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18 years for woman who hoped to destroy Baltimore power grid and spark a race war
  • There's not much to it. They simply believe that as the strife causes conflict over resources the factions will "naturally" align along racial lines. They also believe that people "naturally" cohabitate better within their own race.

    This does require ignoring all of human history and the brutal conflicts that have occurred within racially homogenous regions. But I'd never accuse white supremacists of being intelligent or genuine.

  • Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. added to Trump transition team
  • It's populism. You have to see if someone's policy positions are consistent over time, that they have a specific ideal they are following, vs what they think is the most popular policies.

    Granted, it's a huge pain with new politicians when they don't have that history, but I think Tulsi had a pretty clear history that showed she wasn't progressive.

  • How do you sit through an airplane flight without excruciating pain?
  • I wouldn't recommend this if you fly very frequently, but you can take some ibuprofen or acetaminophen at the start of the flight / part way though and it should be active around the time you start getting sore.

  • Get Ready Now: Republicans Will Refuse to Certify a Harris Win | Trumpist county election officials are preparing to throw the process into chaos.
  • It's called a "faithless elector" and what happens depends on the law of the state the elector is representing. Some states void the vote without penalty, some void it with some penalty, some allow the vote but with penalty, some allow the vote with no penalty, and some have no law at all (which seems like no difference from allowing with no penalty).

    It's entirely conceivable that enough faithless electors from states that do not void the vote could swing an election, though there's never been enough to do so before.

  • Legality of same sex relationship in Africa
  • Basically the difference between being legally supported as opposed to simply not illegal.

    South Africa recognizes same sex marriages, where-as the other places allow same sex relationships legally, but don't recognize the marriages.

  • Legality of same sex relationship in Africa
  • There's also significant input from American Evangelicals contributing to these laws. For instance, Scott Lively an evangelical anti-gay activist, helped push for Uganda to penalize same-sex relationships with the death penalty. And Islam only makes up 13.7% of Uganda.

  • To me, my X-rule!
  • I'm usually fine giving the benefit of the doubt, but this comment was in direct response to a scene from the show that was absolutely blatant, so they had to wilfully ignore that.

  • To me, my X-rule!
  • I saw someone complaining that the old X-men show was at least subtle and not in your face about how it approached social issues.

    This was in response to a clip from the old X-men show of a bunch of anti-mutant brownshirts in armbands getting mad that a filthy mutant was touching a human woman.

    I think it's safe to say that person was not arguing in good faith.

  • Zelensky: JD Vance must understand ‘millions will be killed’ without US aid to Ukraine
  • Because the millions for Ukraine accounts for civilian casualties, not purely military. For anything similar Ukraine would have to counter invade Russia and launch artillery at residential areas.

    Even if we assume the worst of Ukraine's intent, they wouldn't have the capability to go beyond securing their borders.

  • Alabama IVF ruling divides devout Christians: 'Fewer children will be born'
  • As horrendous as this ruling is, I'm also pissed at the pro-forced birthers that are upset by this ruling. It's so intellectually dishonest to object to this ruling when it uses the same justifications they use to oppose abortion.

    These people pick issues to be passionate on but never actually put in the effort to research. And not just whether their position makes any sense, but what the downstream effects of the position would mean.

    The politicians who write these anti-abortion laws are even more lazy. This is literally their job and they should have seen this coming. They could have put in exceptions for IVF from the get-go but they didn't, because they are more interested in winning points than writing effective legislation.

  • And this is my new campaign plan
  • In the 2004 Bard's Tale game you keep running across kids who die thinking they are they chosen one.

    And then trows (basically goblins) come out and sing an oompa loompa style song mocking the kids.

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