It’s really easy to convince people that “different” is worse, it seems.

I’d support a threat of secession.

Too?

That scares me more, honestly. The police riding around in a malfunctioning APC…

Good thing we spent the last 25 years giving the police surplus military equipment.

Some don’t care, and some don’t have the energy to. This is by design.

“Longstanding policy” = what we did the last time this fucker was elected. There is no precedent for this, and the entire judicial branch shrugged and said “What are you going to do?”.

The Democrats impeached him twice but there was no way he was ever going to be convicted with the Senate in its then-state. Meanwhile, his lawyers and Judge Cannon have been doing nothing but delaying until checks watch now! Unless you have an idea for speeding up the American judicial system? If there was enough support from any state to straight up not let him run, then they would have done so. But as we’ve seen, 40% of the American voting populace have the intelligence of a kindergartner and just votes for “the other party” when the economy isn’t doing well.

Do they? Most of their military supplies come straight from us in the form of donations. I don’t believe they’ve ever really spent that much money that we didn’t hand them to give back to the MIC, like a parent giving their kid a dollar to buy an ice cream cone.

I enjoy how everyone just kinda ignores the fact that the ones trying to stop people from voting are always the Republicans.

If it costs the NYT money and buys the workers some bargaining power, I’m all for it.

I’ve never heard of transpire being used for the first definition. Perspiration is the act of sweating, and it comes from Latin I think? High school was so long ago.

Indeed it is. :) At least I don’t have a space in my name. That’s how you know who the real bots are.

Especially not with a fucking adjective-noun username.

Good catch. In my haste to be mad at Florida as a state, I overlooked that.

Nah, didn’t you hear? This is all Biden’s fault, actually.

They want those things so they can claim that they’re being bullied. It’s Christianity all over again - a group of people who historically have been pandered to and coddled claim that everyone is being mean to them and so we should be instituting some sort of theocratic state. That’ll show them.

I’m not arguing with them, though, am I? I’m making the argument to you and others who (seemingly) aren’t all the way down the rabbit hole.

My overarching purpose with all these comments is to dispute the idea that the left is somehow responsible for how the right has gone full-on fascist over the past 4 election cycles. The right is responsible for their own logical and moral failings.

I didn’t say you did, but I can see how you got there.

That’s anecdotal, but it does display the frustrations that people have with what they perceive as injust wokeness.

I think it’s important to mention that shitty people are everywhere and in all shapes and colors; these two may just stand out because he does feel like he has to walk on eggshells around them.

What I will say is that I think it’s a mistake to assume that people who are minorities or other discriminated classes are also progressive by nature. In a perfect world, your race and gender would have nothing to do with what political ideology you subscribe to, but we live in a far from perfect world.

I don’t know about extremely targeted, but… Tallahasee? They’re probably safe there.