in 30 mins, so why bother?

It feels like a lot of work picking up a new game. Combine that with the realization that it is just an engineered dopamine loop and that I could be doing something productive, videogames are essentially "dead" to me.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I was more referring to the "conspiracy theory" that such a tactic is currently in use by the powers that be. Not a topic I am familiar with so I certainly won't dispute that it occurred historically.

Interestingly, various Greek tyrants were known for intentionally diversifying their cities in an attempt to break the solidarity of a population that might otherwise rise against them.

Thucydides noted: "A crowd like that are hardly likely to respond unanimously to any proposal or to organize themselves for joint action"

I've also read the "conspiracy theory" that racial division is pushed in an attempt to disrupt solidarity based on economic class.

> Some of the Terraform codebases I have worked on have been wildly over-complicated and take a good hour to grok. And I literally spend 10 times more of my day writing a new "standardized" Terraform module than I do writing a shell script that does the same thing.

Yep, which is why in the comment you replied to I said: "Like anything else, it is possible to write Terraform in an incomprehensible way.". You can write muck in anything.

Also, an hour sounds like a pretty reasonable amount of time to grok a totally new codebase of any significant complexity, but maybe I'm just slow. I can assure you that trying to grok the equivalent mess in a language and style you have never worked in before isn't going to be any faster.

> And Terraform doesn't even support declarative configuration management!!! The syntax is declarative, but it literally can not change the infrastructure to be the way you describe, if it has changed outside your state file (which can happen at literally any time).

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The first thing Terraform does before a plan or apply is refresh the state file with the real-world status of resources.

400+ points on Hackernews for... this?

There have been a variety of studies and reports, both for and against, the use of hydroxychloroquine. Is there any reason this particular study is so highly upvoted? Or is this just an attempt to dunk on Trump for suggesting the drug showed promise?

The "Rule of Least Power" comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power

Does AWS CDK handle state drift and state transitions in the same way Terraform/Pulumi does?

I believe AWS CDK uses CloudFormation under the hood which can not "intelligently" fix state drift in the same way Terraform can. CF can only tell you that tthee state has drifted, but cannot actually figure out how to fix that drift which IMO is one of the biggest strikes against CF.

The "State" section of this article has a better description of what I'm talking about: https://medium.com/@endofcake/terraform-vs-cloudformation-1d...

Agreed.

What concerns me somewhat about Pulumi is we will lose some of "standardization" that comes with the widespread use of Terraform.

Like anything else, it is possible to write Terraform in an incomprehensible way. However, overall I have found that Terraform "constricts" things into being done a certain way. This allows engineers to jump into a new TF codebase and grok what is happening fairly easily.

Now with Pulumi, we lose that constraint, and now have to grok not only the different languages that infra is defined in, but also the wide variety of different "styles" that a language can be written in. An engineer joining from another company or team now has to deal with a new language and a new code style/organization in order to wrap their head around the infra. Not a desirable property when it comes to managing the infrastructure for a company.

While it is appealing that a developer can use a language they are already familiar with to manage infra, that only holds true if the language being used for Pulumi is one they are already familiar with.

I could of course be totally wrong. Regardless, I am excited to see a new contender in the space.

> Ha! If the industry hasn't moved past Terraform in 5 years time, it will only be because HCL has adopted enough of the general purpose programming language featureset as to remain competitive. That's certainly its trajectory.

Quite a statement to make for somebody who has never used Terraform.

I read that the guy who invented Homebrew still had to go through the leetcode interview at Google (which they failed) so I'm not sure if they ever waive the interview requirements?