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crushedoranges
2m ago
Really? Huh. Hm. Shows what I know.
Lewis2
3m ago
The timing for that doesn’t work out at all. The Second Great Awakening burnt out by the 1830s–40s, several generations before most states eliminated or severely restricted the death penalty. Also, Christians support the death penalty at higher rates than non-Christians, at least in the United States.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
4m ago
Vance was not the announced VP pick yet and did not yet have a SS detail.
Does that make his story too paranoid? Only a vanishing few people would know he was going to be the ultimate pick. But his name was being thrown around.
anti_dan
8m ago
I mean. Its not really about the article itself, although the article is good. The point is true. Gay and transgender ideology have become akin to the pagan/satanic religions of old. Many people have noticed. Scott just figured out the best headline.
stolen_brawnze
I am the way Sia says "batteries" in that one song.
11m ago
Fuck, and he ended up outside fucking Baton Rouge? We should have given him more slack.
Tenaz
11m ago
I just don't see how you could expect people to follow through. There's no possible enforcement mechanism.
laxam
15m ago
Because the entire great desideratum is gone.
The one good thing that has come out of it so far is to get you people to admit you're against everything conservatism has stood for since the 1950's.
crushedoranges
16m ago
What I think was likely was that he was escorted off premises with Secret Service agents and sheltered in place in his home. Machismo aside, perhaps he thought it was like Lincoln in that there was a coordinated conspiracy with shooters assigned to him and Trump. Of course there was no such thing but you can't fault a man for having family on his mind.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
16m ago
If that one passes, I am reliably informed that most of the prison jobs will go away due to lack of funding, leaving prisoners without any options to make money.
Why? If the prisoners wish to work, they'll keep working. If the prisoners largely don't wish to work, I don't think it makes sense to make them work so that a small minority can fulfill their preferences.
faceh
16m ago
Eh. Find a website that matches me with someone in my state who is voting the exact opposite slate that I am so we can both stay home rather than wasting time on a vote that would just cancel each other out.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
18m ago
Slovak.
NewCharlesInCharge
20m ago
Reminds me of the summer of 2020 when the mall a few miles from my home, closed for months due to the pandemic, was overrun with looters in broad daylight, and police were ordered to stand by and do nothing. We were less than week into the George Floyd riots. As night fell there were postings on social media that there were guys with guns breaking into shops just a few blocks from me.
I stayed up all night with my guns ready and my eyes on my security cameras.
NewCharlesInCharge
25m ago
During more than one judicial nomination she's called the KoC extreme for opposing abortion and gay marriage and her line of questioning for the nominees implied that membership is somehow disqualifying. URL is yahoo.com but this is from the National Review: https://www.yahoo.com/news/brief-history-kamala-harris-knights-140302014.html
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
40m ago
Hlynka had some Slavic (Ukrainian?) blood in him, so much as I'd like it to be otherwise, I'm afraid it's unlikely.
FiveHourMarathon
Listen to Pierre
41m ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't betting on winning/losing demographic groups just a bet on exit polling? Or will it resolve based on county/precinct level voting data correlated across the country?
It just feels like betting on an NFL players PFF grade.
FiveHourMarathon
Listen to Pierre
46m ago
All the best people are. Go birds.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
51m ago
It's a little strange to think that he wouldn't have been in contact with people close to Trump who would know that he's not dead. Of course, it would still make sense for him to be cautious about a second strike, so to speak.
anti_dan
52m ago
Its quite obvious where I live that there is a gradient from one side of the neighborhood (which neighbors a primarily mexican one) to the other (which borders a primarily white yuppie one). You go from frequent corona and modelo bottles to fewer, to on the other side your problem being that the trash cans are overloaded by then end of a 3 day weekend because those people can't help but use the cans, and the city refuses to install enough cans. Also people write on their own private cans "private use only" because otherwise these litter-adverse folks will simply seek out the closest available can rather than utilize a sidewalk once the official cans are spent.
MartianNight
54m ago
Freddie deBoer recently wrote about this, in Big Mommy is Not Coming to Save Us:
This is the “why has the media gone easy on Trump??” narrative, which has somehow flourished for almost a decade now despite the fact that Donald Trump has been covered more critically by our media than any other figure in my lifetime, seemingly to his advantage.
He proceeds to gives a ton of examples from the New York Times.
It’s incredible that so many people sincerely believe that the Times is a secretly pro-Trump publication, as they don’t even bother to pretend that their op/ed section is a space where actual pro-Trump sentiment is going to be shared, outside of a once-or-twice a year novelty piece.
[..]
If they go so easy on Trump, why can they not scare up a single authentically pro-Trump voice for the Opinion page? This recent NYT piece asks nine members of their editorial team to reflect on who they’re voting for and why. All nine are voting for Democrats. It’s a bunch of plugs for Harris or the Democrats generally and one weird endorsement of an environmentalist who stole his wardrobe from the Lumineers tour bus. They couldn’t even find a single staffer to endorse a Republican for appearance’s sake, to ward off the obvious criticism. Not one!
I'm sure there are people on both sides that claim their guy isn't treated fairly, and the other guy deserves more scrutiny. But I think this is a case where the Democrat voters are simply wrong.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
55m ago
I disagree because if the vote on the side you actually like cannot win, not only are you not getting what you want, but often moving the country in the opposite direction. In fact, this is the theory behind stocking horse candidates— run someone very similar to the mainstream candidate that you want to lose, split that vote and cruise to victory.
This is just simply power games. The thing that a lot of people don’t get about politics is that it isn’t in the least about being right, no matter what system you’re trying to get power under. The person with the right policies is a nobody. The guy who has power gets to decide what the right answer is. The correct answer is thusly form a very strong tribe that votes as a bloc. Then use that power base to essentially hold the political party nearest to your own side to account for not voting your way. Vote out bad politicians in the primaries. This is how the GOP was gradually moved rightward. If someone didn’t vote right, they were prinaried out of office. But the GOP was still winning because people were still with the Rightist party so they won elections. That would be the optimum strategy— vote as you please in the primaries, then vote GOP in the general election. You take power because the vote isn’t split, but you’re also to be feared because rinos get removed from the party.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
59m ago
J.D. Vance isn’t a Southerner, though…
Also, as far as I’m aware neither is Hlynka. I believe Hlynka’s originally from Pennsylvania.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1hr ago
I have never watched CNN but this appears to be false.
There's a pic of biden's inauguration speech with the counter on it, and on later days as well.
Maybe they showed it less frequently, I'm not in a position to judge.
I remember not too long ago, a bunch of conservatives got excited because the audience for whatever show Colbert hosts now, booed when the CNN affiliated host said something about them being impartial. It was amusing to me, because the conservatives took it to mean, even this progressive audience knows how biased (against Trump) CNN is. Of course, the reality was that they were booing CNN for being biased in favor of Trump, because this was within about a month of the debate and that was the normie progressive take, that CNN was basically in league with Trump.
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