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Yes, I gave you evidence. List of every socialist country, or really, every country that had ever called themselves socialist. Almost entirely shitholes. When it comes to figuring out the best countries, try to look at things like life expectancy , infant mortality , etc. The best ones are predomin...

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On the basis that it counts as publishing for libel purposes I'd say probably yes

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Does the Democratic party actually have the funds to contest every race? I've always heard financial constraints as a reason that slim chances aren't contested by them.

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While Destructo Child is clearly unfit for the presidency, the R base is the actual problem. A solid third of the country wants what the White House is giving them. How does one deal with that? By which I mean mostly, how does one try to keep oppressed groups protected under those circumstances: wh...

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The officers in question did not deny the sexual acts occurred, but both claimed they were consensual, according to the New York Daily News. What the actual fuck. It's surely impossible to gain meaningful sexual consent from someone that you are actively detaining (since at that point the p...

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In other words, would you support making genocide-promotion illegal and have the government perform that violence on your behalf? Or again in other words, is the only reason you're promoting this violence now because you believe the government is not willing to change and enforce that law? That's c...

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...the reason I've been bringing up constitutional fetishism is the assumption I see often that the current state of the Constitution has got everything exactly right... I don't see that assumption made. What I see is respect for the thought that went into those original documents That's encouragin...

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Along those lines, I don't think it's at all fair to dismiss the widespread US distrust toward speech restrictions as "constitutional fetishism." Nazis are an extreme case and the things they say are vile, and they cannot be allowed to achieve any of their goals. It's a moral quandary for...

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Wouldn't 'Hey there's a nazi gathering going down at X, please send a swat team.' also warrant a full response? Is genocidal hate speech just too big to be believable? I'm sorta not understanding why nazism =/= terrorism. Genocidal hate speech isn't illegal in the US, and support for changing the f...

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ObsessoMom wrote:There ought to be some sort of award for the wordsmith who crafted that eloquence, but I'm not sure if it should go to the police or to the reporter.

Free lifetime membership of tautology club?

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That makes sense to me, Quercus...except that many, if not all, white nationalists seem to sincerely believe that their race is the target of an actual, systematic genocide (now or in the future), and therefore the violence in their ends and means is justified, from their perspective, because they ...

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If the following conditions are met: a) A white nationalist or group of white nationalists promotes their views in a way that is likely to pose a credible threat of violence against others (which given their views encompasses most ways apart from vague wishing) b) The normal mechanisms of state-con...

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Okay. Now my understanding is there are those in this thread that believe violence against white nationalists is justified. Does this mean that if someone tweets "I wish all blacks would go back to Africa and leave America for the white race", violence is now justified against them? I'm n...

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Fig and peanut energy balls. Given the price of those bounce things, I must have achieved at least a five fold price reduction, even factoring in my time. Interesting texture - crumbly out of the blender, but became putty-like as soon as pressure was applied to form into balls. Quite a dramatic shift.

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The continued obsession with Princess Diana's death is so odd, I can't think of another case quite like it. Kurt Cobain maybe? Prince Albert? Elvis? JFK? Jesus? Yeah. That's true. Add Marilyn Munroe to that list too. Okay then, I'll amend my comment to the obsession with celebrity death in general ...

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The continued obsession with Princess Diana's death is so odd, I can't think of another case quite like it. Kurt Cobain maybe? Prince Albert?

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Deva wrote:No. Owns no firearms, flamethrowers, or lasers.

Due to the demise of optical storage media that might actually be true.

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Yes. A bottle of it in a kitchen cupboard, for rinsing off lens cloths after cleaning, to ensure they don't get scratchy mineral deposits on them

A lens cloth/tissue?

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@Chen Not convinced she considers Tyrion a Lannister so, well, Jaime being the stupidest Lannister isn't too big a stressed I'm not sure that Cersei ever considered Tyrion stupid, just evil and treacherous There was an unfinished story with Benjen but just meeting up for a moment is no sort...

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Also, antifa contains rather a lot of anarchists. It's not a very big surprise that a centralised government opposes and denigrates anarchist movements by whatever means they can. Regardless of the level of threat they represent to individuals, they are an openly avowed threat to the institution of ...

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You need to correct for populations if you want to compare the homicide rate with the absolute number of police killings. Bollocks, so I do. For some reason I was under the impression that the police killing numbers were normalised to populations, but they aren't. Ignore everything I just wrote abo...

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Lets see, the intentional homicide rate in the US is 4.88 per 100,000, compared to 1.68 for Canada, 0.92 for UK, and 0.85 for Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate So yes, the US is a violent, dangerous bunch and more of us need shot than Germans. Eve...

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I'm a bit behind, but still wanted to nitpick about episode 1 :) Why the hell is Dragonstone abandoned? Like, nobody is there at all. Yeah, I get that Stannis is meant to have up and left with his whole army for the Wall in season 4, but unless you have gone completely insane you still leave a small...

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/18/16169980/arts-and-humanities-committee-resigns-trump-resist The President's committee on the Arts and Humanities has resigned en masse. All seventeen of them. Their letter of resignation spells out the word RESIST in the first letters of it's paragra...

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http://www.newsweek.com/breitbart-declares-war-trump-after-bannons-white-house-exit-652245 Oh this gonna be good. I was expecting that Bannon / Breitbart was going to stay pro-Trump after the firing. But I'm (pleasantly) surprised that Mr. Trump is beginning to be branded a "liberal cuck"...

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Forgive my foreigners ignorance, but is affirmative action considered a bad thing now? Pretty sure it always has been by some circles. It depends what they mean by "consider". If they mean always inviting an ethnic minority candidate to interview, then I'm pretty sure that would be illega...

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Yeah, now that it's a national news topic with the President commenting on it, it's far too late to ignore it. I wouldn't be here talking about it if it were still in the "just ignore them" phrase. I was speaking on general principle as applied to the counter-protestors who were there on ...

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CorruptUser wrote:why can't Nazis beat the crap out of me because they "know" they are right?

They can, and they do.

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Only an electronic one on my phone (but it's actually stored locally in the memory of my phone, so I think it should still count)

Something colder than 0 ^oC

Argh! The page-turn bug strikes again. Sorry. Disregard.

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Yeah, you're one of the other people who keeps wanting to change the topic and argue against "punching Nazis should always be legal" strawmen. No? I'm trying to get a proper legal framework for "punching Nazis should be legal" that doesn't also create precedent for "punchin...

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Virginia State Police Say They Didn't Find Caches of Weapons in Charlottesville Jesus, you guys had me scared for a while. Yeah that was in the twitter thread Belial linked. Very reassuring... The governor of Virginia just irresponsibly sparked unnecessary fear at a volatile moment, and fed Preside...

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Also hey everybody should read this Yep. That definitely counts as copious quantities of shit hitting the fan. For those who didn't read that here's a summary from the guardian . Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe revealed on Monday that the far right activists had hidden caches of weapons around th...

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He's not calling for people to die, he's calling for... well people to be white. I'm not sure how you get to a stage where people in the USA are all white without most of the black and brown people dying. Either directly, or when wherever they get forcibly deported to (which most definitely counts ...

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The Charlottesville crowd attacked a prayer meeting and later they marched on a predominantly black neighborhood. It's probably safe to assume, given all the beatings and sticks, that they weren't going there to sell cookies. The residents of those neighborhoods and antifa fighters turned them back...

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CorruptUser wrote:And as long as they don't advocate violence right now, it's legal. So then, how do you stop it?

From an external perspective you lose the USA's fucking first amendment fetishism and make hate speech a crime. Given that that's not likely to happen, fucked if I know.

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If people who think sodomy or atheism are worthy of death became the majority, you would be very happy to have that basic level of protection. If such people became the majority we would not have that protection or any other for very long, and it is, IMO, an utterly ludicrous fantasy to suppose tha...

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...but we're talking about hunting down {fill-in} because they are a {fill-in}, not because they did {bad thing}. As to the non-equivalence of being born gay (or black) vs adopting an ideology, ok, fair enough. Change "gay" in my example to "Christian" or "Muslim"; bot...

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If you're trying to argue there's a meaningful difference, it might be helpful to specify what country you're talking about and give a specific example of the kind of law you're talking about then. Ah, sorry - I mentioned in a previous comment that I was talking about the Crown Prosecution Service ...

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The U.S. has this under the broad umbrella of prosecutorial discretion, which also lets you consider the likelihood the case will succeed and how much it will cost to do so. True, but the pertinent difference for me is that prosecutorial discretion (if I've understood it correctly) lets prosecutors...

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This is (if applied properly) one of the advantages of the "public interest" test for UK criminal prosecutions, which actually bakes these sort of cases into judicial procedure. Basically if the Crown Prosecution Service (roughly the equivalent of state or federal prosecutors offices) deci...

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