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I have problems with how the border patrol operates, but overtime work should get overtime pay, period.

Building a fucking wall would be significantly more difficult and be entirely useless at stopping the main vector of overstaying otherwise legitimate visas.

Levees are not normally resistant to being traversed other than by water, are they? Are these ones in particular?

And, as I already said, your own statement is worthless. We could continue the conversation in pursuit of mutual understanding, but it's probably off topic for this thread.

I said no such thing; it was only after entering your eyes that it became suggestive of that. That's on you.

I don't understand how—but that being the case, I guess the disagreement was illusory.

No: 1. I reject the idea that there is categorically no pragmatic use for even the smallest degree of compassion for outsiders (or: the qualifier "wasting" makes your claim useless, since no one is going to disagree that wasting is to be avoided where practical); 2. Trying to reduce political...

On that I would agree.

I think I see: you're saying that even when Indians had local superiority, and were seemingly in a similar position to commit massacres as whites were at other times, the long term strategic situation influenced their behavior—is that right?

Excessively reductive to the point of being counterproductive.

It seems relevant to the proposition "western imperialists were uniquely kind". Bye, bye, American pie.

All right, but do you have any reason to think that Indians did it more often than whites?

It sounds to me like your justification for "uniquely kind" is that they are unique in voluntarily giving up on (most of) the cruelties they had been committing. Is that right? That is very different from my earlier impression that you were saying they were kinder all along. And I'm not aware...

While this is probably true* if you look at a sufficiently long timescale, would you agree there's little reason to think that pre-Colombian Native American movements were much more volatile than, say, European movements? *Mostly, anyway: I'd question, for instance, the part about conquered...

I am not at all convinced that Biden's action with respect to this specific agreement is a significant reason they (allegedly) perceive that their prospects of getting in are now better. To clarify my earlier post, when I said "nothing Biden did changed the situation" I meant "nothing about...

Would it be fair to infer from your lack of response that you concede to error in your characterization of the temporal relation between the Trump administration's deal and the pandemic?

Unless I misread the story, nothing Biden did changed the situation because the activities the agreement facilitated had already been on hold for 10 months. Canceling the agreement will not worsen the pandemic because it won't actually change what is currently happening. Where in the above...

The story you linked appears to me to be referring to an agreement that was signed in July 2019 and entered into force in November 2019. Obviously that time period would not have been "in the wake of the pandemic". What am I missing here? Biden is canceling agreements whose terms have been...