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Alan Dershowitz doesn't think too much of this case that Trump is now being tried for: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-trial-stupendous-legal-catastrophe-115500210.html I'm no lawyer, but I have paid attention to commentators on the case. I've heard Jon Stewart and Bill Maher talk about the case, b...

Point on American Scouts - they still don't accept atheists. Yeah...I forgot about that part. To be fair, not many people in the organization care. When I googled the subject, one of the first hits was an unofficial page for atheist scouts giving advice on how to navigate scouting as an atheist. Ba...

Some years back, the Boy Scouts of America announced that they would start accepting girls. And they have. Some 6,000 girls have now become Eagle Scouts. And yesterday, the Boy Scouts of America announced they would henceforth be "Scouting, America". But Boy Scouts is an international thin...

I was heartened that there were very few comments in the replies blaming the victim. There were some, of course. They said the victim shouldn't have answered the door holding a gun. Everyone I saw that did try to make the argument got a response explaining why it made perfect sense to have a gun in ...

Bodycam footage on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneXZ6MnG84 It's a good thing there are body cams these days. Cops will have a hard time defending this. Without body cam footage, he would say that the "suspect" pointed the gun at him and the cop acted in self defense. I suppose...

hmmm... does the Press Clause of the First Amendment give the institutional press any freedoms from government restraint not enjoyed by everybody else? Not really. Exactly. It gives them exactly the same amount of freedom. There have been attempts to impose restraints on the press, usually in the n...

When 50.0001% of the vote controls 100% of the representatives, that is not democratic. ???? Are you referring to electors, because that's the only place I can think where that, sort of, happens. I say "sort of" because it's on a state by state basis, so it usually balances out. We've had...

One more note about democracy. When the Founding Fathers got together and wrote the 1st ammendment, they included in it the right to free speech, and the right to a free press. Two different rights. We talk about free speech more often, but the free press is more relevant here. Having a free press m...

The conversation is going in a lot of different directions, so I won't try and pick up every thread. There seems to be a sort of unifying theme, though. Sure it may seem like things are ok, but behind the scenes, nefarious actors are going to lead to our doom. Well, if that's the case, I'll go there...

sparks wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 10:41 pm MM, you've already been debunked on this argument.

It is bad form to march it out again without new supporting evidence.

If by "debunked" you mean "someone disagreed", yeah.