The solution, of course, is to never vote R again, for any office.

You have to punish anyone supporting this insanity.

The best part about bombing the boats is that the second strikes on them were war crimes, while the few survivors that were picked up... All ended up repatriated.

If they were all drug runners, why weren't they put on trial? Why was so much effort made to sink all the evidence? Why did an admiral resign, when told to do this?

Everybody involved, starting from the people pulling the trigger, to the people giving the orders should be getting a fair trial and a swift punishment for that little stint of piracy and murder.

But these people all act like there is no such thing as consequences.

>But these people all act like there is no such thing as consequences.

Are there?

There could be. Don't settle for anything less.

Instant settlement is an anti-feature.

I don't want some asshole to be able to instantly drain my bank account. If I did, I'd be carrying a suitcase of cash around with me.

You can have instant settlement while still maintaining fraud safeguards (e.g. daily payment limits) and remediation mechanisms (e.g. reversing fraudulent transactions). With modern 2FA and device-based security, this risk is extremely low. Not a risk that justifies a 2.5% tax on every transaction plus all the other disadvantages of the credit-based system.

If you can't think of good reasons for why someone might use discord over IRC, you probably haven't thought about this enough.

They are forgotten for all useful intents and purposes, but a malicious asshole can and will memorialize everything you say on it.

Without a trusted third party doing something like this on a large scale, it doesn't really matter - because 'nah, that's just a fake.'

My wife and I were recently talking about how we kind of luck boxed into dodging a bullet when we had kids (which was rather late). But it's no wonder so many people had or are having so many issues growing up in a public social media era. It's not only your right, but responsibility, to say, believe, and generally do stupid things as a kid and a young adult. It's an important part of growing up. Nobody should ever have to worry about this period in their life following them around forever.

> it doesn't really matter - because 'nah, that's just a fake.'

The point of this sort of thing is that whether it is fake or not doesn't matter. Because it is possible for someone to record a log of your activities, someone claiming they have an incriminating log of your activities will be believed (By a very large number of people).

It might not be believed in a courtroom, but for the other 99.99% of life, we do not apply the same standards for reviewing evidence.

Whether the platform keeps logs isn't important - the platform won't weigh in on this sort of stuff anyways, unless there's a subpoena.

They have no words to defend his behavior, so they flip the table, and accuse anyone criticizing it of mental illness.

This president will also veto your congressional seat if you cross him. See what happened to the people who voted to impeach him, they got primaried out.

The funny thing is that both Trump or Biden handled the COVID shock reasonably well, but now that there isn't a global crisis, the former is hard at work creating a local one.

Half the states are actively engaging in voter suppression, and the ones that aren't are under attack on all fronts by the federal government.

Yes, if the states themselves which to subvert their own elections, they definitely have the power to do that.

> under attack on all fronts by the federal government

That seems hyperbolic. There's a lot of rhetoric, certainly, but executive orders are toothless against the states and they all know it.

> executive orders are toothless against the states and they all know it.

And judicial orders are toothless against the federal government... And the states can't lift a finger against any deployment of federal power against them, whether it's legal or not.

What recourse will a swing state in November have against ICE goons being deployed to do Kavanaugh arrests in voter lines?

There's generally a better venue for a lot of messaging, but I don't get a vote in it.