And the French back then were fucking racist, just nowhere near as bad as the Americans.

“Shredding them now, Sir!”

A super bowl of gravy.

Or the long period of guerrilla activity that preceded the Civil War.

The #1 thing that unites (most of) the left and right is our shared hatred for the rich and powerful.

The right loves the rich and powerful. They may resent them, but they still suck up to them and give them whatever they demand.

“Hoax” ia the same term he used to refer to the well-documented evidence that he’s a Russian stooge.

Pressure? Still no sanctions kind of pressure?

And we’ll see if anything functional actually gets delivered to Ukraine.

Term limits have been implemented in many places and have not achieved better governance anywhere. They’re another “obvious” solution that isn’t worth shit in practice, like multi-party versus two-party electoral systems.

And age limits are just anti-democratic. I know a few old farts who are better qualitified to hold office than their younger rivals. Voters should choose, not some arbitrary rule.

TACO grundle.

You should have informed him that it’s harmless except that it causes a craving for pangolin and bat meat.

never before in the history of mankind has fascism stepped down when politely asked to do so

Except after the death of Franco. And after a peaceful people’s movements removed the Portuguese junta.

I really want to know the name of the contractor who made that proposal.

Two lies don’t make a truth.

That takes zero ingenuity.

BJP propaganda.

Now for some oligarchs.

I think it’s telling that you only consider something a human right if there’s a law protecting it.

Yeah. The Ninth Amendment of the Constitution plainly says that there are more rights than are enumerated.

It is not the UN’s domain to determine human rights. It’s its job to recognize and (ideally) to promote and protect them. And it’s not wonderfully effective at that part of its job.

Human rights exist outside the context of government.

That’s the Enlightenment interpretation, but it’s certainly not the only one taught in philosophy classes. There’s also a view that rights are negotiated, and that when a government fails to respect a right, it’s as good as gone until the government is again forced to concede it. In that interpretation, rights are not God-given, they’re fought for.

Historically, rights are conceded by governments in the face of overwhelming pressure.