Ok prove it by stopping Russia from slaughtering your own fucking neighbor

I like the part where Epstein helped Noam do his taxes and the Chomskys are just like well we are actually victims here

Does France not have a felony murder provision?

Civil unions can be a mere superficial replacement of the name but it can also be a creative and new way to create legal relationships

Civil unions being basically just marriages is lazy and people should just enter into legal relationships with one another for various reasons (child custody, medical determinations, property distribution etc)

There are tax and government benefit reasons to get married it’s an artificially maintained institution to perpetuate notions of the family and continued existence of a people

It needs to be abolished and society needs to respect different and specific legal arrangements that people make instead

It’s not just a tradition it’s a tradition that actively creates and informs legal rules anchored to that tradition

Your analogy between the enduring institution of marriage with Christmas lights is simply false

https://www.logical-fallacy.com/articles/false-analogy/

It took until 2026 for France to remove the sex requirement of marriage

Don’t pretend it’s some innocent institution

It should be scrapped entirely as a legal mechanism and replaced wherever possible

Only rational civil unions should exist and have whatever legal powers the people involved deem necessary so long as they aren’t against public policy

Marriage should not be a recognized institution and should be relegated to the halls of religious extremists

So how do you enforce this except by introducing government ID verification into all digital social services so children can be properly excluded?

It just can be physically handed to Trump to keep forever 😉

“relax, you have the donald syndrome, he’s just speaking metaphorically”

Chinese stuff with hidden off switch 😱

American stuff with hidden off switch 🤑

Gambling should just be illegal again 🙄

I know, and they are disregarding laws I don’t mean to imply otherwise, and this is a perverse point to make but

We’ve had elections during every war so far so I think the best they can do is attempt to hack them and cheat in more conventional ways

I know it’s bleak but that isn’t how it works

The states get to conduct their own elections and we’ve always had elections during war anyway

Federalism is one of the few really good ideas the founders had for dealing with this exact problem: a tyrannical federal government

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

• Shrimpston Lurchill

Pull the plug? It’s not like it’s one computer lol

It’s literally too late. Go read some sci fi if you want to know what happens next

It’s just a real conspiracy as in a literal agreement between Russia and maga/afd/rn to accomplish nefarious goals

That’s what’s so fun about democracy

All the systems you build can be instantly captured and used for evil if your right wing supremacist opponents win

Controversial opinion: war is bad 🫢

I’d much rather organize dnd with you over WhatsApp than deal with whatever it is you want to do

Youre making it even more difficult to have friends