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Trick question, it's the centrist democrats. By preying on leftists and wearing their skin as camouflage, they get to court votes from the left while still growing fat on milk from their billionaire hosts. The conservatives are a very close second, though.

Counterpoint: if it wasn't nukes, there'd be some other justification. The alleged Iraqi WMD were never found, so basically we toppled their government (not that I'm exactly shedding tears over Saddam, but ISIS wasn't great either), got a bunch of people killed, and blew two trillion dollars out of our ass for ????.

BJ Dance

For some of us, I suppose those of us who accidentally took the NT serious, it's supposed to. It's part of why I left the church.

Yeah, it's very clear that Jesus taught with a very heavy emphasis on Judaism, and had no intention whatever of applying his teaching to gentiles. You don't really see that happening until after his death.

• Never cut spending
• Cut taxes on the rich

"Wow, that's a lot of debt"

• Cut taxes on businesses

"Wow, we're really broke"

• Cut taxes on the rich

"Golly, this is a serious problem!"

• Cut taxes on the rich

"Nobody really knows why we're in so much debt or how to deal with it, but it's probably the fault of poor people. Guess we better cut taxes for the rich more lmao"

Dude is 79 and most of his atoms have come from big macs; every single morning is a dice roll that he didn't die in his sleep. This fucker is never going to see justice, and all of the spineless justices and prosecutors that were shit scared to punch up will finally be able to breathe easy knowing they did absolutely nothing to protect the rule of law when they had the chance.

Like the other guy said, seems pretty damn fast when it wants to be. They didn't wait two years to start the trial against Mangione.

I kept looking for the place where this was parody news. Jesus Christ, what the fuck

Fuckin Paul, bro. Imo, evangelicals worship him as their savior way more than Jesus

Trying to find it and not having a lot of luck because I don't remember the exact quote, and variations of "Trump Schumer Poll Strategy" just leads to a dump truck of results about Schumer's own (worse than Trump) embarrassingly bad poll numbers and articles about how pissed off democrats are with their own party. IIRC, it was on the Daily Show. I'll update if I do find it.

I think this has a very high chance of being exactly the case, out of all the comments in this post.

Edit: actually, IIRC, Schumer has more or less stated that it's his plan to just let Trump off the leash, not be an opposition party at all, and let Americans get what they voted for. Basically, instead of seeing that they lost to motherfucking Trump a second time and wondering if maybe they're the problem, they've decided on punishing all of the US, including their own constituents who did elect them, for not choosing the democrats.

I'd like to invoke the inverse of Hanlon's Razor with respect to US federal politicians.

We did get a primary, I voted for Dean Phillips. It was a bullshit primary because they lied about and covered up Biden's condition until it was too late to do anything about it, but we did have one.

I want you to know that you nerd sniped me with this comment and I started doing the math. To raise the apparent size of Betelgeuse to the apparent size of Jupiter (at its largest to the naked eye), you'd need a minimum 20 inch aperture telescope to pull the required 1000x magnification. Mind you:

• 20 inches is not a mass produced telescope size, but there ARE custom makers who produce reflectors at and well beyond this size. There are certainly terrestrial telescopes that can achieve what we need.
• you're still not resolving any details at that size, it's just raising Betelgeuse to the same apparent size as Jupiter at its naked eye largest.
• most places on earth are not conducive to magnifications over 300x. You can certainly do it, and sometimes the atmospheric conditions are ridiculously clear and you can pull off stupid levels of magnification, but there's a reason why observatories get built up on mountains a lot. 1000x is... Well, good luck. Especially since Orion and Betelgeuse never get too close to the zenith, meaning there's always a substantial amount of atmosphere to deal with.

Edit: let's go with raising it to the same apparent size as the full moon, which occupies about 30 arcminutes or 1800 arc seconds. Jupiter is 50 arc seconds at the largest, and Betelgeuse is 0.05 arc s. To figure out how much we need to magnify Betelgeuse by, we take the apparent size of the moon and divide it by the apparent size of Betelgeuse, yielding 36,000x. Assuming a spherical cow, telescope aperture is what limits the maximum useful magnification, and the equation to derive that is roughly 50x aperture. So, if we divide 36,000 by 50, we'll get our minimum required aperture of 720 inches, or fifty feet. IIRC, we have at least one terrestrial telescope that's at least that large, down in Chile, though I'm almost certain there are more and larger ones, too.

Isn't this functionally true for objects on the infinite focal plane? I.e. a star? Betelgeuse might actually be huge in absolute terms, but from earth, and even in a large telescope, it's still a pinpoint whose circumference is not meaningfully distinct from its diameter.

We're an empire in decline. I imagine we'd probably feel quite a deal of spiritual kinship with Romans living under Nero or Caligula

For me, as a DM, real shit always happens on session 1, you swim together or fucking die.

Agreed. I think a lot of people in light red and purple areas probably had my same experience of being really surprised at the amount of support there was. The occupy protest in my city was like three dudes in two tents. The No Kings protests stretched for three city blocks and we got a ton of enthusiastic responses (and only, like, three counter protests that I saw) from people driving through. I never ever would have imagined that kind of turnout and support in this town, and I found myself feeling really encouraged that there's a lot more local support for resisting this bullshit than I estimated.

So, I attended my local protest. 9/10 experience, had a blast and also realized that being anti-Trump and keeping our republic is a waaaaaaaay more popular position (even in my light red area) than I thought it was. The local police department has its priorities straight and they didn't show up to the protest at all, so there were zero problems with law enforcement. The only thing keeping it from being a 10/10 was what I didn't see:

1. Clear demands. This was what happened with Occupy. It generated a lot of buzz and got tons of attention, and when they finally asked the protestors "what are your demands?", the answer was basically "idk, everything sucks. Make it stop sucking". We need some clear, hard, attainable demands or we're just going to repeat Occupy.
2. Organizing. There was almost no organizing happening, no outreach or recruiting for or between political, advocacy, or support groups. People showed up and left with no additional contacts, commitments, or follow ups. That is a wasted opportunity.