The reason Musk wants this might be greed, but it’s very stupid if that’s his reason. A huge amount of the US’s global economic power comes from strong-arming the rest of the world to enforce US patents and copyright, thus funneling trillions of dollars from the rest of the world to the US. Without any patents or copyright there would be improved Chinese Tesla copies on the market within a year.

The only sensible thing either of these two have ever said. All knowledge belongs to all humankind.

The ruling is also meaningless. They ruled the US has to “facilitate” his return, but does not have to “effectuate” his return. The admin will interpret this to mean that as long as El Salvador doesn’t take active steps to send him back, the US doesn’t have to do anything to try to make them.

Sure, lab safety goggles will protect you from pepper spray in most instances. But what eye protection you’re wearing won’t matter. You’re chained to a tree. The cops can do literally anything they want to you, including ripping your safety glasses off and emptying a can of pepper spray directly in your eyes. See: the infamous case of the Pepper Spray 8

Deputies pepper sprayed Mike McCurdy (above) and Noel Tendick directly in the eyes at close range while they were locked together through the tracks of a Pacific Lumber bulldozer on an old-growth redwood logging site. The activists endured the torture and did not unlock. Deputies then safely cut them loose with a portable grinder, as they could have done without using pepper spray, and as they had done hundreds of times in previous years.

Treesitters have been killed by loggers before and didn’t face murder charges iirc. They are probably more worried about wrongful death suits.

Depends on what you mean by “effective.” It might delay them for a few hours or a day. There’s a long history of this kind of thing, although it’s usually more effective to do a treesit rather than a lockdown for trees. You could do a lockdown on equipment like bulldozers/feller bunchers though. The Earth First! Direct Action Manual has a lot of info.

Be prepared to be literally tortured in various ways, including pepperspray placed directly in your eyes, pain compliance holds, or they just cut the chains/lockbox you’re in and if you get cut with it too bad.

Personally I’m not a big fan of get-arrested-on-purpose types of direct action, but it has its uses. I strongly recommend that if you’re going to do something like this you connect with a group that knows how to do it and you have a support crew, including jail/legal support.

Nah the first half of the 21st century is very rough in the Star Trek universe. We’re right on track (not really, I think we’re fucked long term) but it sucks to be the ones to live through it.

If someone sent me a letter saying they were going to use a bathroom I would ignore it

This is rational, but the fascist pigs who passed and enforce that law are not.

Your sentence is phrased like they simply had to be there

That’s a very bizarre reading of my comment, which was not phrased in that way whatsoever. The commenter I was responding to seemed to think the cops were posted there routinely for the purposes of enforcing that law. I was correcting the misunderstanding by pointing out they were only there because she sent a letter beforehand. Obviously they didn’t “have” to be there, in the sense that they are individuals with free will who could have woken up that day and decided to stop being fascist pigs. But they didn’t, and expecting them to is going to lead to disappointment every time because if “don’t be a fascist pig” were in the cards for them, they wouldn’t be cops in the first place.

The cops were only there because she sent the letter telling them when and where she would be doing this. Also a 60 day sentence would not be served in prison, but the county jail (they are different).

Stop trying to make me like these assholes

The CEO of Volkswagon isn’t currently doing a fascist coup you fucking moron

One of the ELF’s most famous attacks was on an SUV dealership where they filled oil pans full of gasoline and put them under the SUVs. Not very different from this case.

Glad I could clear things up

This is false. The Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front did dozens of arsons and never harmed a single person.

Strange comment - there was no attempted murder here.

It was Molotovs not pipe bombs lol. Pretty clear she intended to burn it at night when no one was there

yew got a lie-sense for that boner?

I believe the theory is that Roosevelt sat down with the Business Plot crew in secret and gave them the option of a) they convince their business pals not to oppose the New Deal too much or b) they hang. Obviously they picked option a.

Completely evil.

FUCK NO. How many times do we have to rehash this bullshit?