scoobdog

It seems dots need to be connected for those who seem to think a forced famine is not an intentional act.... The Holodomor is "intentional" because the act of reforming the socioeconomic system in such a way necessitates losses. Stalin (or rather the Communist Party members responsible for implementing the new communist system) eliminated certain jobs in the old system without factoring in how the old skill sets could be transitioned into the new system. This created certain groups that were unable to provide for their own well being without any effective way to integrate them. In sociology, this is factored as an acceptable loss meaning the Russian Communists expected a certain amount of people to die.

What is he going to do when Trump is gone for real? He has to know by now that Trump is the losing horse.

I mean.... it does quite literally.

That's a much better looking truck than the cyber truck.

More like he's trying to avoid looking like he failed a negotiation. A deal that complex isn't solved in a matter of a week, and just the fact he got involved was enough to prevent a strike given the circumstances. (Yeah, I know the other unions were still threatening, but they wouldn't as long as the negotiations continued). He just got trigger happy when he probably should have had a little more faith in the parties to get the job done without causing an infrastructural shutdown.

Rare we're all in agreement. I honestly don't see the reason for trying to push this through given how reasonable the demands are and how rail owners have a vested interest in agreeing to them in.. At best, it makes Biden look like he's jumpy when he should be projecting confidence in the process.

Well, yes. It’s presumed the rest have approved on the condition that the rejected ones will agree, though.

I wonder how the Republicans will push a worse deal, unless the point is that if the deal is rejected, the rail companies can back out of the deal and the Republicans will stand by?

Genocide is often and erroneously taken to be synonymous with ethnic cleansing.

Gotta look at something while planning your next hit job.

I seem to recall you contemplating life over a circular saw before…

Nah, that Colts loss would kill any boner.

Not that such a claim was made in this thread, but government created famines do count as genocide. Social engineering on the scale that both Mao and Stalin attempted following their respective revolutions were predicated on forced behavioral modification through a social and economic “reset”. The resulting collapse is a feature rather than a byproduct, making widespread starvation and high fatality rates among vulnerable groups a factorable part of the equation.

That's not even the correct quote, and the phrasing is very important in that particular instance.

It looks like the plan on sacrificing a virgin to summon the dark lord to resurrect him... in that uniform.

But, for real, Alabama isn’t getting into the CFP no matter what Saban says. Glad to see Brian Kelly living up to expectations though.

Oh shit.

The key is to not fry a turkey that hasn’t completely defrosted. The flames look dangerous, but it’s actually the flying, boiling oil that causes the damage, and combining that oil with frozen bits of Turkey is a recipe for projectiles and explosive steam. That’s why you do it at least 20’ from the nearest structure, never near dry foliage, elevated on a fire resistant tarp and with a K-type (oil fire) extinguisher.

Beat me to it. Helps showed up in my FB feed.

I dunno. Unless you have, like, a huge yard deep frying a bird seems like a bad idea.

Just thankful for my cats and dogs.

They will. The GOP won’t survive this, at least not in its current form, and I think the Christian reich will be the ones that end up on the outside.

Dealing with Trump is the only way forward. Trump isn’t effective as a political boss, so he’s not capable of leading the party. But, he can still motivate his base to do his bidding. The only way forward for the Republican Party is to defang his acolytes.

I think there’s more context. It’s an unquestioned given that acts he’s accused of are premeditated murder, but it is difficult to define a motive with deep psychological roots like bigotry without an established history (preferably with progression / regression). How do you say he murdered the victims solely because he hates all LGBTQ+ people when, say, there are instances where he engaged them as part of his reckoning with his own gender? The hate enhancements aren’t a substitute for justifying the killings so you would have to prove there is a pattern of hating LGBTQ+ people before the murders take place, and that’s difficult in this scenario. One thing to also consider is that our justice system rarely delves into the concept of self loathing. It’s not generally a successful argument for either exonerating a defendant or convicting them simply because it runs counter to the concept of self preservation that is used to define the victim. That tends to be a factor when prosecutors consider hate enhancement charges: they usually have solid proof that someone is lying about their intentions before pursuing a conviction.

It could even be an outright lie meant to confuse... its not like the defense lawyers know who their client is after three or four days. It very well could be misinformation.