I’m blocking you, but before I do I want you to know I hope you go out like Hitler did.

*Central American prison.

Maybe try not habitually exaggerating? People who don’t know you are just gonna take you at your word.

Reddit bad!

Now where are my upvotes?

The worst cops aren’t always where you’d expect. Cops in Seattle and Austin are atrocious, for example, but Dallas, despite generally being much more conservative, has a much more professional police force in my experience.

It’s adorable that you think Canadians would be allowed to vote. I’m not even sure Americans will be allowed to vote much longer.

Alas, the longer the stick is, the floppier it gets.

Anyone know if Johnny Cochrane is still working?

Also the law doesn’t matter anymore anyway, so nobody should vote to convict because they’re concerned about the rule of law.

The fascists have gotten so much mileage out of exploiting problems in our government that everyone has known about for decades but that nobody ever bothered to fix.

We really need to get some judges who will reliably rule against fascists. We can’t get new judges, so I wonder how many liberal judges could be persuaded that cock blocking Republicans is a higher calling right now than impartiality is.

For reference, $20B is just over the entire market cap of CBS’s parent company.

FAFO

It’s ok to depend on people being generally competent most of the time. It’s not ok to depend on people never making mistakes, nor is it ok to depend on people acting in ways that real human beings don’t act. I’m politics, one if there critical failures was depending on politicians to act in good faith, and another was depending on the voters to stay informed and use critical thinking enough to avoid voting for an obvious conman.

Maybe there’s just no truly good system for politics, and the best we can hope for is the least bad option. But we won’t even achieve that much if we pretend the US system was created by enlightened demigods. It’s a deeply flawed system created by men who had no experience with democracy and who clearly saw themselves as the leaders of a new kind of aristocracy.

I will give them unqualified credit for one thing, though. The Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution are some of the most effective works of propaganda ever created. Saying that all people are fundamentally equal while simultaneously excluding most people from the levers of power was perhaps the greatest con of all time.

A system that depends on the people running it not to make mistakes is usually a bad system.

Were they? Initially only white land owners were allowed to vote. Seems like they created a system that was great for people just like them.

Me too. That’s why I voted to stop the guy talking about invading Greenland.

Isn’t there a word for a repeatable anecdote?

Who did you vote for, comrade? Sure seems like you care more about using dead people as a prop than you do about stopping others from suffering the same fate.

“We” don’t agree to keep it going.

And once again you are demonstrating that you don’t understand the difference between a metaphor and a thought experiment. If you don’t think the situation is analogous to the trolley problem, just fucking say that. Trying to create options that don’t exist in the original setup isn’t clever is creative; it’s just a childish way of refusing to deal with the concept being discussed, which in this case is an ethical dilemma.