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Books tend toward having editors. We are currently seeing what happens when there's no editors to say "This idea is absurd, cut it."

I really, really don't want Bernie running in 2020. He's too damn old and I am unconvinced that he is likely to do well with some pretty necessary groups of the voter base no matter what he does. Honestly, Gillibrand's recent voting history is largely good and she has expressed regret for some of th...

I don't purport to speak for other republicans, but I believe in an overwhelming military capability... The Republicans agree with that. ...but high levels of self control in exercising it. I spoke too soon, nevermind. I believe in budgetary self control in good times and bad so that we have room t...

A large portion of the border is already in Federal hands.<snip images> And a more substantial portion isn't. How much should the owners of the private land be compensated? What about the tribal lands? Do you propose the government seize even more? You will find no advocate for eminent domain from ...

Patroklos wrote: ↑2019-01-08 06:27am A large portion of the border is already in Federal hands.<snip images>

And a more substantial portion isn't. How much should the owners of the private land be compensated? What about the tribal lands? Do you propose the government seize even more?

I believe it was hinted that they didn't, but I may be misremembering.

It had some pretty silly stuff to it, but I'll grant it's a fun movie. I did think " Aquaman could just point out that he's buddies with Superman, who could break Orm's trident with his eyeball ." That's a drawback of there being a character on the level of Superman established as being pa...

Not the answer I suspect you want, but I am going to suggest you contact an electrician to have more outlets professionally put into the room. Tell the electrician your plans so that they can get things set up in a manner that won't start fires. It'll be expensive, but much less expensive than burni...

Poor Mia Love, she won't be able to keep pulling the ladder up behind her now. Thoughts and prayers!

The Salt Lake Valley is going increasingly blue, and I suspect that the state GOP is gonna try and gerrymander the districts some more to "correct" this.

Hmm, hadn't thought of that. That's because it isn't like that. Unlike biological diseases, religion is one you have to accept to catch. You can't say 'yeah, not interested' to measles. Those people rather unmistakably said 'not interested'. The disease bit is because they haven't been exposed to t...

I have exactly zero cause to believe America is exceptional enough to not see a substantial chunk of the military use lethal force on unarmed innocents. Quite the opposite, in fact. Our record is replete with examples of the military massacring innocents. So, uh, not gonna be shocked if refugees get...

Does the "predatory recruitment" argument also apply to other organisations? I'm thinking street gangs and the like, which offer a fucking lot to people in shitty situations. At least to some extent, it should be factored in. The recruiters are scum. To some extent, though, the military i...

The difficult part of "Fuck people who join the military" is that recruiters are predatory motherfuckers that go and target high school kids who can't afford college but want to go. Sign on with the military, lad, and we'll pay for your education! Like, they literally specifically target 1...

What happens if the FBI decide that they have enough on Kavanaugh to start a criminal investigation ? The Republicans gut the FBI's ability to investigate him and/or refuse to do jack shit about anything the FBI finds. Or Trump pardons him. Or that. Since every Republican save one voted for Kavanau...

bilateralrope wrote: ↑2018-10-06 08:50pm What happens if the FBI decide that they have enough on Kavanaugh to start a criminal investigation ?

The Republicans gut the FBI's ability to investigate him and/or refuse to do jack shit about anything the FBI finds.

As I recall, the Dark One's plan with the Snarl is pretty much all for the sake of improving things for his worshippers. If he can achieve that goal without the risk of letting the Snarl go on a rampage, why the hell would he go with a dangerous as hell plan? OotS has shown that you can be evil and ...

Not to burst your bubble specifically, but just convincing a few Republicans to vote no only matters if all of the Democrats also vote no on him. And considering there were turncoat Democrats for the last SC nominee I'm not terribly optimistic.

They can't build enough apartments, period. Developers are in a business. They want to make money. And those ultra-luxury condos are the only ones that will make them enough at this point to be able go through the decade of red tape et al to get to actually building. Which is where government shoul...

Society has concluded it does not want to reduce homelessness in an effective manner. Namely, provide people with homes. Instead, sweep the problem under the rug. Can't be building enough apartments that are affordable! Gotta keep building ultra-luxury condominiums. They can't build enough apartmen...

Are public conveniences not a thing in San Francisco these days? If you're homeless and smell bad as a result of not having easy access to showering? Potentially, yeah. Businesses don't want someone who reeks in there. Society has concluded it does not want to reduce homelessness in an effective ma...

The point here is that the COS are basically provokers, trolls, call them what you like. Not the type that are serious about their religious beliefs, instead with the actual religious we have people that believe in their faith enough to go ahead and lay-down their lives for it, as the history of ma...

Per IMDb, Patrick Stewart directed the following episodes:
- Preemptive Strike (1994)
- Phantasms (1993)
- A Fistful of Datas (1992)
- Hero Worship (1992)
- In Theory (1991)

I am absolutely not familiar enough with the show to say anything about the quality of the episodes.

It should be noted that inducing radioactivity in a previously stable atom is quite difficult. You need to change the nucleus itself. You can 100% ionize it and you're going to have an absurdly reactive little atom on your hands but it won't emit radiation. Radioisotopes arise when there's not the r...

I think it's worse than not being able to count -it's delusional thinking. Collins and Murkowski will no doubt make some pablum statement that they have assurances from whoever is nominated that precedent will be respected, blah, blah, blah... And they'll vote to confirm and for the first time in a...

Crossroads Inc. wrote: ↑2018-06-08 09:13pm Ok so going into far end of crazy...
What happens if Trump proactively says:
“Anyone convicted by Mullet will be automatically pardoned”
Just to dick with everyone?

Mueller starts filing state charges instead. The president can't pardon state charges/convictions, just federal.