Can the antichrist only refer to a single person or can it be a group of people? Just asking.

Some day in the future some space-archeologist will wonder who the fuck left all that junk out there.

Sounds like a setup for a detective, onions and chips keep washing up but who’s done it? Not the onion.

Maybe op thought this was c/NotAnUtopia ;)

Can someone explain me why this has so many downvotes? Is it bad experiences with medication? Is it something based in science? Something not related to the content of the article?

I think i should have been less judging and more understanding of the small amount of power the good guys have left. I know how it is right now is very far away from how it should be and i understand the weapon you have is a lot better than the weapon you wish you had. I’m looking in from the outside and seeing all these standards being overturned is very depressing. I want to shout ‘DON’T DO IT, IT WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU!’, but at the same time who am i to judge, especially when it will be used against you no matter what you do. I think rooting for a fair system might not be as important right now as rooting for the people who are fighting an uphill battle against powerful villains. I never expected my first comment would get so much backlash, so it definitely was insightful to hear so many people disagree with me.

My employer can dock my pay or fire me for being a racist.

Your employer can and should if you did something racist while doing your work. Your employer should not be able to fire you or lower your salary you for stuff you post online in your free time. Not even is that is as vile as this guys stuff. I’m not arguing he isn’t a racist. Aside that, politicians aren’t the employer of individual officers, teachers, social workers, etc.

as someone who’s taxes pay this douchebag’s salary, I am fine lowering it to 1. Or fine firing him for conduct unbecoming.

Do you realise you’re taxes also pay for a teachers salary, and politicians having something to say about this salary also means they have something to say about that teachers salary? I would be fine with ICE lowering his salary, i’d be fine with ICE firing, i’d be fine with him being taken to jail after a fair trial. But politicians having this power is very very dangerous in the current political climate, even if this single time the power is used for doing good.

Politicians aren’t the employer, ICE is. ICE should be abolished. According to your thinking, politicians can also lower a teachers salary because he has posted something woke online. I know no judge is involved, maybe i didn’t word it clearly, but i do think this has to do with rule of law because it is about who has something to say about the actions of an individual outside of his job, which is a very relevant factor imo.

Since ICE doesn’t want to fire the guy, this is one of the few official acts thay can be taken to “encourage” him to leave on his own.

Which in this case is great, since Rodden is a bad person doing bad things. But a politician shouldn’t be able to say something about someones salary or employment imo. Bad people still deserve to be treated fairly, that’s how rule of law works.

I’m not. I’m defending his position. It has nothing to do with the rotten apple himself.

You can do something intentionally and still have someone consider that stupid. I get a lot of downvotes because people like him punished. I’m fine with him being punished, i am not fine with politicians acting as employers. A politician should also not be able to vote on the salary of a teacher, policeman or someone who cleans the government buildings. That is what i called stupid, the fact that he can punish someone for something wrong.

I’m not defending him, that’s the result of me arguing the system should be fair. If his employer would fire him, i would be silent. Politicians are not employers. Let’s look at it from another perspective; imagine a colleague of this racist have an x account where he tells people to come to protests about climate change, do you think a politician should have something to say about his salary too?

If you don’t break a law you shouldn’t be punished by the office that is about whether laws were followed or not. I know that sounds crazy. He could be punished by his employer, fine. He could be punished by an angry mob, fine. But if this guy gets punished while not breaking the law, you can bet some other people who didn’t break the law will still get punished. For me considering something legally fair has nothing to do with what he deserves. I don’t think we’ll come to agree on that.

Because the rule of law is, that if you commit crime x you get punishment y. Lowering salary is not a regular punishment. If he would be fined with paying a fine the amount of his salary that would be ok with me. I’m not saying this man doesn’t deserve punishment. But if his punishment was torture i’d also call that unfair.

Rule of Law means equal punishment for equal crimes regardless of the person committing them, so he should get the same punishment as someone who doesn’t work at ICE.

No i’m saying he is doing something stupid.

This is so stupid, he does bad things on X and then as punishment they lower his salary? Not that i really care what happens to this man but this doesn’t sound like a fair system to me. Either he is guilty and should get a fine or go to jail, or he is innocent and goes to work (however evil that job is) and gets paid like usual.

Would be cool if there would be a study on this, what amount of emission is saved by handing out ozempic and the likes and whether that is a good way of spending money aside from the health benefits.

I saw this in the Dutch news two days ago and almost started looking for an English-language article to post here - but i figured someone else will do it sooner than later lol. But great news though, also for the climate ;).

I should say it’s because my doorframe is breathing

Woodworkers will tell you wood is a living material