They’ve been saying “any day now” for twenty-some years

I’m expecting a false-flag attack here soon to give him an excuse to officially pull the US into it

In practice, the whole point is to draw it out, to maximize fear and suffering, it’s not a bug. I’m surprised they actually allowed the firing squad to go forward.

Man, I’m not convinced that this would change much. Nearly twenty years ago, I’d listened to something about the death penalty, in which the sister of a murder victim was interviewed; she was told that there was incontrovertible evidence that the person on death row for her sister’s murder was in fact the wrong guy. She replied, “I don’t care, someone has to pay for my sister’s death.” Because we have the death penalty in place explicitly for the purpose of exacting revenge rather than serving justice, there will always be someone who relishes the opportunity to carry out the execution, just out of blind rage.

The emoji was standing in for the “A” for “ackshully”

I’d expect people on lemmy to know better; anywhere else though, yeah, fair

The SRA exists; actual leftists know and understand that the second amendment is not limited to maga hogs

Biden wins, there *will* be a different Democratic nominee in 2028. And if you want it to be someone more in line with your thinking than Biden, well you know what you gotta do in 2028.

I’d say it needs to be sooner than ‘28, more like as soon as the election is over

Ah, I think I misread something, got it

The aid packages were separate votes, most did not vote against aid for Israel

Israel aid and Ukraine aid were two separate votes

Because the Soviet Union was a communist dictatorship, which the GOP hated (the communist part of it, anyway), and modern Russia is kleptocratic oligarchy, which the GOP loves. Easy enough to tease out, really.

Okay, gotcha, I was looking at it from their point of view, which is that everything to them is bigotry, not realizing that that’s what you were saying in the first place. The bad, it is mine.

.ml tends to slap “rule 1” on everything, which says don’t be a bigot, even if that’s obviously not what the comment was about.

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Sure about that? From what I’ve seen, anything said in disagreement with the predominant opinion over there (and on hexbear, especially on hexbear) is deemed “bigotry”. They don’t appear to be interested in ingratiating anyone to the cause.

That’s pretty much my argument, yeah. Also, to the people who support Israel because they want to usher in the return of Christ: they’re trying to force god’s will. Do they not understand that god would be absolutely wrathful over their arrogance? There’s no rapture for them. Not that there will be a rapture in the first place, but that’s beside the point.

[1] What’s to say that someone getting an abortion isn’t god’s will?

[2] How can anyone really claim to know what god’s will even is in the first place?

Banned, that’s what

They’re all idiots, but this guy was a special kind of dumb. What is he up to these days? I know Baked Alaska was sentenced for only 60 days, so it’s not like he sacrificed much for the carnival barker. I bet he’s still in the tank for him.

Patent trollery, but white hat? I can get behind that

Plungers wrapped in cheap tinfoil, don’t want to give them anything they can melt down and sell