Cethin

Yeah, absolutely. It specifically says “a well regulated militia.” It meant militias could keep armories of weapons for their members to use. It didn’t mean every random person would have one at their house. If they meant citizens being armed they would have written that.

Defenestration? In this economy? Windows are to expensive to waste on Fascists. Let’s use something more environmentally and economically friendly and reusable.

Yeah, it doesn’t though. The second amendment says nothing like that. It says militias can have weapons to defend the state from enemies. It does not say citizens can fight tyrants controlling the state, despite what a lot of media would lead you to believe.

It’s really short. Read it, and read it critically. Don’t try to read what you’ve already been told.

Some of our founders wrote and spoke about fighting tyrants, but there’s not like a constitutional protection for it or anything like that.

I’m aware of the lies. I said as much in my comment. Still, they say they want paper ballots, and I support that move. It shouldn’t have been sold to this person, but if they actually do follow through and at least have paper copies of all ballots on their machines that would be a nice benefit, but doesn’t outweigh the negatives. However, that’ll probably be in a move to remove mail-in voting, or other things that enable minotirty groups to vote more easily.

Like the other comment says, players build cities. A quick search says there are 81 cities with over 5m people each in the world. Most city builders we’re building at the scale of these large cities, so that means over 81 players would be over the population we have in the real world. If there are thousands of players, yeah, it’s going to get tight. If there are tens of thousands, there’s not enough space.

My comment that’s older than their shows that they did name the one org that complied. I agree, the comment above is stupid, but the AP did do what you want. The person above just lied (through ignorance or on purpose) and said they didn’t.

As skeptical as I am about all of this, the new owner does supposedly want to move to 100% paper ballot. Is this just something he says to buy favor though? Idk.

I think it depends on the situation. I’m not saying to spend time arguing with them. I’m just saying showing them there’s another position that reasonable people they know hold is good. Most people are told the only people who hold a different position than them are crazy people.

I do care about these people, because they vote.

Honestly, I disagree still. That’s the ideal, but even just seeing that there are other opinions held by people you care about is good. If you live in an echo chamber where everyone agrees with you then you think you must be right on everything.

They did not include which orgs complied with the regime…

From the article in the OP:

Only the conservative One America News Network signed on. Its management likely believes it will have greater access to Trump administration officials by showing its support, Gabrielle Cuccia, a former Pentagon reporter who was fired by OANN earlier this year for writing an online column criticizing Hegseth’s media policies, told the AP in an interview.

They didn’t? It sure seems like they did to me.

Yeah, the total destruction of community and third-places is I think the #1 cause of the division of political discourse, but second is that people refuse to engage with other human beings on the topic. They watch TV or browse online, and they get one extremely biased view of the world. They don’t share it with other people where they could get other points of view.

It used to be people would get the paper and talk about it with each other, but that’s taboo now. You take it to an online community who all agree with you. There’s a reason why the infamous Thanksgiving family gathering caused strife. It’s because people were actually having discussions and disagreements. Disagreement is healthy, but people seem allergic to it now.

It was exploited. That’s how they proved it worked. They just didn’t exploit it to do anything nefarious.

Almost a perfect match, with the addition of the US.

There is an argument to be made that having secure high paying government jobs harms other sectors by taking employees and raising average pay, forcing them to keep up. We aren’t anywhere near that being an issue though, but there is a limit where more government jobs can make recovery harder, when other sectors go out of business competing with it and there’s nowhere for anyone to go once the government jobs close.

Cool, then you know this is really fucking common. You’re holding other people to a standard you almost certainly don’t hold.

Honestly, I don’t think you’ve been around many military people. One of the great things about most enlisted people is they have to have a sense of humor or they probably wouldn’t make it. They’re constantly joking on each other. They’ve heard the “… and their wive’s boyfriend” thing hundreds of times probably, including from other military people.

Oh, I didn’t even notice what the middle one is. Definitely bad taste and I’m certain it’s against FB policy. Showing that around to random people is pretty fucked up. Still, it isn’t illegal by any means.

Yeah, at least the voters actually do care about “protecting the children.” They’ve just been lied to a lot and are told it’s trans people and illegal immigrants who they need to protect them from. Once they see the truth, that it’s the ultra-wealthy elite who are the real evil people, they may do the right thing. You just have to break them out of their bubble, which is really hard.

I’m with you. This doesn’t seem right. I know CRTs have an anti-aliasing effect, but this seems to have increased detail. Look at his ascot, for example. It seems to have more detail than the image on the left.

That’s what they said.