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She appeared yesterday. Rather than lie, she invoked the 5th Amendment. (This article is three days old.)

Cripes, this is like, easy-mode. The way to push back without giving them a soundbite is dead simple:

Our ICE officers obviously are not terrorists.

Reply: “Is it obvious? What distinguishes the way they act from terrorists, Ben?”

What? The 2A people have a way to prevent this: More guns! It’s always more guns! If only this father had had a gun to defend himself from his armed attacker/son…

(/s, just in case)

I still believe this headline even after seeing the community it’s in.

Why am I not surprised that he’s all-in on that sovcit typography nonsense? “It can’t mean me because it says Enrique Tarrio, not Tarrio-comma-Enrique!”

That is the ultimate goal, isn’t it? The problem here is that the situation isn’t so neatly reciprocal. The Republicans offer about ⅓ of the nation exactly what they want, whereas the Democrats offer nobody exactly what they want. The favorability ratings in the polls show that. They only offer, “we’re marginally better than fascists,” which is good enough for a small lead in polling for the midterm elections, masking how deeply unpopular Republican actions are, and providing a veneer of legitimacy for them in the form of a near-tie.

No, I want them to GTFO of the way. If our election system only admits two major parties, then they are complicit by camping out in one of the slots, preventing a political party that’d actually put up a fight from arising. Whatever their alleged motivation, or level of cooperation, it no longer matters at this point; they have been the party in that second slot as U.S. political institutions slid into fascism over the course of decades. The record shows that they’re not going to turn it around should they win back Congress in the mid-terms (if we even have elections). At best, they might stave off full fascism for another few election cycles. That’s the issue we have with Democrats.

YouGov has published a page about its polling methodology. Polling groups abandoned the random telephone survey decades ago, at this point.

Ah, yes, indeed! Related to that, I’ve seen a lot of comments from circumcised men on here saying that they’re glad that they had it done, because they’re already “too sensitive,” by which they mean that they reach orgasm too easily. (Not that it’s too pleasurable.) I’m a straight guy, so I’ve only experienced one penis, but my friend who has experience with his own, and many more, says that that’s not how it works. He says that intact men have better awareness of their own level of arousal, and better control over the level of stimulation, and can last longer before.

That’s certainly a case of not missing what you never knew.

Great insight!

I would add, though, that you absolutely can miss what you never knew you had, even if you don’t know you’re missing it. (Else, why the concept of eggs?) I have seen several intact men in these communities say that their primary sexual sensation comes from their foreskin. Say you were one of those men, and had your primary source of sexual sensation amputated at birth. You could go through much of your life knowing that something was “not right” with sex, but not knowing what.

The other commenter caught my intent to ridicule Rittenhouse by his own standards: His community fluoridates the water, so either drinking the water turned him gay, or, if it didn’t, he’s full of shit.

Weird way to come out, by okay.

I still have an impacted wisdom tooth, and it’s okay. Everybody should keep theirs.

Okay, but let’s then also talk seriously about routine infant labiaplasty. A lot of women prefer the look, and it’s a common cosmetic surgical procedure that many of them get later in life. If it were done at birth by a qualified medical practitioner, it wouldn’t harm the clitoris, but have the advantage of cleanliness and, while it hasn’t been studied extensively, preliminary results show some benefit in preventing disease. Seems like a great idea. Why don’t we do it?

Oh my gosh, yes! As a fan of the books, I was so excited for the series. I was determined not to be put off by the changes to the story the producers made, so it took me a while to realize that the changed story lacked something. Like, being good? I should’ve just stopped after the terrorist attack that killed nobody, or tens of millions of people maybe, in the first episode just to advance the plot. Great visual effects, no emotional resonance. Why should I care? Nobody on-screen seemed to. I stuck it out until the episode that ended with the one character getting surrounded by the Anacreon landing party, but the show never established why I should care about her. So I didn’t, and never bothered with the next episode to resolve the cliff-hanger.

Yes, but “this isn’t new” is a major rhetorical weapon for fascists and their media enablers.

Thanks for the explanation, even if it’s verified as half lies.

I feel honor-bound to point out every time somebody brings this up that Gaige Grosskreutz could’ve greased that guy, and it would’ve been legitimate self-defense, too. Wisconsin law be fucked.

Damn, I misread that as “Shrank IQ Scores of Americans by Half,” and thought, “Hmm, that tracks.”