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If you had to choose the possibility of a murder charge and capital punishment for following your oath or simply not, why would anyone opt for the former?

"Don't like the death camps? Well, we'll send you to death camps and see how you like them then!"

Of course I know him, he's me.

The fuck you mean "how did this happen?"

Steam didn't allow adult games then they did. So now there's adult games.

Then maybe they shouldn't have spent their whole life voting for those things.

YOU may not want to be on this jury, but having a jury of one's peers is a fundamental protection against tyranny. Inevitably some people recognize that and are willing to accept the risks of being on this particular jury to ensure due process is actually followed.

Hell, we only have to do it once per billionaire. Since they only got to that point through their own self sufficient blood sweat and toil they'll have no problems doing it again and better with all the experience they've learned along the way!

In this context it was meant as a joke. Several Baptist institutions incorrectly label themselves as being "non-denominational" even though they are completely ideologically aligned with the independent Baptist movement.

I went to Bob Jones. There was a kid there got in trouble playing the guitar cause what he was strumming had "that sound." No lyrics, just him strumming it wrong was sinful. Ain't no way that kinda teaching gonna fuck someone up for life.

Growing up in a "non-denominational", independent fundamental Baptist house I was always taught that Catholics weren't Christians because they worship idols. Now that I've left the faith I would easily classify them as being Christian.

While I think many people actually do classify them as Christians they do have some significant differences in their beliefs and practices than most Protestant denominations; and being themselves the largest Christian denomination by far it can be useful in some analysis to treat them as a distinct entity (the answer to "percentage of global population that subscribe to a particular religion" is much more interesting when broken into "Christian Catholic: %" and "Christian Other: %").

Maybe they shouldn't provoke everyone else in the region then.

Israel bombed an Iranian Embassy--and Iran is just expected to shrug it off? No we can't possibly think of cutting military support to the country literally using their military to commit a genocide and attack it's neighbors. Its neighbors might fight back and that would be bad!

Israel is behaving like the school yard bully whose "Dad is a lawyer!" except in this case their dad is also an enabler.

I used Ubuntu until PAE became required and then switched to either Puppy or DSL (tried them both, honestly don't remember which I stuck with). Eventually got a new computer and used Fedora and Arch (btw) for years. I've recently switched to Debian on a machine I just don't wanna be arsed with worrying about breaking.

I'm in the process of buying my first house, and I'm pretty sure I'm putting more down than my parents paid for their whole first home.

Of course she was. Putting your car into reverse and letting it back fully into a pond without braking when you actually meant to put it in drive is not something an unimpaired driver does.

I'm not sure what you're upset about in my comment.

All of the candidates have faults, but I do have a strong preference for one and one of them is an objectively better candidate on basically all issues (including the issue that all candidates share the wrong stance on).

And it very much is a toss up. 2 candidates in particular are trading leading positions on different polls. There's probably gonna be less than half of eligible voters actually voting. And when they do, one candidate will almost definitely win the popular vote. And when they do it will once again be up to our antiquated electoral system to determine which of the candidates actually gets the seat. It's not 1932, Trump very well could win and that's bad.

If you think my critiques of Trump are the same as my recognition of success for Biden and that I'm somehow "both-sides-ing" I'm really not sure how to help you.

So our choices are:

• Man that wants to bomb Palestine into the ground, but has made marginal progress in helping secure more jobs domestically and has aided millions of people suffering from oppressive student loan dept
• Man who has publicly stated he wants to be a dictator, who has previously attempted a self coup, who wants to jail his political enemies, and is threatening a bloodbath if he loses--oh and he also wants to bomb Palestine into the ground.
• Man who is your conspiracy theorist uncle--who also wants to bomb Palestine into the ground.

It's really crazy that it's anywhere near a toss up.

Damn shame there isn't a "don't bomb Palestine into the ground candidate."

Please allow me to not use this. I switched to FF mobile because Chrome forced groups on their users and left no way to turn them off.

And yet one's ignorance of the location of something prior to an event does not ameliorate the impacts of that event.

To the chagrin of my dad, my mom. We went through a period of time growing up where things like a waffle iron, ice cream machine, or bread maker were bought by Dad and discarded by Mom like 3 times in about a year "because you never use them."

No no no, we WANT a presidential election; that's literally the point of democracy. We just want better options.