I’m sure there’s some principles we can jettison or some vulnerable minority we can throw under the bus that can get him to come around.

And two, possibly three if you count the guy who rushed the stage during a rally in 2016, against Trump. Novikov is 49-0 by my count.

The Greek pantheon wasn’t known for being just or consistent. And technically, Prometheus didn’t even steal anything. The gods could still make fire as they pleased.

Prometheus pirated fire. And the punishments for piracy are worse than theft.

No, you see, he’s been studying ventriloquism and just fell into the habit of replacing m with n. And also pronounces migrants weird, like he’s only ever read it and not heard it pronounced, since Republicans are all such avid readers and how often does immigration really come up in their conversations?

Reminiscent of how southern politicians used to pronounce “Negro.” Not a whole lot better, and that’s if you buy that he was saying “migrants” or “boo-urns” or whatever.

I heard it was a bendy straw.

What kind of Democrat does it take to get elected senator in Alabama?

One who was running against Roy Moore, the predator who would sexually assault teenage girls he met at the mall. We’re talking a guy in his 30s who would hit on teenagers at Sears.

That said, yeah, Garland was a shit choice and Jones probably isn’t the best either, but the staunchest legal attack dog in the Democratic Party I know of is, well, currently running for president.

The independent system they designed has always kinda felt like an afterthought.

He broke kayfabe.

Genocide apologia is basically what .world is for.

In down-ballot races? Absolutely.

But that’s not even the same conversation.

Well, let’s have that conversation. The party uses incumbency as an excuse to lock out progressive candidates like Jessica Cisneros. They pulled out all the stops to make sure Coathanger Cuellar won his primary. But when the incumbent is a progressive like Jamaal Bowman or Cori Bush, incumbency does not convey with it party protection. The party’s move to the right is deliberate in down-ballot races as well.

Think about the standard answers to what people would do if they had a time machine.

It’s why he’s been upvoted. Lemmy’s centrists are genocide hawks.

Another data point in favor of the Novikov self-consistency principle?

Biden promised to reschedule, and it was a lie. The war on drugs has been a bipartisan effort, and it disproportionately harms minorities. Not only that, it was designed to harm minorities from the very beginning.

John Ehrlichman, one of the architects of the war on drugs:

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Don’t call me couchfucker again just because you don’t like how I characterize your favorite policy.

Kamala is a shift to the left from Biden. You should be fucking happy.

Oh? We’re already going with the “most progressive evar” label with Harris too?

Her policies on fracking, immigration, and Gaza are identical to Biden’s.

In the context of broken promises by the Biden administration regarding the bipartisan proxy war against minorities that we call the war on drugs.

So since they’re gonna keep doing that no matter what, why should I bother with accuracy about them? They sure as fuck never have about me.

Far as I’m concerned, they’re all in on the war on drugs and are delighted at all the lives it’s ruined because it’s disproportionately harmed minorities.

If they keep saying the worst about me, there’s no reason at all to extend greater courtesy to them.

We already discussed this, you can say I was a little ahead of the ball.

No, you say that because you got caught lying.

Has cannabis been rescheduled?

But I wasn’t calling being anti-genocide insanity

If you say so.