Whatever, it’s the internet fuckface, don’t worry about it!

What makes you think suspending an election is going to tip the scales?

Mostly that at least right now there’s hope for midterms to change things in Congress and then the presidential election to get Trump out. Right now we still have the trappings of a Republic. I think if elections got suspended all belief in a peaceful solution will be erased and people will react.

You have a point though, bread and circuses go a long way towards kowtowing the population. That and the risk of death at the hands of the state. I don’t know where the line is that people will readily accept potentially getting shot especially if they’re in white man suburbia.

It’s our Republic and I think while what is happening now is despicable it won’t push enough people. Suspending elections. … That will rouse the nation.

Unfortunately, stupid breeds too fast for nature to fix it.

I think the comment is just calling out that one political party seems to have a lot more pedos than the other based on who has been arrested over the past … Idk let’s just say decade or so.

Obviously we all know not all Republicans are pedophiles but they sure as hell seem to harbor way more of them than Dems and it’s not even slander it’s just true.

Pressing x to doubt

I’d argue military force and threatening posture has been a large part of the USA foreign policy and diplomacy for the entire existence of the nation.

I get what you’re saying and yeah I honestly think the world we live in, stripping away all sense of morality, is one where “might makes right.”

Dead people do not argue. I’m not saying I think it should be that way or it’s good, only that it’s the way things work even if it does suck.

Is it not? We all collectively agree to cede the state a monopoly on (legal) violence to enforce the law.

I think you’re missing the /s tag here.

I don’t understand how Newsom can’t just order the CA national guard to not follow unlawfully given orders.

I’m not a lawyer but the statute in the Constitution that is written into the executive order as the authorization for it literally says the national guard are under control of the state Governor.

Why can’t Newsom give the guard orders and tell Trump to go fuck himself and see what happens? I guess at that point you’ll have conflicting orders from federal and state but, in theory, the national guard are under command of the state Governor and he’s their highest authority. So they should follow Newsom’s orders.

Like I said IANAL so I’m sure I’m missing something but for fuck sake this is outrageous. We’re rounding people up for not having a paper, they’re not even hardened criminals. If this was hardcore enforcement of actual dangerous people that would be one thing. These are just innocent undocumented migrants trying to live the their lives same as the rest of us.

But humans don’t have penis bones, we’re pretty unique amongst mammals that way actually.

I just assume death is a human skeleton I guess.

This administration is really trying to fuck us all but in particular some of Trump’s most ardent supporters,

Unless, since Death is a skeleton, they never have a boner?

I feel like it would be absolutely terrifying if someone had tiny legs like that they were standing on. Imagine seeing that horror movie shit irl

Definitely read that as plug for a second and was very confused for a moment on why and where a plug would be in that mess of pixels you call a post.

A bunch of LARPing dipshits who didn’t realize how close they were to ending up just like Babbit.

Yeah, I’m sure the folks that are part of meal team six that are “standing by” are LARPing as soldiers/paramilitary. I suspect the second any real shit went down most of them would crumble like tissue paper.

It takes a real bootlicking coward to join the proud boys or any like minded orgs. I’ve no doubt they’re full of guys who want to project some false machismo and bravado because they’re so fat, ugly, dumb, and sexually frustrated. Bet that they can’t even get laid if they paid for it.

Like seriously I think maybe 1/20 of the dudes I see standing around trying to look tough are somewhat in shape. The rest are obese and would probably die just having to walk a few miles in the heat.

Now, having said all that, guns don’t care if you’re in shape or not - they shoot bullets just the same. These people are dangerous, I just don’t think they’ll have the resolve or nerve to stand up to organized resistance if push comes to shove.

I don’t know how you watch those videos and think “yeah, she was innocent.”

It’s easy, you just don’t watch the videos. I watched the video of her getting shot. She is warned numerous times by the DC police officer (I think was who ended up firing on her I can’t remember) before breaking in and climbing through a window to the area literally right outside the Congressional chambers.

I mean … What else was supposed to happen there? There was a few dudes guarding that door vs a bunch of angry rioters/cultists/pieces of shit. They didn’t really have a choice but to shoot her or they would have had a flood of people coming through there.

I saw some pretty interesting human behavior on display that day watching it real time with video from inside and out.

One interesting thing, when they shot Ashli everyone behind her changed their tune REAL quick and ran away. Shit got real for them. In all honesty I think the police/national guard when they arrived should have used lethal force that day. I understand the logic behind not and I can’t disagree with it completely, largely out numbered and no way to know what kind of firearms were in the crowd. Of course it made sense to try to delay and not escalate into what could have been a shoot out. However, I think that plan also emboldened the bad actors there.

Another interesting thing - I watched hundreds of people file through a velvet roped off line before someone decided to undo the ropes so people could actually move around. It was hilarious. Thank God the people that stormed the Capitol were a bunch of morons, I’m sure that saved some lives.

Is it though? Because evolution is only really concerned with a thing living long enough to reproduce. It’s not planned like eugenics would be.

That’s why there’s tons of examples of dumb as hell stuff in biology because as long as an organism is “good enough” to keep reproducing and spreading their genes that is fine and that species will continue to evolve.

Eugenics would be more like if evolution somehow could select only for specific traits and then made sure to only let things with those traits reproduce. Evolution is much messier than that.

Yeah I mean, it’s not like Catholicism is the only flavor of Christianity.

The whole reason the USA even exists today is because a bunch of shitty religious people got ousted from England.

I know a lot of people still view the Pope as the head of Christianity but there are many Christians who would not see it that way. Many who would dismiss the Pope with a wave of the hand and not a care in the world.

The evangelical right wing Christian movement in America certainly does not give a fuck about the Pope based on what I’ve seen.

It’s like the whole “is my blue the same as your blue” thing. Who knows what anyone else truly perceives since it’s filtered through their lens.