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  • That we stop supporting fascists because they’re less overtly fascists than other fascists.

    The DNC has gotten away with that for far too long.

    If a politician did fuck-all back when it was easy, they’re not gonna do anything when it’s hard. I don’t have any good solutions- I don’t think anyone does.

    Right now, we’re on track to a fourth reich and I’ve been warning anyone who’d listen for the last decade. If you think there’s not gonna be pain ahead, I got bad news for you.



  • It’s amazing.

    I’m not a tankie.

    But you can’t answer a simple question without going there.

    So, let me make the question even simpler:

    Why should I trust fascist-Lites to protect me from fascists?

    Enough democrats are fascist-lite. Which is why the Biden admin did absolutely fuck-all to stop helping Israel or protect voting rights or trans rights or actually hold Trump and his cronies to account.

    Your “pragmatism” is what got us here- going back over 50 years- and implying I’m a tankie for saying it says more about you than me.


  • I mean, I don’t know of any translation that puts it as “you shall not kill”… particularly since the law of Moses also makes it very clear that one should most certainly kill for all sorts of things.

    I mean, off the top of my head…

    • murder
    • men who rape another’s wife or betrothed
    • women who are raped inside the town, if no one hears her call out. (The rapist is also offed,)
    • women who willingly have sex with another man
    • gay men.
    • witches
    • blasphemers and idolaters
    • women who didn’t bleed on their wedding night.
    • intentionally working on the sabbath
    • being an unruly teenager (talking back to your parents or insulting them, disobedience.)
    • false prophecy.

    And then there’s all the numerous times god commanded genocides.



  • you don’t have to define every race to make race a protected class- you just have to define what ‘race’ is. all ‘protected class’ means is that It’s a group of people that have protections against discrimination.

    For example, if a black person gets a parking ticket, sure it could be that the officer was a racist fuck. but that’s irrelevant if they can show the black person didn’t pay for parking. (you might try to make an argument saying ‘well they don’t ticket white people’, but good luck proving that in court.)

    protected classes at the us federal level include:

    • Race
    • Sex
    • Age
    • Disability
    • National Origin
    • Religion
    • Genetic Information







  • Just to clarify, Mach 25 is roughly orbital flight. (The shuttle would begin its breaking turns at Mach 24, on the edge of the atmosphere where sound is the slowest.)

    So, if by “overpowered” you mean “sound like someone who skipped middle school science.” Then That’s definitely a yes.

    Just as a side note, do you know what happens When large meteorites crash into the atmosphere?

    They explode from the pressure and extremely intense atmosphere heating. And that’s at around Mach 20… (which, is why the shuttle does the breaking turns where it’s not so bad…)

    Even if you had some magical way to survive that… The air and everything around you would also be exploding. violently.

    The basic math here is that the mach number is one’s current velocity divided by the speed of sound- at your current conditions. Which makes it bad as a measure of “top speed” because it varies with pressure. Generally, as one ascends, the mach number increases.

    For comparison, at sea level, mach 195 would be about 238,875 kph. The escape velocity of the solar system, leaving earth, is roughly is 151,200 kph.




  • I’m not sure that trading stocks in pharma is the same as working in the industry.

    I’m also fairly confident that commenting/making social media content is also not working in the industry.

    They might have an argument if he had a board seat, or enough stocks to significantly influence a given company- or was otherwise being compensated for some service being rendered… but I sort of doubt that’s the case.

    Unless his ban specifically forbids trading pharma stock and posting pharma-related stuff on social media… they don’t have a case.