A reasonable court would have said “that’s a totally legitimate concern” and maybe suggested options for reviewing election integrity concerns without exposing PII to third parties.

This court would probably have waved off public statements by neo-nazis that they would hunt these people for sport as “insufficient cause for concern.”

At least they’re actually arresting them ¯_(ツ)_/¯

“Your honor, we clearly did not commit election interference, we committed fraud. Also, we’re not even doing it here anymore, so…we rest our case.”

Also, the tenor of commentary is different than it was this time in 2020. A lot more “someone should do something” and a lot less “I’m going to do something.”

Yeah, and Capitol police will probably be much more willing to default to lethal force considering they lost a few people the last go-round.

If you want a group to preemptively round up and detain, let’s talk about youth pastors and church youth group leaders. At least there’s evidence of a trend there.

This goes back a long way. There are posts on neo-nazi BBS systems from the 80s where they are talking about the strategy of making a racist comment, then playing it off as a joke if there’s pushback, and noting that a given audience may be receptive to more extreme and overt racist messaging in the future.

He was also a big part of…The Story of Everest!

https://youtu.be/e6H_uyNFbb0?si=x136QSR7s9vrgQgI

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Glaciers formed over millennia. If they melt, they’re gone, even if we drop CO2 to pre-industrial levels. The Antarctic ice sheet is millions of years of snow that fell at the rate of a few inches a year and just didn’t melt. If significant portions of that fall off and melt, it’ll be millions of years more for the water it adds to the oceans to cycle back to the ice sheet again. The changes we have made will not be reversed automatically or in many cases at all.

Because it won’t work? That’s what I got from the article. I’m not sure what else you’re implying.

Not really. If Trump wins and returns the favors Musk has done, Musk benefits enormously. If Harris wins, for Musk things largely remain status quo based on previous democratic administrations. Hundreds of millions in cash don’t mean much to him one way or the other.

Gender chain-melted state? Gender superglass? Gender string-net liquid?

The question was “what word or phrase annoys you,” not “do you understand this phrase.”

I know what the phrasing means, it still bugs the shit out of me.

“Not me” doing something.

Just say you’re doing something, and accept that it may be a bit hypocritical or shameful that you’re doing it.

How is this calculated? Presumably you could directly measure all but the T-Rex and pliosaur, but how are those bits forces calculated?

Counterpoint: it could happen to nicer people, and it’s great that for once it didn’t.

Ford famously pardoned Nixon so he couldn’t be prosecuted for his involvement in the Watergate cover up. It’s arguable that prosecution and prison time for Nixon would have set a different precedent than we have in place now.

George HW Bush pardoned a bunch of people who were involved in Iran-Contra, as well as Armand Hammer for illegal campaign contributions to Nixon-“coincidentally” after Hammer donated $110k to the RNC.

Bill Clinton pardoned his HUD secretary of lying to the FBI, pardoned his half brother Roger, his CIA chief, a partner of his in the Whitewater deal, and multiple democratic representatives who had been found guilty of bank fraud.

George W Bush pardoned Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s chief of staff.

Short answer: yes

Longer answer: I would argue we’ve already had a few civil wars since the “War Between the States” in the 1860s. Reconstruction was arguably another civil war. The labor rights war of the early twentieth century included federal troops attacking organizing coal miners and federal agents along with private security forces attacking striking workers elsewhere. The violence of the civil rights movement (remember: the president had to call in the national guard to enforce integration) would also qualify as a civil war by some standards.

Listen to the first limited series of the podcast It Could Happen Here for an idea of how a more involved civil war could start. The idea is that there would not be clear battle lines drawn up because our divide now is more urban vs rural, and people in rural areas have opportunities to attack infrastructure that would have significant impacts on urban areas.

Yeah, the FBI only exists to protect the wealthy corporate interests and maintain the status quo. Occasionally catching serial killers or corrupt politicians is just window dressing for the taxpayers. Even corrupt politicians are only a target when they piss off the powers that be.