Because killing a woman barely qualifies as murder in America to begin with.

This depends entirely on the notion that “religious freedom” is the freedom to impose your religion on others.

Major sanewashing here. What he was saying was that he’d be fine with it, and his bloodthirsty, genocidal fans cheered him for it.

The part that really upsets the rest of us is that after discovering he was, in fact, absolutely terrible at the job you all decided to give him a second try.

You’re right, but I wish people would stop using a movie that preaches eugenics as a point of reference.

Absolutely true, no argument there, but North America has a particular problem with animal protein as a cultural thing. It’s just basic stuff like portioning. You look at the amount of meat that goes on a plate for one person in an American family restaurant and compare it to what would go into an average stir fry, for example, and the difference is ridiculous. Even without getting into alternative protein sources we can start by just addressing the fact that at a basic level we eat a totally unnecessary amount of meat up here.

Does America need to ween itself off of its addiction to beef specifically, and over-consumption of protein (especially animal protein) in general? Yes, absolutely.

Does this particular person saying this as a member of this particular administration, for these poor particular reasons have the exact tenor of “Let them cake”? Also, yes, 100%.

“Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits,” he said. “It’s one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5,000 to every adult. And we can do it and the Democrats can’t, because the Democrats don’t have any income, and they’re gonna drive us in[to] a depression. They won’t have any money.”

His so-called logic is so bad it makes my head hurt.

1. You already control both chambers. You could pass it now if it wasn’t an obvious bribe to get people to vote for your party.
2. Nothing about the Dems winning midterms stops the tariffs being in place. Literally your entire legal argument is that you don’t need Congress to approve them, so logically the Dems controlling Congress wouldn’t stop them if that was true. So they’d still have the money.

How do people actually fall for this shit? How?!

Well, OK, I mean when you put it that way…

Let them eat pork.

You’re thinking of Venezuela.

No surprise that it’s Argentina, whose president is friends with Trump.

I don’t see this going anywhere. The companies bought the books, what they do with them after that is their business. Reprehensible, yes, but a massive stretch to consider this illegal.

There’s also a lot of ground between “Buying one copy of a book to scan” and “Destroying all copies of a book.” If they’re buying these in bulk it’s because there’s bulk to buy. Anything rare enough to be available in single digit numbers is selling at auction for six figures.

Look, I get it, this sucks, but there aren’t exactly a lot of legal remedies here. This is more of a “Capitalism fucking sucks and we need to dismantle it” kind of deal.

I literally addressed this exact argument in the comment you replied to, but you just skipped right past that part.

The problem is that to most Republican voters, the fact that this didn’t actually impact drug supply isn’t really all that important. What matters to them is that - theoretically - “bad people” got killed. They’re more interested in punishing people they see as evil than they are in actually improving the world. Even the ones who won’t openly admit - or even admit to themselves - that they just like seeing brown people get killed will still defend this as an ultimately good action because it satisfies their twisted notion of justice. The meting out of punishment is what matters to them, far more than whatever social good that punishment is actually supposed to achieve.

It’s the same reason why they have so little interest in welfare policies even when those policies are demonstrably cheaper than the alternative. They won’t give shelter and money to homeless people even when it’s shown to reduce crime, for example, because the most important thing to them is that no one should ever be given something that they “don’t deserve.” They’re less interested in reducing crime than they are in seeing the poor suffer for whatever imagined sins made them poor.

Jesus dude, you didn’t need to sweeten the deal, I was already for it!

Reminder that it’s now public knowledge that the US had to warn Iran - through back channels - that Israel was going to attempt to assassinate their negotiators in a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace process. It wasn’t a subtle attempt either; Israel sent jets into Iranian airspace to shoot down their plane.

Israel is openly working against the US’ interests. They’re basically an enemy nation at this point. And y’all want to hand them more resources and access to all your secrets. OK, sure, good luck with that.

Not really. Israel’s primary concern is removing Iran as a regional adversary. I’m not saying they would say no to stealing their oil industry, but it’s not really the primary motivator. They’d be perfectly happy with the US swooping in and controlling Iran’s oil industry as long as it left them free to basically act unobstructed in Lebanon and Palestine.

Again, that comes back to the fact that Israel and the US have fundamentally different goals here, which is a huge issue for Trump.

It’s pretty clear that at no point did the US plan for Iran closing the state. They should have. Every previous US government considered it the primary danger of a war with Iran. But Trump doesn’t surround himself with smart people.

Also there’s credible reporting that their belief that Iran would not close the strait was reinforced by the AI planning systems they recently invested in. So that’s fun. The blind leading the stupid.

Bibi is part of the problem. Israel fundamentally does not want the war to end with anything short of total US occupation or annihilation of Iran. They want Iran deleted as an adversary and regional power. It’s not by accident that Israel keeps fucking up every ceasefire, and that’s exactly why Iran are so insistent on the US proving they can reign the Israelis in.

Bibi will do everything in his power to tank peace efforts. His goals, and Trump’s, are diametrically opposed. Which means if Trump is getting out of this war before the midterms, he has to be the first president in US history to put Israel on a leash.