I touched on one of my pet theories as well; the Constitution was written assuming dueling would be a safety valve. Holding office was originally limited to land-holding men, so the high class. They were mostly the only ones that did dueling back then. It was technically illegal, but it was a law for the common folks. At the time dueling was often done with pistols, which was paradoxically safer than swords. A duel with a sword always ended with blood. A pistol duel could end with both parties missing (often intentionally) and be considered a finished matter. Both parties would agree to a compromise that preserved the honor of each.

It sounds insane, but I suggest bringing back dueling. Just for federal elected officials though. Just the threat of a duel would make the assholes who take office just to enrich themselves run for the hills. They would never actually put their own ass on the line. You would actually have to believe in something enough to die for it to take office.

No system of rules or laws can fully account for people acting in bad faith.

I think the founding fathers counted on social shame to limit bad faith actors in government. A dishonorable person used to become a social pariah and might even get killed in a duel back in the 18th century. People wouldn’t associate with them, sign a contract with them, or lend them money. But now?

We got the lion ass.

University of Chicago I think.

When I was in college the biology department got donated half of a lion for dissection by veterinary students. We got the back half. I feel like that said something significant about the quality of my education.

Being in a functional union was nice while it lasted.

I recently got a Kia Niro and it has buttons on the wheel for most of the basic functions of the touch screen. Really handy

There is no material difference between Israel striking Iran with the backing of the US and the US doing it directly.

It is a huge material difference to the American soldiers who would be sent to fight and their families.

Don’t make me laugh.

Perhaps you need to examine yourself for weaknesses to propaganda, because it is 100% true Harris wants peace between Palestine and Israel.

Harris says she won’t give up pushing for end to Israel-Gaza war

Harris says two-state solution, end of Israel-Hamas war is crucial

Kamala Harris vows to end war in Gaza during final Michigan rally

I don’t think that the US should be allowed to hold any more nuclear weapons, the US government is the crazy, out-of-control political power that should not have nukes.

And everyone should have a unicorn and an endless chocolate fountain. No nation should have nukes, but that’s the reality. As long as they exist, mutually assured destruction is the only realistic policy to prevent their use.

The idea that supporting and helping Genocide does not count as fascist is also baffling to me

Fascism is a specific political philosophy.

Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

Especially because a see a clear difference in effort between us, I have to provide sources for everything, you can just make up stuff on the spot, no citations, no quotes, no nothing

I’ve done this long enough to know citation is a waste of time in this conversation because either A) you won’t look at it or B) you’ll make up some excuse it’s not valid.

But I guess that’s very common for blue MAGAs.

Imagine saying something so absurd and then calling the other person unserious…

Someone was joking that it would ruin all the 47 Trump merch they had been made. Would be funny

Those people didn’t vote because people like you convinced them there was no difference and therefore no point in voting.

Guns.

If they are banned, then they won’t be in common use, so it would be constitutional.

If you think my logic is flawed then you understand exactly why the supreme Court’s ruling is flawed.

Agreed. There’s a tiny paranoid voice in the back of my head saying that with Trump every accusation is a confession and he made a lot of election fraud accusations.

Shit like this is why Trump won.

Maybe we underestimated how much Covid forced/gave everyone time to pay attention to politics. Or perhaps people saw Trump dodge accountability at every turn and disillusionment in the system bred apathy. It could also be online manipulation pushing Gaza as making Harris/Biden just as bad as Trump. Probably all of the above.

Do you even remember 2020? Nobody fucking wanted Biden. He was never progressive. He was literally mocked for telling donors “Nothing will fundamentally change.” People turned out because of how much they hated Trump.

Walz supports Israel making a preemptive strike on Iran, not the US. At no point did he or Harris say they would use US troops in an offense against Iran.

The Democratic party was always the fascist party but with "the mask on

Not anywhere close to reality. The democratic party in no way meets the definition of fascism.

"Diplomacy is my preferred path to that end, but ALL OPTIONS are on the table,” she added.

So the same as literally every president ever.

he was not tough enough toward the Iranian threat.

He cozies up to all the dictators because he wants to be one, so yeah he wasn’t tough enough. He let them out of their treaty which was preventing their atomic weapons research. Keeping nukes out of the hands of an authoritarian theocracy is a good thing.

This is why she was never going to end the Genocide in Palestine.

Except she and Biden have been pushing for peace nonstop.

Meanwhile Trump said he would encourage Israel to “finish the job” which means kill them all.

an army should only be defensive

The best defense is to be the most lethal army so nobody wants to fight you. That has been US policy for BOTH parties since WW2. It’s a good policy because it keeps us out of wars.

That policy is getting us closer to nuclear war and you think it’s good that Kamala Harris wanted to follow it !?

The policy for Democrats in past decades has been mutual disarmament of nukes. Trump wants us building more.

Again, she is just being the fascist with the mask on, instead of being mask off like Trump.

Again, you need to look up the definition of fascism because Harris in no way meets it.

And just to remember you, I do not support Donald Trump, I never did and never will.

If you didn’t vote for Harris, you did support Trump.

I figured ice would be too rough on tidal systems.

I think we definitely are in agreement here. My one quibble is I don’t know that religion is the antithesis of government so much as a more primitive form of government. The earliest religions were a form of law enforcement in world without police or judicial systems.

If it’s just you and someone else alone in the wilderness, why shouldn’t you just kill them and take their stuff? There are no consequences. Religion adds the consequences. “God will punish you. You’ll burn in Hell/Hades/Tartarus.” Why shouldn’t I steal? “It’s a sin.” Why shouldn’t I sleep with my neighbors wife? “It’s bad karma.” It’s all just laws enforced by a mythological father figure instead of a real guy with a gun.

Let’s remember K.H. literally said she wanted to start a new war with Iran

Citation fucking needed.

she wanted the “most lethal army in the world”.

That has been the explicit US policy of the US regardless of leadership for 80 years.

If you think Harris and Trump are equally crazy, YOU are the one who needs psychological treatment. Trump literally wanted to nuke a hurricane, pulled us out of our nuclear deal with Iran, encouraged the US to develop and test “low yield” nuclear arms, and encouraged South Korea to build their own nukes. Harris along with Biden has simply continued the standard nuclear deterrent policy the US has followed for decades in spite of the first direct nuclear threat by another country since the Cuban Missile Crisis.