Recent content by ModlrMike

A narcissist will never admit they're wrong.

I suggest that you obtain a copy of the Qualification Specifications for MMT, and the QL3 Course Training Standard. You should then able to directly reference how your training meets the specific requirements. Your training department, or more senior MMT should be able to help you with this.

With apologies to Stan Rogers: Oh the year was 2026 How I wish I was in Kyiv now, A letter of marque came from Vladmir to all Ukrainians far and near https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/7/2215896/-An-Old-Solution-to-a-New-Problem-Ukraine-s-Letter-of-Marque

I think this is exactly the tactic they're counting on. Make going to vote too perilous to risk the chance of apprehension, notwithstanding your legal status. ICE can arrest you, and take hours to days to release you, well past the point where the polls have closed. I would expect an ICE surge...

For those keeping score, this would be consistent with step 6 of the stages of authoritarianism. One might argue that the ICE raids and demonstrations are step 7, completing the transition, but I think that will be reserved for invocation of the Insurrection Act. The seven stages, according to...

I almost want to write this up as a codified diagnosis.

Dollar to donuts the government argues that because the date is invalid, so is the judgment.

Maybe a little too early to say if this is organized crime or terrorist activity, but it certainly has the hallmarks of the later: 4 charged after potential bomb-making chemicals found at northwest London, Ont., home...

Classic DARVO tactic, which seems to be the standard response from this administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

It is quite reasonable, and common for people to join the Reserves in an occupation that is different from their regular work.

So, my youtube is frequently populated with police videos. One of the things I notice is that in nearly every encounter, the police approach calmly, and almost always start with non-lethal force. The ICE videos I've seen show none of that. From my perspective, ICE appears all in, all the time.

No crew is going to trust him from now on.

Thought experiment: What happens if ICE and the NG go toe-to-toe? What happens if ICE attempts to arrest NG personnel for obstruction?

It's not the what, but the how. Masked armed men throwing people into vehicles and whisking them off to detention centres is never going to be the right way to do things. Neither party should be in support of this method, regardless of who the target is.

From 2021. I wonder how much sentiment has changed since then: https://www.newsweek.com/47-west-coast-dems-66-southern-republicans-want-secede-us-1609875