TrickstaPriest

And thus tacitly suggests that the only way to solve political differences is through violence... here I was trying to have more of a normal life instead of being online all the time. Now I'm wondering if it's better to just start more HERO games... >_>

So at what point should we start comparing the violence in our society to be comparable to the acts in the Middle East? ie- the bombings, shootings, and so on? That is, 'failed state' level violence?

(thinking about it, likely statistical - you can probably predict that based on FB information via Cambridge Analytica... and even if CA went away, the data results would not. a 90% match rate will still look like <x> voters... which could have been cross-referenced by those on record as having showed up to vote in person.)

This sort of thing happens more than one would like to think. AZ had the same problem with the 'report election fraud!' site 😕 https://threatpost.com/trump-site-alleging-az-election-fraud-exposes-voter-data/161068/ IIRC there was a story in AZ about voter information being leaked that was apparently only republican voters who voted in person... interesting in how they obtained/figured out that data, IF it was true...

I mean, it bothers me because literally everyone is fooling themselves at thinking they are making "the correct financial decision for their retirement" by supporting these policies. Retiring is hard when your grocery bill is higher than rent.........

That's horrible. I did the same check here just to make sure I was getting mine.

Literally told them I was leaving over this, which scared the Director so bad he ran (on injured feet) to the CEO to tell him. He asked 'do you want anything' but gave no offers, and so I left. Many companies chronically underpay their staff. Chronically offer poor health insurance. Chronically avoid any inconvenience to their internal systems or administration while applying incredible inconvenience (and even harm) to their employees. Anything they are not mandated to do, they won't do. 😕

Yeah. There are consequences to not act when a political party has thrown out the idea of elections and laws.

And climate change is going to destroy the financial stability of anyone making less than a few million a year. And don't even talk about retirement. The death of protest is why I was so scared about how the Floyd protests were being handled. And this is pretty much what we are going to see now that this right is no longer effective. 😕

One of the recent justices couldn't even enumerate the rights given in the First Amendment.

My expectation is that the blame on gas and food prices on Biden will work for the midterms, and the Jan 6th hearings will be the political excuse to investigate the dems (regardless of popularity of the idea) and to re-engineer the legal courts as much as possible for the next few years. So the next time they want to challenge an election legally, they can essentially kangaroo-court the entire legal process of reviewing the election in numerous States.

Oh, and the war of Russia on Ukraine is being blamed on Biden too, for closing the pipelines.

With inflation and the gas prices being shoved onto Biden, I highly doubt that will happen. So people are going to have to think of what they are going to do when the Republican party pushes back into power again.

Yep. I've been watching Brexit news the last few years as a means of getting away from our news...

A staggering, staggering amount of people I know who are Republicans only use Fox or Fox-like sources for news, or none at all. Which goes for the same thing - if there's news that would make us look bad, never even mention it exists.

Except it wouldn't be alone, and attempting to split the country is what caused the first civil war. 😕

Does this mean the GOP is finally going to get to hear what I've heard the last 5-6 years of my life? "Let's make our politicians featured in commercials joking about killing liberals. No, come on, it's just a joke guys."

After Trump's retweet today, I feel like nostalgically digging up the post on this thread where someone was accusing everyone on this thread of being traitors against the (then) President. >_> I'm in a mood. Like this was a mood. Time for some drink and chips.

"I'm hoping that through God's grace, we can use the political positions of legal power that conservatives will get to crush that revolutionary force," she said. "Otherwise, it's going to be very bad." ...

Yep. And no one is interested in getting involved...

So you guys understand, I'm actively supporting and comforting female friends of mine, probably going to have to be more than one, because of the devastation this is causing them. It's terrifying them. I know friends who've had friends commit suicide over stuff like this, being trapped in a state that wants them to suffer. Louisiana has over 2 million people... so over 1 million women. Roughly 25% of women have an abortion, and almost half of those are pro-life or highly religious. So are they going to attack 100000s of women? Or just 'the uppity ones'? What happens when the police sues for an app's geographic tracking data to find 'murderers'? Wholesale lawsuit, wholesale prosecution, of thousands of women? The Louisiana government has said they are justifying acting outside of the Supreme Court as "well the other states ignored the Fed to legalize marijuana, so we feel this is fine". Fighting to destroy hundreds of thousands of women is apparently the same as fighting to give people more rights. Even though our laws are structured specifically to prevent the argument of 'you are treating those people too nice, you should treat them worse'. That argument literally cannot exist, legally. The only argument you can have is 'you treat them nice, so you should treat me nice too'. The Constitution was written to guarantee people's rights regardless of what the Federal Government could declare. To grant the states limited rights, as well, while deferring to the Fed's rule of law for everything else. It was the agreement that we shouldn't enter a period of constant inter-state warfare that could last a hundred years. It was not written to guarantee the right of the states to abuse its people. It's a document to grant these minimum rights, guaranteed no matter where you live within the Union. Not an abstract set of rules to say 'each state should have control over what rights its people have'. Had I written this earlier today, I would have probably cursed so much I'd have been banned for good.

If men... nah, just don't be any kind of woman in Louisiana. Can't really put it any other way.

Right to privacy is also on the chopping block. Especially.

It really does seem as though gay rights is next, judging by the draft.