And after the barrage of cringe tone deaf “humor” about a fucking political assassination I think my side doesn’t have room to criticize other people’s jokes.

Perhaps the reason that “humor” is coming out so strong is because Republicans are so cavalier about “having basic respect” and “don’t glorify political violence.” So yeah, I don’t blame people at all for glorifying the death of a mouthpiece of that hate and division, he was literally asking for it. He radicalized the youth, downplayed political violence, and encouraged stochastic terror. There hasn’t been a better example of living by the sword and dying by the sword, so as far as I’m concerned, until there are consequences for lack of civility, respect, decorum, not glorifying terrorism, etc, Republicans have earned none.

Obviously the ideal amount of political violence should be zero. If any other option exists, I think those must be taken first.

But sometimes the status quo is violence, and letting the status quo continue doing violence will overtime do more harm than one act of political violence. So mathematically, there must be some point where some violence is worth the cost of less harm in the future.

Your lifestyle determines your deathstyle.

I think the first part is a drastically over-represented as a result of pearl clutching.

Wake me up when they’re in the slammer

(not popping off at you just clarifying the AI answer)

Jupiter is NOT a failed star, the lowest bounds for a brown dwarf are 13x Jupiter’s mass, and even brown dwarfs are classified as “substellar objects” (actual failed stars?). Wikipedia says Jupiter would need to be 75x more massive to fuse hydrogen.

Well, mostly Jupiter and a little bit of Saturn.

Tiered justice between the governed and the ruling class justifies violent action by the governed

The law is only as sacred as those that uphold and enforce it.

Also:

On the tapes, Blagojevich asked Pritzker if he would like to be appointed state treasurer, to which Pritzker, who has a background in finance, responded, “Yeah, that’s the one I would want.”

I fully support everyone defending their 4th amendment rights with their 2nd.

It would absolutely make more people a target

then:

Why don’t you ever tell me things?

I’m always gonna keep an eye on Pritzker because of the Blagojevich tape, but good on him for continuing to speak out against this shit.

I think it’s because he’s trying to jump on a presidential ticket, but still.

I don’t get why people want their problems to have cosmic importance, but the scale of the universe just makes me feel like there is so much I’ll never get to see. And if there is no other life in the universe, then all those amazing worlds with utterly unique phenomena will never be observed.

Here’s a copy of APHotUS, a little Labor Day treat

Thanks! My initial idea was AP/Reuters only “just the facts” news, but I figured that would take too much effort and wouldn’t be worth it.

Who is coincidentally the commander-in-chief of the military

Not civil disobedience, but I agree. Unfortunately creating communities is probably a bigger ask than getting arrested in a protest.

I’m doing my part.

Everyone sits on multiple spectra for what they care about, and where their thresholds for acting are

Right, so what would push people over that threshold now?