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Using Mbin as a backup to my main Kbin account due to tech issues on Kbin.social. May either switch to this one permanently or abandon it, depending on how Kbin’s development goes. All my active fedi accounts are linked.

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  • I’ll be honest, I doubt it will. At least, not in the mainstream.

    Alternatives to Salesforce already exist, and there’s a reason why they’re not more commonplace: most companies that use Salesforce or similar CRM platforms do so because somebody else maintains it (which is why Salesforce/Zendesk/etc are more expensive than a lot of their counterparts that don’t offer such services). If they have a problem with the tools, they’re paying for somebody at Salesforce to fix it for them. They don’t have to pay somebody in their own company to manage the servers or learn the software, they just let Salesforce manage that.

    That level of support very likely wouldn’t be the case with Twenty, and companies would be expected to pay somebody internally to learn and maintain their instance of the software. There’s also liability issues; if your company’s customer data gets breached somehow, it’s Salesforce’s responsibility and not yours, so you have to take on those sorts of burdens, as well. All of this starts to get very pricey (and very risky) if a company isn’t already structured in a way to handle those sorts of tasks, which is why I doubt there’ll be any big shift.

    I’d love to be wrong, though.


  • If so, there’s nothing preventing him from doing that.

    Deportations have to be negotiated with the receiving nation, regardless of whether we have a declared emergency or not. You can’t just send somebody back without approval (otherwise you’re facilitating an invasion), so each individual case has to be processed by both the US’s immigration departments as well as whichever country you’re trying to deport that person to. It doesn’t happen often, but there are situations where a receiving country could outright refuse a deportee, or may be otherwise unable to receive them (perhaps the person isn’t a recognized citizen of that country, either).

    Deportation isn’t as swift of a process as a lot of people think. Many deportees spend weeks or months in detainment before they’re ever released. The system would be immediately backlogged if they were to move at rates Trump is suggesting.

    There’s also the issue of sending civilians into active warzones. Many immigrants are refugees, escaping from countries that are at war. Take Haiti for instance: They’re in the process of being taken over by gangs, and their government is in shambles trying to combat them. Their president was assassinated a few years ago, and kidnappings of civilians are on the rise. Civilians are not safe in Haiti right now, and sending people into an active conflict like that could be seen as a crime against humanity.

    There will be deportations. Hundreds, maybe thousands. But definitely not millions.



  • They have no plan. We know this because it’s already mathematically impossible to do what they’re wanting to do. There literally aren’t enough places to detain all the immigrants they want to deport, nor are there enough ICE employees to even process them. You can’t just snatch people up and stuff 'em on an airplane and be done with it, there’s a whole process involved that our system does not have the capacity to even begin to support.

    Don’t get me wrong, they’re 100% going to do some deportations, and they’ll make sure that it’s national news when they do it. They’ll make sure that FOX tells you about their criminal histories, and they’ll make sure CNN tells you about their children locked in cages hundreds of miles away from their parents.

    It’s not about actually deporting immigrants. It’s about making the immigrants that are already here feel unsafe. It’s about making them feel insecure, worrying about whether they’ll be eating dinner tomorrow at home, or behind bars. It’s about making everybody live in fear; citizens are to fear their criminal neighbors, and immigrants are to fear the neighbors that would rat them out to ICE. Everything Trump and his team do are about making people turn against each other. And it works.