Larry of the Lawn

The biggest obstacle to stopping police violence is justifying it because the victims were engaged in criminal activity. Police chases often put the public in far more danger than a stolen car or someone driving without a license. It's a crazy amount of damage done in the name, ostensibly, of an endangered public. Particularly, given the rise of the public panopticon of technology and information, there's got to be a balance between the potential danger to the public from the perpetrator of a low level infraction being allowed to flee the scene, versus a full on police chase to apprehend or kill the suspect in the moment no matter what. In the US we've certainly made a point of formally and informally placing great value on the latter. It's a shame to see other countries follow down that path.

From a moral standpoint you're probably better inheriting it than "earning" it, since it's the earning part that relies on extracting an insane amount of wealth from the labor of others. No one needs that much money. It's obscene and we should consider our society sick because of it. I think the Culture quote is something like "money is a sign of poverty"?

Remember when Bill Bye debated that bible dude who had the dinosaur theme park ten years ago? They debated evolution vs creationism and that was it. Science was unleashed on the fundamentalist christian masses and the reason washed over them in a torrent. It washed away belief and left behind nothing but cool rationality. People have been debating the efficacy of vaccines for the last three years. Nothing's going to change by having a debate between RFK and a scientist.

Lol okay. You seriously think they could make a movie about the Titanic that rivals the heart-rending 2007 magnum opus Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea? Don't hold your breath. Titanic, lol.

I doubt he can pronounce Putin.

When you start hating a mural, just repaint it! I am currently cleaning out the apartment I've lived in for the last 7+ years and trying to figure out how I accumulated so much stuff in that time period. Most of it was left by my ex gf but still, I moved in with a pick up truck load of stuff or less, but it's somehow grown into a mass easily 8 times as large.

I'm not sure that's so clear- I don't think "private property" generally includes "personal property". I know that contract rights and IP have been targets of acquisitions through eminent domain but I don't think they can take like, your couch or a gun. They could maybe force the purchase of a gun factory though.

Well, you can make an argument the constitution would allow (whatever). But eminent domain cases still get challenged a lot and are expensive. Considering how unpopular that would be even among people who want to get rid of ICE vehicles there are probably easier, less costly, and more popular methods to get the same result.

I always wondered about eustachian tubes with the people who do competitive free diving - I've heard they let water into their sinuses to alleviate pressure, but what about those?

Snorkeling down a few hundred feet would certainly do something to you

I'm not sure, I also have no idea, but I feel like there's a strong case that's it's unconstitutional to do so. But also wouldn't be surprised if there was some Ron Desantis-drafted-memo that says it's very legal and cool. Either way it puts him into criminal territory in my mind.

Lots of the drone striking. To keep it simple I'll say "targeting and intentionally killing US citizens without a trial".

The issue is that whether by design or by a series of oversights, or reliance on "norms", our legal/political/judicial system is not set up to prosecute presidents. That's not a rationalization. That's a fact.

Do you really believe that Kal is defending Trump, or is he explaining to you why he's probably not going to be charged on anything related to that phone call?

I think the GA phone call is a particularly weak thing to go after him on. To your question- I don't know- worst case scenario we end up with a situation where all past presidents are charged with crimes upon leaving office. Which might not be that bad! I think all of the POTUS's in my lifetime have been criminals but that's neither here nor there.

Well anyone else would be bullied into a plea bargain. They aren't afraid to lose, they're afraid to go after powerful people. They have zero issue charging regular people on shoddy evidence.

It's absolutely nothing like that Scarface scene or he'd be charged on all those counts already. The article you quoted is a "Could be charged with" -we've been hearing that since 2016, the same dumb ass breathless coverage that's kept Trump in the spotlight. You know better than to assume because a nonprofit can list ten statutes Trump could have violated that it means he's going to be, or that there's even a decent case. If that phone call was so incriminating how come he isn't in jail or holed up over a big ol' cocaine pile at Mar-a-lago waiting for the goon squad to show up guns blazing?

Which section of that did he violate? Did he stop anyone from voting, or ask the GA SoS to stop people from voting?

Is "actively trying to falsify an election" a state or federal crime? How can you prove he was asking for the votes to be found illegally? He can just say he wanted to be sure they were all counted.

Fwiw that dude Vaush seems like a real piece of shit.

Not weird at all, to join a forum after lurking for a year, and your first comment is going after the posting style of one specific poster. Have you been banned here before?

I feel like most of the arguments on here boil down to people doing this and then someone else not recognizing it.

For sure, but it's not like it's just for houses going on the market, people are actively choosing to live like this. And that's cool if those are the colors you like. I just think it's weird that the washed out, colorless muted look has dominated for so long. I'm wondering when this trend is going to break.

The worst recent trend in home decor in the US has been the white on off white / whites and light grays as the only interior colors. What the fuck. I thought it was bad five years ago when it was quite the trend and it's only accelerated. Who are these goons who are wiping all other colors from the home? It's some horrible perversion of that awful Sherwin Williams logo.