The argument is probably that (A) the only way to say that he participated is to convict him, otherwise he’s considered innocent and (B) he didn’t participate, he just incited it (using language that was just vague enough to make it difficult to prove).
Well, there’s no reasonable argument that a blowjob isn’t sexual relations, just that it isn’t “sleeping with.”
Well, the US has a federal limit of 18+ for porn, so 18 is barely legal for porn. For alcohol, 18 is illegal and 21 is barely legal. For work, it’s generally 14 and gradually dropping as more ghouls pass awful laws in an attempt to bring us back to the Gilded Age.
For sex (that isn’t filmed), laws vary between the federal minimum of 16 and as high as 18. Google’s LLM thinks that Iowa has an age of consent of 14, but I don’t see any evidence that that’s correct
Interestingly (and despicably), Mississippi took until 1998 to remove its provision that a statutory rape victim must be “of chaste character” for it to be a crime, so technically Trump could have legally abused certain girls there as late as the late '90s.
Which she should have done, but she had more allegiance to the party and its billionaire donors than she did to the working class.
It isn’t original or clever, but it pisses off some of the worst people, and that’s enough for me to at least condone it.
Iran once and Nicaragua twice, as well. And some of the Haitians the US deposed were probably socialist.
If you’re complaining about people only wanting pure water when you prefer spring water and then someone brings you pure alcohol, you’re still within your rights to point out that the glass doesn’t contain any water.
Yeah, but a lot of people die even if you win. People aren’t yet desperate enough to volunteer as cannon fodder.
The NYPD is the world’s 27th most expensive military, barely behind Sweden and significantly ahead of Indonesia.
“Rules-based” world order in liberalism tends to end up with some countries breaking the rules and facing no consequences (see the unilateral veto power of the permanent members of the UN security council).
Liberalism also endorses things like private property, which allows an ownership class that extracts value from others without creating it.
Liberalism is a specific ideology, and it’s the dominant one in the world today. People around here have very good and often well-articulated reasons for disliking liberalism.
At least fictional cyberpunk dystopias are walkable.
Certainly, but less bad isn’t the same thing as good.
I never said they were similar. I said that things wouldn’t go well under Harris, just less badly. Those are not the same statement.
The guy who shot up the Congressional baseball game was at least a socdem, wasn’t he?
Nah, things still suck in that alternate universe. Not as badly as they do here, but Harris wasn’t going to fix much of anything. She was just going to break fewer things.
8/10 movie, 11/10 ending.
Rachel Corrie didn’t manage to change much.
I wish Indian food were cheap around here. We have a healthy number of Indian immigrants and several restaurants, but they’re pricey. Delicious, worth it, but not cheap. And come to think of it, not terribly healthy, at least the way I order.
I hope that China pays enough to repair a decent amount of the damage from the ones that did go off.