Recent content by Politesse

I do not agree that the efficacy of a strategy should be considered irrelevant to morality. But if we're solely talking morality, I also see gerrymandering as a moral wrong in and of itself. I was proud when California voted to take a clear and unequivocal stand against it, making national...

Of those who actually held the office, Roosevelt and Nixon have come the closest to otherthrowing or simply ignoring the democratic process. The latter more so, the more I learn about the Nixon presidency, the more I feel that the largely coincidental scandal and impeachment preserved our...

And I continue to maintain that. All of the reasons they cite as justification now - it's an emergency, we need the power, Trump is a unique evil, Texas started it but we have to finish it, it's temporary until we win back all the branches of government someday, etc - will be just as true in...

Why would an omnipotent absolute monarch need "advisors"? Advising him on what? Seems a bit out of character for the Jesus of the Christian gospels at any rate, he mocked anyone who presumed to suggest a different course of action to him, even his closest friends.

Let's start an actual thread on this. I don't want to drag this thread further off-topic, but you are deeply and fundamentally wrong about what happened and in what order.

If you actually read my posts before responding to them, you'd already know that I fervently oppose Trump and his fascist project. But the idea that all strategies of countering fascism are equally good or equally effective is wrong. Weakening democratic institutions in order to gain an edge on...

Well, no. Nor did I say as such.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. How does any of that follow from the post you're responding to?

If there really are only 144,000 saved as some Scriptures seem to state, out of all the 120 billion or so people who've been born since Christ's ascension the odds of knowing anyone in particular who got Raptured would be pretty low.

What point do you even think you're making? How does claiming that your victims were attacking you, however incredibly, make it not a genocide? If I walk into your house and murder you, your wife, your child, and your elderly father, and use your finger bones to make a necklace for my...

I'm sure he's praying for guidance and clarity.

Glee? What he fuck are you talking about?

Libertarians stand for FREE SPEECH, PRIVATE OWNERSHIP, INDEPENDENT MEDIA, and SMALL GOVERNMENT. Unless you disagree with them about some petty damn thing, of course. Then whatever you do that they don't should be a federal prison sentence for criminal weirdness.

You're off your rocker if you think anyone here opposes the release of the Epstein files. Thomas Massie is a terrible person, sure, but that's not the reason why.

1. There are no consequences to just ignoring the end date, which isn't a real, firm end date so much as an "expression of intent". 2. It will still be a dire emergency, actually a much more serious emergency, in 2030. 3. This legislation will itself act as a serious roadblock to any...