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hpslugga

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  1. In the words of Chibatta Mitch, if I had to do anything, I wouldn’a did that.
  2. I would imagine that if they were in a group discussion of 3+, they’d be going like: ”Guys we need to be supportive of one another and we shouldn’t disparage each other with derogatory comments and nasty epithets that accomplish nothing but to divide us, which allows the homophobes to have an easier time in marginalizing us.” ”Even guys like Christian Walker?” ”No, he’s a total fag.”
  3. My bad, you’re correct. So to answer your amended question, I’m sure there may be this or that Jewish person who believes that life begins before breath, but that’s not what their religious text tells them and I would assume that by and large, that’s not what they believe.
  4. Yes. I could cite this again (way upthread), but Jewish law holds that for the first 40 days of gestation, what’s growing inside the woman is mere fluid (most commonly referred to as water). After that and until it has breathed the breath of life (day 41-birth), it’s considered to be a part of a woman’s body (most commonly referred to as a “thigh”). And speaking of the thigh, that’s exactly why that passage about the Test of the Unfaithful Wife in Numbers 5 is sometimes mistranslated to say that if the wife has been unfaithful, got pregnant, and drinks the potion “her thigh will rot and fall away.”
  5. And why would anyone think Donald Trump, of all people, was the person to be trusted to end all of it?
  6. As to this NC shit: Except it isn’t. In fact there’s not a single OB/GYN that would argue this. Historically speaking, religious fanatics and republicans haven’t been very good at the whole science thing and really should stop using definitive phrases like “indisputable scientific fact,” especially when the less disputable a scientific fact becomes (i.e. Darwinian evolution, anthropogenic climate change, etc), the more they resist accepting them. Yeah? And what’s gonna happen to that “baby” when it’s only in its 12th week of gestation and its mother just got blown away by an AR-15? See even blue states have laws that say when you murder a pregnant woman (or injure her to the point where she has a miscarriage) when she has the intention of carrying the child to term, that’s double murder (or manslaughter if the mother survives the attack). So if this “defense killing” kills two people, do you charge him with one count of homicide or two? And if they charge just for the mother and he’s able to argue defense of others…what’s the legal status of the fetus at that exact point? I mean it’s either a person or it’s not. I have my own take on that issue, but you can’t go back and forth like that without looking like total idiots and/or hypocrites, not that they’re likely to care at this point. And if it is the case that the murderer would only be charged with the killing of the mother and can argue defense of others (i.e the unborn fetus he killed while defending it), congratulations NC, you just took a softer position on murdering pregnant women than blue states have!!!
  7. He never misses an opportunity to look like an absolute dick.
  8. It’s typical Dershowitz. Nullify the investigator/judge/jury/prosecution/whatever with an illusion of bias on their own part. I would encourage anyone curious about the first sentence I just typed to watch, or re-watch, his “debate” (more like his execution) against Chomsky back in 2005. At one point, he attempted to undermine the ICJ’s 2004 advisory opinion on the West Bank wall by whining about the fact that “Israelis aren’t allowed to serve on the ICJ!!!” Putting aside the fact that bias of a judicial institution does in fact zero to preclude the findings (unanimous, I must add) of its judges who do not make such rules…yeah Israelis are not allowed to serve because they’ve categorically refused to accept jurisdiction. That’s like bitching that the POTUS never nominates a “sovereign citizen” to serve on the SCOTUS. It’s just another example of pure confusion on his part, which is a greater symptom of what he is: a pathological liar. And with this Epstein business, I have no doubt the same dynamic Finkelstein described is at work. I have no doubt that Dershowitz 1) believes he never raped a 14-year old that was provided to him by Jeff Epstein and 2) knows full well that he did. And the same is true of Trump. His main argument at Impeachment: The Sequel was “you can’t impeach a president after his term is up,” when there’s literally no provision in the constitution that prevents that from happening. He knows full well that the Senate faces no penalty for trying such an impeachment, and yet he believed it all the same. If Al said “the sky is blue,” I wouldn’t trust him even if his tongue were notarized. He’s one of those characters that would rather climb up a tree and tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.
  9. It’s not like this guy didn’t have a point…
  10. Abandon. Do not engage. The only way those people stand a snowball’s chance in hell in coming back to reality is isolation from friends and family members. They’re like drug addicts.
  11. No way because it’s not really an abortion if an 11-year old terminates a pregnancy via voluntary inducement of a miscarriage.
  12. Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration’s legacy in as few words as possible.
  13. Yeah it was never about states rights. That was always known to be a pretext to accomplish phase 1: repeal Roe, and it was always understood by every smart person who follows this that there was a phase 2: criminalize nationally. They’re the most dishonest people on the face of the planet.
  14. That gives “people” a bad name. We need to stop playing with kid gloves and start referring to “people” who think like this as what they are: morally inferior cretins
  15. I mean is it any different than what Maher predicted? And it’s what we’ve known about him. Remember this from 2016? All of this was perfectly predictable going back a long time.
  16. You’re gonna need to jump to nine to even consider it, sir.
  17. So speaking of the education system…
  18. It’s mostly propaganda from the ownership class. They bitch about it for several reasons, none of which are good: -They need more customers to buy their shit and to continue to top quarterly figures instead of actually innovating stuff. -They need more employees, to whom they can pay increasingly shitty wages, and to increase overall productivity. -Christianity is in a relative state of decline and they think by shoving morally repugnant policies down our throats that those numbers will bounce up again…all to curtail the rise of “nones” in the US and ultimately to beat back the rise of Islam globally. -Politically their policy positions are as popular as crotch rot, so they figure a birth rate increase means GQP voter increase since the states most heavily affected by the overturn of Roe are the red ones (higher abortion rates than the blue ones generally speaking). -Yeah there’s also the race angle that’s been alluded to, as well as the safety net “concern.” To put it another way, if there’s a compelling reason to support an increase of birth rates, I’ve yet to see it. Always trust your skepticism when you see people advocating shit like that. It absolutely stinks of grift.
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