I don’t know about “freedom fighter”, but people’s expectations of basic decency are eroded every time a person is illegitimately dinged and neither the person nor anyone else pushes back. Especially in cases where people have largely unfettered authority and act with basic impunity, the only way to check the misuse…

It’s a loud 20%, but it’s still only 20%.

Sometimes, recapturing some basic human dignity means not doing what one is supposed to do, as far as the rules indicate. The captain may be king, but the captain is not god, and regardless if a captain demanded something extremely unreasonable of you would you cower before his or her authority or would you object?…

Holy mashup, Batman! It’s the bastard intellectual love-child of Archimedes and Cardinal Richelieu.

If I were in a foreign land that advertised itself as a nation of immigrants and a land of opportunity and had giant statues and other icons all but shouting their welcoming stance, and all of those impressions were strongly reinforced by a lax enforcement of immigration laws, I think I might reasonably come to the…

Or, please explain in small convincing words why you think she was, in any way, an actual problem. The analogous task would be explaining why a police department would prioritize busts for small marijuana possession over investigating where all the heroin in the community is coming from.

The other 40% is determined by what gives them trouble-free digestion.

I see. So fuck all presidents, then? Or, perhaps, you really were saying absolutely nothing with your original comment, and don’t like it pointed out that it was a content-free hot take?

Of course it isn’t, hence simply declaring “He’s a war criminal!” is insufficient to say much of anything. Since that’s what you did, I’m still waiting on your clarifying caveats and convolutions why Bush the Lesser is a “bad” war criminal, while Obama or W. Clinton are “good” war criminals. Or, if you choose…

What president isn’t?

If they let go of the abortion issue they lose everything; evangelicals will almost certainly drift leftward, which is historically their more comfortable home anyway, and the remainder of the GOP wouldn’t be able to sustain an electable presence in most places, much less nationally.

A significant difference between then and now is the proportion of the population that concurs with the sentiment. Nixon resigned, in large part, because large swaths of the American populace, including leaders in both major parties, were extremely uncool with an untethered president.

As a veteran, how do you feel about the context? Trump first blamed his predecessor, and then the general corps, for the death of Owens. Given that context, isn’t using Owens widow as an extended applause point to further deflect responsibility at a political event a teensy bit objectionable?

Neutral does not mean inert.

That’s...not really true. I’ve seen projections by western scientists which reached similar conclusions. The real x-factor is whether they are ground-level detonations or airburst. Ground level detonation kicks much more particulate material into the atmosphere, creating the hypothetical shroud effect that would lead…

It would depend entirely on whether the sabotage was done before the pipe was in use, or after. In the latter case, whose land is fouled would heavily depend on where in the pipe route it was sabotaged.

I dunno. I think seeing that the Shoah is still within living memory, jokes about wiping out the Jews are still, eh, too soon. It kinda doesn’t matter what the intent behind them is; people who have experienced genocide are not required to have a sense of humor about a repeat.

If “so many people” are happy at this event, and you are not, maybe—just maybe—that says less about them and more about you.

It’s more that having kids sharply reduces the time you’ll have to play anything.

Have you seen the video? She looks approximately the polar opposite of sympathetic.