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DarkGamer , 11 months ago to Politics in Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming

There should be significant additional legal penalties when the state violates long established laws and precedents.

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago to Politics in Trump Threatens Would Be ‘Very Dangerous’ If Jack Smith Sends Him To Jail In New Interview

Now he's threatening terrorism if the rule of law applies to him. This fucker is a danger to society and we need to address it.

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago to Politics in 'Old friend': Henry Kissinger meets China's Xi Jinping in second surprise Beijing talks

War criminal Henry Kissinger is at it again, at 100 he's gone to China to meet with diplomats as though he were part of the State Department even though the White House denies knowledge. What's he playing at?

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago to Politics in GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism

If they stayed in the party through The Trump years, through all the lies, gaslighting, irrationality, racism, scapegoating, boorishness, hostility, anti-intellectualism, misogyny, crime, opposition to democracy, and a failed insurrection... they're not conservative, they're radical right.

DarkGamer , 11 months ago to Politics in Joe Manchin Is Attacking Democrats As If He’s a Republican

He is a Republican, a DINO.

DarkGamer , 11 months ago to Politics in "Sounds like Rudy flipped": Giuliani evades Jan. 6 target letter after meeting with prosecutors

[Guliani] was responsible for many things, but I don't think there was anything (at least currently publicly available) that he had part in planning January 6th.

@takeda He did, and there is:

“[Guliani] was definitely intoxicated,” Jason Miller, a senior Trump campaign advisor, said in a recorded deposition that was shown publicly for the first time on Monday during the Jan. 6 committee’s second public hearing. Giuliani wanted Trump to ignore the math and declare victory, immediately. “‘We need to go and say that we won,’” Miller recalled Giuliani saying, and that anyone who disagreed “was being weak.”

That same night, Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, had a tense meeting with the president in which he counseled him that “the votes were still being counted” and “it was too early to call the race.” Stepien had warned the president that key mail-in voting tallies coming in later on election night would likely weigh toward Joe Biden, as Trump had told his supporters not to trust mail-in ballots. Trump “thought I was wrong, and he told me so,” Stepien said.

The two scenes demonstrated a central thesis that the Jan. 6 Committee worked to convey to the American public on Monday: that Trump had plenty of advisers trying to convince him of the truth, but that he willfully chose to listen to those telling him what he wanted to hear.

Trump ultimately followed Giuliani’s plan and declared victory early in the morning on November 4, 2020, when the outcome of the election was still unclear. Trump delivered the speech from the East Room of the White House, calling the election “a fraud” and saying, “we were getting ready to win this election—frankly, we did win this election.” source

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago to Politics in GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism

The right has been pumping out disinformation and courting christofascists for decades in order to remain viable. You reap what you sow.

DarkGamer , 11 months ago to Politics in Donald Trump brands US a ‘third -world hellhole’ run by ‘perverts’ and ‘thugs’

If Republicans didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all.

DarkGamer , 11 months ago to Politics in Inflation is plummeting across America except in Ron DeSantis’ Florida

I am shocked to see him diving below the margin for error beneath a democrat in a presidential toss up poll though!!

The margin of error for that poll is significantly <5% for the Biden face-off:

Latest survey conducted July 7-9, 2023, among representative samples of roughly 6,000 registered voters, with an unweighted margin of error of +/-1 percentage points.

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago to Politics in Republicans try to stop military’s electrification with mind-bogglingly dumb proposals

Agreed. Also, electric vehicles are also much simpler mechanically speaking. They have fewer moving parts that can break relative to a modern gas engine. In-wheel electric motors wouldn't need a drive train, and would mean more room for other military stuff in vehicles.

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago to Politics in Republicans try to stop military’s electrification with mind-bogglingly dumb proposals

No need to feel dumb, be happy you're one of today's lucky 10,000! ;)

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to Politics in Ex-FBI official says GOP is telling agents: 'If you investigate our party, you are going to pay the price'

Some FBI agents want to uphold the law regardless of political party affiliation. Republicans, members of the party that's currently committing most of the crimes, don't like this.

Yeah, see, this is what I’m talking about. You have no data necessary to make that statement

Statements made:

• Republicans are committing most of the crimes
• Some FBI agents want to uphold the law regardless of political affiliation - That both Republicans and Democrats have both been investigated by the FBI seems to support this statement. Also, I said "some," i.e., >1. While I don't have a citation to show you that proves this, it is incredibly unlikely to be wrong.
• Republicans don't like this - evidence is in the article.

In fact we’re literally in the comment section for an article about the agency behaving exactly the opposite!!!

This article is about Republican officials threatening FBI agents to prevent them being investigated, and attempting to corrupt and politicize the organization by placing cronies in charge. I don't see any claims made about actual existing bias there, but rather perceived bias from Republicans. In fact it points out that the prosecutions of the Trump administration were performed by Trump appointees, which seems to imply the opposite of what you claim regarding bias. I'm not saying it doesn't exist but it's not in this article.

As for weaponizing the FBI against their political rivals, the GOP is super into that. They publicly announced their intention to do so well in advance.

Edit: Tsk, tsk, @AngrilyEatingMuffins. You've downvoted a good faith answer with citations, I guess you don't like being corrected.

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago to Politics in Republicans try to stop military’s electrification with mind-bogglingly dumb proposals

Cui bono if the US military is hamstrung? Answer that and you know who is sponsoring Republican actions.

Putin on the ritz
Helsinki made that plainly obvious to anyone who was paying attention.

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago to Politics in Ex-FBI official says GOP is telling agents: 'If you investigate our party, you are going to pay the price'

Some FBI agents want to uphold the law regardless of political party affiliation. Republicans, members of the party that's currently committing most of the crimes, don't like this.

DarkGamer OP , 11 months ago to Politics in Republicans try to stop military’s electrification with mind-bogglingly dumb proposals

Going to start running into cooling issues there as well.

Reinforced steel then? It both conducts heat and works as armor. I'm confident a technological solution exists.

I'm all for electrification in as many places as we can, but there are absolutely many military use cases where they currently aren't feasible.

Yes, and there are likely many circumstances where electric is preferable. With the right equipment this could allow military operations without supply chains delivering fuel. Batteries to be refilled by solar, or portable fission or fusion reactors, for example.

Not to mention lithium batteries getting blown up is significantly worse for the surrounding environment long term than a diesel vehicle.

I suspect a military that uses depleted uranium rounds and burns all its waste in massive fire pits doesn't prioritize pollution reduction.