Listen everything Scalia wrote was ideologically consistent because it used the same verbiage as Bush V Gore, "limited to present circumstances".

Yeah Antonin Scalia was a textualist until he wasn't, until he was again, until he wasn't.

This is 100x worse than ATACMS. This shit is a scourge on humanity. The fact that the US is not a signatory of the Ottowa Treaty is tantamount to a warcrime in and of itself. Ukraine itself i a signatory to the Ottowa Treaty and it should be illegal for it to receive shipment.

For all the complaints of "antisemitism" of the past several years, it's amazing how Snyder has been able to walk the double genocide tightrope and still be "in good standing".

My favorite question to ask people is, in which Soviet Republic did the ethnic majority become an ethnic minority as a result of the famine(s) of 1930-1933?

Everyone says Ukraine because they're dummies. It's Kazakhstan, and yet you don't see Westoids clammoring to woke genocide narratives on behalf of Kazakhs. Only Anne Applebaum does in deep psychotic NYT op-ed lore as she has to devise a good explanation of why her ideology is not the exact carbon copy of Putin's ideology with some labels moved around.

Even within Soviet Republics, it's super not clear cut what would constitute a genocide here. You have racism against different nationalities. Plenty of Ukrainians when I was growing up called Kazakhs, aziaty or churki and still do. The USSR itself was very anti-peasantry and anti pastoral/nomadic lifestyle.

If we consider the big evil Russian dictator theory both Stalin and Lenin are on record as saying Russian ethnic tendencies are actually the worst. In the history of evil Soviet dictators there are only 3 Russians: Lenin, Andropov and Gorbachev.

Lastly a lot of these fights typically rely on first mover advantage that's found in all pro-Western chauvinism. "We got to do it because we did it before the magical date when it's considered wrongbad." is literally the excuse used by the West for everything they want to condemn from genocide, to energy use, to national development. Even if there was an active evil Soviet plot to sedentarize the Kazahs and remove them from their traditional way of life, there is not a developed nation on earth that practically supports nomadic lifestyles.

It's honestly not a simple question, and in practice a question that people ask solely for political points. If we call/don't call these famines genocide won't actually get us to stop genocides and famines that are currently happening. It's just propaganda.

From a sober lib perspective this op-ed is entirely correct.

Legal weapons that have been formed against Trump in the last 4 years that have generally failed to take him down, but have effectively drowned many of his former associates are now just going to be given to him. Your favorite rapper is going to be prosecuted with these same tools in 5 years.

Liberals cannot solve this problem, because liberals refuse to understand the bootstrap problem of power. Goldberg is practically correct in any system the leader of that system by definition cannot be an ordinary man, it's simply a fantasy that liberals have in their head. It's the same contortions SCOTUS did when they pulled "official acts" out of their ass and refused to clarify.

The President's main job is to actually do crimes in service of maintaining the Empire. That's the reason you can summarily execute US citizens in Yemen via drone strike. Then 3 years later you just have to tell everyone how it's a lawful act of war because you said so. It's really clear that these simply become tactics of convenience espeiclaly when you look at how they're used in the imperial core and the fact that even those who are doing the executing cannot keep their story straight on the reason they had to execute a suspect without trial.

This is not a problem with a simple solution, and it is a problem that entangles itself with the systems of control that governments enact on their people. This particular problem of how uniquely broken the US system is for curtailing the de facto power of the rich has festered in the US since its founding and it's the reason that the Union won the Civil War but the South won Reconstruction.

My brother in Christ we (the US) are the bad actors.

As a Jew whenever you see someone self describe as a JAP prepare to hear the most insane self absorbed privileged idiocy spouted at you until you simply give up.

Yeah because it's primary research and this is a huge unaddressed and uncared about problem that's only growing. The last National Assessment for Adult Literacy took place in 2003.

PIAAC (PROGRAM FOR THE INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF ADULT COMPETENCIES) which this is likely partially based on is typically who provides the survey data to these institutions.

Barbara Bush Foundation is another source that deals specifically with this.

A lot of this data is cobbled together because the government has practically defunded any studies of this issue. Literacy has effectively been taken for granted and hasn't actually been upheld. Everyone in this space says more data is needed but isn't optimistic that more data is going to paint a better picture of literacy (both in children and adults) in the US.

The programs you mention expiring along with COVID-era cash welfare, reversed the poverty/food security trend for 2 years and these Dem dipshits literally can't figure out what's going on.

Unpopular opinion, sure he's a fascist moron, but this woman clearly is playing stupid games and won a stupid prize.

If you think you're going to "confront fascists" or "do journalism on them" you're liable for this kind of shit. Americans have literally lost the fucking plot, especially these Dem Party Fedayeen women who don't know what they're actually signing up for and think they're fucking invincible. If this had been a much more intelligent and vicious Nazi this woman would have been dead.

This reminds me of the whole Kamala Harris series on "you can vote different than you husband" which hilariously didn't pan out in the actual voting. Furthermore it incited a very real moral panic on the right wing, which could have ended horribly across the country. Had Kamala won, the moral panic she stoked would have left many women vulnerable to domestic violence regardless of their actual vote.

Stop playing with these people in real life. All Fuentes has to do is literally call the police a couple of times before he's gonna get free reign to shoot you through the door and the fascist American cops and juries aren't going to get you justice. Stop being idiots. Normal people aren't going to take your side for harassing someone you think is bad.

Kyle Rittenhouse is free for a much more egregious murder. Remember that. You're on uneven terrain. Unless you're going to shoot first, stop larping.

One of the funniest things to me is that my position towards libs in real life was:

I am an immigrant, who came here via asylum. I will not vote for anyone who prevents people from seeking asylum. The Biden administration has effectively destroyed asylum in the US, that is illegal under international law. Kamala Harris is campaigning on the Biden border policy.

Nobody could actually fucking answer to that. It was glorious to watch the cogs turn, because I knew in the back of their mind was the racist thought of throwing me out of the country because I'm "disloyal" or "ungreatful". They just could not say that out loud in polite company.

I voted for him. I don't need to apologize.