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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

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267 points giuliomagnifico | 3 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source
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renewiltord ◴[29 Mar 25 19:14 UTC] No.43517794[source]▶
The people opposing these things do themselves a serious disservice by conflating someone who attended the funeral of the top guy of a designated terrorist group with the biologist moving biomaterial between research labs.

Now every time I hear one of these stories I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and hear about how the frog biologist attended Prigozhin’s funeral (purely out of recognition for his work as a chef, of course)

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whatshisface ◴[29 Mar 25 19:17 UTC] No.43517817[source]▶
There are in reality only two types of actions, those that are illegal, and those that you think you have every right to do.
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1. renewiltord ◴[29 Mar 25 19:24 UTC] No.43517888[source]▶
Fair enough, the government has every right to deport the frog biologist. It’s not illegal for them to do so. Regardless, I think they should not have.
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2. selimthegrim ◴[29 Mar 25 20:39 UTC] No.43518525[source]▶
I must’ve missed all the people we deported for attending IRA funerals.
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3. renewiltord ◴[30 Mar 25 15:03 UTC] No.43524736[source]▶
Personally, I prefer that we are not consistent with three decades past. Gay marriage wasn’t recognized back then and so on. So I’m not surprised we’re inconsistent with that time. Over the period of one or two admins I prefer some degree of consistency but over three decades? Not so much.

If we had back then it wouldn’t have struck me as crazy if we’d considered the IRA a terrorist group. That we didn’t do this doesn’t mean we’re locked out of it forever.