Someone else suggested we should start arresting people doing the low-level things, like cutting down trees, or tearing down the East wing, and then let the courts fight it out.

I think that should be done in every possible instance like this - send in cops to arrest people running these ads.

Scare the shit out of people being asked to do illegal and immoral things.

Donnie keeps doing things and then it takes weeks/months/years to fight it or try to slow it down or stop it. What should be done is start creating examples of those carrying it out. By acting first - meaning, arrest, then let it shake out. If someone else steps up, arrest them as well.

Yeah, but that's from Jesus. A lot of so-called xtians seem to be far more excited about the OT, especially the nasty and bloodthirsty parts. And from the NT, they often seem to be more interested in what Paul has to say, which is interesting since Paul never even met Jesus.

I think these types of xtians would be better labeled as Paulians.

Oh, there's definitely a moral objection.

Turns out "the" bible is a terrible source for morals, so I don't care what some bloodthirsty asshole's interpretation of that text happens to be.

I love this for her.

No one person should ever have that kind of expendable money.

You should send her Roald Dahl's letter. Or tell her to pass it on to her child, since that is who he directed it at.

The death of his daughter is absolutely heartbreaking. Before a vaccine was available. The monsters and assholes that think it's cute and clever and "because mah immune system" and other bullshit become all the more insufferably stupid when you read something like this:

As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything. "Are you feeling all right?", I asked her. "I feel all sleepy", she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. … I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered.

Yep. And measles is wildly contagious and can not only kill young and perfectly healthy children (no shaming the fat and the old or blaming it on not lifting enough or whatever the fuck), but even those that survive can have some wildly terrible consequences immediately after and later in life.

These people are terribly dangerous. I'm sure we had a lot of excess death thanks to them during Covid, and we sure as fuck are having excess death from them for this.

Yeah, not much of an answer. Sounds more like Murc's Law nonsense.

He was paralyzed in the attack.

But yeah, livestreaming our government murdering this guy via firing squad while he's in a wheelchair (or propped up) just seems like it is designed to make this country look like a complete third-world authoritarian shithole AND act as a terrorist recruiting tool.

Does a Susan Collins frown count?

What is your suggestion?

Eh, I don't think an 80/20 thing like this has anything to do with what Democrats do or don't do. It's a cultural thing, and it's going to take a while before that needle moves.

There may be a lot of things Democrats are doing badly, could do better, are dropping the ball on, etc., but it's not like they can change the culture overnight. It wasn't really the Democrats that moved the needle on things like gay marriage, either. Probably very similar breakdown on that as there is on sports. You'd hear stuff like "well, we shouldn't arrest them for what two adults do, but why do they want to call it marriage? Why not create a separate but equal institution and call it 'civil union'? The term "marriage" belongs to xtians, etc. (LOL, are they not merciful)". But eventually the culture generally shifted.

You hear things like that now on trans - people that understand it's a human rights thing. But are not all the way there on sports. And specifically on that. It's not exactly the same, but it does rhyme.

That's why I don't think it's worth Democratic politicians' time to play the Republican gotcha game on this. They should acknowledge their values - human rights are to be upheld, why are the freaks in the Republican Party so obsessed with the genitals of children anyway? How do sports even make the top 50 of the list of concerns for the American people? Mock the conservatives for their trivial and hateful obsessions, and move right on to issues (affordability, Iran war, assaults on human rights across the board, AI and AI data centers) that they have a clear lead on. Talking about "men in women's sports" is just accepting the Republican framing on it as well.