[–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's bullshit, there's always room for interpretation of any law. Especially when laws start overlapping and someone has to decide which law takes precedence.

The real failure of the US political system is that voters that were stupid enough to believe that uncompromising is the same as strength. Once bipartisanship collapsed, the only way to get anything done was through the courts because as soon as any law passed someone somewhere sued to stop it. The courts became political because all laws passed through them.

This happened because Republicans realized their actual policies are unpopular and don't work, so they have specifically been stacking courts with conservative judges for decades so an unelected cabal of rich assholes get to decide all the laws in the country.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    By the numbers I think it's an ocean planet with 71% coverage. Of the land, it's actually pretty evenly split 1/3 forest, 1/3 desert, 1/3 grass or shrubland.

    Given what we know of the Earth's own history, forest planets, ice planets, and desert planets are all possible and the Earth has been each in different geologic times. Although in every case there will be pockets of other biomes that are very large on a human scale. A single France-sized forest would be massive to a human explorer, even if the rest of the planet is ocean and ice.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Many conservative Israelis hate the victims of the Holocaust for being victims, they see them as weak. They feel shame, not empathy, and they're happy to follow the Nazi methods so long as they are not the victims.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    I mean... "Small government" Republicans were always demonstrably lying, as far back as any of them have been alive. Every one of them just wanted to shift money from things that support people to the pockets of their donors.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Yeah it's unclear how much fantasy was allowed with these questions. Like if commute and money and pollution were no object I'd prefer to live on 1000 acres in the mountains with a cabin-mansion and hobby farm.

    But realistically for cost and commute I just want a big yard for gardening, and peace and quiet.

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