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Mr. Nice! posted:Fifth circuit struck down the Lautenberg Amendment with regard to DV restraining orders. Founding fathers didn’t care about DV, so we can’t restrict firearms for the same reason. US jurisprudence is a joke    
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ASAPI posted:One of my wife's friends just declared that the previous balloons under Trump are just what the Biden media machine wants us to think You don’t. Tell your wife to make better friends.
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Leave posted:So, is the State of the Union not important? I was pretty sure it wasn't when I was in 5th grade, and that's the last time I watched one. It's a combination of both. Usually the president lays out previously unknown policy priorities, so that's actual news. But it's surrounded by an hour or so of bragging and clapping. Skimming a transcript after is the way to go except for some comedy moments ("you lie!").
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That's quite a correction quote:Correction: The original version of this story misattributed a quotation from Pope Paul VI, who died in 1978, to Pope Francis. It was Pope Paul VI who said, “One day, we will see our animals again in the eternity of Christ.” The original version of this story misinterpreted comments made by Francis who said in recent remarks, according to Vatican Radio, “The Holy Scripture teaches us that the fulfillment of this wonderful design also affects everything around us.” This quotation was interpreted in press accounts to mean that the Pope believes all animals go to heaven. A Vatican spokesman told Reuters on Dec. 13 that this was not the Pope’s intended message.
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What’s the cost of sending up a few F22s and the missiles(s) they fire compared to the balloons?
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Crab Dad posted:Somebody reset the counter. I’m too tired. It's basically spinning under its own momentum at this point 
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Handsome Ralph posted:https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-tiki-torcher-teddy-joseph-von-nukem-killed-himself-before-trial Too racist to acknowledge exchange rates? Not that $4000 is a great price either.
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$44b is an impressive commitment to forcing people to pay attention to you. Great system we have going when that’s actually an option.
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Carter is probably the least objectionable president in 60 years, but that’s not the highest of bars during the cold war and gwot. A lot of the current instability in central america is directly his fault. Building some homes for disadvantaged people doesn’t exactly make up for for arming and supporting a bunch of terrorist groups. e: Goes without saying he's mostly going to be smeared for not being bloodthirsty enough, but let's not pretend the man was a saint because he did volunteer work after retiring. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Feb 18, 2023 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:If all you know is that he build a couple houses, you are completely unqualified to have an opinion on him. It's reductive, sure. But when it comes down it, he raised money for a charity to build houses after prioritizing tax cuts while he was president. He put his time into negotiating peace as a private citizen after sending weapons to right wing militias on multiple continents when he was in charge of US foreign policy. I just think we should take it with a grain of salt when someone tries to whitewash their actions when they were actually in power with charitable work after the fact. The Obama Foundation does good work too, but it doesn't excuse him murdering hundreds of children with drones. Some things you can't come back from. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Feb 19, 2023 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:No, calling the work that the Carter Center did "building some houses" No, that's that Habitat for Humanity work, And as a reminder, his administration turned down proposals to expand welfare including a UBI scheme and decided to pitch republican work requirement bullshit instead. He pushed for austerity and tax cuts as a response to economic problems, he created way more homeless people than his charity work got housed. Stultus Maximus posted:and blaming Carter for the instability in Central America is not reductive it's flat out dishonest. So Carter didn't authorize the CIA to fund anti-Sandinista guerillas in Nicaragua?
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Stultus Maximus posted:Okay, so you actually don't know what the Carter Center does. No, that was mentioned above too - it's good diplomacy and public health work that for whatever reason wasn't a priority when he had the weight of the US executive branch behind him. Stultus Maximus posted:Or what over a century of American involvement in Latin America was. "The other guys did it too" is not a great ethical argument. Carter had the choice not to arm those guerillas and exacerbate a civil war, but he went for it anyway. Look, there's no argument he was less bad than the other guys. But there hasn't been a president for a long time that wasn't a murderous bastard when it comes to foreign policy, and only a few of them haven't exacerbated the increase of economic inequality since the second world war (actually any of them? LBJ maybe, and his foreign policy ... yeah). The political system in the US is not set up to put good people in power. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Feb 19, 2023 |
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Grip it and rip it posted:How is current Latin American instability directly his fault? He authorized intervention that funded and armed rebel groups in Nicaragua because the US was not friendly with the government that took power there. He's not solely responsible by any means (Reagan was a lot more enthusiastic about US involvement, among others), but there's a direct line of causality between US Cold War shenanigans in Central America and the current political problems there today. 1979 Times article on the decision: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP99-00498R000100170025-9.pdf AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Feb 19, 2023 |
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Reagan was inaugurated in January 1981, note the dates in this document. The truckload of American weapons just materialized out of thin air?
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orange juche posted:Then again in the US you can sue a homeowner for injuring yourself while breaking and entering on their property lol. You can sue anyone for anything. Unless you're setting up mantraps or something it will go nowhere. The case that everyone cites wasn't a home, it was a school. They settled for a nuisance amount because it turned out painted over skylights had already been documented as a risk, but no one had fixed it yet. There was another incident where a student who was up there for legitimate reasons fell through not long after. And even then, if they took it to court they probably would have won anyway. And there have been a bunch of laws passed since that address this scenario specifically. It's not as egregious as the McDonalds hot coffee example, but "tort reform" (read: insulating companies from liability) advocates have amplified this case to shut down legitimate lawsuits, in a lot of states now it can be hard to recover anything even when there's negligence with no crimes involved. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Feb 20, 2023 |
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Zamujasa posted:- no funny symbols like !, @, and especially % Old Oracle systems have the worst requirements. You can use some symbols, but not others because the database doesn't support them. Good luck guessing which ones!
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Holy sudden change to the passive voice. "A deputy fired a 40mm foam baton launcher and almost simultaneously, a deputy involved shooting occurred." How does someone write and publish that sentence with a straight face?
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Cugel the Clever posted:Bizarrely, Bibi himself may be the only remaining counterweight as he's savvy enough to understand the image problem that would create internationally. Would it though? It seems like Israeli settlement activity has been mostly normalized at this point, at least in the US it's a non-issue for the media.
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Soylent Pudding posted:They actually considered it in the early days of Zionism. It was the Orthodox communities embracing Zionism that lead to the specific focus on reclaiming Israel. Some of the initial secular socialist Zionists just wanted to move somewhere they could have an agrarian commune and not get pogromed every few decades. Didn’t most of these alternate plans involve genociding a bunch of people in Madagascar or wherever?
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