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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The question about Afghanistan had a simple answer neither of them seized: "Remain engaged just long enough to hammer out a final settlement, then get out as soon as we can."
The question is designed to be a torpedo — there's really no responsible option that doesn't have some level of engagement in the short term, but the phrasing results in admitting that making you the bad guy.
Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Jun 26th 2019 at 2:46:34 PM
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."So, Alabama takes one more step into the direction of the Dark Ages. Or in this case, Jim Crow Laws and stuff
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/21/politics/alabama-megachurch-police-force-trnd/index.html
Seriously, what is WRONG with this country? They basically just legalized christian morality police!
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianA pregnant Alabama woman, Marshae Jones, was shot in the stomach during a fight. Her injuries also killed the fetus. Jones is being prosecuted for killing the fetus.
The woman who shot her has not been charged.
“The investigation showed that the only true victim in this was the unborn baby,’’ Pleasant Grove police Lt. Danny Reid said at the time of the shooting. “It was the mother of the child who initiated and continued the fight which resulted in the death of her own unborn baby.”
If someone ever says I’m too worried about reproductive rights/justice again, I’m gonna lose it.
Edited by wisewillow on Jun 27th 2019 at 5:03:46 AM
...What the actual hell, man!?
I sincerily hope this guy gets fired and never takes on a position of any sort of authority ever again in his life.
Edited by HailMuffins on Jun 27th 2019 at 9:24:55 AM
I'm sorry, but unless the mother was herself armed, using deadly force in a fight is always a crime.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"OK, state government of Alabama: prepare to get sued hand over fist over the maliciously deplorable state of your prenatal services which therefore endanger the life of the precious, precious foetuses and their incidental incubators. After all, such malpractice and underfunding is akin to a pregnant woman refusing to wrap herself in cotton wool and put herself in a box for eight months, like you want her to do.
Easy access to a whole suit of prenatal services are cotton wool. Which you're not providing.
Edited by Euodiachloris on Jun 27th 2019 at 1:39:21 PM
I didn't really follow the democratic debate that closely, but it sounds like it wasn't a disaster. All of the people who stood out would be adequate as President I think, yes including DeBlasio, though I know he'd inevitably end up having the same pointlessly combative relationship with congressional leadership as he does with the governor of New York.
Incidentally to divert a bit to questions about candidates record and sincerity (which were raised in regards to numerous candidates), most elected officials, Donald Trump included, do attempt to make good on their campaign promises. They often fail because the president is not a dictator, and because sometimes things that sound good on paper prove to be unworkable in practice.
In general I think people focus excessively on how sincere a politician's beliefs appear to be, hence the popularity of people like Bernie Sanders, a long serving senator with fairly average political accomplishments who has been using the same stump speech for 30 years, only to gain unexpected traction
But that kind of insistence that our elected officials be "true believers" kind of misses the whole point of representative democracy; representatives are supposed to represent their constituents, they aren't supposed to be pursuing their personal agenda, and ideally they are a blank slate onto which their constituency imposes an agenda. That's not ever going to be the case practically, but I think professional integrity and competence are far more relevant than a candidates record of past positions.
Edited by CaptainCapsase on Jun 27th 2019 at 9:45:00 AM
John Roberts will burn in hell. Jesus fucking Christ, he’s murdered SCOTUS and democracy.
Court rules 5-4 that federal courts can’t touch partisan gerrymandering.
MASSIVE blow against efforts to combat partisan gerrymandering. Roberts holds in 5-4 ruling in North Carolina case that partisan gerrymandering is NOT justiciable at all
NEW: In a 5-4 ruling along party lines, the Roberts Court holds that partisan gerrymandering cannot be challenged under the U.S. Constitution. This is a historic defeat for fair elections
This ruling means that court rulings that had overturned gerrymanders in Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, & Wisconsin will all be overturned, largely benefitting Republicans nationwide at both the federal & state level
We are so, so fucked. Unless we get the Senate, there’s no way to overrule this. Demographics won’t matter; whoever has each statehouse in 2020 makes the rules and can rig blatantly unrepresentative maps. Even racist ones- all they have to do is say black voters are Dems so it’s partisan not racist.
Edited by wisewillow on Jun 27th 2019 at 7:21:51 AM
That one is going to go alongside Dred Scott as among the worst decisions ever handed down by the Court.
Edited by Fighteer on Jun 27th 2019 at 10:22:44 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
x3 Yeah that sucks. It does, however, allow for State Courts to determine if Partisan Gerrymandering violates the State Constitution, so the Pennsylvania Redistricting still holds... While the efforts to redistrict Michigan are dead at this time (their State Court has already ruled that Partisan Gerrymandering is Constitutional).
We really need to get out to vote next year. If the Federal Courts can't take on Partisan Gerrymandering, we will have to.
While this is a stupid decision from the Court, to equate it to the "No Black Person counts as a Person in the Country" Dred Scott Ruling, is kind of appalling to me. It's bad, make no mistake, but it is nowhere near as bad as Dred Scott was.
Edited by DingoWalley1 on Jun 27th 2019 at 10:30:12 AM
The way I read the north Carolina decision was that they really needed a fedral law to rule on. In essence, the courts aren't going to do the legislature's job for them.
For me, I think a algorithm like compactness while following current borders(such as county) as much as practical would be the best.
- Four guys installed by minority popular vote presidents
- Two dudes who lied to Congress, and
- One occupying a stolen seat
The issue here isn’t compactness; it’s surgically drawing lines to ensure maximum seats for a party with minimum votes. For example, Indiana is about 60-40 republican and Democrat.
Our legislature is 80-20.
And that’s BLATANTLY unconstitutional; it’s not a lack of federal law, it’s refusal to enforce it.
It’s really not quite that simple, but yeah, following county lines isn’t much help for various reasons.
Edited by wisewillow on Jun 27th 2019 at 7:40:07 AM
''The way I read the north Carolina decision was that they really needed a fedral law to rule on. In essence, the courts aren't going to do the legislature's job for them.
For me, I think a algorithm like compactness while following current borders(such as county) as much as practical would be the best.''
I know, I've said this before, but such a system gives undue weight to populations that are less densely distributed. I recall there was a Vox article saying so, let me check...
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Tulsi Gabbard is looking more and more like the George Galloway of the Dems.