ChonkyOwlbear

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ChonkyOwlbear ,

As much as I wish Trump would trip and fall face first into a wood chipper, it's good that there is nothing stopping a felon from being president. It would be far too easy for an unscrupulous president to trump up (lol) a fake felony charge to block their competitors from office.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Can't pardon himself from state crimes.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I'm not so sure. It's MUCH harder to avoid punishment after you are convicted. Michael Cohen got 3 years for the exact same crime, plus he pled guilty and agreed to testify for a shorter sentence. Obviously Trump will appeal, but it's entirely reasonable for the judge (who Trump has taken every opportunity to insult) to rule he must start serving his sentence while the appeal happens.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Now the judge who Trump has been royally pissing off the whole time gets to sentence him. If your justice boner lasts for more than 4 hours, please consult a doctor.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

How funny would it be if Trump can't attend the first presidential debate in Georgia because he can't leave the state.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

NewPipe

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Wouldn't the other rook be able to take the king no matter what?

ChonkyOwlbear ,

What if rather than moving the rook, black queen moves to D6?

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I went to one Vietnamese restaurant all the time that was exactly like this. I ate there so often, one time when they were full they let me sit at the table with their son doing homework. I felt so honored.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

a giant underground storage tank

That's basically what groundwater is already.

The trick isn't storing it. The earth does that naturally. The trick is moving it where there isn't enough.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I know this isn't the point of the article but 76 years seems like an absurdly long sentence. I just checked and the average time served for murder is 15 years.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I'll save everyone a search.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Because libertarians are just Republicans who like weed at this point.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

When Republicans talk about free speech, this is what they mean.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

The Indicted

Bitch Mob

Dick and the Taters

The January 6ths

Insurrection Connection

ChonkyOwlbear ,

And promising to do one here

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Still Biden. Trump promises literal concentration camps. He wants a genocide here. Biden is begging Israel and Palestine for a ceasefire.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Congress approved sending the weapons. It's literally illegal for Biden not to send them. They wouldn't even allow him not to send one type of bomb that would be especially catastrophic to civilians.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

It's way more complicated than Biden just saying so. It takes intensive investigation and can only be used for very specific reasons: torture, extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, and rape under color of law.

https://www.state.gov/key-topics-bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/human-rights/leahy-law-fact-sheet/

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Not that I am aware. The only one that might have happened is torture but that depends on whether the legal definition includes thing like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, or other things we like to call "enhanced interrogation".

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I own up to his real position. I won't own up to fake positions he never held. He sent offensive weapons to Israel after it was apparent this has gone far beyond simple defense from terrorists. If I had my choice I would have only sent humanitarian aid and defensive weapons like resupplies for the iron dome. I also suppose acknowledging Palestine while at the same time recognizing that Hamas is a dangerous group which leads the country and needs to be overthrown. The only way Israel will ever get Hamas out of Palestine is by supporting the Palestinian people who want to fight for control of their own country.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I listed the four reasons above by which arms can be withheld. Violations of human rights and obstructing aid are not on that list, like it or not. I find it highly more likely that if there was any wrongdoing, it was Israel concealing the truth from US investigators, not bad faith of the US government. Biden was literally one of the drafters of United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. I don't see him standing by and letting that happen if he can help it.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

The far right in Israel has a lot to answer for. There is no doubt that the actions of Israel in Palestine created Hamas. I think it's too far of a jump to say this is intentionally creating a justification for genocide. It's also important to acknowledge that the government in both countries doesn't represent all of their people. There are genocidal assholes on both sides as well as those who want to coexist. I would prefer that Israel didn't exist at all because any religious or ethnically exclusive country is troubling to me, but the Nazis didn't leave us much choice.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Think long and hard about that position considering what the US did in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

What? We were attacked by terrorists we created and then invaded another country. Sounds pretty similar to me.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

You put Cannon into a cannon and then you put the Cannon cannon into a rocket. You fire the rocket into space and then the cannon fires Cannon into the sun. That way you can recover the rocket since it, unlike Cannon, has value.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Who the fuck is giving them loans? They have to know they aren't getting that money back, right?

ChonkyOwlbear ,

If you talk to God, that is religion. If God talks back, that is mental illness.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Body cams should also work as a time clock. If the camera isn't on, they are off the clock and not getting paid.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Same. My dad dying and leaving me his house is the only way I was able to afford to stop renting and stop living paycheck to paycheck. A perk of being an only child I suppose.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Also in spite of what we learn on TV, matching a bullet to a gun is mostly junk science.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

How long til the killer is running for office somewhere?

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities has an episode with an Eldritch horror theme called Pickman's Model. Crispin Glover does a super heavy Boston accent and it is fantastic.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I played a game where a vampire, a werewolf, and a Promethean worked together to deal with supernatural problems that the powers-that-be couldn't deal with. It was a blast but figuring out how the rules interacted took a lot of improvisation.

ChonkyOwlbear , (edited )

George Carlin's bit about the 10 commandments seems relevant here

https://genius.com/George-carlin-the-ten-commandments-annotated

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Start putting these people in jail in large numbers. Make it clear to the rest that they need to surrender their illegal firearms.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Well you're going to have to pay to have the lake dredged to recover them then. We don't care what condition the guns are in when you surrender them.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Take funding from the sheriff's office and form a task force specifically assigned to tracking and retrieving illegal guns.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Aww, look who is mad gun laws apply to white people too.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

That's fine. Wearing a mask is now a political statement which is protected free speech.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

And how many people are you willing to kill to do that?

ChonkyOwlbear ,

They should hold a VP debate next week.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I heard the cyber truck called the "Incel Camino" and now I can't think of it any other way.

Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?

I've been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama's first term in 2008 more wasn't accomplished. Shouldn't that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but outside...

ChonkyOwlbear ,

While I disagree with it, there is a valid argument that getting rid of the filibuster would become an absolute disaster once Republicans gain the majority.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Gorsuch has a libertarian streak, which makes him deviate from some of the more authoritarian conservative positions. It unfortunately also means that he hates government oversight.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I always knew I was a villain.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

He has really departed from the way he was written in the beginning. Becoming popular forced the character to be written shallow.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

I don't think America is the best either, just less bad than China in most cases.

still just guys in pointy straw hats scratching at the dirt.

As of 2023, 40% of the Chinese workforce is engaged in farming, primarily at the small scale. Your racist implications aside, a large portion of the country is still relatively undeveloped.

China executes more than 1000 people every year, sometimes for things which are protected rights in the US like political dissidence (aka free speech). They are the #1 country in numbers of executions. They kill more people than the next 10 countries on the list combined.

China is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases; the largest source of marine debris; the worst perpetrators of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing; and the world's largest consumer of trafficked wildlife and timber products.

The Chinese government regularly spies on its own citizens, censors what their citizens know, and manipulates them with propaganda.

China has 5 times the workforce as the US but 16 times the workplace fatality rate. More than 225 Chinese people die from workplace accidents.

China regularly holds more than 1 million people in internment camps. In these camps many are abused, tortured, raped, or used as slave labor. That is on top of the 1.7 million people in the penal system where torture is regularly used as punishment.

But yeah, they have one or two nice looking factories.

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