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.

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

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.

As a person who lives in the USA even I am shocked constantly at how fucked up things really are here.

Then you have people who rejoice that we have the “freedom” for companies to fuck you and they bend over to take it with a smile. They’re the worst. Lumpenproletariat

There is no federal law guaranteeing maternity leave in the USA. We have a law that you have to provide … I want to say 12? … Weeks unpaid leave for new mothers but that’s pretty much it. They may be able to claim short term disability for some time they’re out of work which is half your income not all of it.

Some individual states may have protections in their laws but it’s certainly not the norm. It really comes down to the company you work for. I work for a nice company. They gave me 10 weeks paid leave for parental leave, which is even more rare here for any kind of paternity leave (I’m a dude).

It’s pretty sad honestly.

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.

That’s really cool, you have your own little army of familiars following you around. Sounds like you need to be careful with the possible feeding bans. Hopefully you don’t catch any trouble.

All I’ve heard about magpies is they’re assholes though!

Same thing that’s been going on for millenia now. Humans being humans, look around the globe and through history. This is not new and we are not special.

Sucks though.

That’s pretty sweet, I don’t have any bird friends.

I can’t tell if you do or don’t know about Unidan on Reddit. Bravo.

And here we see a sighting of one nature’s truly disgusting creatures.

The internet troll.

Right enjoy the MAGA boot leather.

I know you won’t see eye to eye with me on this and you probably won’t admit to yourself that you’re helping MAGA but that is what you’re doing by not voting Dem.

You’re just looking for a reason to not vote or cast your vote into a lake of fire and feel good about it. Well you shouldn’t feel good about it.

If we had ranked choice voting or another kind of system then yeah by all means go for it. Sadly that’s not the reality you and I live in here and that means a vote for a third party just causes a spoiler effect for whichever of the two main party candidates are closer aligned politically to the third party.

I guess that’s better than not voting at all though.

Bro, I get it, but I’m a pragmatist more than an idealist. I hate our electoral system with a fiery passion too. I’m just operating in reality and trying to get the least bad outcome we can with what we have.