Wrong.
SCOTUS has ruled that any person within the jurisdiction of the United States is afforded due process rights. See: Shaughnessy v US:
Lawful resident noncitizens possess a constitutional right to procedural due process that is not easily removed.
Lawful. Resident. Noncitizens.
I am not sure what that says but it says something.
It says "Welcome to the Post-Facts World!"
As if rationality was ever a bastion of the stock market before now. Wanna buy some tulips or shares in DrKoop.com?
And like space, undersea exploration is a lot quicker and safer with drones.
Yep. But the thing is, it'll still be disappointing. We're hoping to find the Kraken, or something exotic down there, but most of the time it's just sand and tubeworms and small fish adapted to the pressure. As someone once put it, "We got to the Moon and there were no Klingons there, so we stopped going to the Moon". Our imaginations tend to be more exciting than reality when it comes to this type of exploration, so it makes it hard to get support for it.
Green card holders and holders of other valid visas are "illegal aliens"?
You're conflating illegal aliens with visitors that had their visas revoked for one offense or another. When you're a guest in someone's country, it's best not to be a complete ass. You get your visa revoked when you do that. This is not new or uncommon, and the State Department makes it clear that it can revoke visas for a full range of reasons:
visas are issued by the State Department and can be revoked for a number of reasons, including violating laws and providing false information on an application. The State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual makes clear a visa holder does not have to be formally charged with any crime before a visa can be terminated.
As you full well know, there is no right to be in someone else's country.
And section 235 of statutory law does not supercede the 5th amendment, which grants due process of law to "all persons" previous to a forfeit of "life, liberty, or property.".
This presupposes that aliens, legal or illegal, have all the rights and privileges of citizens. SCOTUS has never ruled to that effect, and the very notion makes a mockery of the whole concept of citizenship, or even nationhood, for that matter. Now if that's the hill that you want to die on, be my guest, and please, convince the Democratic Party to openly run on that notion. By all means, run on "If they make it across the border, they get to stay unless a judge says so". No one with a lick of sanity is going to endorse that.
They don't care when you deport migrants without due process.
They're not "migrants". They're illegal aliens. Pretty up the language all you like, it doesn't change what they are. It also doesn't change the fact that under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, section 235, they're subject to immediate expulsion:
Under section 235, the aliens subject to expedited removal have no right to have any of those decisions reviewed in federal court, and in June 2020, the Supreme Court concluded that expedited removal without further review satisfied due process, even for aliens who had entered illegally.
Access to the internet should be as much as a right as access to electricity and the phone system was considered a right. America put a lot of effort into wiring up the nation at one time.
Do Americans get electricity and phone for free?
Free press
Where is the press in the US not free? Who is being arrested? Which papers and TV networks are being shut down?
an impartial adversarial judicial system
LOL, you have to be fucking kidding me. We've NEVER had an "impartial" judicial system. Judges are either appointed by partisan means or by the so-called "Missouri Plan", which is a farce because it basically turns selection of judges over to trial lawyers. Going to court has always been a crapshoot, which is why virtually everyone that can do so tries to go jurisdiction-shopping to get the friendliest result. So don't act like we had this magical era of a perfectly just court system before this. Americans have been fighting with their court system since John Marshall.
due process
Which citizen is not getting due process? Be specific.
You're less than a couple of years away from being in a Russian oligarchy.
You and those like you have been saying this kind of bullshit all my life. There's a reason no one listens to you. You're that guy on Hollywood Blvd. with the signs saying "The end is near!'.
I'm not taking sides in this issue without more context, but I do feel that Internet access is becoming something more like a human right. Try surviving without it for a few days in the modern world, especially Asia, and you will quickly see.
You don't need the Internet to survive. You need food and shelter to survive, and people are responsible for paying for THAT on their own. And Americans think that's how it should be.
The Internet is never going to be a "right". Put the "it's a right" issue up in referendums across the country. In certain places you'll always win... Portland, Seattle, Brooklyn... but in most it will usually get shot down by a fairly wide margin, especially on a state-wide basis.
"The cruelty is the point."
Serwer was wrong. Bring on the downvotes. It's not the government's job to provide Internet at home.
You know full well two things here: most of those kids were not doing "homework" with those connections, and and most of the people griping for this are the ones that think everything should be free anyway. The vast majority of Americans are not going to lose one wink of sleep over this.
Why would the plastics industry push any kind of recycling? Because they were under INTENSE pressure, that's why. Don't expect the truth when you apply torture.
I think we should give the public a choice, but make them abide by that choice: live with the plastic trash waste, or go back to glass to a great extent (which is truly recyclable).
Here are the choices, here are those consequences. Choose. Then live with it.
I'm not saying that's always a good idea
Doesn't scale particularly well, it would seem.
That kind of democracy is only workable with small populations, and the more culturally homogenous the better. In big nations with huge populations, you're going to have too many vital differences. Over the years I've become convinced that countries can get too big, and that once you reach a certain size and the differences in various areas becomes too much, it's time for a peaceful divorce. In huge countries, people become resentful when their lives are run by a few men in a city far away from them. They don't feel any connection to them.
"...we started paying for female attention.."
Do you know what the oldest profession in the world is? I think it was before the internet.
Except OnlyFans has a far greater reach, and much worse side-effects, socially. The whole point of this story and post is the lack of genuine human interaction because of the Internet, or at least the Internet being the catalyst. Even with hookers in ancient times you needed to actually get out onto the streets and mingle with people. And at least you got actual sex for your payment. Onlyfans means that you're paying more for a few nice words from her than you used to pay for actual pussy. Onlyfans is now the only outlet where a lot of young men get any interaction with women whatsoever. So that goes way beyond "the oldest profession".
Sweet suffering fuck, is there anything this empathy free android will not try to wring coin out of?>.
Unfortunately, this is kind of the natural evolution of the Internet. First we were happy to discover other people across the world. Then we were happy to discover other people online via video and live chat. Then we started ignoring real people. Then OnlyFans came along, and we started paying for female attention. We've basically been living in our computers for years. It' was probably inevitable that someone was going to profit filling that void with artificial people. It's a huge moneymaking opportunity to the company that gets there first.
That's what they used to say about the 16TB drives I have in my computer right now.
And the 16GB drives of yester-year, and the 16MB drives of yester-yester-year, and
This system will self-destruct in five minutes.
