Whichever form of identification requires the least effort for the cops is the one they will want most. So, yeah, facial scan is it. Have you ever seen those photos of two identical men with the same name but had no relation to each other?

I'm curious if anyone has been deported recently in a case of mistaken identity or turned out to actually be an American. I saw that case with Miguel Silvestre and another with a guy named Alejandro Juarez. In one case the guy was an american and they almost deported him until a FOIA request got him some publicity. I think in the other case the guy got deported and he was a foreign born guy, but it was a mistake and they brought him back. That was the Trump Golf Club guy in NYC.

Ad hominem is not an argument. You lose.

Doubtful.

I see. So, you're not in favor of regulating "hate speech" then? If you're not, you'd be in the minority of progressives and communists.

Who gets to decide what system injustice is?

Oh? Your icon of DEI, Ibram X. Kendi (author of "How to Be An Anti-Racist"), disagrees. Here is what he says: "The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."

So, in short, you're full of shit... and lying, and crawfishing.... poorly.

No, it's a simple statement of fact. Using force to steal from people is robbery. A smarmy attitude is so much less effective than logic.

That's an unsophisticated straw-man. Nobody suggested those services aren't paid by taxes. We could have a conversation about which taxes are more or less coercive or moral and what services need cutting, but you've already shown you're nothing but an insulting Communista looking to score points and not worthy of being taken seriously.

The fist/nose analogy is solid when the harm is direct, physical, and provable. But “hate speech” isn’t a punch. It’s a category that keeps expanding until it swallows any opinion that makes someone feel unsafe in their ideology. Today it’s slurs; tomorrow it’s “misgendering”; next week it’s “climate denial” or “criticizing open borders.” The progressives’ harm argument is almost always subjective emotional distress, not measurable injury. That’s the sleight-of-hand.

You've obviously noticed I'm Libertarian. So, I'm not interested in either of your partisan apologist takes on censorship. Both are simply wrong.

My claim is that people like you have a very high likelihood of wanting to put people like me into a concentration camp. Additionally, Wikipedia is biased and I'd argue more than Rasmussen (which your Wikipedia link shows as "having an average error of 5.8 points and a pro-Republican bias of 3.9 points"). When 45% of a group says they want you in a concentration camp, it's best to pay attention despite things like your weak denial. Gulags and Communists go together like peas and carrots.

You're demanding examples while dodging the core critique. DEI isn't "challenging privilege"; it's enforced racial/sexual quotas dressed as justice.

Pointy example: United Airlines' 2021 pledge to make 50% of its pilot training class "women or people of color"; explicitly not the most qualified applicants, but a demographic quota. They bragged about it publicly. When merit's the afterthought and skin color's the mandate, that's racism in a candy shell.

Your move: defend the quota, or admit it's not meritocratic.

"It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." So, you need a little racism to fight racism, is that what you're saying?

Okay, well, then what's the problem with a meritocracy? I mean, if whites are so incompetent, they'll just disappear, right? Your white guilt would be vindicated, no?

Yep. It was clear the Code of Conduct fiasco of bringing politics into FOSS was a bad idea. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. Hopefully, a more deserving project that doesn't force indentation will get the money instead, lol. I hear the BSD guys have no problem with a meritocracy over "equity". Maybe they want the money.

Try that march again and you'd get nuked. There will never be another civil war unless you want a nuclear holocaust. There are about 1020 nuclear weapons in former slave-owning states. There will never be anything like that again unless the North wants to be a nation of cockroaches living on a sheet of glass.

... and who's rights do you want to stomp on to rid yourself of this systemic injustice? Who do you want to censor? Who do you want to tax? Otherwise, we aren't talking about DEI, because that specifically calls for anti-white discrimination, not a meritocracy or color blind policy.

I'd mostly agree with you. However, I'd point out that the problem is that folks who advocate for these good-sounding (no hungry, no homeless, no discrimination) policies and the Communist/Socialist methods of achieving them aren't too up front with the actual methods they want to use to get there. They want to steal. I'm not talking about theft (that's done by stealth). I'm talking about robbery (theft by the threat of force). Then there is the rights-stomping they want, as well. We see the left seems to have no respect left for free speech or classically liberal ideas. They'd rather sloganize with things like "Don't speak when a black women is speaking." Then they appear to really want to take that to the next level by trashing 1A with "hate speech" laws. COVID made all those intentions quite clear and put them all in the open, including that shocking numbers of lefties wanted concentration camps for CV19 policy refuseniks.

If it was a meritocratic idea, it'd be sold as such. Instead it's racism with a colorful candy shell and a cute-but-false heartwarming story about "equity".

Why would anyone listen to such a hateful person like you? I just have one question. Who's rights do you want to trample to get your racist DEI paradise?

Your IQ appears to be insufficient for understanding the use of a semicolon rather than a comma. Good thing you don't have to use punctuation on Jeopardy, eh genius boy?

Nope. That would be equality. What DEI advocates advocate for fundamentally is a zero-sum-game using racism to exclude whites "because equity". It's a race-based policy against whites, ie... the very definition of racism.

Wrong. Without DEI they would be merit-based and probably mostly biased toward asians, not whites, given standardized testing scores.

That's a nice try but completely wrong. Nobody is "arguing for white people". They are arguing for a meritocracy.

If you're advocating DEI, you're advocating racism. Simple as that.

Yep. The folks who have the skills we need are always doing fairly well somewhere else at the center of some company's development or operations. They aren't college kids (not that we wouldn't hire college kids, if they could actually code in something helpful, but they typically come out with nothing helpful). Something scared the pants off those kids and they are not interested in C/C++. They basically won't touch anything compiled (they will talk about Rust, but that's about it) these days unless they are from India, which is a shame, the West and especially the US invented most of the technology the Asia is now capitalizing on.