As much as we rightly villify ICE, this just doesn’t make much sense.

Even operationally, you’d have to assume they have guys just sitting around waiting. And then, for some reason someone alerts them to an international flight landing so they bust through the apart to detain people who had never intended to visit?

What I could see happening is sure, you have to use a motel or something while they figure out alternate arrangements, the hospitality industry being legendary for a not entirely legal workforce means there’s a chance you get raided there? But this is stretching the bounds of credulity pretty gosh darned far.

Still, 15k invested now while OP is 19 could be helpful in a decade.

For those who won’t read the article, this is an article from 2001. (Similar thing actually played out, albeit the White House not the FCC, leaned on ABC who dropped Maher after some 9/11 comments/joke.)

Do you mean flights that fly directly to Mexico from Canada?

Otherwise, you should be fine. ICE doesn’t have jurisdiction over the FAA and can’t just order random planes down. Especially planes from one country to another with no intervening stops in America. What on Earth would the rationale be? “Hey, citizens of other countries who had no intention of entering the US, we’ve kidnapped you and now you’re stuck here!”

There are plenty of valid concerns and fears about America but having them ground international, non US bound flights would be a nonsensical international incident with 0 gain.

It feels very strange to agree with Ted Cruz but here we are.

Honour among thieves was an absolute blast, felt like a quality throwback to the old adventure comedies.a

Another one I’ve never heard of but will check out, thanks!

Oooh, haven’t seen Loaded Weapon but fully agree on Top Secret, so I’ll have to check it out.

Groovy.

I hope people spit in your food everywhere you go.

I finally caught this in a theatre this year, amazing to watch it with a hundred people all roaring (admittedly, at various times as some people remembered jokes before they happened, but that just added to the charm.)

“Do you want to be called a neo liberal bootlicker for pretty standard positions shared by a majority of people? Have I got the place for you!”

“Want to be compared to a mass murderer if you read enough to think proportional representation isn’t a great plan?”

this seems more like projection to me.

My goodness, I think you’re right!

You’re not making this determination based on the evidence, you’re belief is that because you’re a leftist and wouldn’t use violence and you don’t feel the other leftists with whom you interact would assassinate someone, it would take some crazy radicalization to do so. Goypers on the other hand, you feel are hate filled, already extreme and thus ready to kill people.

To each their own I guess. This sounds like really motivated reasoning, in that you started with the end you want and then worked backwards. Right now, your hope is that the shooter is actually a fan of Fuentes despite being in a transgender relationship, despite being on the more extreme side is saying he’s doing it because some hate can’t be negotiated out (implying that he’s actually calling for more hatred and naming it as such, which most folks on these sides don’t do) while ignoring his parents claims that he’s getting more into Left wing politics.

Or, y’know, a kid who intended to get away with it, wrote some memes from a semi plausible group on bullets in an attempt to blame the Far Right.

I’m not saying your version is impossible but it does beggar belief. It’s like when my uncle defends trump and invokes all manner of wild conspiracies to do so, what he’s saying isn’t impossible it just requires a bunch of wild coincidences etc.

You should write a poem about that!

I can’t speak to the shooter’s motivations (though meme forensics seems pretty silly) but the “at a Right wing state with a Right wing governor” etc bits seem pretty dumb.

It’d be like saying the guy who went after Pelosi was clearly a Leftie because it was in a Leftie state, with a Left song governor, in a Left wing city against a Left wing politician. Pretty nonsense points and make us look dumb.

I’m not saying the shooter definitely isn’t a groyper or whatnot, I’m saying that meme forensics seem a bit of an odd way to definitively decalre someone in one group or another.

Especially when that group is really transphobic and your romantic partner is trans.

I dunno but it strikes me like anyone declaring they know this guy’s motivations one way or the other is probably just seeing what they want to see.

Edit: Okay, and now they’ve released the text exchanges and stuff. Seems pretty darned clear he’s Left wing, not Right. (Can you really imagine a far Right killing Kirk would be doing so because they “had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out” ?)

https://atty.utahcounty.gov/cms/uploads/TJR_Information_49872215e3.pdf

I’ve been wondering about this too, thought I was just out of the loop but nothing I can find from a reputable source has really made me think he’s a right winger.

Like, maybe we can’t say for sure but to insist he’s actually extremely far right seems like a wild leap.

Back in the day, shooters etc wrote lengthy manifestos.

I think they’ve realized that these days no one is going to read a full length manifesto so it’s better to note their thoughts in…

Bullet point.

(Sorry.)

Fully agree on the modern movies spoon feeding (or at least, most mainstream ones.)

I’m lucky, there’s a little indie theatre about a joints’ walk away from my place so I’ve caught a few great Westerns there. As much as I loves them, I know if I’d been at home, the distractions/phone/cat/anything else etc would’ve been overwhelming on hour 2 or 3 of slow panning across a desert vista…