Not exactly related to the question, but as a non-native English speaker, whenever I read something related to weights in imperial, e.g., 150 lbs, my mind reads it as 150 lubes.

I know it’s pounds, if I would read it out loud, I would say pounds cause I’m not a weirdo (well…). But still, my internal monologue has lbs = lubes

By not voting, you are still, implicitly, voting for the candidate who you wouldn’t have voted for. Do you think he’s not supporting Israel?

Do you think he even has any moral standing?

That’s who you’re voting for by not voting.

You just want to absolve yourself of that moral responsibility.

That’s exactly what you are doing. You’re focusing on this one issue, retreating yourself from the binary decision because neither options stands for what you (or I, or morality) would prefer. Completely ignoring that withdrawing from the choice plays into the hand of the infinitely worse candidate. So by not choosing, you do nothing to stop the situation in Gaza, but might actually make things a lot worse for people all over.

You can virtue signal that you did not compromise on your believes, while actually helping your country make a worse place.

Would this not be considered as “providing comfort to insurrectionists”, as described in the 14th amendment. Even just promising pardoning them.

So even if they argue he supposedly wasn’t involved in it, it would still disqualify him from office.

When the call is coming from inside the (white) house…

(Edit: to be clear, back in 2020)

Imagine being brainwashed bombarded on a daily basis with messages of how leftist will take over your country and how Trump will save them

What kind of a broken system is that?

Just to be clear, you mean that people ignoring the laws is what makes it broken, right? Not the laws themselves?

Cause your last sentence threw me off for a second.

If so, I totally agree with you.

I’m not from the US, but are people really streaming while driving? Cause that’s just ridiculously stupid.

I know people are driving much longer distances in the US than here, but at least put on some podcast or music to entertain you. Nothing that keeps your eyes off the road.

What if my religion mandates killing everyone over the age of 60?

Could I get away with it because of freedom of religion?

You don’t think this happens in e.g., European countries?

Yeah, the cover-up is the bad part.

Might as well be considered a hit-and-run.

Can you please eshplain why they pronounce it that way?

If AI does go rouge

(Non-ironically created by Dall-e)

It was money that was previously blocked. The US didn’t lose it. Iran just regained access to it.

Ask them, who’s going to ban the trans people if the government is shut down?

They are. They want to remove any protections of minority groups. Back to the good ol’ lynching days.

(I feel dirty just typing that out)

Regardless of their intent, if it means people don’t use social media to get their information on topics like this, I’m okay with it.

But can you trust that they will remain sharp for 4 years (or whatever the term of the position they’re running for)?

It’s much more likely to be a play on the much better known “Ace of Spades”?

I’m not completely ignorant on Nazi dog whistles, but this is not one I know.

It shows up as the 5th link for me on !news@kbin.social (using active sorting).

Final reply, because I feel this not going anywhere.

I, or the person I was defending, was not talking about this specific situation. Of course they have the right to self defense. I explicitly mentioned that before two comments ago.

I’m also not trying to defend the killer or feel sad at all he got killed by the police.

All my replies were aimed at the comment from CoffeeJunkie who apparently was advocating for the police to be judge, jury and executioner because that’s cheaper. That’s a major simplification and I’m sure that’s not what they meant, but that’s how I, and probably others, interpreted it and why I chose to go against it.

Again, I’m done arguing with you. You’re resorting to ad hominem attacks because you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying.

The moral authority to tell someone that their stance that police can shoot anyone they want without due process because it’s cheaper that way is morally wrong?

Yeah, everyone has that.

I’m not trying to make light of the tragedy that happened to the original victim, nor am I saying it’s sad that the killer got killed himself. But if someone is arguing to eliminate due process because of this case, I’ll argue against that. And so should anyone else.