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DradisPing
18hr ago
Mitch McConnell has announced he's not running again, so Kentucky is open for 2026. McConnell has a replacement planned but Mitch is less popular with his electorate than Trump is.
Lindsey Graham is also up in 2026 but is planning to run again as far as I know. South Carolina.
They've both been thorns in Trump's side and aren't very popular in their states. However they both have the state primary apparatus locked down and could engage in shenanigans to stop an unwelcome competitor.
In theory Eric Trump has the access to money and connections to make it a real fight.
Throwaway05
18hr ago
Commitment hearings are tricky, often there is some type of collusion between the judge and both lawyers. This is because 99/100 the situation is super obvious.
I imagine (as RovScam points out) that the everyone involved quickly identified this guy as a full of shit asshole and they went this way to avoid wasting everyone's time.
It isn't great - and I'm a very strong 2A advocate, but when you see the circumstances that result in admission you realize almost nobody who has been involuntarily should be allowed near a fire arm.
It's like prison. Are some people in prison under false pretenses? Sure. Do they almost all clearly deserve to be in prison. Yup, and it's obvious after five minutes working in a forensic setting.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
18hr ago
Same! It's making me think.
For instance - I wonder what he could've gotten that would've appeased him?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
18hr ago
Hmm you do have a point here. I suppose I see the Democratic party more as one undifferentiated blob, although that's likely my personal bias peeking in.
I think Trump does plenty to allow others to take the spotlight though - J.D. Vance has been doing the rounds quite publicly for a while, which Trump could easily put a stop to if he wanted.
SecureSignals
Training the Aryan LLM
18hr ago
To Rightists with daughters reading this: are you concerned that they might encounter "natural family planning" on the internet and really f*** up their life?
I know this is bait, but the number of childless women I know is so much higher than women who have ruined their lives with natural family planning or children out of wedlock. Childless woman is the scarier outcome for a daughter than even teen pregnancy IMO.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
18hr ago
but the licensing procedure is devolved to a local County Level gun club.
Oh, great, bring small-group politics into it, that'll surely make things good.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
18hr ago
I've been saying it for a while: it's gotten to a point where saying "having a kid out of wedlock is a bad idea" is left-coded.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
18hr ago
True, but the theory isn't that the beams melted, it's that they weakened due to the temperature.
That's not quite true either, though. In fact, one of the reasons the conspiracy theory is wrong is there weren't any steel beams to begin with. The NIST theory is the floor trusses on the damaged floors lost stiffness (not strength), sagged, pulled the (remaining) structural columns inward, and the cascade started from that.
Tree
18hr ago
judges tend to take a dim view of the tactic of taking a lower paying job to decrease child support.
It used to be that the child would go to the parent who can afford him, and the deadbeats of either sex would just not get guardianship. If you can’t manage to take care of yourself, you shouldn’t take care of children. Makes sense to me.
Then the justice system was bent precisely so that the economically useless parent, usually the woman, could extract resources from the productive one.
And now the conversation goes : “But I don’t want to get exploited by a deadbeat!” “Wow you’re such a deadbeat.”
gattsuru
18hr ago
To Rightists with daughters reading this: are you concerned that they might encounter "natural family planning" on the internet and really f*** up their life?
Funny story: typical use of condoms is about as effective as typical use of natural family planning (which in turn is about as effective as the pull-out method). In general, there's a lot of good arguments against overlapping multiple different methods if you aren't using an IUD, but a lot of the 'herp derp they hate birth control' stuff is a lot more workable than most people expect.
((I don't have a daughter (or son), but especially given the chances my preferences are genetic I'd be more concerned about the other consequences of sex, like bad relationship fallout.))
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
18hr ago
I know what I saw on my timeline. And Trump didn't keep his intervention limited because everybody was so supportive of it.
I don't know what your second paragraph is in reference to
Really? You never ever heard any public official or intellectual from a particular political side being evasive on the question?
aceventura
18hr ago
The force of the impact on 9/11 was orders of magnitude greater because the planes were traveling at much higher speeds. More obviously, the building that the Air India flight crashed into was a small four-story dormitory made of brick and/or concrete. The building was significantly damaged (effectively destroyed), but of course it's not going to fall as catastrophically and dramatically as the 110-story WTC towers.
ABigGuy4U
18hr ago
It means... oh god... it means she might HAVE A BABY?! AHHHHHH I’M GOING INSAAAAAAANE SAVE ME MARGRET SANGER!
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
18hr ago
If they are already married (and you express that as a goal), then in what way are they going to really fuck up their life by using natural family planning?
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
18hr ago
What exactly is so dangerous and unwholesome about the Roman Catholic Church's views on sex?
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
18hr ago
What does it even mean to be "equals in dignity" though if inequality at the group level justifies disparate treatment of equals at the individual level?
@VoxelVexillologist I suspect the Loose Change video was what conspiracy theorists refer to as “well poisoning”. It only brings up issues that are easily debunked with ten minutes of research, or ones that are absolutely loony like directed energy weapons.
Also unfortunately even the ones investigating in good faith often tend to focus on the flashy improbable things and often miss the more plausible and often quite damning details.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
18hr ago
I can see how you interpreted what I wrote as being about the level of testosterone, but that was not what I meant. I was talking about the sensation being overwhelming - if it makes you feel like Grug the caveman you'll inevitably end up somewhere other than here imo, no matter why it's overwhelming. It is just a guess, but I will stand by it.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
18hr ago
Ok in my story above after the second time she bought a gun in less than a day and pulled it out on him the third time and there hasn't been an incident since.
Here in America we have FREEDOM (in some states)
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
18hr ago
Did you miss the "natural family planning" in there? Google it if you don't know what it means.
As far as I can understand it, the timeline is:
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In 1983, T.B. was involuntarily committed in Ancora. There's some skepticism over exactly what degree of behavior this involved (ie, TB says he was violent pre-admission and then some time later was released after questioning, Ancora wrote that he was violent after admission), but T.B. does not claim that the commitment was illegitimate or trolling.
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In 2022, T.B. went to LifeStream for outpatient treatment claiming interest in treatment for anxiety (and depression?), but really wanting to get a 'I'm not crazy-crazy' note. Neither anxiety nor depression would be disqualifying for firearms purchase even if he did have them (probably. NJ's a little arbitrary here).
T.B. was not trying to undo the LifeStream visit, but to remove the records about the Ancora commitment. The court held that the standard was not just that " their illness has either "substantially improved" or is in "substantial remission" since their discharge from a mental health facility" -- which it clearly had -- but that T.B. had to actively prove that the expungement of his Ancora record was in the public interest, and as a result it was not sufficient to demonstrate he was not actively dangerous. They had evidence that the man's mental health had improved, and none that it had not, and decided that this left the question unanswered and unanswerable. They had evidence that the man was not dangerous (literally "speaks volumes about not that he’s dangerous to the public safety"); the judge ducked it because the judge determined on his own that TB might forget a safety maybe.
It's possible (even more-likely-than-not) that the courts would have been able to withhold expungement under a more serious standard focusing on dangerousness or on continuing mental illness. But the issue is that they didn't have to actually interact with that more serious standard or any standard at all, and Rov_Scam's jumping in to inform us that it's tots reasonable anyway.
EDIT: you are correct that there was no 2A analysis involved.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
18hr ago
Your last paragraph completely threw me for a loop … I just didn’t see it coming after reading your post.
The woman in your post did the opposite of fuck her life up - it looks like she made her life better. She stopped drinking as much, found community, stopped hooking up, is looking for a family, etc.
I dislike religion pretty vehemently but I understand the community and sense of peace it can bring.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
18hr ago
Through a friend, and a coworker around the same time. I basically had a really difficult time with Buddhism, had been practicing off and on for years and got kind of wrecked by an insight into emptiness.
Happened to have some good Orthodox men around me who I leaned on a bit for support. The rest, as they say, is history!
The problem you have there is that 90s liberalism is not stable and therefore not something you can aim for except as a transitional state.
Without the incredible institutional legacy that period benefited from and the incredible level of trust that went with it, none of your goals are possible. The richest man in the world has basically the same political program you do (like literally wants everything in your list), and he's powerless to enact it for this specific reason.
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