It was a tragedy. Vigilante justice always is. Charlie Kirk didn’t deserve to be shot by a vigilante. He deserved to be tried, convicted, and hanged for crimes against humanity and incitement to genocide.

You have to be pretty fucking dense to still be giving law enforcement the benefit of the doubt in 2025. You’ve learned nothing.

We hanged people like Charlie Kirk at Nuremberg. It’s a tragedy he was shot, but the world is a better place with him 6 feet under ground.

Alexander the Great’s battle against alcoholism.

Spoiler. He lost.

Water power was cheaper than coal, yet Britain industrialized on coal power.

AFAIK, this one isn’t true. CO2 emissions aren’t going down. We’re not getting a word with renewables instead of fossil fuels. We’re getting a world with both of them used in abundance.

esp use trans people and trans rights as the most important thing ever, which has alienated many many people due to the rage and hatred being spouted

You have completely and hopelessly fallen for Republican propaganda. You’ve swallowed their entire framing of trans issues without any thought. You’re repeating the Republican Party line verbatim.

Democrats have spent the last decade trying to stay the hell away from the trans rights discussion at every opportunity. They’re not over bigots like Republicans, but they try to talk about literally anything else. Republicans however have continued to scream from the rooftops about trans people, as they try to incite the populous to acts of literal genocide.

Where are all these Democratic leaders that spend all their time talking about trans people? Can you name a single one? You’ve been brainwashed by conservative media.

Maybe there’s only one soul. Like in The Egg. It’s just one soul reincarnating into one life after the next, jumping forwards and backwards in space and time. Eventually after passing through the lifetimes of every sentient being that is, was, or ever shall be, the path of reincarnation loops back upon itself. There is only one soul, only one consciousness in the cosmos. One infinite endless circling wheel of experience, all bound in a universe finite in both space and time.

In a past life, you were one of those folks living in first century AD Rome that thought the Senate still meant something, simply because they nominally still ran things.

You’re being purposefully dense. There’s having an open mind, and then there’s having a mind so open your brain falls out. I don’t assume you’re a complete idiot, which is why malice on your part is most likely.

And we do have evidence. The three components of a crime are means, motive, and opportunity. And we have abundant evidence for motive. If you tried your argument in court, you would be laughed out of a courtroom.

Your bad faith is obvious.

Maybe you’re the actual arsonist and are trying to cover it up. That would be as likely as this being a random coincidental accident.

It’s also possible you did it. Neither is particularly likely, but it being a random accident is about as likely as you actually being the person who did it. So I suppose the cops should raid your house just to check. After all, we can’t be sure. Better send the SWAT team to your home just in case.

The truth is the voters in states like Oregon don’t actually have command of their own police forces. The police don’t answer to elected politicians. They’re an independent occupying force that answers only to themselves. And they support the regime.

That’s not what I suggested at all. I specifically suggested disbanding the national guard units all together and just moving them to the state guard units. You could even let them keep their own command structure. Just basically shuffling state-level personnel around so that the president can’t take control of it.

Where did you get this odd civil war idea?

Well I’m sorry we had to democracy die. Doing otherwise would have been too expensive.

Blue states need to cease operation of their national guard units. Transfer all personnel to the state guards. The national guard units can be activated by the president; the state guards can’t.

Sure, but no need to engage in bean soup discourse.

Not really the same. There’s a reason most folks don’t stick to sex toys and actually go through the effort of finding a partner. Hell, people do that even if they have no intention of forming a long term relationship. One night stands are a thing. For most people, vibrators and flesh lights clearly leave a lot to be desired. They can get you the O, but they lack the intimacy. I would say a robot could never provide that, but people are already falling in love with LLMs. As in, literal romantic love. When they change their models, OpenAI gets death threats from people acting like they just killed the love of their life. Because, well, they kind of did.

We have been using mechanical sex toys, but there is a difference between a simple machine and a robot. Assumedly, a robot could fulfill the intimacy needs of a flesh and blood human, not just facilitate a climax. Sex robots and vibrators will fulfill fundamentally different human needs.

Here’s one way to imagine it. Some insecure guys object if a woman uses a toy while she and he are intimate. But what about a robot? Assuming you’re a straight male, would you sleep with a girl that insisted that her (male) sex robot joined in? And this thing doesn’t just perform basic mechanical stimulation. Imagine all of the words, touches, and caresses you like to use. Imagine all the ways you like to touch a woman while intimate. Imagine all the things you say to her. Imagine it all. Then imagine there’s another dude next to you doing all those things and more. And he’s better at them than you. He just happens to be a literal machine. If you want to sleep with this girl, you need to let this other guy join in.

Having a robot join in would be like having another human person join in. Sure, if that’s your thing, go for it and live your dream. But most people don’t live like that and don’t want to live like that.