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That's more a technicality vs practicality aspect. Even if we technically don't have free will, the way our minds work make us feel like we have free will. The "accept it" aspect of the argument is appealing to us feeling like we make our own decisions, even if ultimately we didn't actually make the choice to accept it.

renamed themselves to "Russian Federation",

By this logic the Roman empire should just be called the Roman republic. The systems of governance might be similar and both be abhorrent, but the USSR isn't the same as the Russian federation

and a 17th-century textbook, amateur historian David Barton recently argued that Christianity has always formed the basis of American morality and thus is essential to Texas classrooms.

Christians and lying about history, name a more iconic duo

Asmongold is fucking weird who cares what he thinks about random preferences like this

It's something cops want, of course they don't have a say

Dude honestly sounds proud of being a NIMBY

So I haven't been following this lawsuit at all, so this is a genuine question. If the lawsuit is about barring trump from the ballot due to starting an insurrection, I would assume part of the trial was to argue for and against the claim that he started or otherwise participated in an insurrection, no? If that's not the case, then I'd agree with you. If that is the case, however, then I don't see how this trial wasn't the due process you're talking about

In the 90s boomers weren't dying off in large amounts, conservative bastions weren't in overwhelming support of abortion rights when left to the peoples' vote, and Texas of all places wasn't turning purple in state-wide elections. Things have absolutely changed from a population standpoint and gop leaders have shown that they're terrified of the millenial+Z vote, which trends significantly more liberal (and the millenial vote has not shifted conservative with age, as older generations did), now being larger than the boomer vote.

Things are absolutely changing if you pay attention to the data. That being said, it's still something that only changes over the course of generations, and the gop's fraternization with Christian nationalists has created a monster that they're now losing control of. We're at a phase where things will either start to get better because of right wing ideology losing the numbers game, or right wingers lashing out at their loss of control will lead to them taking over via less democratic means (their capture of the SCOTUS is a more tame example of what they might try).

What happened to the riots that were promised if Roe vs. Wade was overturned?

Honestly I'm surprised we didn't get George floyd/blm levels of protest after Dobbs was official, though a lot of it would've been moot since liberals and progressives have spent several decades disarming themselves and fostering a hatred towards guns. Christian nationalists don't give a single fuck about peaceful protests and if things come to blows, our side is the one with far less firepower and far less zealots willing to risk personal harm for this topic (not saying the second one is good or bad morally, just pointing out that the right's fostering of that kind of zealotry is an additional hurdle we'll face).

That is what overturning Roe vs. Wade is about.

I was specifically referring to extra-judicial here. If/as they understand they can't force their draconian laws on everyone through the normal channels of government, they'll switch to embracing direct, physical violence as a first resort.

Fingers crossed this stuff keeps people galvanized to vote cons the fuck out of each branch of government in 2024. My hope is that trump's term and the Dobbs decision will push the gop to implode. They can't back away from pandering to far right christians, the older generations are dying off, and hopefully moderate-leaning conservatives will choose to not vote, since I doubt they'll let themselves vote for democrats.

Though this'd also likely lead to far right extremists ramping up their violence as they feel themselves losing power

Is it really that strange when there are vested interests with a lot of influence who work towards cutting funding at any chance they get?

he's convinced that white hetero men are the most repressed "minority" right now,

By his own logic, wouldn't that mean he should think the world would be a better place if white hetero men like himself didn't exist?

Lol please, no way Musk would accept a recall unless it was severe enough to be forced on him

Ah that's fair, I think I might've been injected other related conversations I've seen into this one. My bad!

Isn't MOND largely discounted by the results we've gotten from JWST so far?

I honestly I'm surprised how much of a problem this is for people. All I've done is made sure to hit the "not interested" type buttons on YouTube and tiktok whenever they pop up, and I've run into next to nothing after like 3 times of doing that. Sometimes I'll watch something the algorithm thinks is adjacent to ragebait or alt-right bullshit so it'll try to feed it to me, and after not-interested'ing the video it goes back to feeding me the stuff I actually want..

Do people just not use those features or is my experience with the algorithms really that different?

Lowe's definitely made lots of USD getting the pharaohs to think the pyramids were a good idea

I used to play League a lot and yea there's a fire hose of info you gotta learn at the beginning, especially as they continue to add new champs.

I'd say:

1. watch some kind of 'getting started video on YouTube, and search for the categories that different champs are in (e.g. support, ad carry, ap, bruiser, jungle, etc). Some of the categories overlap, because some are how the champ plays and some are their job in normal games. Google/YouTube explanations about this too.
2. If you can get those things mapped out in your head, it'll give you and idea for what kind of champ each is going to play as and against (i.e. you'll know if the person you run into is gonna be tanky and hard to kill, a glass cannon, etc).
3. Probably just stick to playing bruisers and other tanky champs for now so you don't die right away, and slowly learn as you go.

Good luck lol

That you think musk's character flaws are comparable to the average person's says more about you than it does him

The man's good at generating hype for his companies, I'll give you that. His blatant disregard for his employees' wellbeing, retweeting of antisemitic lies, manchild personality, and implicit support of far right ideology in general goes far beyond the average person's character flaws, however

We got any guesses what his go-to cocktail is?