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by dctoedt 3y ago
You're painting with a broad brush: "BLM" ≠ "rioting." EDIT: From a 2020 Trump Administration report: "President Donald Trump has blamed leftwing extremist groups for instigating nights of looting and violence
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Just because someone prefers it over being homeless or commuting 90 minutes each way doesn't mean they like it Doesn't "like" have to be assessed in comparison to the available alternatives? I mean, I don't
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Trust me, I'm definitely not one of the Lost Cause ideologues.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Unlike BLM rioting or bombing of the capitol by the far left terrorist they didn't do any property damage or attack other people on the street. Oh. I guess that makes it OK for the armed right-wing mob to try to seize control of
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I wonder why they [BLM rioters] are otherwise organized and have leadership and full approval of the party which is currently in power? I don't think you can support that contention with, y'know, evidence . Keep in mind th
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> The US is a federation of independent states That changed with Appomattox and the subsequent enactment of the 14th Amendment.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
OK, ya got me: You managed to find one case from 2017 involving one Dem state senator (who was promptly yanked from all her committee assignments after her comment and "chose" not to run for reelection). Oh, and you found a bu
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Are you trying to say if only a few outliers bomb a building is somehow ok? No. That's false-dichotomy thinking, along the lines of, "It HAS to be either A or B, and it's not B, so it MUST be A." > Or becaus
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Have you forgotten how many democrats have called for the murder and/or execution of trump publicly? Citation, please?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
So you're equating a few outliers trying to get attention, with an armed mob of thousands — summoned, dispatched, and then egged on by the sitting POTUS. JFC.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> January 6 didn’t register for me at all, and I grew up in the area and work in DC. YGBSM
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> The Doctors of the Church (a period of early writers from the first 300 years or so of Christianity), when they unanimously agree on an issue, are considered to be inspired by the Holy Spirit and almost certainly infallible. This see
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by dctoedt 3y ago
There's an old story about three bricklayers; the first says "I'm laying bricks to feed my family"; the second says, "I'm building a wall"; the third says, "I'm building a cathedral." [0] On
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Yeah, I wondered whether that might be the one. But it's slightly different from the plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose quote, so I thought maybe you had a different one in mind. (Santayana was known for his aphorisms.)
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Or that George Santayana quote. Which one?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> "After that, I’m not a dictator." Trump's track record in life — e.g., all the suppliers and other creditors whom he stiffed — doesn't give great reason to believe him about anything.
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You're far more tactful than I might have been.
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> If you, based on your values, see something as tantamount to murder, why would you let people decide if they can take a life or not Some people see contraception as tantamount to murder. It boils down to raw power. Justice White&#x27
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> It’s a difference in degree (e.g. protests to disrupt the Kavanaugh hearing) not a difference in kind. Differences in degree can matter, sometimes hugely. > the machine recount should have been the final word. It doesn’t actually
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Just because there’s a legal theory that supports trying to game manual recounts doesn’t mean you should do it. On that, we agree. But I've come around to the view that SCOTUS should have let the 2000 Florida recount proceed, wi
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> an escalation of what Gore did in 2000–pushing the law to its limit to win the case No, that escalation already happened in the 2000 election — and by the GOP: Remember the "Brooks Brothers riot" by Bush's GOP lawyers
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Why shouldn’t we do it first, before you do? We? > why is it impermissible to lobby the state legislator to select alternate electors? (Which is technically constitutional.) Evidently you've drunk the Kool-Aid of the ... wo
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by dctoedt 3y ago
That was years later, after more details of Russian interference had become public. The salient point is that Hillary conceded the election within hours after the polls closed — and Obama (the then-incumbent) didn't try to sabotage the
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> They’re returning to their own land. As a matter of academic interest, when would you say the statute of limitations runs out on the right of displaced peoples to reclaim their ancestral lands? If your answer is "it never runs o
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Already in 2016, there were Democrats who claimed that the election wasn't fair (and therefore wasn't valid). Those Dems were very few and far between. Hillary Clinton conceded the morning after the polls closed, and pret
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Women do yoga. Off-topic warning: Man here, in "late middle age." For several years I've been accompanying my wife to yoga classes 2-3x/week at our local YMCA.* I'm not especially fond of it, but it seems t
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We Can't Stop Writing Paper Checks. Thieves Love That(nytimes.com)
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> the way it's supposed to work is that the CEO serves at the discretion of the board of directors. The board is not some speedbump or hassle to be maneuvered around, they choose the CEO and can revoke their choice. In theory, yes
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by dctoedt 3y ago
No time to check this out now, but I'll be interested in reactions from my fellow (ex) Navy nukes ....
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> you’re nowhere close to the mandate for amending the constitution anyway. And that's my point. We can think of government as a complex machine controlled by software that's designed to limit what the machine's oper

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