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Beyond watching the Republicans trip all over each other to respond to this, it's a really rich topic. Essentially, this Alabama SCOTUS ruling is argumentum ad absurdum: taking an argument to the full logical extension to reveal that the logic is unsound. Usually this is done satirically, but the kicker here is that the Alabama SCOTUS is so farking bumfuzzled that they are making the absurd argument in earnest! (Yes, apparently you can be a ridiculous bible-thumping fundie and still sit on the Supreme Court in the "great" state of Alabama.) The have taken "life" begins at conception and the shoddy rhetoric calling embryos "unborn children" to the absurd extreme. Now extra-uterine "children" who have absolutely zero hope of developing into humans unassisted are children, people and citizens due equivalent to born, actual, people. That frozen embryos are literally children. Is it legal to put your child in the freezer for extended periods? What harm can come to them? Can they be imprisoned forever, or must they be released to freedom when they turn 18? Will they be eligible for state and federal benefits? Will they have to be wheeled into schools when they turn 5? Do the parents owe the IVF clinics child support? When the biological "parents" of these forever-frozen "children" die, do the kidsicles inherit the estate? There are a million new absurd questions that have to be answered in the absurd state of Alabama, because they've taken one step too far into whatever the hell the Christians are going to call their version of Sharia Law. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

Not sure why it how you're pivoting to Trump here. Seems like a bit of a non-sequitur. But now that you mention it, a lot of Trump's base was built on the alt-right and white nationalist movement. The politics of racism still sell with with directed disaffected whites who can't hack it on a leveling playing field.

Yes, someone who is out to hurt the Black community and says something that could be construed as racist will not get the benefit of the doubt. Someone who has a record of allyship and support for the Black community who says something that could be construed as racist will get the benefit of the doubt. Welcome to life. This is how it works. And the word "jungle" is in everyone's vocabulary. 🙄

The judge said the verdict did not mean that Carroll “failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed ... the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.” How terribly sad that you have to spend your energy excusing rape on technicalities.

Quick, MAGA Canadians, send this man all your money. He needs your help now more than ever! Do NOT make him pay his own super unfair penalties after being found liable for rape, defamation and bank fraud.

You're doing a bit of dishonest spin here. Biden has always been a gaffe machine, and the "jungle" comment is a good example. Absolutely horrible choice of words given the fraught history, but in full context, it wasn't meant as a slur. His full statement was something about not wanting his kids in a forced busing situation, the suddenness of which he thought would create an environment of explosive racial tension. -- It's an example of him making a massive gaffe, not of him being racist. And the "n-word" reference I'd call a lie. IIRC, he didn't use the N-word himself. Not like he dropped it in conversation. He was quoting, for the record, some local official and using that character's racism as an example of why someone was unfit for office. He's saying "Look at this example of awful blatant racism" while working against it. In a time when people didn't automatically censor that word. All that being said. Everybody's a little bit racist. Joe Biden is. Some of the legislation earlier in his career wasn't great for Black communities. But he was also a bit ahead of the curve for an ancient white man. Remember, you're talking about someone grew up in the time of open segregation. He was in college before the civil rights act! He was in the senate with Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond! -- So, the fact that despite an imperfect track record, he's generally viewed as an ally for Black Americans is pretty impressive. You know why Black America--and Barack Obama--don't hold a grudge against Joe and his comments like "clean, articulate" is because they understand it for what it is. Actions speak louder than words. And net-net, they see somebody who is working alongside them. It's why Obama and Biden became buddies. Contemporary coverage "I mean, you've got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a story-book, man," Biden said. Biden later called Obama and then spoke to reporters during a conference call saying Obama understood what he meant. "This is a guy who's come along in a way that's captured the imagination of the country in a way that no one else has. That was the point of everything I was saying," Biden said. But late Wednesday, Obama released a statement seizing on Biden's use of the word "articulate." "I didn't take Sen. Biden's comments personally, but obviously they were historically inaccurate," Obama said. "African-American presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton gave a voice to many important issues through their campaigns, and no one would call them inarticulate." Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Wednesday night, "It was a gaffe. It was not an intentional racially pejorative statement. It could be interpreted that way, but that's not what he meant."

'Worst President in US history" is somewhat debatable based on the outcomes (thought he had some extremely bad outcomes) but the totality of the administration is an unqualified disaster. We became a laughingstock, and the world looked on in disgust waiting for four years to tick by, hoping intemperate Twitter spats didn't lead to military fisticuffs. And in honor of President's day, indeed, expert historians rank him dead last. Read: Historians rank Trump as worst president

There is, indeed. Right after MAGA nation buys the Trump Track Suit (TM) and Trump Kool-Aid (TM) kits they'll be done buying.

Yes, jackass, a wholesome interaction between grandfather and granddaughter. No matter how many times you capture that moment and try to spin it into something lascivious. We filter the world through our own perceptions. You think familial kissing is sexual because you find it sexy. You're clearly the kind of creep who thinks it's too "sexy" for children to sit on an adult's lap and will never play Santa Claus because you're afraid of what might happen below your belt line. Guess what. That's all a "you problem," not Joe Biden's problem or the millions of other American families who do the lip peck. For the rest of us, even if our families don't do it, it's not a sexual interaction. Get a grip, pervert, and stay away from schools.

Yeah, like any topic, not everyone is going to agree about everything. They speak, they debate, they vote. But we need a place in the world where the President of Kiribati (a nation no one has ever heard of) can take the floor and tell--and show--the powerful nations of the world what their actions are doing to his people. That's why, in answer to the OP, I think it's very important that the thought and administration in that institution be democratized.

Ooh. Naked racism from our associate here in Canada. Classy.

I think not. The top donor countries are the countries that already dominate global politics. Do we really want, say, the US and China jockeying for position in the UN as well? It would make it sort of and extension of soft imperialism. The UN is meant to be a more egalitarian operating model. Help for the helpless and voice for the voiceless. And part of the stretch toward that goal is to have the nations and peoples of the world actively involved in shaping the organization. Not just the rich and powerful nations, but all, united. The UN isn't nearly perfect, but the idea and the attempt are both incredibly important. In a shrinking world, we need a sense of community and a way to act for the collective good without any perception of selfish purpose. When relief workers or peacekeepers show up under the UN flag it means something very different than if the US or China were to roll into a country under our own flags.

I gave you the video time code. There is no "face sucking" there is no "making out." You are a liar and a pervert for sexualizing an innocent and wholesome interaction. There's nothing remotely sexual about it.

This is the first thing you've said in a long time that is believable. I completely accept that you don't understand, and are apparently completely incapable of reading your own words when they are quoted back to you. Like, literally, you can't even read them. Or are just trolling. Because they are right there, plain as day Here's a link to an adult literacy program that operates in Canada. Good luck.

Sorry, quoting your post 3 times in just 2 pages is MORE than enough. If you were capable of understanding, you'd be there already.

I included your quote in the very post to which you are responding. Seriously, what is wrong with you? Do we need to send help?

Ah, and now we've arrived at stark raving lunatic. Take your meds and avoid driving.

Jeebus. Do they let you go out to the internet cafe without a chaperone? THIS is what you said just a couple of hours ago: ^^ You are confused in the sequence of events by 40 years. I think you may just be generally confused. ^^ Lol. Good luck picking up the tab to defend Canada outside of an alliance.

It's there, verbatim, quoted and linked multiple times. If you are literally incapable of reading two pages of this forum, god have mercy on your soul.

Okay, so you've now confirmed you have no idea what NATO is or how it operates. Thanks. NATO was formed in 1949. The Soviet Union dissolved in '91, forty years later. (I guess at least you weren't a century off?) Canada pays NATO almost nothing. It chips in a bit to cover overhead, but the TOTAL bill for NATO operations comes to $3 billion a year, of which Canada pays about 7%. Leaving NATO could not save Canada billions of dollars. That would be quite impossible, as Canada only pays $300 million or so. Which is negligible. The way countries "contribute" to NATO is through their own defense spending. Canada's spending on Canada's own military readiness. And they'd need to spend a LOT more to achieve equivalent security without the defensive alliance. So being in NATO saves Canada billions of dollars. So, no, I'm not dumb. But you may be, and are certainly demonstrably ignorant. And to the final point, NATO has never started a war, nor seized land. And it would be impossible for NATO to start a war. The alliance is a defensive alliance. Its conditions are only triggered if one of the members is attacked. A NATO member country could start a war, but the rest of the alliance would have no obligation to participate. And no, don't be an imbecile, nobody anywhere wants a war with Russia. Russia still has an extensive nuclear arsenal--and a pretty sad conventional military-- so an all-out war with Russia only ends one way. Nobody anywhere wants that. It's not good for anyone's business, unless you think the global economy is driven by manufacturers of iodine pills.

Trump regularly gets laughed out of court. Stands to reason that people wearing those hideous shoes are okay getting laughed off the court. But really, I don't think any sensible person is going to try to actually play basketball in what are undoubtably cheap Chinese generics rebadged without a bit of performance engineering. Sort of like most of the stuff Trump licenses his name for, it's a rip off.

I did show you, multiple times, verbatim, quoted your words back to you and linked to the post. And you responded to those posts. You're welcome to read the last two pages of this thread to find multiple instances, or to click through our conversation. But I can't spoon-feed you any more than to quote and link your own words.

I think it's pretty evident you have no idea what NATO is or how it functions. 1. How would leaving NATO save Canada billions of dollars? 2. Can you name even a single war that NATO has started? You've got it ass-backward in both cases. Being in NATO saves Canada billions of dollars compared to achieving equivalent security independently. And NATO, as a defensive alliance, is a massive deterrence from war.

Bullshit. You jumped into a conversation you apparently didn't understand and decided you represented a group larger than yourself. Congrats, you're part of a "we" now. With all that baggage that entails. 4 farking pictures of Biden sharing an innocent peck with his grandaughter and you pronounce that "we aren't talking about that incident." 🤪

If you can't track the conversation in a thread, that's your problem, not mine. WCM is as liar and a pervert for sexualizing an innocent moment between granddaughter and grandfather. You don't want to lump yourself in, then don't.