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  • Colorado Supreme Court, in landmark ruling, bans Trump from state’s ballot under insurrection clause

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  • This is a bad take.

    It overvalues the republican narrative machine. What's the alternative? Rolling over and letting him do whatever because we're afraid of whatever lie he'll choose to tell? Hard pass.

    If several blue states do the same, he will lose the nomination or the RNC will have to change the rules to put him in as the nominee. There are more republicans living in California than there are in Texas, and if they can't vote for Trump, they'll have to vote for another clown, which gives one of them a fighting chance of beating Trump. Regressives are selfish - they won't be able to resist infighting.

  • Man arrested for shouting 'gas the Jews' outside DC synagogue

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  • They become the darling of regressive media. Even if that doesn't happen for them, they get to feel like an underground hero that is being repressed.

    These people have literally built persecution fantasies into a religion.

  • Bill banning Pride flag would make showing support for LGBTQ a ‘political viewpoint'

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  • As with all things regressive, their whole truck is to treat their own viewpoint as a default state, and then try to force everyone else to argue around it, which allows them to steer the discussion and eventual outcome.

    When they're headed off on one avenue they pivot, but this is the consistent direction of almost all regressive talking points.

  • U.S. Congress passes law to protect NATO from Donald Trump | CBC News

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  • Uproar as after-school Satan club forms at Tennessee elementary school

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  • This is a long standing joke - what do you call someone who believes in Satan?

    A Christian.

  • The nation’s largest credit union rejected more than half its Black conventional mortgage applicants

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  • The nation’s largest credit union rejected more than half its Black conventional mortgage applicants

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  • Not going to lie, my first thought was to wonder whether and how they controlled for this.

    But I took a step back and reminded myself that REDLINING HAPPENED. Well into the modern day. It was only outlawed in 1968, and there's evidence that banks continued to do it through the 70s.

    It's absolutely no surprise that there are still disparities, and I would be further unsurprised to find out that the deciding factor was zip code.

  • US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit

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  • If you're reading my comment and you didn't click expand on the one above...go back and do so. It gets better and better.

  • US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit

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  • There was just a story about starlink slowing down as more customers joined the network.

    Seems like a good call. The option is nice for rural areas, but it's a stopgap measure at best while those areas wait for the slow rollout of fiber.

  • Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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  • These folks won't witness it either. Not with that eye anyway.

  • Trump Dinner Guest Says ‘Perfidious Jews’ Should Be Executed

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  • This was a large part of the discussion in Europe at the end of WW2.

    Germany wasn't the only country trying to decide an answer to "the Jewish question." Some advocates may have had good intentions, but many just didn't want to open their borders to Jewish refugees, and the idea of Israel was a convenient way for them to wash their hands of it.

  • The Names of Thousands of Neo-Nazi Music Fans Just Got Leaked

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  • Hello from kbin. It's nice over here.

  • Missouri Bill Would Ban Many Companies From "Refusing To Deal With" Anti-Trans Businesses

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  • Many governmental entities will not contract with companies that "boycott Israel."

    This, of course, is poorly defined. And is being litigated in Michigan, I believe.

    But the argument from regressive AGs is that boycott is not speech - it's action, and therefore they are permitted to enforce a ban on that action.

    Pretty shit tier argument, and one that will probably bite them in the ass if there's any chance of consistency from the supreme court (slim chance.)

    The hypocrisy is the point.

  • Speaker Mike Johnson says he's blurring Jan. 6 footage so rioters don't get charged

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  • Son of US Sen. Kevin Cramer crashes during police chase, killing North Dakota sheriff's deputy

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  • So they called the cops on a mentally ill man suffering from paranoia and having some sort of feeling around his dead brother?

    Seems like a recipe for disaster. This is 100% why cops shouldn't be the go-to solution for non-compliance.

  • Venice gondola capsizes after tourists refuse to sit down and stop taking selfies

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  • I went on a trip to a native American historical site, and the tour guide told us about a family that came and the parents watched and egged on the kids while they used rocks to mark up the walls.

    The person who responded to you isn't saying that this gondola is historical, rather that the attitude doesn't stay only in that boat.

    The same people standing in the boat to take a selfie are also doing stupid shit around irreplaceable history.

    You can willfully ignore the connection between these things. All things, really. But if the world seems confusing to you, this is why.

  • Alabama police officer caught on video using stun gun on handcuffed man: ‘Do you want it again?’

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  • Look at the actual list of "most dangerous jobs."

    Police are nowhere near the top 10.

  • Fewer deer hunters means less donated venison is making it to Wisconsin food pantries

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  • Meh. I don't hunt, but we've killed off most of the predators that keep deer populations in check. They can boom real fast if left unchecked, and then you get to play frogger with them on highways and interstates.

  • PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says

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  • Regressives believe that their preferences are divine law. Therefore, anything that allows you to do something they don't like without shitty, unnecessary consequences is "encouraging immorality."

    One step further, and they enjoy coming up with more shitty, unnecessary consequences to aid the "divine plan" of making people miserable if they don't conform.

    You can see this across the board - they're make shit illegal, then conflate the natural problems of the behavior with the added problems of the legal system, and pretend they're all unavoidable.

    They hate that gay and trans people have any acceptance, because it makes those same people less likely to be depressed and suicidal, which makes it harder for them to lie and say those people are depressed/suicidal because they aren't cis/straight, rather than because they're treated like crap.