Women’s suffrage wasn’t one either. Then we made the rights right.

In this thread: stupid Trumper who fumes and makes noises about reality checks gets a reality check.

The “sharing economy” is actually the sharecropping economy.

Exactly. I’m not 100% on how US authorities handle the operational details - and I hear it varies quite a bit from state to state - but here all the “investigation” surrounding an unusual death commonly amounts to securing the incident site, waiting for the coroner’s verdict and writing a brief case report that most…

Uh, the police investigate any unusual death as a pro forma measure. They have to rule out foul play, but that doesn’t mean they have strong leads pointing to outside force...

“Pardon us?”

...or the airline’s managers axed the maintenance budget and the timeworn comms equipment finally went tits up.

You’re referring to the mentally ill pilot who crashed his own plane? He literally performed a nosedive over the French countryside. Everything was over after a few seconds. There’s no possible way to scramble jet interceptors in time to do much of anything.

Exactly, that’s why the interceptors were NOT their to shoot the plane down as a last resort. Under prevailing German (and EU) law that’s an illegal action and the pilots as well as the COs would face court martial.

Well, first I’d like to see hard scientific data this practice has a positive effect on public health. Even if it’s just a tissue mask, it’s still encumbering. Imagine trying to have a muffled phonecall everytime your in the open.

Well yeah, in the movie Whatsherface McMaincharacter is confronted by the Korean(?) mob, so I would say the director clearly imitates Japan here. (Of course, he did throw in a lot of stuff he found cool without making a coherent story out of it, which is the reason it’s so bad.)

And as for the “you have no horse in this race so you shouldn’t complain” argument bandied out by the PDP apologists here in the comments: do you guys live under a rock? We’re living in a time where fascism becomes socially acceptable. The Klan throws victory parades, actually sieg-heiling Nazis roam the streets and…

Yeah, but we mustn’t forget, radio shock jocks (co-)created Bush and Trump supporters as well as the alt-right. Their content is devoid of thought and truth, but their presentation has a tangible effect on regressives. It normalizes slurs by recasting them as jokes, allowing racists and other regressives to remain…

Damn right. How many people know that the most infamous of these exploitative projects, the Tuskegee experiment, ran till 1972?

You’re absolutely right. The notion that there was a conspiracy to dispose of Ms. Lacks through medical neglect is risible. I mean, even today - with 66 years worth of oncological progress - cervical cancer still has an average death rate of about 25% of cases, if I read the technical literature correctly.

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Didn’t advocate we carpet bomb Syria?

Y’know, that’s all well and good, but could we - just for a sec - talk about the fact there’s commenters here who are more interested in whining about blog crossposting than strong evidence of your political leaders being fucking traitors in the literal, legal definition of the term?!?

As a non-American who followed your internal discourse for two decades now, it’s boggles my mind to the highest degree before an aneurysm that your country downplays treason through Russian collaboration.

Down that path lies the end of democracy in America.