Recommend growing what you know is safe. The amount of “could kill you” mushrooms in the US is fairly low IIRC, but the amount of “this looks almost identical to an edible species but will make your day/week Not Fun” species is high enough in most places that I wouldn’t chance my luck on foraging.

Yeah, they chose El Salvador because they’ve literally abolished due process. It’s like Cambodia again - someone accuses you and you’re just instantly taken away. You MIGHT get to see a judge after you’re imprisoned for a month or two, likely after you’ve been beaten half to death so you’ll confess to anything just to make the pain stop. It’s a dressed up version of Duterte’s Philippines - we’ll kidnap you and let you die, rather than just some death squad rolling up to your door (because that doesn’t play well to the media and the other can be dressed up as “law and order”).

There’s a reason El Salvador is outsourcing and staffing this place with foreign soldiers. Makes it easier to rotate people in and out, makes it easier to keep things hush in-country.

Middle Manager syndrome. There’s a lot of people out there who will happily do horrible, terrible things to their fellow humans so long as doing so allows them to exert a little bit of power.

This. To quote my favorite podcaster: mental illness isn’t your fault, but it IS your responsibility. Recognizing that you did wrong is an important first step, but you should definitely seek professional help and treatment if able.

Actually no, he doesn’t. Don’t give the fascists leverage by playing their game - they only believe in the words they say when it’s convenient. Trump already tried to counteract sovereign statehood in 2020 by forcing lockdowns to end early.

Even worse now. Remember, that DOGE whistleblower said he got a physical, taped threat on his door, with what appear to be drone photos of him walking his dog.

Imagine having to fight for your parental rights against a dude who has the Literal US President for a friend.

Not even that, that idea is driven, deep down, by seeing autistic people as less than human, or at least a less “valuable” human. Don’t mistake it - Moms of Autism types absolutely, deep down, hate their children.

TBH, our Constitution has lasted an awfully long time for a nation. Most other nations, in the same time, have gone through at least one, and sometimes a dozen governments in the same timeframe.

Precisely this. You route a shipment to an un-tarriffed/un-embargoed country, usually to a shell company or something, and then ship it to wherever using THAT country as the country of origin. It’s a pretty common way of avoiding arms embargoes.

For the next couple weeks, I’m sure. The financials are watching all the axes being taken to regulation in the industrial sector and I’m sure they’re gonna want in on that scene at some point.

And the death camp is only a formality. If they thought they could get away with it, they’d have the police gun you down in the street and start issuing death warrants.

A department of random college kids with unfettered and unmonitored access, who have Marshals to force access to ANYWHERE THEY PLEASE, seems ripe for recruiting by an intelligence agency.

Which is what they were doing with the old Maxims in Ukraine. Slap it down in a defensive position, where you don’t have to move it (or, in a few cases, weld that shit to a pintle mount in the back of a truck), and you can keep firing until the barrel melts or you don’t have anything left to shoot.