Well there’s Senator Thom Tillis who was the only one who actually voted to keep Cruz’s amendment.

So that’s a registry worthy crime, right?

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Can we strip people with, say, 34 felonies of their citizenship and deport them to an arbitrary country?

'Member that time France granted citizenship to someone that thwarted a terrorist attack?

Here the US be kicking out those who help.

Just watch the segment. He’s asked 3 times if he condemns the phrase which many consider to be a call to violence and 3 times he levies condemnation toward the sentiment. While he doesn’t say “yes, I condemn ‘globalize the intifada,’” he said it’s not appropriate to police speech, he’ll lead by example, he’s listening to the people of NY when drafting policies such as his significant increase in funding for anti-hate crime funding, and that his policies and the language he uses need to reflect respect for all people.

I’d argue his actual response is a much more appropriate condemnation than just saying “yes” and moving on.

Ah the Covid approach to hurricanes. If you stop looking for them they cease to exist.

A bit older, but still great IMHO: Sanctum 2 and its DLC go on sale for $3 every sale. I’ve sunk over 450 hours into this FPS TD hybrid. The DLC is worth getting as well as it doubles the content of the game.

Titanfall 2 is about $5 and offers a diverse and creative SP campaign with mixed soldier and mech combat. I’ve played it at least 5 times.

Mirror’s Edge is $7 with a robust parkour mechanic and alright, if not a little dated story. I’ve also played this at least 5 times.

For more casual offerings: A Short Hike, Alba, Firewatch, Smushi Come Home, Röki, Journey, Turnip Boy, Scanner Sombre, Deepest Sword, Yono, Snakey Pass, Baba is You

Other Games I’ve enjoyed: Portal 1&2, Full Metal Furies, Superhot, Borderlands 1&2, Mothergunship, Echo, High On Life, Crab Champions, Gunfire Reborn, Journey to the Savage Planet, Hades, Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice

You know how when you sit by a fire and the smoke comes toward you and it kinda sucks? What if the air was like that everywhere? With the power of pollution we can turn that dream into a reality!

I’ve used it to play Doomlings with some friends across the country. Pretty straightforward to set up custom cards and layouts. The UI is sparse, but has what you need.

As a virtual environment it’s unobtrusive and allows the actual game you’re trying to pay to be front of mind.

As a piece of interactive media there are some times that it lags or the physics is a bit clunky.

I’ve not used the proprietary competitors, so my comparison is just with playing the game in person. It’s free though so worth just trying it out.

If a single night’s action successfully terminates Donald Trump’s Iran war, and permanently ends the Iran nuclear-bomb program, then Trump will have retroactively earned the birthday parade he gave himself on June 14. If not, this unilateral war under a president with dictatorial ambitions may lead the United States to some dark and repressive places.

That “single night’s action” was Donald Trump bringing the US into a war started by Israel with an unprevoked attack. He joined a war, dropped several “BOMBS,” called for peace and complained about not having a Nobel in the span of about 2 days.

Iran started this war. In August 2002, courageous Iranian dissidents revealed to the world an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant in Natanz. Suddenly, all those chanted slogans about destroying Israel moved from the realm of noise and slogans to the realm of intent and plan. Over the next 23 years, Iran invested an enormous amount of wealth and know-how in advancing its project to annihilate the state of Israel. Iran deterred Israel from attacking the nuclear project by deploying missiles and supporting terror groups.

This war didn’t start in August 2002. After the plants were revealed Iran admitted their existence. Another decade later they signed onto a nuclear non-proliferation agreement and were in compliance with its terms until Trump backed out of the deal because it was formed under Obama.

It was Iran that initiated the direct nation-to-nation air war with Israel. After Israel struck an Iranian compound in Syria in April 2024, Iran fired 300 ballistic missiles into Israel

Israel carried out an airstrike against Iran’s consulate thereby violating the immunity reserved for embassies. But it was Iran’s response to this violation that once again started this war?

This was a mistake. Trump made that mistake. He dragged us into a war that Israel started and now Western media is breaking out the same Bushian lies to justify the involvement. Iran has been “months” away from a nuke my entire life and they are still no closer to it than they were when I was born.

[Iran has] one of the two most dangerous nuclear programs in the world.

The Iranian government is a deeply hostile regime that has brought misery to many.

Iran, it cannot be said often enough, is a weak state.

Ah the ol’ “our enemy is strong and powerful evil that is weak and has no defenses” trope. Which is it, Eliot A. Cohen? Are they a strong and present danger or just piddly shits?

A nuclear-armed Iran might very well have used a nuclear weapon against Israel, which is, as one former Iranian president repeatedly declared, “a one-bomb country.” Because Israel might well have attempted to forestall such a blow with a preemptive nuclear strike of its own, the question is more likely when an Iranian bomb would have triggered the use of nuclear weapons, not whether it would have done so. But even without that apocalyptic possibility, a nuclear-armed Iran would have its own umbrella of deterrence to continue the terror and subversion with which it has persecuted its neighbors. There is no reason to think the regime has any desire to moderate those tendencies.

Iran might have nuked Israel, so Israel might have nuked Iran first; therefore it’s a matter of when Iran starts nuclear war, not if. If Iran is allowed to have nukes then other countries would think twice about missile striking them out of the blue.

🙄 Sure, buddy.

Trump was right to speak about the American servicemen and servicewomen maimed and killed by Iranian IEDs in Iraq.

Maybe they shouldn’t have been in Iraq.

[Trump] was right as well ([after dragging the US into another war]) to threaten far worse punishment if Iran attempts to retaliate [in self defense, which I’ve been told is the right of a sovereign nation to exercise].

For some period—five years, maybe 10—Iran will not have a nuclear option

They’ve been months away from a nuke my entire life.

Iran was party to and in compliance with a nuclear non-proliferation agreement. Trump terminated that agreement because Obama was in office when it went into effect. Trump then went on to demonstrate why it’s important for enemies of the west to have nukes.

This is blatant consent manufacturing and propaganda. We went to war with Iraq over identical disproven lies. It was a mistake then and is a mistake now. Trump was not in the right to follow Bibi’s footsteps into an unwanted and unjustifiable war and Eliot A. Cohen is at best a naive idiot contrarian or at worst a racist xenophobic bigot who takes pride in watching the suffering of those in the middle east as a means to bolster domestic empire.

Maybe Iranian proxies wouldn’t engage against the west if the west would stop their allies in Israel from constantly attacking their own neighbors in their blatant colonial land grabs.

It’s only trinitite if it’s from the Trinity test site. Otherwise it’s just sparkling melt glass.

Also no one around today really came from the Confederacy. It’s not anyone’s heritage. It was around 160 years ago and lasted less time than Obama’s presidency. Anyone claiming it today is just using it as a crutch for their hatred and bigotry.

Branding them as “terrorists” over a “disgraceful … act of vandalism.” 🤨

Check with your local family friendly establishments like zoos or museums (or even hotels) if they have any old lost and found items they’d be willing to donate. That can be a good way to get reusable water bottles, hats, and umbrellas. Just keep in mind that many of them may have existing partnerships for this so if they refuse you can try to see if/who they work with and join forces with them.

Republicans keep killing kids :(

His grief is that in a bill that incentives building near public transit there’s not a requirement for private parking? That seems weak.

Another senator expressed concerns for the bill that sought to promote building near public transit saying that her district’s light rail went “from nowhere to nowhere.” Maybe you should advance a bill that incentives putting things near public transit?

Seems like you had an opportunity to talk to the community that arose around you. My mutual aid group leaned into that and ended up raising hundreds of dollars and filled 5 vans with donations.

2 days ago they were on their couches. Yesterday they got out. Call it baby steps, or too late, or whatever, but you can push them further now that they’re actually starting to try something even if you view it as ineffective.