These National Guard may not be villains (yet) but they certainly aren’t ‘heroes’ like members of the military like to be portrayed. They absolutely could stand on principal and refuse deployment. They would face a court martial but heroes do what is right regardless of the potential consequences.

Relevant comedy bit: https://www.tiktok.com/@classic.standup/video/7196224312251092230?lang=en

I was going to reply something about how he isn’t relevant because he has been dead for like a decade but I googled him to get the exact date correct first and I was shocked to find out he is still alive.

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That picture accompanying the article is backwards. Why is it portraying the AI as the babysitter and not the baby that needs to be supervised by a human?

I hope your dad isn’t on the list, he was a very gentle lover.

Where are all the soldiers and assorted politicians who swore an oath to protect the USA from all threat foreign and domestic?

I think the unwritten rule is they aren’t touched and they are there when people come back through. I didn’t ditch mine, so I can’t say for sure.

I don’t know if it is still the case, but the border between Washington and Idaho went from motorcycle helmet law to no helmet law and when people drove from Seattle to Sturgis there would be a ditch full of motorcycle helmets just across the border into Idaho on I-90.

My crossing is a river, so basically pretty obvious. I was out of town on a work trip though and I was warned that when I was going to a Home Depot to not miss the turn because I would be at the Canada border and doing a U-turn there would probably get me chased down and pulled over.

Ah, but the question is “post-apocalypse” so avoiding it isn’t really an option. If it were just “slightly pre-apocalypse” you might have a chance to avoid it.

490k views? Obviously not being viewed by the BMW drivers in my area.

It might not be currently illegal but I think there should be a law defining “crimes against society” that only applies to corporations and politicians. It could be vague like “disorderly conduct” but just for corpos and politicians and would include things like lying to the public and could have punishments like corpos losing their business license (death) and banishment to the moon/sun for politicians.

I held my nose and voted for Kamala, but 2016, 2020, and 2024 should have been cakewalks for Dems but they refuse to win the easy races by picking the worst candidates, sure 2020 fell for Dems but that wasn’t for lack of trying to lose. The Democrat party keeps putting their fingers on the scale for the losing option in the primaries.