Republicans are determined to violate every institution in this country possible.

Cited plenty of articles where they do nothing except peddle Russian talking points and/or ‘bothsides’ an ongoing genocide, guy.

Let’s not get crazy

Anecdotal, but there was considerable dissatisfaction and exhaustion with Trump amongst the religious in my hometown back in 2020. Most of them still supported and voted for him, but that any peeled off was novel. Not that they’d ever vote Dem, but simply not voting GOP in a presidential election was a big deal. It’s not inconceivable that the number has increased since.

Hey, as long as the Vietnamese firm gets their money up-front, I’m 100% in support of countries taking as much money from the moronic grifter as they can.

Oh no. Who could have predicted this, other than literally everybody.

Israel is out of control (and has been for a long while) and must be stopped.

Generally just called re-enactment if it’s supposed to be a strict representation of the battle. There are lot of Civil War re-enactments here in the US, and some of them get pretty rigorous, timing things down to the minute as they happened in the course of the battle.

large parts of the cultural revolution sounds like a secular mania to me.

I mean, I’d include that in the list of “Things that have weak material triggers and are largely outbursts of irrationality based on abstract beliefs”

1 out of every ~200 Russians, overwhelmingly young, formerly healthy men, are now seriously wounded or dead because of Putin’s ill-conceived ambitions. Christ.

For reference, the last time the US lost anywhere CLOSE to that proportion of its population in war was WW2.

May they never be able to set foot outside of their apartheid ethnostate again.

I mean, hell, may they be arrested even inside of it, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that.

May they never be able to set foot outside of their apartheid ethnostate again.

I mean, hell, may they be arrested even inside of it, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that.

I think that the modernist and materialist interpretation of society is very lacking and outdated. Humans are not purely rational creatures, and incredibly counterintuitive behavior, up to and including massive movements of millions of people contrary to their material interests and the interests of their own social advancement, has been and is caused by religious mania.

I don’t know, I think you may underestimate the depth of religious convictions in some areas of the country.

Scrungly Blorbo

In any civilized society, manslaughter or murder charges would be being prepared for whoever is in charge of this decision.

You’ll notice that it says “to keep using” lead in plumbing and like applications, and that the early date cited for corporate pushback against health concerns for lead is 1923. Both of those back my assertion that the root cause of lead pipes is their traditional use, and that only relatively recently did health concerns over lead become major.

Blatant terrorism against civilians.

Because math in a FPTP system is a cruel bitch.

No, I’m part metal. Helps to keep going longer than mere organics, but getting through the airport is a bitch.

More seriously, I take 2-4 times a day to grab some pics from my stashes and post them real quick on my regular communities. Takes maybe 15 minutes each time. 60 minutes every day is a good chunk, but it’s far from grueling.

Now, my FOMO causing me to check my notifications every moment I get free time? That’s a little more grotesque.

Last month, Boeing announced what it called its “best and final” offer to workers, which proposed a 30% rise over four years - lower than the 40% being demanded by the union.

I vote the union should increase its demand to 50% now.