minnow

If this argument succeeds, I would love to see the same logic applied to the second amendment (specifically the word "arms") just for shits and giggles.

But don't get me wrong, I know that logical consistency doesn't apply to the second amendment. It would just be fun to see someone try.

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." - Marcus Aurelius (misattributed)

A good person would reward good people for being good. If Jesus won't reward a good person for being good just because they haven't "accepted him into their heart" well... I said what I said.

Just another "Conservatives FAFO"

You don't get to support marginalizing other groups in other states and then complain when your group gets marginalized in your state. They opened this particular Pandora's box and it's too late to close it.

The acronym was never about sexuality, it was about gender non-conformity. By the same notion, that's what people's attitudes are being measured about: specific forms and sub-groups of gender non-conformity.

Can't lose something you never had.

These people were always fascists, they just didn't know it or knew to hide it.

The heart attack thing is probably untrue, but it doesn't need to be true to justify ending three DST nonsense.

https://medschool.duke.edu/news/daylight-saving-time-may-not-trigger-heart-attacks-after-all-study-finds

The people responsible for the firing weren't punished at all. Florida tax payers were. In a functional democracy this would lead to the people responsible for the firing to be held accountable, but... well....

It's worth noting that "blue no matter who" is just a bandaid, just a drive to get fascists out of power long enough to enact voting reform. The two party system is an organic result of First Past The Post voting; we have to move to some form of Rank Choice if we're ever to see any progress. Thankfully voting regulations are on the local level, where change is still possible. This is one of the many reasons Trump is trying to federalize elections.

Until we get voting reform, there will only be Two Parties, and they will always drift to the right.

I love your optimism.

And, to be clear, we achieve that by changing local election laws to use some form of Rank Choice instead of First Past The Post.

The two party system is an organic result of FPTP voting. If we change to Rank Choice, the two party system will crumble.

"What? Really?? With Netflix and Amazon pulling shows left and right????"

Global maritime piracy

Ohhhhh, that's ... Uh, hm. Somehow less interesting and more interesting at the same time.

It's worse than that. Any historian will tell you that the work of historians is basically gathering clues and hints to piece together a coherent story that fits all the data. Which is fine, except when you're using that story to interpret legal doctrine. The very foundation of originalist philosophy, that we should interpret law according to history, is flawed because history can never be perfectly known or understood. We might have extremely good data and knowledge, we might have a NEARLY perfectly accurate story of what happened. But "nearly" isn't enough, and it's that very flaw that fascists use to exploit originalist philosophy to push their own agenda.