One of the lessons of the crimes of the Nazis is that the road to Hell is paved with The Greater Good. The Nazis themselves believed that all their crimes were necessary for the betterment of society. They thought though their actions were regrettable, it was the only choice they really had. Killing millions was the lesser of two evils.

You have more in common with the Nazis than you would like to believe. There’s very little you cannot justify when you have no red lines and you’ll always support the lesser evil. The Nazis themselves thought they were supporting the lesser evil.

And yet people still voted for Biden in 2020. Maybe the idea that the left will simply never support Democrats and will always move the goalposts is just a shit idea.

Exactly. Because they’re not prepared to do what’s actually necessary - reform the filibuster to allow it to be removed. Democrats have all these high-minded plans, but they all require a margin in the Senate they will never reasonably achieve. And even if by some miracle they did get 60 seats in the Senate, there will always be a rotating villain to throw a wrench in the works. Mamdani won not just because he had plans, but because he had very specific plans. He could tell people exactly how he intended to pass those plans. Democrats don’t actually have a plan for repealing Citizens United. They just have vague notions about repealing Citizens United.

Democrats were recently caught having a fund raising scheme so corrupt that it should be a capital offense to run such a thing. Those spammy text messages we were getting asking for donations? Turns out 98% of the money donated to those went straight into the pockets of consultants. The party’s primary reason for existence is not to advance policy goals, but to steal money from liberal donors.

Exactly. But we still have weasels even on here defending their genocide-loving asses. The Democratic party needs to be purged or burned to the ground. We’re in a two party system. And the Democratic party is currently the biggest barrier to progress in the country. It is fundamentally beyond reformation. Only by burning it to ashes will leave space for an actual left wing party to rise.

I would like to see Democrats publicly proposing that we will hold ICE agents accountable, with a plan that would actually work - we rendition them to the home nations of their victims.

SCOTUS is so corrupt that the US justice system needs to be bypassed entirely when bringing ICE agents to justice. But if you’re an ICE agent that is operating a concentration camp where Venezuelan citizens are killed? Your ass should be sent off to Venezuela for trial. SCOTUS will doubtlessly protect the Nazi thugs, but Venezuela will hold them accountable. Let them rot in some hellhole prison down there.

I want politicians to be talking about this now, to make clear that crimes against humanity will not be forgiven or forgotten.

That doesn’t really change anything. Even the sports issue is unscientific irrational bigotry. It comes from a complete ignorance of how trans healthcare actually works, and brain-dead assumptions that trans women have bodies anything like those of cis men.

Ah yes, both sides are the same. Are there sexual predators in the Democratic party? Of course. But you’re insane if you think the rates are anywhere similar. And again, it is not simply that there are some pedophiles in the Republican party. Pedophilia is baked into the entire platform and ethos of the Republican party. It IS a pedophile party. The Democrats just have a few pedophiles among their ranks. See pedocon theory.

And Rowling likely does have some pedophilic tendencies. She’s literally obsessed with the genitals of children. Whether she’s personally diddled a kid, I don’t know. Maybe she’s resisted her urges. But she demonstrates clear pedophilic tendencies. It is not normal to be obsessed with the genitals of children.

Laws are like…all fake man…We just like, made them up!

Unfortunately, the courts do not accept the “fake it til you make it” defense.

Eh. I’m not the better person on this. I have no problem treating bigots the way they treat others. I’m a trans person, and I have to live with a constant parade of politicians and influencers calling me and my people pedophiles simply for existing. Sorry, turnabout is fair play. And really, the GOP really is the party of pedophilia. Their entire worldview is pro child fucking. From their encouragement of child marriage, to their complete rejection of the rights of children, to the general belief of “Father knows best.” Their ideal world is one where girls are married off to older powerful men by the time they are 14 years old. It is not a coincidence that so many GOP politicians are arrested for crimes against children. It’s their whole worldview.

I’m not going to start accusing random parents if being child fuckers if they simply have a few questions when their kid comes out. But if you are a politician or influencer, who makes attacking trans people a core part of your brand? Someone really needs to look at your hard drive. You’re probably a pedophile.

Anyone who has a problem with trans people should be assumed to be a pedophile. No one without some serious skeletons in their closet is that concerned about other people’s lives and bodies.

Just proceed as planned. If the company is so fragile it can’t survive one week without someone to cover a position, well it’s in such dire straits that it’s going to be out of business within a year anyway. If you company survived Covid, it can certainly survive this.

Unless you stab your boss and set fire to the building on your way out the door, you can have zero worries about your end of employment details showing up on a background check.

Sorry, but the attitudes you expressed have directly hurt the trans community in recent years. Hell, in the recent Skremetti case that saw the erosion of trans rights, even the liberal justices were completely ignorant about just how far back in time trans people go. The idea that trans people are a new phenomenon is directly harmful to our rights and safety.

Look, fine if you want to LARP as an armed defender of freedom. But ultimately you’re just playing dress up. You may style yourself a defender of the rights of minorities, but you’re giving advice that is only applicable to someone in your position. 2nd Amendment rights effectively do not exist for members of many minority groups. What you’re allowed to get away with because you’re a middle aged cis white guy will result in members of other groups getting immediately shot by police.

https://kenneth-noll.uconn.edu/how-to-build-a-termite-farm/

I do not baby cast iron at all. I use plenty of dish soap and scrub it. But then again, I’ve also to completely refinished cast iron before. You learn to appreciate how durable seasoning can be when you actually try and remove it. My main skillet I’ve in the past taken it down to bare metal with an angle grinder, then built the seasoning back up from nothing.

Popcorn made in pre-used oil can be awesome, and an easy way to get rid of 100ml or so.

Then there was that time in college I tried to re-use oil I had previously fried shrimp in.

Turns out shrimp-flavored popcorn is not an enjoyable experience!

That already exists in one setting, the field of nuclear weapons design. See born secret.

I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen an assassination by drone from a nonstate actor yet.

There was the 2018 Caracas drone attack. Though that one is somewhat muddy in whether it actually was an assassination attempt or a false-flag attack done by the government itself.