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I certainly agree that appeasing Trump isn’t going to work.

A thread about death threats on these members isn’t the proper context to bring up that kind of argument.

This situation isn’t a result of them voting on the CR so that comment is, at best, bad taste and at worst a toxic attempt at sowing division.

I don’t know the details or the bills, but it isn’t uncommon for people in contested seats to be allowed by the party to vote in a poll-favorable way when their vote won’t change the outcome.

Simply, counting ‘Times voted with Trump’ doesn’t say much that is useful and can be misleading, especially in the context of a post about death threats to politicians.

Social media can have a very us or them mentality. If you’re not 100% lock step with the group then you’re an enemy to be scored and attacked. I read that comment as 'Yeah, they’re getting death threats but they voted with Trump so they deserved it (<insert Nazi bar comment>)".

I’m not exactly sure the point that you’re trying to make?

She’s received death threats.

…but she voted with Trump

Therefore: ???

Wild(er) Magic dice

Literally unplayable

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I haven’t used a BBS since the 90s, dialing in to play MajorMUD and later PvP MUDs (Chaosium/Static Chaos).

I’ll check it out. I use lynx already, because I use Arch(, btw) and break literally everything including my DE.

https://youtu.be/kqiUGjghlzU?t=63

If you’re not familiar with the works of the Great Sage, Monty Python

What in the 1980s program are you getting your e-mail through?

The rational response is to read and understand comments before letting outage compel you to say something ignorant. A lesson that both you and the tweet writer should learn.

I agree that this situation is outrageous, and that Megan Kelley is disingenuously trying to create cover for Trump. Nothing I wrote says anything otherwise.

You’re doing this ignorant thing that chronically online people do where they assume that any kind of disagreement automatically means that the person is on the other ‘side’ of the issue. Instead of actually responding to what I’ve said, you’ve created a strawman in your head that believes something outrageous and are attacking that strawman instead of what I’ve said.

And, to demonstrate the complexity of the real world, I can say all of that about you while also agreeing with you that Trump is a pedophile.

I agree with the underlying sentiment.

However, this seems like one of those comments that’s going for outrage over rationality.

I disagree that it matters, but the point of the controversial statement was that there’s a different term and level level of moral culpability between a person having sex with a 17 year old and the same person raping a 2 year old.

A tweet responding that they’re both illegal misses the point completely.

Genocide is illegal and jaywalking is illegal. We don’t equate them morally just because they are both illegal.

Just like how a person who rapes an infant isn’t morally equivalent to a person having sex with high schoolers even if it’s illegal to do both in your state/country.

It gets weirder the longer you look at it.

Sure, let’s just say the guy was overzealous with the (silicone caulk? lol) adhesive compound. Maybe the white cord is DC power, replacing the battery… but the red wire that’s right beside the ‘power’ wire is a USB cable plugged into the phone’s USB port.

What is plugged into the other end? It’s Zalgo isn̴̝̂’̶̯̾ṭ̷̆ ̶̫̈i̷̹̚t̴̩̉?̶͊͜

Honestly, if someone is just looking to get started cheap and easy, buying a pi and installing pi hole is a great first project that has immediate positive returns. Adding more services can be easy (if you used containers) and expanding to add more services is cheap.

Then, when you decide to spring for a server box, those Pis can still be useful as home automation devices. For example, they can control a decent amount of programmable LED strip lighting. Attached to a sensor shield, a solar panel and battery it can do atmospheric monitoring outside (while also controlling your driveway lighting) while being easy to integrate into HomeAssistant.

If you need to retire it, you can throw some emulators on it (retropi), load it up with a few thousand ROMs and donate it to a place that buys kids toys for holidays/their birthday.

This guy didn’t have half of the reality denying power of the current White House Press Secretary

They have vacation plans that can’t be just ruined because some poors will lose access to healthcare, 85% of their campaign is funded by 5 people and they all have amazing healthcare.

I am so glad that the military… let me check my notes… ah, yes. Waited to see who would win.

Are you a high schooler that just learned that being cynical will make you sound smarter among peers who don’t have the knowledge to challenge you?

Explain what should have happened in that scenario in your view.

Which person in the military has the authority to unilaterally deploy US Military personnel for the purposes of domestic law enforcement?

What authority allows them to ignore the Posse Comitatus Act, which explicitly does not allow the use of the Military for domestic law enforcement?

Or, if you want to go after the NG service members, what should they do as individuals in your mind? Should they refuse to leave their barracks? Maybe go to their commanding officer and ask to be arrested? What specific thing?

You’re throwing a lot of stones and summoning hypotheticals without any apparent understanding of how the military functions.

This is exactly why they caved.

Democrats are primarily backed by big money donors. Their constituents are billionaires too, just a different set of billionaires than Republicans’ constituents.

There isn’t a party that represents the people, just two different factions of billionaires who are fighting over their share of control over the government.

Congress’s entire job currently is to abdicate its power to the President. Johnson is a sycophant who has violated his oath of office.

quite literally

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Australia has the right idea. If you can’t operate a car, you can’t operate social media.