They've been in power for at least 10 years, "joking" about a third term, telling us America should be ruled by dictatorship, and you just trust that they won't actually do it? How do you know?

What is democracy then? On what reasons are people allowed to base their vote on? I don’t think it's possible to cleanse your brain of every iota of cultural, ethnic, or religious background and just vote as "yourself." Your preferences are melded, in part, by your group identity.

And you think decades ago before your suburb was "corrupted" by anti-assimilation, that people's group identity didn't predict how they voted? I think you can find a poll link to disprove that. At the least there were probably some Black people voting how Black Americans tended to, or maybe another ethnicity in your area. So your complaint is nonsensical to me, or at least it’s been a "problem" for decades longer than you say. Was the 15th Amendment the start of the problem, to you? A bunch of unassimilated non-Anglos were dumped into the voting pool en masse, only to get worse with the 19th and a bunch more people who were different than the dominant voting base were added.

I'd like to be wrong, but Congress failed to convict him the last time he tried to overthrow the election, SCOTUS has partisan justices supporting him. If they're creative enough and people are scared enough...

All Red states. So if you roll over and let the federal government trample your state's sovereignty, they won't murder people in your state? Somehow I don't think that's what federalism was supposed to mean.

Trump nearly passed out with glee when he was talking to the Ukrainian president and found out elections are canceled, by their law, due to martial law because of the war. I would not so casually assume he won't try it here.

He doesn't care about the Iranian people either, so there's some other reason. I'm not going to carry water for a secretly-motivated war where the "good" effects are secondary, post-hoc rationalizations.

At least just say they're a grave threat we should destroy or whatever, don't play along with the game that the American government and people care so much for Muslims on the other side of the world.

If you're sure cyclomatic complexity should be minimized, I think you should put such rules in a pre-commit hook or something that runs before a reviewer ever sees the code. You should only have to help with that if someone can't figure out how to make it pass.

If you're not willing or politically able to implement that, you might be wasting time on your personal taste that the team doesn't agree with. Personally I'm pretty skeptical of cyclomatic complexity's usefulness as a metric.

Even regarding "chase something complex and difficult", there are currently only so many needs for that, so I think any given person is justified fearing they won't be picked. It may be several years between AI eating all the CRUD work from principal down, and when it expands the next generation of complex work on robotics or whatever.

Also, to speak on something I'm even less qualified – the economy feels weak, so I don't have a lot of hope for either businesses or entrepreneurs to say "Let's just start new lines of business now that one person can do what used to take a whole team." The businesses are going to pocket the safe extra profits, and too many entrepreneurs are not going to find a foothold regardless how fast they can code.

People are being killed or dying in ICE custody https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cuban-immigrant-in-ice-c... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/...

Or they just use places like CECOT where people could be killed but we don’t know and it’s conveniently “not America’s fault.”

Why would someone express political messages without being selective? It’s understandable not wanting overt politics in your software, but this line is odd.