Tinidril @ Tinidril @midwest.social

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Laboratory conditions? How exactly do you think trials are carried out?

If she's not a complete idiot, she probably already has more retirement savings than the average gen-xer. Assuming the pyramid scheme that is our stock market keeps growing, she might have already saved all she needs to. If the bubble collapses, she will just be living in a mad max apocalypse with the rest of us.

I don't really disagree except that I think it's a mix of not wanting to appear biased and actually being biased. The mainstream media establishment actually views left wing "extremists" as more threatening than right wing extremists. The right doesn't challenge power, and the left does.

I am so fucking sick of media's knee jerk reaction to both-sides this shit. It's all right wing reactionaries, be they Muslim, Christian, Atheist, or other. The problem is right wing extremism, not political polarization.

The question is, does "glorifying violence" encourage people to be violent? Barring other factors, studies have not found that to be the case. There are some studies that show video games actually reduce stress hormones by giving people a release, and this might actually lower violence.

It's a lot different to connect violent rhetoric with gay bashing, refer to gays as predators, then provide a template for how to ambush them.

Not true. No body ever claimed 100% effectiveness. Effectiveness claims were never once shown to be dishonest or incorrect, though they were often misinterpreted. Vaccine effectiveness also went down as the virus mutated and the formulations had to play catch-up. Even so, they were always highly effective (not 100%) at preventing hospitalization and death.

What fucked up the communication was a boatload of misinformation and distortions from the usual right wing conspiracy theory sources.

It's not even going to be a fine. The indications the judge has given are that it will be a felony record and nothing more.

What your saying, no. Your basis for saying it? Absolutely. You have made zero arguments for this interpretation of the constitution beyond an appeal to the authority of "the courts". When "the courts," is actually"one court" that we all know is beyond corrupted by the corporations who benefit, your appeal to authority becomes meaningless.

Trump isn't eligible either under the 14th amendment. So what? There are no laws anymore.

What your missing is that it's not "the courts" it's "the court". The corrupt as fuck Supreme Court made a ruling that lesser courts are obliged to follow. There is no intellectually rigorous reasoning, just corruption in the highest court in the land.

I have no doubt that Trump is capable of giving the order. As it stands, there is no way the order is obeyed. Trump will of course start trying to install loyalists in military leadership, but I doubt even the generals could successfully get such an order obeyed today. The entire military culture would need to be replaced, and I think the protections against that will require more time than Trump has to do it.

Thankfully, incompetence is a core trait of fascism, and I don't think Trump or his people have the juice.

Democrats by principal shouldn't be supporting Israel's genocide, but clearly they are. What makes you think third party politicians will be any different? Bernie is a Democrat and isn't corrupt or pro-genocide. At best I'd say the jury is still out on Jill Stein's loyalties. Third party politicians can be corrupted, and corrupt politicians can infiltrate third parties on false pretence. No, third parties aren't the solution to this particular problem.

That's about as likely as America performing a preemptive nuclear strike on China. The international "fallout" would be pretty much the same.

"The West" wasn't fair, but "America" would be. It's not like China is a monolith either. It might be more monolithic than the US, but I guess we really have the wait and see if that holds. Fuck.

Israel will be fine, as long as they keep spending a fraction of a percent of the US aid they receive to buy US media and politicians.

It's just the best thing that will happen for the next four years.

Trump has never really been one of "their own". They see him like Jed Clampett. He has some degree of wealth, but the elites can't stand him. Of course that doesn't keep them from kissing his ass as president.

The US already spends more per person on socialized healthcare than most countries that have universal socialized medicine. Our current system just inserts grifty billionaires into the money stream before the money gets to actual healthcare.

Going on about? You asked a question and I answered it. Why be dickish about it?

Not exactly. Science is a particular discipline/methodology for discovering reality. In theory it could apply to everything, but it's not the most practical tool for a lot of things.

History in particular is something that politicians (especially Republicans) lie about constantly, but we don't generally include history as one of the sciences. I'm not saying that science doesn't contribute to our knowledge of history, but the scientific method doesn't typically come into conversations about whether slavery actually happened.