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It's a shitshow, for sure.

The good news is that most Americans that aren't on TV / the news / whatever big money platform are pretty sensible and nice people.

I mean, don't bring up politics...

Trump voters prob. think it's fake news and vote him in, anyway.
Some rich asshole turn out their new AI Trumpbot that rules us all from here on out.

God Bless America!

Happy Thanksgiving.

It's a US holiday based on ... uhh... let's not talk about it.
Just have a gratuitously obscene amount of food with your family or smth.

A quick google search for difference between civil and criminal fraud has explained some things.

A) you can't be tried for one then the other. The prosecutor has to pick one or the other. Often...

If a defendant in a civil suit chooses not to defend themselves at the trial, that is their right.
In so doing, the court precedent is to rule unfavorably against the defendant on all counts.

In...

His claim is that since [the forms he submitted to various financial institutions claiming the value of his properties] contained a phrase like, "these are all guesses / do your own research" means...

Trump on the stand:
Judge, I have this piece of paper in my pocket that explains everything and proves I'm innocent. Can I read it now?

Judge:
No, you are on the stand to answer questions, not...

IDK. Early polls can't be trusted for shit.

Still jaw dropping that Trump is leading the Republican party by miles. It's getting more and more possible every day that he'll be in some min sec...

Trump as Speaker would be hilarious if not for the actual damage to effective governance it would add to the surmountable pile of obstacles already in place.

My money's still on no.

His political shield is still too stronk for that, I think. If he somehow lost his political base, and had no widespread public support, then maybe, but I don't see that...

Trump business got slapped so hard.

The business licenses for all of Trump's businesses in New York state are being revoked and suspended for 5 years.
It's not clear yet what monetary...

If the message of the protesters was "consumers are the problem with GHG emissions" and they are personally among the worst consumer emitters of GHG's, then I can see an argument for hypocrisy.


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I don't know the specifics of this situation, but the facts I've been presented haven't painted a picture of bad faith protests.

A person who drives an SUV can still rail at the giant corporations...

We are all hypocrites. It's a flaw of the human brain. We are inconsistent and wrong-headed about all sorts of things.
All of us.
None of us is perfect, nor are we some truth divining machine. ...

Being able to
see problematic tendencies w/o drawing moral conclusions about a person as a gut instinct
is an important skill to avoid jumping to my own conclusions and just being generally wrong...

The vegan argument is lame.
SMH
lazy


Calling an environmental protester a hypocrite is fine. We're all hypocrites.
Saying it with ire or judgement is where it goes too far.

No one needs...

Whether an SUV or a bicycle makes little difference beyond peacocking.
If their primary vehicle is a private jet or helicopter, then we can talk.

Consumer-level emissions of GHGs are not one of...

Salty morning for you, Ong.

America is far from perfect, and you wont hear me defending any sense of nobility or goodness about my or any country.
All countries have dirty laundry. I see very...

:lol:

Actually read more than the headlines on the link I posted, ong.

The Jan 6 stuff against Trump isn't about the protest. It's about his personal efforts to stall the electoral process and the...

It's not 91 charges for 1 crime.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/trump-criminal-investigations-cases-tracker-list/

It is not legal to charge someone twice for the same crime.
It's called Double Jeopardy.

You can charge them with multiple crimes for the same action, and it's not uncommon to do so in lesser...

Sad, but true.

The chatter about his likelihood to win the Rep nomination is getting quieter and quieter over the past months, though.

It takes time to put together a case and when the case is against someone as high profile and with the resources available to them as and ex POTUS, that means you gotta be very damn sure your...

I'm sure there's some ultra-minimum security prison he can get himself into.

Minimum security prisoner status can get you a mobile home to live in on the prison property, shared with too many...