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Crossposting from the Chauvin Trial thread since people probably unbookmarked it. The other cops that were involved in George Floyd's murder are going to have their trials broadcast, similar to Chauvin's. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...n-b1840363.html Full story quoted because paywall quote:Some in the Minnesota legal system were apprehensive about allowing the live broadcast of Chauvin's trial over the killing of George Floyd but the video feed had no major problems and bolstered the public's understanding of the trial, Minnesota Public Radio News reported. E: 
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zoux posted:Is this a typo? Ha yes. Good catch.
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Manchin joins 5 other Democrats in not supporting D.C. statehood. Manchin wants a constitutional amendment.
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fool of sound posted:I'm pretty sure that Terra Firma did a thread about this a yearish ago. I can try to dig it up later if people are still interested. It was specifically done so he would stop derailing the main threads with filibuster defenses of vaping.
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Nonsense posted:Manchin joins 5 other Democrats in not supporting D.C. statehood. Manchin wants a constitutional amendment. Oh the even more impossible thing. loving hell. Since when did we need an amendment to create a new state? (Never?)
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Nonsense posted:Manchin joins 5 other Democrats in not supporting D.C. statehood. Manchin wants a constitutional amendment. Let me geuss: Sinema, probably some of the other dipshit Blue Dogs? It's amazing how polls have come out saying dem proposals are wildly popular, and these smooth-brained Reagan dems are still like "but what about getting republicans to vote for me?!" What utter dipshits TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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When I was little I thought the entire state of West Virginia was the capitol of the US. The map of the continental US looked like an animal to me, with Maine as the head, Florida as the front legs, and California as the butt, so West Virginia seemed to be the heart, and that's the most important organ.
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human garbage bag posted:When I was little I thought the entire state of West Virginia was the capitol of the US. The map of the continental US looked like an animal to me, with Maine as the head, Florida as the front legs, and California as the butt, so West Virginia seemed to be the heart, and that's the most important organ. The Florida Panhandle is the taint 
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human garbage bag posted:When I was little I thought the entire state of West Virginia was the capitol of the US. The map of the continental US looked like an animal to me, with Maine as the head, Florida as the front legs, and California as the butt, so West Virginia seemed to be the heart, and that's the most important organ. That explains a lot about your political history, Senator Manchin!
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AlternateNu posted:I appreciate this post. If I had any talent or time I would want to do a podcast on this game and how well thought out it was.
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VitalSigns posted:If it's the tobacco part of menthol cigarettes that's bad for you, why not allow the menthol and ban putting any tobacco in it Congratulations, techbro. You have invented
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Any news on Gaetz? That dude is probably turbofucked right?Mooseontheloose posted:If I had any talent or time I would want to do a podcast on this game and how well thought out it was. I support the sentiment in both of those posts. Alpha Centauri is one of the greatest games ever made, easily. I could gush about that game for hours. TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Apr 30, 2021 |
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Gaetz and MTG are doing a speaking tour. not sure if congress is already in recess, but they dont do anything then virtual signalling so good job leaving DC.
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https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1388175395929866241 josh is boned. also apparently the parents knew and tried to close ranks.
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PhazonLink posted:Gaetz and MTG are doing a speaking tour. Gaetz isn't allowed near recess.
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Angry_Ed posted:Oh the even more impossible thing. loving hell. Since when did we need an amendment to create a new state? (Never?) It's a DC thing. The 23rd amendment grants the District of Columbia (defined as being a district and not a state) 3 electoral votes. Even if you shrink this federal district to just the federal buildings (which is what's in the bill) you'll still have to deal with its electoral votes except it'll have zero people voting in it. The solution to this would be to just have the 3 electoral votes from that ghost district go to the popular vote winner (or the winner of the state of DC's vote) but that opens a can of worms and there is the question of whether that itself would be constitutional.
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PhazonLink posted:Gaetz and MTG are doing a speaking tour. Gaetz is on the House Judiciary Committee. And party boy was only one of two republicans who voted to remove cannabis from the controlled substances list. Homeboy also was the only vote against a human trafficking of minors bill. Dude knows what he wants and he goes for it. 
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1388175395929866241 joking stealing from the GBS thread, talk about 19 and counting.
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Youth Decay posted:It's a DC thing. The 23rd amendment grants the District of Columbia (defined as being a district and not a state) 3 electoral votes. Even if you shrink this federal district to just the federal buildings (which is what's in the bill) you'll still have to deal with its electoral votes except it'll have zero people voting in it. The solution to this would be to just have the 3 electoral votes from that ghost district go to the popular vote winner (or the winner of the state of DC's vote) but that opens a can of worms and there is the question of whether that itself would be constitutional. The amendment makes no claim to a popular vote and just says that the rules for the electors can be set by legislation. So, they can pick the names out of a hat if they want. This does not require an amendment just passing a law.
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:Obviously, we did try prohibition once, and that went poorly. I thought there was some recentish academic works out now that point out that Americans were drinking an absolute poo poo load before prohibition, and while it absolutely did not stop people from consuming or overconsuming it had the effect of pretty severely lowering the amount of booze the average joe drank to more sane levels.
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Telsa Cola posted:I thought there was some recentish academic works out now that point out that Americans were drinking an absolute poo poo load before prohibition, and while it absolutely did not stop people from consuming or overconsuming it had the effect of pretty severely lowering the amount of booze the average joe drank to more sane levels.
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department of defense is preparing to cancel border wall contracts they will use some of the designated funds to stabilize bank erosion and repair levees damaged by construction under the trump admin, the remaining amount will be returned to the sources they were raided from. this seems specific to funds that trump appropriated from dod. is anyone aware of construction from non-dod funding which might not be affected by this decision?
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It's like the title of that TV show but instead he hosed 19 kids and maybe more
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Telsa Cola posted:I thought there was some recentish academic works out now that point out that Americans were drinking an absolute poo poo load before prohibition, and while it absolutely did not stop people from consuming or overconsuming it had the effect of pretty severely lowering the amount of booze the average joe drank to more sane levels. The first part is certainly true but the reason prohibition even happened was that there was a growing national backlash to that which went to the extreme of banning it entirely. Most people were already realizing how destructive drunkness could be to communities and families and clean water was basically available to everyone by that point.
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Oh cool. https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1388235195359375361?s=21
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Thom12255 posted:The first part is certainly true but the reason prohibition even happened was that there was a growing national backlash to that which went to the extreme of banning it entirely. Most people were already realizing how destructive drunkness could be to communities and families and clean water was basically available to everyone by that point. And it still created a violent black market that didn't need to exist. I think it's fair to say that what you think about prohibition isn't true. Drinking did go down. Things were not as violent as we think, though a violent black market was still born. But if anyone is using that as an argument that it works well, no. We still have the War on Drugs along with better science about human behavior to tell us that prohibitions don't work and if you want to change addictions you need to provide people reasons to not become addicted. You need to support people, not punish.
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Sometimes I wish we actually lived in the communist hellscape the GOP thinks we do. Because of we did all these insurrectionists would have been hung and dragged through the streets.
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Discendo Vox posted:It was specifically done so he would stop derailing the main threads with filibuster defenses of vaping. I did it because I didn't want to be the cause of a lengthy derail just like I didn't really want to cause one this time. 
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Gumball Gumption posted:And it still created a violent black market that didn't need to exist. I think it's fair to say that what you think about prohibition isn't true. Drinking did go down. Things were not as violent as we think, though a violent black market was still born. But if anyone is using that as an argument that it works well, no. We still have the War on Drugs along with better science about human behavior to tell us that prohibitions don't work and if you want to change addictions you need to provide people reasons to not become addicted. You need to support people, not punish. Yeah I'm saying that people would've reduced their alcohol consumption to more reasonable levels even if prohibition never happened.
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Thom12255 posted:Yeah I'm saying that people would've reduced their alcohol consumption to more reasonable levels even if prohibition never happened. Yeah, I'm agreeing with you and working from the point you made. I'm doing the discuss part of the D's
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Hey, c'mon, it's not like there's plenty of historical precedent showing us exactly what happens when you let fascists participate in the syst—Oh. Oh poo poo.
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Thom12255 posted:Yeah I'm saying that people would've reduced their alcohol consumption to more reasonable levels even if prohibition never happened. Why
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As I said in my OP, all the things that came together to cause prohibition to happen were reducing alcohol use in the population already. Most people did think drinking too much was bad for you by that point.
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Thom12255 posted:As I said in my OP, all the things that came together to cause prohibition to happen were reducing alcohol use in the population already. Most people did think drinking too much was bad for you by that point. The ATS basically became a thing because drunks were beating their wives and because of several other factors like it being a moral failing, not because it was a health risk.
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*moral failing for getting drunk, not a moral failing for beating your wife
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Thom12255 posted:As I said in my OP, all the things that came together to cause prohibition to happen were reducing alcohol use in the population already. Most people did think drinking too much was bad for you by that point. "Aw gently caress meth is illegal now, oh well, not worth it!!! " -not the people the prohibition actually affects
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Thom12255 posted:The first part is certainly true but the reason prohibition even happened was that there was a growing national backlash to that which went to the extreme of banning it entirely. Most people were already realizing how destructive drunkness could be to communities and families and clean water was basically available to everyone by that point.
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Thom12255 posted:As I said in my OP, all the things that came together to cause prohibition to happen were reducing alcohol use in the population already. Most people did think drinking too much was bad for you by that point. The women's temperance movement came about largely because alcoholic husband's were habitually beating the poo poo out of their wives. Should they have just waited patiently for social norms to shift?
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