I think it’s entirely possible to simultaneously be horrified by his murder, feel deep sympathy for his family, and be glad he’s no longer in the world.

I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.

It’s also a really slippery slope when the justice department can blanket declare entire swaths of people mentally ill. Soon, anyone who doesn’t vote would be banned from owning firearms due to their “Trump Derangement Syndrome” being classified as mental illness.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Liberals need to consider arming themselves while they still can. Guns have caused a lot of harm, but right now 90% of the guns are owned by the fascists. I’m hoping I never need guns, but I know I don’t want to find out I need them after I can’t get them.

David defeated Goliath with state-of-the art weaponry.

Don’t Quixote wakes up on his deathbed disillusioned about his insanity, rejects chivalry and all the harm he’s caused pursuing it, and declares that his neice will be disinherrited if she marries someone who reads of chivalry.

It really depends on where you live. Your primary vote is meaningless if that party can’t win in the general election.

I’m in Texas where they do everything they can, legally and otherwise, to supress the Democratic vote. So I do vote in Republican primaries against MAGA Republicans.

If you live somewhere the Democrats win elections, then you need to vote in Democratic primaries.

Sure would be nice to be privileged enough to be able to relocate myself and my family.

And, increasingly, there’s no such thing as offline.

Yes and yes.

Also, you tell the Dems how to act by changing out its leadership through more and more primaries.

That rule existed through many, many Democratic governors. Texas’s famous redness is a recent phenomenon.

2003 was the first time that the GOP EVER had control of the Texas legislature. And in 2003, they changed voting requirements and gerrymandered the shit out of the state mid-cycle, leading the Democrats to flee the state (sound familiar).

Texas had never had a majority Republican delegation to the US House before the 2003 redistricting. In the 2004 mid-terms, the GOP won over 2/3rds of the seats.

Texas isn’t very red. It’s just that the GOP legitimately won a single election in 2002 and rigged the game ever since. That’s why you must ALWAYS vote against the GOP in the general election, no matter how mediocre the Democratic candidate is.

Fun fact about Texas special sessions.

The governor exclusively gets to determine the agenda, so they can only do shit he wants them to do.

And since the legislature only meets every 2 years for a regular session, he has sole.power over what can be legislated more than 3/4 of the time.

The more impressive thing is that they managed to get the Nvidia upgrade to be backwards compatible with existing Framework 16 models.

That’s the push I need to really, truly believe they’re committed to the goal of upgradablity. Too many “modular” products have come out where the “upgraded” modules were only available if you bought the newest version of the base product.

In the next year or so, I’ll probably be buying a new laptop, and this has convinced me that Framework is probably the way to go.

Apple has EU problems. Google got legally fucked in the US with the Epic lawsuit.

Didn’t they just lose a major lawsuit over their treatment of sideloaded apps and stores?

For anyone having trouble understanding the difference between “I’m sorry” and “I apologize,” think of how it would be taken at a funeral.

Th I s is horrif, but it isn’t impacted by the mail-in ballot bullshit.

Texas already restricts mail-in voting. During Covid, I had to go vote in-person at a crowded polling station.

That’s the point. Musk wants control over the entire internet.

If all the other internet infrastructure was abandoned, he would be the most powerful person in history. Want to regulate him afterwards? He could just shut down the internet in your region until you accept his terms.

You’re largely correct in how Diplomatic Immunity works. The requirement in diplomatic immunity is that it be extended to a diplomat from the time they enter the country under its protection until they leave the country or their country of origin rescends it.

Putin should be denied immunity by the US and forced to leave. But he can’t be arrested by the US until he’s been expelled from the country and either refuses to leave or returns to the US.

If you decide Diplomatic Immunity doesn’t exist for one person, then it doesn’t exist at all.

England just decided that public speech in support of Palestine is a crime. If a German diplomat stationed in England was opposed to the genocide in Gaza, would it be okay for them to imprison that diplomat?

Laws against pro-Palestinian speech in England have more legal authority than the ICC has in the US.

Yes, Putin is especially evil. He should be taken into custody and made to answer for his crimes. But that shouldn’t be done during a Diplomatic mission. If he doesn’t leave Russia for anything but Diplomacy, then the civilized world should take the necessary steps to remove him from Russia directly.

I personally am a fan of the complete embargo of countries that are out of control. The US, Russia, and Israel should not be allowed to trade with the civilized world until they step into line.

As awful as he and Trump are, Diplomatic Immunity is legitimately important. Negotiations are impossible with the threat of imprisonment attached to attending.

Well, at least they don’t already have an issue with organized pedophile rings operating within their state, right?