I don’t think the 13 year old was in any position to make an informed choice. Many people grow up to hold very different beliefs to those of their parents.
I’m not buying the family’s claim that there was no mental illness involved with the mother, either.
Tangential observation: if people weren’t fast enough to dodge an out of control bus or not strong enough to escape an attacker, that doesn’t somehow make it less tragic to most people. It’s strange to me that it’s somehow different when it comes to death stemming from low innate intelligence.
That’s fair. It was definitely child abuse in that instance.
But for the others, definitely neither sad nor tragic. They did something stupid and won a stupid prize for it. This wasn’t a case of people being too slow to dodge a train. It was people sitting on the tracks and just refusing to acknowledge it was coming.
These giant “light trucks” are so much more dangerous on the road than smaller cars. This is a good video about it, and he cites his sources youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo
This is when purity tests overcome democratic ideals. Democracy is a process of debate and compromise. You likely never go home truly happy with everything because there’s no body of people that 100% agree on something, so you must compromise to make the system work.
Once you fill your representative seats with hardline ideologues you end up with people who begin purity testing every issue and candidate. If that candidate or issue doesn’t meet the representative’s ideals 100% of the way, they reject it. There’s no compromise nor debate, just rejection.
Having some ideologues in the House has always happened. The issue is that the GOP let too many in. They’ve spent decades telling their voters that they should get 100% of what they want and anything less is somehow a betrayal to the god and the nation. Once the ideologue percentage in the party exceeds to needed margin to hold the Speaker’s seat, you suddenly end up in purity test stasis. Nothing will satisfy the hardliners from both sides so you can’t get enough votes to move forward as a body.
How do you solve this? Mostly by finding the extreme edges of the party and trimming them off, then compromising with other reps who actually believe in a democratic system until you have a functional majority again. Good luck getting the modern GOP to bend because their voters don’t know how a republic should work, so they’re stuck being crushed by unbending anti-democratic voters on one side and anti-democratic ideologue representatives on the the other.
If they can’t bend, then they break. The only question is when and how much damage they do to the nation before they finally give out.
Clearly you do not understand what am infected anal polyp of a human this man is. He’s going to try and hurt anyone who tried to hold him accountable in any way he can.
Based on the Alabama legislature's failure to draw a map with the two majority-Black districts we ordered, we will direct the special master to design a map with three majority-Black districts. The legislature is invited to try for four.
Weird headline. Isn't this basically just stating that (1) new cars are getting more expensive, and (2) trucks continue to make up a substantial share of new car purchases in the US (both of which were obvious)?
Yes but let’s not waste a good opportunity to speak want how nobody needs a truck, they all have small dicks, and all are shitty drivers because the American South bus them the most.
Grand jury names and addresses are public information in Georgia. It is admirable that the grand jury participants indicted Trump despite knowing they would almost certainly be subject to harassment and death threats from Trump’s MAGA goons.
They are also worse than random chance at actually doing the one thing police claim technology can't match: drug and bomb sniffing. Dogs just want to go take a nap or get a treat, and their handlers are cops who just think everything is suspicious so of course they get lots of "hits".
It's essentially the same bullshit that hoodwinked the world with Coco the "signing" guerilla for a couple of decades.
The fact that handlers can fake a "hit" wherever and whenever they want is the entire point, and also the reason they resist moving over to technical solutions. Those technologies also come with logging, which is another point against them as far as cops are concerned.
They’re still around to use as bullshit “probable cause” to hassle and search people’s cars for drugs. Because the war on drugs was a good idea, and dogs have not repeatedly been shown to be complete bullshit. They indicate when their handler wants them to. It’s been proven so many times. Yet, it’s probable cause.
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