Maybe, but who else are we supposed to pay to do it? It's awfully convenient to leave it to the cops, we're already paying them to abuse us in a lot of other ways.
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Maybe, but who else are we supposed to pay to do it? It's awfully convenient to leave it to the cops, we're already paying them to abuse us in a lot of other ways.
So, in case anyone missed it, SCOTUS overturned the Colorado decision. 9-0. Not a surprise.
Oh, we've got 3/4 of the century left to pile up even worse. And I gotta say, I don't think the outlook for the 21st is rosy. I'mma be happy if we can avoid a WWI or II during our lifetime
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I do hate to travel myself, I grant, and my familiarity with international travel is with the tourist visa. Does the regular Israeli civil documentation show military...
A general travel ban isn't really a punishment but you can enact a general travel ban easily enough. Aimless was talking about only applying a punishment to those actively serving in the IDF during...
Rank and file never really get punished and there's a good reason for that. As the scale grows into the tens and hundreds of thousands it goes from impractical to utterly impossible to do so for...
Why?
What a load of crap. Sure, the stupid-ass unions around here protect those who should be forced out. But they also protect the ones who "just don't fit" like the guys who don't buy into the meme of...
It was a clear demonstration that most of them were unfit for office. And personally, I consider the actions of that group to amount to aid and comfort under the 14th amendment as well. As could...
Well yeah, of course they're not barred from political office. If they hadn't held military or government position the 14th amendment rule doesn't apply.
An appeal for judicial review is not...
I don't think it would or should be, but it seems to me that it can't possibly be correct that it's properly the arbitrary decision of 50 individual secretaties of state on what looks like...
I thought we'd already had quite enough of foreign-policy-by-spleen from the Trump administration but maybe your appetite for it wasn't sufficiently satisfied.
That's true. There was a policy decision made not to attempt to try and convict more than a million people but to provide a general amnesty instead. A million people who also did not, by and large,...
I very much doubt there is anything (that Israel might actually do) that would cause the administration or a voting majority here in the US to stop providing aid to Israel for its military response...
Done by whom? There is no rule or standard.
I don't know whether it's poisoning the well (and it's poisoned either way since his continued presence and campaigning also does so) but I do...
Did you ever think you were gonna convince Randblade. Why would I pretend you or Aimless are less wrong just because you're stubborn goats?
Both sides have been dedicated to fucking around...
I didn't study war for a living. But I did study it as the major component of interest for my degree. And I spent a couple of years after trying to understand how insurgencies coopt or gain control...
Just about the only way I can see the aid stopping is for Biden to be pushing for aid past the point of an actual Dem rebellion, voting in line with a plurality of the GOP who were already naturally...
I don't see it. Between the reflexive partisan opposition, the close margins in Congress, and the presence of die-hard pro-Israeli contingents on both sides of the aisle. . .
That poor man. Maybe he can negotiate with whoever actually wins the nomination to exchange his support for a SCOTUS nomination so he cadge rides like Thomas and Alito
That separation of powers bit is a nice new twist. I doubt the state Supreme is gonna go along with it for obvious reasons. :D And at a guess, it wouldn't be an area where it could be overruled by...
So. . . how much money is saved by the increased enforcement against fare-evaders? It seems like that should be a useful statistic to hear from the PD and MTA to evaluate the effectiveness of this...
Hamas doesn't need to hold a gun to any Palestinian's head. They just have to behave better towards them than the Israelis are. Since that bar is six feet under the ground (with a rubble pile...
You wanna go ahead and boycott and embargo each side in response to their atrocities? Go ahead. But there's a word for that. In English, it's referred to as "neutrality"
Yes there is. Any of the groups involved in this latest cluster of atrocities could have prevented the attacks on Oct 7th and this reprisal by acting differently. They all had plenty of reason to...