Is he only supporting gun control candidates to primary incumbents? I don’t know and am just looking to be informed.

What don’t you agree with Hogg about? Just curious.

In a pre-Roberts court, fine. But you are aware I’m sure that this court routinely ignores precedent, and it’s not good enough to just say, well, your judges ignored precedent and made a number of terrible rulings against the spirit of the Constitution, but we’re gonna follow tradition and decorum and keep with those rulings because we’re going to follow the rules.

A successor court (whatever form that takes) must reverse the worst decisions, and then Congress needs to step in and enact laws in support of the new rulings.

Perhaps you missed the news where Trump explicitly encouraged immigrants of European descent to come to the US and made expedited arrangements for white Afrikaner “refugees” recently.

Or in his first term during the Unite the Right rally, when racists marched in Charlottesville and chanted “You will not replace us,” meaning Jews and non-white minorities, and Trump responded by saying there were “very fine people on both sides.”

I think you’d have a pretty steep uphill argument to say that this administration is not a white supremacist (and misogynist) movement at its core.

Again, I don’t believe this myself, but what they mean by “white culture” or “European Anglo-Saxon values” or whatever is simply a homogenous culture centered around white supremacy.

I mean, obviously. I’m not saying I believe it or that it’s viable.

Boomer telling younger generations they must suffer for the future while refusing to sacrifice anything at all themselves is a very Boomer take.

Edit for drive-by down voters: I’m saying this is what they believe, not that it’s true or I believe it. I mean, all I’m talking about is the “Great Replacement” theory that people like Stephen Miller fully adhere to.

It’s pretty simple: the white population is losing ground relative to non-white populations. Yes, other populations will increase, but there’s a practical ceiling. They likely believe that the white population gains will more than offset any gains by other ethnicities.

For black populations specifically, I’d have to do some simple analysis on this data, but it doesn’t look particularly disproportionate in absolute numbers.

But really, I don’t believe the black population is the principal target. See the graph. Consider the immigration policy.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/all-recent-us-population-growth-comes-from-people-of-color-new-census-estimates-show/

This must be terrifying. I disagree with this new requirement to appear in person every few months for reasons just like this, and I’d like to share cases like yours when I talk to Trump voters. Would you be willing to share the condition that keeps you homebound and prevents you from traveling in person?

Most of what they do is in service to white supremacy, including this.

• Abortion restrictions: more white babies
• Pornography restrictions: more white babies
• Immigration restrictions: fewer brown babies

Make America Great Again literally just means “restoring” the “supremacy” of the white race and culture over all others.

Yeah I’m sure they’ll get right on that

They’re drinking water with electrolytes and having their vitals checked twice a day. If their vitals start to become weak or erratic, I’m sure they’ll a taken to a hospital.

But if they actually intend to see it through, they can go for quite a while. If they also take vitamins and a potassium supplement for heart function, they could survive without food for over a year. (The actual length depends on many factors, of course, particularly starting weight.)

Without supplements or electrolytes, a person can survive for around two months. (Again, depending on starting weight and other factors.)

That’s right, each state has its own educational standards. For example, Colorado’s educational system is very, very different from West Virginia, like it’s a different country.

I made the comparison of Lisbon to Helsinki solely because of the distances involved; it’s roughly the same distance as Seattle to DC.

If it helps to imagine it, the US is basically an unhappy married couple forced to live in the same house.

As soon as shelves start going bare, everyone will start panicking, including Republican politicians and everyone in the administration who doesn’t spend most of their time on camera at airport tarmacs. At that point they’ll pull back. They’ll do permanent damage to the country and leave us in a worse position, but I don’t believe they’ll sit idly by while an economic depression kicks off.

Yes, Donald, to make a deal you need something called leverage.

You have no leverage with Russia because we’re not helping Ukraine defend against an invasion anymore and you’ve repeated Russian propaganda.

You have no leverage with Israel because you continue to supply them with weapons of war, deport protestors, publicly give them a pass on all war crimes, and promote the forced exile of Palestinians from Gaza.

The simple fact is you may be too intellectually challenged to “achomlish” this. Everyone at the negotiating table—every single person, including the aides and wait staff—is smarter than you.

I don’t disagree, but for what it’s worth, I don’t think most Europeans could either. As a comparison, I can certainly tell you that most Europeans can’t identify US states on a map outside of maybe one or two, and have no concept about the size of the US generally. That’s why Americans constantly hear about how we should be “protesting in DC,” as if people in Lisbon would ever protest in Helsinki. I don’t think ignorance and provincialism is a localized phenomenon.

I see it everywhere, constantly:

• At work in stupid images for meetings and unhelpful and inaccurate AI summaries designed to make us more productive. I love Ghibli, but with all the Ghibli profile images I see there it’s making me hate seeing the art style.

• On meetup event descriptions, where the photos are either cartoons or deceptive, photorealistic representations of a meetup in action instead of a less glamorous real photo.

• Reviews, product descriptions, news articles, SEO farms in search results, paid bot comments on practically every single video in order to manipulate engagement stats…

I’m just so tired of the slop, the lack of care, everywhere I look. It’s exhausting.

She’ll get around to it once she finishes finals week

The first battle of the Revolution was fought 5 years after the Boston Massacre.

We have a set of ironclad rules: laws. But they can’t be enforced when a majority of the institutions charged with enforcing them are intent on subverting them instead.

The only way you could make this work is by making, say, the Department of Justice a separate and co-equal branch of the government, with its leader nominated and voted on by federal judges, completely detached from the normal political process. And that would require amending the Constitution.

In the future of the 1994 movie Timecop, there’s a White Supremacist Party that wins 5% of the vote in the election. They were right but for a zero.

Also the villain is a tech billionaire who gets into politics and wants to buy the election.