cheesecake_llama
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cheesecake_llama
4hr ago
Count me as a third. That many of our interlocutors are having trouble conceiving of this as a good-faith position is itself revealing of something about which I probably shouldn’t speculate.
cheesecake_llama
4hr ago
The hairdresser case is probably just as bad tbh, at least from an optics perspective.
cheesecake_llama
17hr ago
Thanks for that, I really appreciate it. I’ve been grinding leetcode and feel very confident, if only I could manage to get my foot in the door. I’ve just haven’t had any luck getting interviews in the first place. I’ll try spamming more recruiters, but as for networking, I don’t think I know anyone working in FAANG at the moment.
cheesecake_llama
1d ago
This isn’t particularly related to your post, but I’m curious about what it takes to get past that initial screen to be considered at FAANG.
Long story short: I have a PhD in (pure) math and am finishing up a postdoc, but I’m just done with academia for a number of reasons and wanting to transition to industry. Other than a brief 1 year stint at a small company before starting grad school, almost all my coding experience is in an academic context.
I’m fairly confident I would demolish most Leetcode-style DSA interview questions and can learn new skills pretty fast, but it’s hard to get my foot in the door because I don’t have any shipped products or industry connections. I’d really appreciate any guidance or advice!
cheesecake_llama
1d ago
I don’t think we’re going to find any common ground, but I apologize for calling you a sycophant. That was uncalled for.
cheesecake_llama
1d ago
The only dispute was where he was removed to.
That’s a pretty nontrivial dispute in this case!
cheesecake_llama
1d ago
As to the “cross-border invasion,” I don’t think we’re going to find any common ground, because this sounds to me more like a fever dream than any description of reality. I live in a border state and haven’t any kind of “invasion” like you’re describing.
As to your other examples of excesses on the left, I couldn’t agree more! I hate that shit too! I’m in academia and argue with my colleagues about it all the time. But I don’t understand the point you’re making. We can open up the file cabinet and pull out all the worst examples of political violence and extremism over the years, but those are in a separate category from the excesses and extremism coming from the President of the United States.
cheesecake_llama
1d ago
The inappropriate part was sending him to indefinite detention in a torture-prison that we are paying for and then, after admitting that it was an error, winking at the camera, chuckling “aww shucks sorry about that but there’s just nothing we can do… By the way, wouldn’t it be great if we could send citizens here too?”
Why do you have to lie about what the objection here is? Don’t let your animus overcome your faculties.
cheesecake_llama
2d ago
I criticized the “Handmaiden’s Tale” chicken little-ing on “my team” for years, because unlike the MAGA cult, I don’t feel any compulsion to twist myself into defending whatever insane bullshit “my team” decides to push any given week.
Nobody is crying about an alien simply being improperly deported, don’t be disingenuous. Administrative errors happen, I get it. The problem is that he was sent indefinitely to a torture-prison without due process, while the the government is arguing at the same time that 1: they want to send citizens to the same place, and 2: if they fuck up, there is literally no remedy.
I’d just like you to imagine if Biden or Obama were advocating this sort of thing. The people on this website would be calling for armed rebellion.
cheesecake_llama
2d ago
I don’t think you or any of his other sycophants have any place to call out “hysterical catastrophizing” after painstakingly justifying every abhorrent thing this man does. When the catastrophe actually happens, you’ll be here, typing away about how good and necessary it is.
cheesecake_llama
3d ago
If the man didn’t have a legitimate asylum claim before, he sure as shit has one now.
cheesecake_llama
3d ago
Do you have a source for this? Both Grok and Perplexity say this claim is false.
cheesecake_llama
3d ago
Perhaps the previous administration should have thought of that before they threw all those J6 convicts in jail
It was juries and Article III judges who threw the J6 convicts in jail. They got their due process.
cheesecake_llama
3d ago
I am so frustrated by this argument. It's always "he's just joking/trolling/taunting, your TDS is showing" right up until he does it. Then, it's immediately "he's been saying this all along, what did you expect?! This is what we voted for." I don't know if this quotidian gaslighting is invisible to those who engage in it, or if they do so willingly because triggering the libs is fun. Either way, it's absolute poison to discourse and the sharing of sincerely held ideas.
cheesecake_llama
3d ago
The rallying cry of the pro-Abrego Garcia camp is: "If they can do it to him, they can do it to any of us." In other words, they see no meaningful difference between him and a legal US citizen
No, that is literally Trump's position as of this morning.
The government can negotiate for the release of a citizen imprisoned by another country, but nobody would argue that the government is legally obligated to do this.
I think plenty of people might argue this if the US government initiates and continues to fund a citizen's foreign imprisonment, after admitting that it was done in error.
On the other hand, the government can drone-strike a citizen abroad without due process.
Putting aside the merits of this in particular, there is an obvious difference between drone striking a citizen who is residing outside the United States to avoid capture, and the US government deporting a citizen from the United States to a different country and then killing him.
But of course the pro-Trump immigration hawks see no need to take it up, because even if these protests have no effect, this does not in any way diminish their confidence that if a citizen were to be treated in the same way, then the backlash would be swift, universal, and sufficient to compel the citizen's return
I eagerly await the "swift, universal" backlash to the President's comments this morning.
Prior to anything else in the political life of a nation, there must be near-universal agreement on who constitutes the body politic for whose benefit the government exists and to whom they are accountable. If there is factional dispute over this basic question, then morally speaking there is no nation, but multiple distinct nations that happen to find themselves all mixed up in the same land.
This entire post is completely backward, because you somehow miss that this is expressly not about factionalism. It is a legitimate concern over the exercise and limitations of executive power. The administration argues (explicitly!) that it can apply this power to anyone it chooses. That should concern everyone in the body politic, no matter who precisely you think comprises it.
Similar to "a country without borders isn't a country" and other such thought-terminating cliches, “...morally speaking there is no nation...” is an equivocation—confusing sociopolitical fragmentation with moral illegitimacy—to avoid confronting the actual argument being made here.
cheesecake_llama
7d ago
Trying to reverse outcomes through exceptionalism (“these cases are too urgent for due process”) invites mission creep fast. If you jettison due process for gangbangers, it won’t take long before that logic gets used on political enemies more broadly. The left has shown that too.
You can argue that the current “law” is functionally illegitimate—but that doesn’t mean lawlessness restores legitimacy. It usually just accelerates collapse. Procedural justice that enshrines substantive injustice will eventually be seen as a mask, not a shield. But burning the mask doesn’t make you noble, it just means you’re no longer pretending.
cheesecake_llama
7d ago
I hear “a country without borders isn’t a country” all the time, but clearly a country with open borders still has borders. The border still delineates where the police and military can operate, it determines jurisdictional issues, etc. States have open borders, but nobody is suggesting there’s no difference between California and Texas.
So if by “no borders” you actually only mean “open borders,” then the claim “a country with no borders is not a country, it’s an economic zone” is plainly false.
cheesecake_llama
14d ago
It’s so interesting seeing the justifications change in real time at such breakneck as speeds. I’m no political strategist, but “make ourselves poorer because we’re simply so rich and prosperous that it’s made us soft and lazy” does not seem like an argument that will resonate with anyone outside the true believers.
cheesecake_llama
23d ago
Look, you think the Biden White House wasn't an absolute fucking shit show?
I think that the shitshow-level of the current administration is appreciably larger than the last, both in frequency and spectacle. Trump administration fuck ups often do have some parallels to fuck ups from previous administrations, but more often than not, the comparisons obscure just how strange some of these people act.
It’s not just the fuck up, but the whole response: total refusal to accept any responsibility, blatant lying about what happened, the defensiveness, which comes off as childish rather than masculine. None of this is surprising, given that Trump filled his administration this time around with sycophants and media personalities. It makes for great TV though.
cheesecake_llama
24d ago
Does “making themselves part of American politics” mean “engaging in any visible form of political expression whatsoever”?
cheesecake_llama
29d ago
I don’t know how much of this matters coming from a repugnant blue-triber, but this level of nihilistic fatalism deeply saddens me. I have spent much, much more time arguing against the excesses and abuses of “my team” than I have spent opposing yours. The antifa apologetics, calls for violence against Trump and Musk, the Covid-era abuses of institutional power—all of it deeply disgusts me.
But I don’t believe collapse is inevitable. I don’t believe that a national divorce—whatever that might entail—is the way forward. After all, we live in a society whose socio-political dynamics ultimately flow from individual choices. The Constitution will die only if we kill it. This country has survived much worse.
I’m encouraged by more and more blue tribers openly rejecting the poison of identity politics. While TDS definitely was (and is) a real thing, I believe Trump’s enduring electoral successes is resulting in a more moderate, reasonable blue tribe (although there is a long way to go yet). This has been mirrored by what has been, in my opinion, clear excesses on the right—either in MAGA’s jubilant vindictiveness or in the fatalism exhibited by your post. Even though this also concerns me, I believe that this too will eventually temper and mature, but only if we don’t give in to the destructive impulses of the worst on our side nor feed those of the other. The Constitution’s survival depends on citizens demanding its enforcement; tribal coexistence requires rejecting the premise that opponents are inhuman. To paraphrase Madison in Federalist 10: The cure for factionalism is not homogeneity but pluralism managed through structured conflict.
The path forward is neither blind optimism nor radical dissolution but clear-eyed engagement. If the Constitution is “dead,” it is because we’ve ceased resuscitating it—not because it lacks the capacity to endure.
cheesecake_llama
29d ago
What a weird statement to make. Obviously, US deportation logistics are limited by certain legal and ethical boundaries that did not constrain the Nazis at all.
cheesecake_llama
30d ago
What’s the limiting principle here? What principles could Trump violate that would give you pause? Or is your judgment based solely on whether he is, at any given moment, helping the people you like and hurting the people you hate?
cheesecake_llama
30d ago
The relevant question is whether the decision is correct. There is an appeals process to decide that. Disobeying an order because you don’t like it has far more destructive downstream effects.
I certainly am. I feel politically homeless because neither party seems particularly interested in protecting civil liberties they find inconvenient. Meanwhile, the libertarian party is run by pants-on-head crazy people. The whole situation makes one want to scream into the void.
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