crazy4lsu

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I assume you have been a us citizen all your life...how much faith do you have in our government? i mean damn thinking they never make mistakes is pretty amazing.

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I don't think those mistakes are systematic to the degree that people at the last step of the naturalization process, which is both time-intensive and costly, are the ones who deserve more scrutiny.

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i wish i could think like you and believe no mistakes can be made by those vetting anyone...i mean shite they are all geniuses right

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It's a bureaucracy designed to do one thing. Again, you want perfection from a bureaucracy that you certainly wouldn't expect from yourself. It's a stupid place to levy an objection.

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the point is some, even though illegally here, have become us citizens. My point is also how do you know without a doubt all were here legally and none have done anything that could have had their visas or green cards cancelled. Just bc they were almost finishing the naturalization process doesn't mean they did everything legally...which is what you are assuming.

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You realize this is the point of an elongated naturalization process, which has many different requirements, right? In this instance, you want bureaucratic overview from many different departments. Again, thank you for inventing bureaucratic oversight from behind your keyboard. Where would be without you asking the tough questions, such as 'yeah, but what if they aren't?'

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do you have some examples of how long they were here and when they were vetted?

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Bro, you need to read better. She already said that they were part of the last step of a naturalization process.

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No one wants to address the actual issue because no one wants to lose an election.

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You are right in one respect. Immigration is a result of a downstream issue. We've seen birth rates collapse for every American demographic. We have a political economy which is based on growth. What's going to happen is the same thing that happened in the UK after Brexit.

You are incredibly naïve if you actually believe the planet is more violent now. There is basically no leftist movements with any real teeth any longer. There are very few nationalist movements left in Europe which use political violence. The mostly stochastic violence of the 2010's has given way to state on state violence. This is just nonsense. You need to log off and take a walk or something.

What's his timeline for this? If we go by his other predictions, this almost assuredly won't happen.

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Last century and especially post-WWII we got massive expansion of secrecy, classification, compartmentalization. No one can know the whole picture anymore, even inside government. That “Top Men” moment from Indiana Jones basically captures the civic mood.

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This is a much older feeling than the post-war era. In the literature, I always find myself coming back to the fin de siecle era in Europe, where you find the same frustrations. Even more broadly, I trace the frustration to two inventions, the photograph and the train. This lead to what Rebecca Solnit (if I recall) describes as 'the collapse of time.' No longer was human sensory experience limited to their immediate environment. The collapse of time fundamentally changes expectations about the feasibility of things. People think they can actually enforce change on a chaotic environment and want evidence of that change in a immediate sense. And when that doesn't occur, the seeds of delusion are sown. With respect to the fin de siecle, the easy example of this is The Dreyfus Affair, where you had the same culture of conspiracy and delusional nonsense that pervaded France during that time period.

In some sense, conspiracies provide frameworks for explaining away failures of movements to produce what they promised. It's far more likely that we will continue to get this milqeutoast neoliberalism that doesn't satisfy anyone than we are to get actual structural change. I think that fact will fund conspiracies for a long time, with the form changing to 'if only we listened to 'x' (political figure or commentator), we would not be in the position we are in.'

Conspiracies also provide hope to people who believe them, as in, 'if we just hold these specific people who are at the center of my particular conspiracy, we will be able to fix these wrongs.' The fundamental issue is that this isn't the way politics works, and thus there is opportunity for continual grievance to fund this belief, which turns out is quite resilient despite facts on the ground being different.

Can you reenact how angry you got when I mentioned I was going to vaccinate your family? Post a gif this time.

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Your job isn’t to placate the unhealthy

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Is that what I am doing by using the reference of GLPs to broach a larger, more important subject of the patient's relationship to food? I am not giving them the medication, so I am confused as to how I am placating them here.

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Simple question, were mass vaccination mandates a good idea?

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Do you want a serious answer or are you going to be a glib dumbass?

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I’m not “right” or “wrong,” I have questions for which it’s impossible to have the answers to.

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Like what?

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And being there’s an intervention that has not only zero side effects but other benefits, I think it’s a horrible idea for these drugs to be used so widely

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I don't think I said they have no side effects, just that the side effect profiles by this point is well known. And while I actually agree with you that these are not long-term solutions, they have provided a way for me to address the fundamental problem with lots of people, which is their relationship with food. That is useful in a clinical context because at least we can talk about weight without patients getting upset, especially when they bring up the desire to be on the medication.