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The sorts of stores that will still stock physical porn when my children are teenagers are the sort which won’t even let them in the front door without an ID. This isn’t the eighties.

Russian Nukes are likely even worse- US nuclear maintenance might be skimped on or done by questionably competent people who overlook mechanical issues, but the commanders aren’t systematically stealing the budget for it. And China has a shortage of warheads to wipe out life in the U.S.

Moreover, nuclear targeting is not done on the basis of a list of largest cities in the enemy’s homeland, it’s done by targeting military and command installations and war critical infrastructure as well as strategic forces. A lot of that is pretty red, although admittedly DC and San Diego are not.

Trump is not a vote for restoring norms. That’s just stupid, I’m sorry but Trump did and continues to violate norms regularly. He still won’t concede the 2020 election and J6 may have been small potatoes(it was), but it’s definitely not within the norms.

Now all that being said- democrats are a lot worse. As Scott correctly notes, democratic backsliding in the real world, as opposed to Netflix shows beloved by progressives, is one party that packs the courts and colludes with private media to censor the opposition and finds three felonies a day reasons to go after dissidents after spying on them and ending meritocracy in economic and educational opportunities to distribute spoils to supporting groups. Sort of like what we have with democrats. You know, the things they’re actually literally doing. Not the ones we can imagine Trump doing.

Do you think Erdogan is going around saying he’s ending judicial independence to consolidate his own power?

This is an election between two sets of norm violators. Trump will do far less damage.

Because in Texas the law, patchy as it is, exists to protect respectable citizens from scoundrels. In California, the law exists to protect scoundrels from respectable citizens.

To put another way, a certain amount of very low level rough justice is tacitly allowed and encouraged by Texas police and, to the extent they know about it, prosecutors. Surely you’ve seen the signs in front of businesses with a man’s picture and full name, captioned ‘Thief!’?

This is exactly the argument for just hanging them- crime is committed by the same few people, but rarely prosecuted, so anyone who actually gets convicted is a serious repeat offender.

If they’re subpoena’d. Making prosecutors subpoena witnesses over misdemeanors is probably a norm violation even if there isn’t an actual rule against it.

In practice, anti-Puerto Rican discrimination would get struck down on ethnic grounds.

But that's because it's Trump saying it. A comedian calling detroit or baltimore or louisiana a 'dumpster fire' or 'trash' is not controversial.

These people did not need to win popular elections.

Yes, I will admit this was almost certainly some kind of lefty activist, probably antifa. Still think ‘right wing extremists’ should have been on the list of possibilities, albeit not as the #1, before we knew this.

Meh. This isn’t the deal I’d prefer but social conservatives don’t have the numbers to control the country. We need to bide our time when we can’t win, and that means supporting our protectors over our enemies.

Cherokees.

It’s timed perfectly to Goose Republican voter turnout, however.

I’m not sure the Jews have any special enmity towards East Asians.

married vs unmarried are going to be the relevant demographic criteria of the next few decades, I would predict.

Which of course means that the GOP managing to boost the marriage rate is a matter of political survival, and this is probably doable by tax policies and benefits cliffs they love tinkering with(one wonders how many cohabiting couples- and seriously cohabiting is pretty bad and if we can get these people to marry slightly faster that's a good thing in se- would marry for a payout).

The GOP is the socially moderate party for social conservatives, which offers them protection for their way of life. The dems are the socially progressive party for people who want to make social conservatism illegal, which offers them realistically just harassment of social conservatives but it could be state discrimination occasionally, and of course both parties have other interest groups in their coalitions.

Seriously- religious freedom/conscience protections, homeschooling protection, parental rights- these are all major focuses of the GOP and they're areas where the GOP has winning records. They are also very important to social conservatives.

I think it's a successor to dominionist, a stance held by an extremely small number of protestant theologians in ultra-fundamentalist churches that thought the law code spelled out in the bible, judicially, for ancient Israel was binding today, but in practice mostly used as a slur for anyone who didn't jump in whatever progressive bandwagon rolled out. The idea that 'American' is a thing with defining characteristics- any of them- pushes leftist berserk buttons like nothing else, the twitter democrats dominate their messaging, and so add it together.

but c'mon people, this is not representative of the mainstream of Christianity in the US, even in the most Christian parts, which are Baptists who come from a long tradition of church-state separators.

Baptists don't like an establishment of religion because of the 'establishment' thing- it's too much of an institutional church. Requiring a religious test is a part of baptist history; in America before the supreme court banned them baptists often supported laws which required elected officials to be protestant. Today I suspect a 'Christian nationalist' law would ban Muslims/Hindus/atheists from office and require assent to the divinity of Jesus and maybe some Christian moral ideas.

The government's not funding any of this. It was allowing outside groups to offer electives and chose to ban a bible class from the list.

Technically the rule doesn’t say uniforms, does it? It says ‘recognizable emblem’.

There’s definitely an escalating trend of this- and a pattern where hypotheticals and value judgements from progressive groups get trotted out as objective arguments- and it’s not limited to the schools. Fighting about planned parenthood funding and prolife pregnancy centers is a perennial battle. The Trevor project is mostly public funds.

I mean, WaPo as a centrist paper still has to cut costs, so resignations from highly paid editors are probably a nice bonus.

I think it’s organic. Male attention is not hard to spin up and I would predict that the median poster their expects there to be no male attention on that board.

The fake votes would be absentee ballots, obviously, which is probably doable for people who can submit 1500 fake voter registrations.

I doubt the sorts of people who are capable of this seriously think it’ll swing a statewide election, so my guess is- local political machine trying to influence bond elections or something.

The same thing wrong with the entire rest of the world. India is now below replacement too, Sweden is just farther along. Other than Israel no country has figured out how to maintain both A) a national TFR above replacement and B) clean drinking water. There’s plenty of countries that can’t do either and a few that can only do one.

Athens voted by casting tokens in different urns, IIRC- functionally not riggable below a certain scale. Sparta, on the other hand, voted by acclamation- the side which the magistrate thought had more people clamoring for it at a given time(judged by volume) won. This system is pathetically easy to rig and I just thought noting this while we’re on the subject would be an interesting aside.