Perhaps some kind of invertebrate because it's very clearly lacking a spine.
Nothing really major jumped out at me from my quick review other than how bland it was and how often the DNCs response was essentially "citation needed". The main thrust of the report seems to have been that Harris underperformed with men compared to other campaigns involving Democrats, and that the DNC didn't spend enough time running attack ads to discredit Republican candidates. The single most pointed criticism in the entire thing was one brief section near the end where it pointed out that Harris did a poor job differentiating herself from Biden.
It was such a softball report as well. Everything was presented in this very soft manner that barely even addressed the major issues with Harris campaign and instead spent the majority of the report just pointing out all the places other campaigns outperformed Harris. But apparently even that incredibly mild bit of criticism was too much for them.
If Fox had any balls at all they'd also ask if any of those people would vote for a non-Republican. Being pissed at Trump means fuck all if they are still going to vote for literally whoever the Republicans run next.
Oh, is it that time of the year where Fucker Carlson says something true before going back to slinging Russian propaganda again?
Dude is one of the biggest traitors to the US and bears significant responsibility for the current state of things (like most of the human trash that's appeared on Fox News). He's likely only saying this now because Russia finds value in stirring the pot over here.
Every day we get a little closer to Idiocracy being real.
Religions not open to the public would be fine, although it's not about the religion it's the buildings. Masons are an interesting one. The lodges would maybe be illegal, but I don't think those are open to the public. I don't know enough about how they operate to say. I'm also not familiar enough with shriners to say one way or another on that one. I think I remember seeing some kind of building labeled as belonging to the shriners, which that might have to go depending on whether it's public or not.
Yoga is very obviously not a religion, but even if it was there generally aren't buildings dedicated to practicing yoga that are open to the public. You generally need to pay and book time at yoga companies that do it commercially.
Basically places that charge an entry fee or where you need to pay for a membership to get inside would be legal. Places that you can enter for free as a member of the general public and that exist primarily or exclusively for the purpose of religion would be illegal.
Also there's a difference between public property and public spaces. There are plenty of public spaces that are on private property, most stores are examples of such. Spaces that any random person off the street is able to freely enter and exit are public spaces which most churches and other religious buildings are as well, as they're generally open to the public.
While it's true that's the impression the headlines give, unfortunately at least in my experience it's also the reality. In my multiple decades (I'll say I'm middle aged) I've met a grand total of about 4 people who are Christian and also decent people. The remaining 60 or so Christians I've personally met are of the conservative variety that are exactly the kind depicted in the media (I'm sure I've met more Christians than that, but they didn't identify themselves as such nor did they act in any fashion that would allow them to be identified as such so it's impossible to tell).
There's a great quote from someone or another that goes something like "there's no hate quite like Christian love" and that rings very much true. Some of the absolute most vile and vitriolic statements I've heard have come from those that spend the most time ranting about Jesus. I once saw a woman have a full blown panic attack because a black person dared to show up at her yard sale and then she went into a rant about how some bible verse meant "good Christians" should practice racial segregation.
I've seen relatives and friends subjected to hate and terrible treatment by their own families because they were gay all in the name of Jesus and being "good Christians".
There may very well be plenty of these good and caring Christians you're talking about out there, but much like the police, Christians have a major image problem right now and they need to be doing more if they don't want to be lumped in with the MAGA Christians. It's not enough to just say "but we're not all like that", they need to be seen to actively be disowning and denouncing those terrible behaviors by those claiming to represent them. Because right now what most people see are the conservative Christians, and if there are non-conservative Christians out there they're not being visible in any meaningful fashion.
It's long been suspected that both Intels and AMDs flavors of system management engine have backdoors built into them and they run at ring -1 (supposedly at least the Intel one runs a flavor of Minix).
Most people in the US who self identify as Christian are in fact morons. There's a reason there are so many grifters promoting Christianity, it's practically free real estate.
And most of the dipshit CEOs are busy trying to roll out return to office mandates and then are flabbergasted when productivity and worker satisfaction both plummet.
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The biggest problem I have with Kobo isn't even really something that's their fault or that they can do anything about. Amazon through their Amazon Unlimited program has locked a bunch of major authors into exclusivity contracts where they're contractually barred from distributing their ebooks on other platforms. That in turn means a bunch of major authors are just completely unavailable anywhere but Amazon, and of course Amazon ebooks exclusively only work on Kindle devices. It's a vicious feedback loop where authors refuse to leave Amazon because it's the market dominator by a large margin and consumers refuse to use anything else because all the authors are only on Amazon.
If you can make do with non-Amazon sources of ebooks it's great to do so and we really need more people doing exactly that in order to convince authors that the Amazon shackles aren't worth it, but it's definitely a struggle sometimes.