Authoritarians gonna authoritarian regardless of economic model.

I understand Crayola is usually the preferred brand amongst marines.

I’d imagine closer to cop unions than worker unions. They’re still a flavor of law enforcement and get a loooot of unilateral power to detain people.

It can be all 3 simultaneously. It virtue signals to the phobes, it hurts foreigners and keeps Americans from being exposed to other cultures.

Technically the only 100% necessary qualifications to be pope are:

1. Be a man
2. Be (specifically) Catholic

And a third extremely common but not strictly necessary qualification of: Be a Cardinal.

I’m pretty sure Trump is some flavor of Baptist, which does in theory prevent his rise to the papacy, unless he specifically converts from whatever flavor of Baptist to Catholicism. But that risks alienating the evangelical protestants that fucking hate Catholics and think the papacy is the satanic antichist.

And it’s not even a good search engine either. It just spits out sarcastic jokes from barely up voted reddit posts.

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Make due with the tools you have at hand.

https://youtu.be/n1KgxqEQn0A

Thus might highlight the… flaws… of our current system of legislating, executing and adjudicating.

Congress passes legislation saying here’s what we intend to do without any specifics, executive branch figures out the specifics of how to execute on it, Judiciary might step in if the law itself is no bueno or if the president is operating outside the intended bounds of legislation or outside the constitution.

Personal injury lawyers might not be as big as they are, but lawsuits in the US are kind of important for more than just monetary compensation, it’s to have case law and in essence introduce new regulations. McDonalds didn’t just have to pay medical bills for the Hot Coffee lawsuit, but McDonalds also had to change how they serve their coffee. Its part compensation and part making sure it doesn’t happen again or if it does, there is a clear path for what needs to happen. As awful as it is to have something bad happen, it’s worse if we don’t learn and change from it and our system of incorporating case law is pretty decent at that, if imperfect. No legal system can cover every scenario, but if it can adapt as new scenarios arise then it is all the more resilient (although that does kinda assume our Judiciary is truly impartial and there are no cronies trained by think tanks to give the illusion of impartiality)

The 8th circle might be a better fit, especially in the 8th Bolgia for councellors of fraud.

Historically far right authoritarians have been surprisngly good at aesthetics and wrapping their shit ideology in aesthetics. The nazis had Hugo Boss for designing their uniforms. Their propagandists created visual language for films we still use today. They were evil bastards who made it look appealing to the regular citizen.

Those programs, while imperfectly implemented, also showed that they really did improve the lives of the people who were able to gain the advantages of them. We need to look to what those programs did well and fix and rework what those programs did poorly.

Oh he’s absolutely letting them fight, he’s just stoking them up more playing into the big issue splitting the republican party in two.

In general it’s asking another person to change their appearance to suit your preferences rather than just respecting whatever mood they’re in or how their naturally resting face just looks, it’s a dick move. Forcing a smile also sucks. It takes some amount of conscious effort to maintain a forced smile and smiling does engage quite a few muscles in the face, about 43 different muscles to make a smile.

Combine all of that with the history of women very much not having any kind of power in our society, and it takes on a more sinister tone when directed at women, hinting at the idea of someone’s only valuable because they have a pretty face and it should be pretty all the time.

Boss make a grand, I make a buck, that’s why I’m stealing the catalytic converter off the company truck.

/j

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I shit on company time

It’s worse they’re scared the government will go after their families. It’s not fear for themselves.

The problem is there could be a looot of time between now and that obituary for him to fuck up a lot of things.

Case and point Henry Kissinger.

Yup, you 100% need to work on reading comprehension. I never said nothing sketchy happened, actually I explicitly said other sketchy shit did and does happen, I’m saying the specific example you originally pulled did not support your argument.

The article you pulled, in the literal first sentences said that Hunter Biden was paid as a consultant by MBNA in 2005, 3 years prior to the article and that the consultancy, despite being legally above board, doesn’t look good and happened at the same time a bill favoring credit card companies was passed.

That’s not a direct bribe to Joe Biden in exchange for a favorable bill as you described it.

But instead I’m the shill for Biden because you have done a shit job defending your own point with an article that explicitly contradicts your point in the very first sentence. All I did was read the fucking article and point out it doesn’t say what you think it said.

Again be accurate in your criticism, back it up with anything that doesn’t immediately contradict your points because at this point, I highly doubt you even read a single article you posted in your last reply.