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  • While America has a bunch of black sites. They’re all of questionable legality. That doesn’t stop the use, but even then it’s understood that once someone is in the US, they fall under US law, which includes constitutional protections.

    So the way black sites had to work was to grab a non-citizen in a country other than the US, and transporting them to a site outside the US.

    Still a monstrous practice, but there were at least some rules.

    Trump wants to legally use black sites on everyone.





  • Smoking is interesting. Most of the direct harm from smoking comes from the radioactive lead and polonium that the tobacco absorbs from the soil.

    Not that other parts of inhaling burning hot smoke aren’t damaging, but the worst of it are those radioisotopes.

    I don’t know how much of that shit is deposited vs exhaled, and would need to see studies on it. But there’s a laundry list of other harmful shit in cigarette smoke.










  • Very little in life is staged. I’ve worked in a theatre, with professional actors, and it still takes weeks of work to pull off a play.

    This also includes some improv work.

    So the very first thing you have to acknowledge is that Trump would never do the work needed to pull off anything staged. He can read (sort of) a speech written by someone else, but the smarmy bastard cannot act to save his life.

    The next thing here, Crooks was using live rounds. And killed a guy behind Trump. Trump would never allow his own life to be put at risk.

    And third, Crooks was a notoriously bad shot. He was kicked out of his highschool gun club over it and some safety violations.

    The kid was a mass shooter in waiting who just so happened to come across an opportunity to shoot a former president. And he blew it, just one more failure to add to the pile that was his life.





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    There are steps that need to be taken to get third parties.

    First and foremost is the adoption of a voting system that can not only support third parties, but help them grow.

    TLDR; Fight for Approval if you just want third parties to exist and occasionally win, Fight for STAR if you want third parties to grow and become powerful.

    Now for the long part, talking about the problems with first past the post voting, and how that shapes the political discourse. Or you can watch this video.

    Also, before anyone breaks in with Ranked Choice or IRV as it’s called, you might want to read up on the flaws section here.

    And I’d write more, but the dog wants a walk, and that’s more important right now.