Nope? The Aston is a good looking car, but it’s still an Aston. Meaning, small manufacturer with a history of poor build quality. Set that against Porsche, which is basically bulletproof. It doesn’t really make me rethink a desire for a 911.

Still haven’t done a minute of research?

Couldn’t even do that minute of research?

I’m being argumentative BECAUSE I AM RIGHT. The text doesn’t say that. It says that slavery is abolished and involuntary servitude is abolished unless you’re convicted of a crime. What you’re doing is reading both items before the conjunction to apply to the subclause. I understand that reading, but it’s wrong. Think…

That is not what the 13th amendment means. What it means is:

No, slavery is not legal under the 13th amendment. The 13th amendment permits penal labor—breaking rocks or cleaning up trash on the side of the road—as part of your punishment. It does not permit the state to sell convicted criminals into slavery. We’re talking about people making license plates while in the pen. …

To be clear, though, slavery was excised from the constitution. You can’t claim to be tainted by something that isn’t there. That is political homeopathy.

Yeah, but it basically works once, right?

You are correct that they are under no federal or constitutional legal obligation to vote one way or another. You are wrong in saying that they are under no legal obligation. Many of them are. State legal obligations are legal obligations.

What in your view would actually count as a democracy? To go back to your prior post, most of the items you identified can be affected by statute, either federal or state. First, you are wrong about electors. Electors in most states are under a legal obligation established by the states to vote for the candidate…

Hey, fun times. If you want an interesting read, check out the final conclusion of this book from 1866: https://books.google.com/books?id=jEsIAAAAQAAJ&dq=the%20south%20since%20the%20war&pg=PA383#v=onepage&q&f=false

Yeah, this is a bad take. The rule of law is notoriously hard to define, but it’s about the way the system operates rather then the outcomes it produces. Our system is unfair. That doesn’t mean that the rule of law is wrong, or that people would be wrong for protesting a president who is acting solely to insulate…

Things are definitely a lot more gray than manufacturing simply moving overseas. Since this is a car site, the fact of the matter is that there is more car manufacturing in the United States than there ever has been before. I haven’t looked at this in a while, but I believe there are even more auto manufacturing jobs…

They put Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. I tend to think that Roe is dead. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not by 2020, but sometime in the next 10 years. The only question is what is next. So, they really did a lot to overturn Roe. A constitutional amendment was never going to happen. You need a 2/3 vote in the the House and…

Thanks, I didn’t know that. The one thing that doesn’t get mentioned enough, I think, is that the plan was always to import more goods from China and east Asia. This still comes up in justifications for how globalization has worked out—people say that it’s good that a lot of manufacturing has moved over seas, e.g.…

The reasons are markets for American goods and goods for American markets. I thought that was all pretty straight forward. This should have been taken to the WTO though.

It’s the AV Club. It wasn’t titled What Physical Activities to Engage In this Weekend.

Tiny eclairs.

Isn’t the question whether they are FRIED or not? Steak Fries aren’t stick shaped—they’re wedge shaped—but because they are fried, they are still fries.

Has Toyota talked about replacing this yet? I like these vehicles, but 10 years old is old these days. It’d be neat to see a new one, especially since Ford is bringing the Bronco back.