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Imagine even taking a foreign policy course from a person who has referred to Henry Kissinger as her mentor and a major inspiration. Argh

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Thanks for this. I'm glad you didn't have to deal with searing pain since panic is already more than enough.

I don't mean this to invalidate your experience in any way; I'll just state sources to make clear where I got that idea.

https://medilexinc.com/a-spoonful-of-medicine-blog/the-process-of-drowning

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928428

Ok, going back to (direct quote) misterundercoat's statement that I was originally replying to above,

If you're a woman and vote to put any Republican in power in this country, no matter how small or local, you must be insane.

You're right. They neither said or implied that anyone else who voted Republican is any less insane or any less to blame.

I think I just get frustrated when people want to only go as far as labeling a voting behavior or a moral stance as insane, stupid, deluded, evil or just plain dumb... and not dig into the whole system of shit that led to the person or group behaving that way. But there's plenty of room for both of those angles in this lovely fediverse and I shouldn't feel any need to police such things.

Yes, drowning is known to be quite painful but only for a very brief time before unconsciousness sets in.

I did choose the word 'imply' instead of 'say' for a reason. And yes, implication is subjective so my comment was just my opinion. In any case, I would like to see men and all people experience that urgency and motivation just as strongly.

Pratt in the audio clips also claimed that Trump asked his wife and former first lady Melania to parade around Mar-a-Lago in a bikini "so all the other guys could get a look at what they were missing," adding that Melania ultimately retorted “I’ll do that when you walk around with me in your bikini.”

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I get your point, but let's not imply that it's only women's job to vote Republicans out. Policies detrimental to women diminish and damage the whole country and that's everyone's responsibility.

That's correct. Now imagine the U.S. government's perfect corporation-boosting answer to that: give billions away to developers to just go ahead and do it anyway. Anyone opposed to it gets painted as anti-housing, most people's attention span isn't long enough to read the details of why it's like lighting money on fire, and as long as corporations get richer the parties in power are guaranteed another few years in charge.

One home for everyone before anyone gets a second one.

As of the last time a city government report was made on this just two years ago, over 61,000 homes were vacant in San Francisco. In answer to anyone who would write that off to pandemic effects, the number a few years before was around 40,000 homes sitting uninhabited. In San Francisco. Just sitting around being some well-off person or corporation's investment, empty.

The Democratic Party has shown very clearly that they would much rather lose to Republicans than allow their own platform to be dragged any more than just a tiny bit to the left.

Could be an unsurprising sign of the difference between conservative Reddit users and GOP voters at large. But I don't really know.

If only a majority of Republican voters thought like that. Instead they're apparently still able to blame the Democrats even after this whole long shit show. They don't read the same news.

Trump torpedoed him earlier in the day with a post on his own social network saying that Emmer never really supported him or the MAGA view of things, accused him of being a "globalist" and a Republican in Name Only and mentioned he had voted to certify the 2020 presidential election result. In short, Trump made sure everyone knew the guy was only Lawful Evil and not batshit crazy, therefore unqualified to lead the GOP.

actual nutritive value in great doubt

I've seen the same thing in east Texas and western Louisiana too (twenty years ago though, haven't been in that region since)

Not to say all Muslims want to do violent things; but I believe the logic is that as a Jewish person, one should probably stay as far away from areas heavily populated by Muslim folks who may or may not have a couple brothers, cousins, and uncles who want to stone you to death or some other awful thing.... As possible.

... You didn't want to say that but you wanted to imply it, apparently -- and to imply it so clearly that it's difficult to imagine you intending anything else.

I get that same autocorrect! "shears" when I was trying to write "always"!