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Willfully Horn

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  1. Disagree with your final sentence somewhat because I think the gop endgame is to literally dismantle the constitution to stay in power. I don’t disagree that the average MAGA crowd lacks organizational ability, just that the trajectory of the party will substantially be any different.

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  2. 4 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Gator will be here any minute now to tell us we're wrong and overreacting.  The system is working as designed... blah blah blah.

    As is the plane currently headed toward the mountain.

  3. 2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    Cool.

    What level of education do most police officers have?

    Level of education that police officers have

    Education % of police officers

    High school diploma 35%

    Certificate or associate degree 56%

    Bachelor's degree 9%

    Master's degree 0%

     

     

    Ironic. My friend, an APD detective, has a master’s of physical theater. Said it came in handy when he worked the street.

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  4. On 5/20/2024 at 6:35 PM, bolverk said:

    War crimes prosecutor seeks arrest of Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu

    JERUSALEM (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court sought arrest warrants Monday for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war.

    While Netanyahu and his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, do not face imminent arrest, the announcement by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor was a symbolic blow that deepened Israel’s isolation over the war in Gaza.

    The court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, accused Netanyahu, Gallant, and three Hamas leaders — Yehia Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.

    Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders condemned the move as disgraceful and antisemitic. U.S. President Joe Biden also lambasted the prosecutor and supported Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas.

    A panel of three judges will decide whether to issue the arrest warrants and allow a case to proceed. The judges typically take two months to make such decisions.

    Israel is not a member of the court, so even if the arrest warrants are issued, Netanyahu and Gallant do not face any immediate risk of prosecution. But the threat of arrest could make it difficult for the Israeli leaders to travel abroad.

     

    Israel is not a member of the court is because this is included in the list of war crimes: "the action of transferring population into occupied territory." Of course, conservatives in the US have opposed the US becoming a member. Otherwise, W and his cronies knew they could be arrested for war crimes, so they pulled out of the treaty. The Trump administration was so hostile to the ICC that it threatened sanctions on ICC judges and staff.

    Notably, the State of Palestine has been a member of the ICC since 2015.

     

    https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

    Specific charges against the Hamas leaders:

    • Extermination as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(b) of the Rome Statute;
    • Murder as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(a), and as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
    • Taking hostages as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(iii);
    • Rape and other acts of sexual violence as crimes against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(g), and also as war crimes pursuant to article 8(2)(e)(vi) in the context of captivity;
    • Torture as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(f), and also as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i), in the context of captivity;
    • Other inhumane acts as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(l)(k), in the context of captivity;
    • Cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i), in the context of captivity; and
    • Outrages upon personal dignity as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(ii), in the context of captivity.

     

    Specific charges against Netanyahu and Gallant:

    • Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;
    • Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
    • Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
    • Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);
    • Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;
    • Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h);
    • Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).

     

    Arrest warrants would mean no travel to the green countries:

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    green: State party

    yellow: Signatory that has not ratified

    purple: State party that subsequently withdrew its membership

    orange: Signatory that subsequently withdrew its signature

    red: Non-state party, non-signatory

    Finally.

  5. 2 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Fuck suing him. We’re past that. I want him to go to prison. And then die.

    Personally, I am as far past as Opium Wars era Netherlands. Which means we can jail his corpse. After the flaying and the hanging of the corpse.

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  6. On 5/8/2024 at 8:45 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

    Feel free to google Uromysitisis.

    A decade or so ago, a friend got hooked on opiates, and tried to get a fix processing poppy seeds. He didn’t get high and he didn’t  piss for over 24 hours. Had to be catheterized.

  7. While the efforts of current funguys might be eating horizons, that’s not happening within currently agreed upon  dosage.

    Consolation prize: : China Doll.  
     

    A song that is framed by some of the biblical narrative, inspiring thoughts which are richer than those that lead to a universe lending in its embrace of entropy and isolation.

    Lets cheer for everything to turn out alright; we can point to evolution and interdependent diversity and the absurdity of random to the power of unicorn. Only fools make declarations based upon one roll of the dice.

  8. 3 hours ago, South Austin said:

    I laughed pretty hard, but not as hard as his Gettysburg Address.  For a bat-shit crazy Russian-puppet fascist shitbag, he keeps bringing the lulz. 

    I'm not sure I'll keep laughing when he sends me to the libtard re-education camp, though.

    This post illustrates why the prepare your anus emoji was useful.

  9. 9 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    I’m not a well read religious scholar, but I do think it’s worth adding that Islam was entirely compatible with science, epistemology, and finding compromise between the faith and earthly concerns, including being able to coexist with non-adherents, for a thousand years.  
     

    It’s only been in the last 200 that the Wahhabists have so successfully taken a fringe belief mainstream and created an environment in which the clerics feel like they have to one-up each other at being the biggest assholes to be the “true” faith.  

    I applaud your subtle, unstated, condemnation of christo-fascist  Nationalism.

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  10. 8 hours ago, Lou_Sassle said:

    Nah man...ALL dogs do this shit. It drives me nuts. I have a bluetick, an American treeing walker coonhound and a great dane (which are supposed to be one of the smartest dog breeds), and they all 3 do this.

    Black mouthed cur says, WTF?

  11. Thinking about Yasamin Hashdari from Anzali, Negin Rezaei from Fuman, Shiva Shah Siah and Vahedeh Khoshsirat from Lahijan, and Jelveh Javaheri, Zahra Dadras, Zohreh Dadras, Matin Yazdani, Forough SameiNia, Azadeh Chavoshian, and Sara Jahani and her husband, Human Taheri when I say: well, alright!

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  12. 22 hours ago, Pimphand said:

    If you are too fucking stupid to realize earths waning magnetic field allowed Aurora Borealis shows as far south as Puerto Rico from simple X5 solar flares is a problem well I ain't got nuttin for you man. It's a shame the parasympathetic nervous system keeps you breathing because you are clearly too stupid to do so on your own.

    Stronger magnetic fields lead to brighter, more active, auroras. 
     

    https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/aurora-tutorial#:~:text=As geomagnetic activity increases%2C the aurora becomes brighter and more active.

     

    At higher levels of the geomagnetic index, Kp, the aurora moves equatorward.”

     

     

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