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NATO also goes to war, fucking constantly. They just gaslight you into thinking their wars are with "unimportant countries" and thus don't really "count" as wars. Chinese citizens will likewise be reassured that the situation in Taiwan is a minor but necessary police action to put down some...

The fuck do you think? In exchange for a few seats in the Congress, we lose the White House for the final time and can't do a thing about it. This isn't going to stop. My god, Democrats are bad at math! We cannot out-gerrymander these people, we've already played our last card.

Yes, everyone does. Because people can't think ahead four years.

Technically he just prayed for it to happen, around the time when the tree withered. Correlation does not prove causation. I pray for a lot of things, and they don't always happen.

To a public discussion of crime and punishment? Not at all. To a therapist? These are different situations with different causes and best practices for treatment. For a keyboard warrior ephebophile? They're hoping you'll agree that their sins are less grievous and absolve them from what they...

Ephebophiles would certainly like you to think so. Don't trust anyone who feels strongly about this.

This is exactly why I voted against the proposition, and here we all are. I think our electoral system is in considerable existential danger. But men are mortal and danger is not doom.

He'd be within his rights, as defined by the current Supreme Court, to do so.

I've never said anything remotely in support of "violent thugs outside Berkeley". In El Cerrito, I presume?

I do not. You are knowingly and directly telling lies about me at this point. Why? Do you think it helps your "cause" to tell obvious lies about other people? Do lies become truths if you say them enough times, in your worldview?

What does "support" mean, here?

I mean, it's definitely true that the sky is not always blue. But not that I am some cruel villain who disagrees with whatever you say. In this very thread, you denounced slavery and I thanked you for doing so. Tres simple.

You know what disagrees with you? The national federal Constitution, and the state constitutions of twenty US states. If slavery in the prisons isn't slavery, why would it need an exception clause? And why is there fervent opposition to correcting the law, if it wouldn't change anything to...

Tomás de Torquemada was what passed, laughably, as a legal authority in his time and place, whose reforms resulted in the Spanish Crown putting at least 2000 people to death and dehoming hundreds of thousands. I have never put anyone to death. Or even tried to. I'm just a dude on the internet...

I haven't missed your point, I just disagree with it. If you don't want to talk about an important issue, don't bring it up. If someone asks a follow up question and you don't want to answer it, ignore them. But you're not a "persecuted citizen" because you brought up slavery and then people...

Then your knowledge is perilously wrong. Yes, chattel slavery for general commercial purposes is illegal, but not slavery as punishment for a crime. The constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery included this as an explicit exception case, and in many states this was used as an excuse to...

Then why did you bring them up? If you bring up cock fights, I'm going to talk about cock fights. Even if you insist that it was just a joke or a metaphor or irony or an illustrative point or whatever bullshit conservatives vomit out when they realize they are in over their head. Do you oppose...

Very true. We are indeed countrymen. That which you are apparently ignorant about, but about which I've gone to the capitol itself and certainly logged in the phone hours campaigning to end: the exception clause. With some success, I might add. I was involved one way or another with the...

I, of course, do not. Nor even the "violent thugs" inside Berkeley.

Unwise. I'd be inclined to let parking enforcement handle it. It is not. It is most certainly not. And again, coming from a warhawk and frequent genocide apologist, even the sentiment is hypocritical. You are often in the position of trying to explain why you think a given war shouldn't...