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Just a reminder, the Trump regime can deport Abrego Garcia tomorrow but it refuses to. He has agreed to go to Costa Rica and they have agreed to take him. The reason they don't is because they'd prefer to send him to some African country where he has no connection simply to be cruel to a man who has embarrassed them.

Vindictive prosecution is harder to prove than innocence through insanity but the Trump regime has delivered it to Abrego Garcia on a platter.

Did you know that many 20th century historians argue that the French resistance was irrelevant to the outcome of the occupation? The Tienanmen Square protesters had captured stockpiles of small arms, how'd that go? There is no debate about the Black Panthers, Weather Underground, or any other left movement willing to do violence. They were all crushed by the US Government. I'm sorry to report, but Hampton was wrong: you can kill a revolution by killing revolutionaries.

If you're interested in history, I'd point out that successful revolutions are often accompanied by military defectors. The military guys will bring the guns. (and the ability to actually fight, unlike the average GI Jabroni)

If you're an American, having deep seated mistrust and skepticism of the medical establishment, pharma, and government is 1000% justifiable. Every one of these institutions has exploited, abused, abandoned, and murdered people, all in the name of public health.

As a person who grew up in poverty, the idea of trusting doctors and medical authorities is just as ridiculous as trusting the police.

Assuming that social problems are the sum of individuals making dumb choices is an easy shortcut that not only eliminates the discomfort of thinking about the issue, but has the added benefit to implying that you're superior.

The number of possible combinations of genes is so large that the chance of a random duplication is vanishingly small. Even twins aren't exact copies because they'll have mutations unique to themselves.

Rich people are allowed to rape girls in America. Law enforcement is an enabler, not an obstacle. Nobody is even talking about how to change that.

For every 1,000 sexual assaults, only 25 people will be incarcerated. America doesn't give a tiny shit about people getting raped. When it happens to girls and women, we ignore it. When it happens to boys and men, it's a joke. That's still going to be true if Trump and everybody you hate is rotting in prison.

So like you want President Gavin Newsom to order the Justice department to charge Tucker Carlson with mortgage fraud?

Corruption and abuse of power actually get worse if it's "both sides". Don't you think?

The problem with articles like this is that they only focus on games that are bad as a game, and ignores games that are good to excellent, but that are still bad because they screw their players over, engage in abusive business and labor practices, or are simply owned by dogshit people.

As you can tell, I'm waiting for the Jimqusition end of year lists.

SOMA is a great game. But I'm not going to watch for 2 and a half hours unless it ends with uploading Zoltan Istvan's consciousness into a broken robot.

Reddit is an advertising platform not a venue for speech. You're not talking in the "public square" your talking in a billionaire's house. So you play by the owner's rules.

Even the name "public square" implies that nobody owns it. If you think Reddit is important for free speech, then it should be nationalized. Only then are conversations about censorship even coherent.

The dangers associated with Meth production have been exaggerated by ignorant media and lying cops.

A person with a serious meth addiction is dangerous and likely to cause accidental harm even if they aren't playing around with volatile chemicals. But these chemicals all have legitimate uses and are safe to use by sober adults. Stuff like Coleman fuel, ether, and acetone. You can create runaway exothermic reactions while venting flammable gas with some weaponized incompetence, but it's still a "low" explosive, with small amounts of chemicals, and unlikely to harm anyone not in the same room, much less the neighbor.

90% of meth lab "explosions" are small events that only harm people in the immediate vicinity and most of the structural damage will come from the resulting fire. Compare that to a simple natural gas leak that can turn a 3 story McMansion into confetti in under a second.

Would you be nervous if your neighbor installed a gas fireplace?

Conservatives have never respected the Reconstruction amendments because they coerced the slaveholding States to adopt them. Worse still, "disastrous" SCOTUS rulings like Row, Obergefell, Brown v. Board, basically anything affirming equality all use these Amendments' reasoning.

It's ironic that a conservative majority of all Catholics, one woman, and a black guy are trying to go back to an era where all of them could be legally discriminated against. Hell, before the Reconstruction amendments, Thomas would be ineligible for citizenship.