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  • 538 had her going into the election with a 70% chance of winning the electoral college. Nate Silver also went on multiple shows basically doing everything he could to get people to understand that meant 3 out of 10 times she loses.

  • In sixth grade at most schools? Probably most of them. That's right around when most boys just start hitting puberty and girls tend to generally be bigger and more athletic than boys until then.

    In general? Gymnastics, figure skating, cheerleading, skiing (best downhill skier in the world is a woman)...

  • Sounds like you've never met a kid. They are capable of learning and receiving consequences.

    I guess I'm saying don't project your failures onto kids you've never met. Most are perfectly capable of being better people without you creating excuses for them.

  • There are people who firmly believe women can never outcompete men due to biology. With some outliers, this is currently true within a defined age range and only in certain sports (there are several where women routinely outclass men). In 6th grade a good chunk of the boys haven't hit puberty yet and you can easily find girls who are stronger, faster, and more athletic than boys in their cohort because everyone is still developing. The boys getting beat right now could hit a growth spurt next week and play in the NBA.

    The point is at this age, the kids are actually pretty evenly matched. If the boys have a violence problem, they should be banned from playing till they fix it. Otherwise this league head should shut the fuck up.

  • Here's the quotes:

    SWOB President Tom Sunderman expressed concern in a statement:

    "Doing this for 28 years, what we have worried about is a boys team losing to a girls team (especially in the year end tourney), they may get frustrated and retaliate against a girl." "Then we have liability issues.” Prez, a social media user on X (Formerly Twitter), didn't buy it.

    "What he meant to say was they can’t have their boys being emasculated by a better girls team… it would be a blow to their developing manhood to get beat by girls."

    What context am I missing?

  • Without wading in to the host of other issues with your comment, at the bare minimum you have to acknowledge that Israel and North Korea have very different nuclear capabilities. There's a reason a nuclear threat from Russia, for example, is taken more seriously than North Korea.

  • What are you talking about? Citizens United was a 5-4 decision as to the parts everyone is mad about. The 4 dissents were Ginsberg, Kagan, Stevens, and Sotomayor. The liberals concurred with the conservatives as to a disclosure requirement, which, why wouldn't they? They dissented as to the rest of the opinion. Unsurprisingly with the benefit of hindsight, the only justice who disagreed with the reporting requirements was Thomas.

  • A lot of the Constitution assumes a level of good faith that just no longer exists among Republicans. Anyway, by my read Colorado can still make it a state law and be totally fine since there would be no conflict, they just can't use the 14th Amendment.

    Ultimately, it's a stupid decision based on stupid facts, the worst kind. He hasn't yet been found guilty of insurrection, let alone in that state, so they're just sort of declaring it's true via a lesser standard. While it absolutely is true, it's asinine to use an amendment that otherwise protects fucking criminal due process to then declare in a civil case someone a criminal and disqualify them from office.

  • Hate crimes and hate speech are two different, but related, things, so I understand your confusion. You cannot be prosecuted for hate speech, because that is a government infringement on your liberties. They can prosecute you if the hate speech intentionally incites violence, because that is not protected speech. The hate speech can also inform intent to turn another crime into a hate crime.

  • There's typically reason to suspect the account owner first. They're not trawling through random accounts, law enforcement doesn't have the time or authority to do that. Note that intelligence agencies are not law enforcement, I'm not talking about what some spy agencies might do.

    Since this is law enforcement, typically you don't have a verdict to rely on, but they'd have a warrant or subpoena to get the necessary evidence to further the case.

  • Process is a vital element of the law. If we can't even get our shit together to properly prosecute someone, then they don't get punished for their crime. Frankly, with the sheer amount of unethical behavior by judges, this should happen far more often. You'll very quickly see improvements in the justice when the actual consequences are fucking rapists and murderers go free.

    But either way, this is arguably one of the best parts of American law: a way for the system to hold itself accountable. The consequence for this level of due process violation, as we can clearly see, can be severe.

    And yes, I get that the guy was convicted, I agree he did it. But he received this sentence and it would be a miscarriage of justice to later give him a harsher sentence just because of a process failure. Also, for what it's worth, prison in America is of limited benefit. It can keep some truly dangerous people away from the general population, but otherwise is a great place for low-mid level criminals to become better and more dangerous criminals. This guy would be out in four years and, most likely, have become better at both violent crime and not getting caught all because of prison.