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To be fair we regularly declare national emergencies when there is no emergency. ...

It's just about the only way to wage an sublight interstellar war at all (excluding one-way invasion migrations, abandoning a prior planet due to...

The cops were claiming it was legit. How else were they supposed to verify?

Well that would be too far...

In general reporters try to verify things first.

Just skimmed through it because it's late, so I'll have to read through it properly later, but I was struck by the casual hand-wavey take on...

I don't think you can write it off that easily. The distance would mean fewer reasons for conflict, sure, but the lack of communication also means...

Without FTL, there is going to be very little in the way of interstellar trade and communication, which also means not much in the way of...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/19/brexit-uk-will-apply-food-tariffs-in-case-of-no-deal-michael-gove-says Good idea! Particularly...

(The Queen's) Corgi. Parents who went to see this movie with their children don't like it. And I get that. Because this, despite the way it's...

I already responded to this up-thread, perhaps you missed it.

An award, for riling up you and people like you? Turn about being fair play.

Just finished my taxes. So the GOP was bragging about how their tax reform allowed one to file taxes on a postcard. Only problem is they managed...

If he paid someone to assault him, then the appropriate punishment is whatever the law specifies & a court finds to be appropriate for filing a false...

His claim was the story wasn't newsworthy. That only the "elite media" would turn it into a story. Clearly it was a story whether it was real or a...

Still waiting... no one wants to suggest an appropriate sentence for this dude?

Ummm...Dread can be a jerk and still be correct on how crazy the media and certain politicians went on this.

I've not been following this story but didn't you just say you thought it was a hoax?

Dread, just how much time have you been spending at Mar-a-Lago?

Just finished watching The Umbrella Academy. Top notch production :up: A couple of weak characters, and I'm just not a fan of Ellen Page or the type...

"pushing the envelope" Come on man, it's not like he wore a tan suit.

As someone who loves calling people socialists, I don't think it's actually a super-effective diss because millennials and GenZ thinks socialism is...

I'm aghast Mitch McConnell is going along with this. On the bright side, now that a Republican president is pushing the envelope of the executive...

If it is a hoax, he really played into the sensibilities of the media elite.

PROJECT FEAR is relentless. Honda may announce scrapping 3500 jobs in Swindon tomorrow. P.S. Swindon voted leave with 54%

And after PROJECT FEAR messed up trade talks with China, now it is messing up trade talks with Japan. Because nobody could be offended by a stern...

I thank you for outing yourself by posting a link to a far right QAnon website.

I think there is going to be a huge amount of shyness from the Democratic establishment to be viewed as backing a favorite early on. There are a lot...

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/pelosi-deletes-tweet-supporting-jussie-smollett/ LOL So... let's stop talking about a hypothetical. What...