It’s Definitely not just a US thing, although the scale of incarceration in the US is immense. it’s just a handful of European countries that actually treat prisoners ok.

She killed her abusive parents when she was 18. I wouldn’t condone that, but I also wouldn’t call her a monster. People in extreme circumstances do extreme things

Make sure to support the LGBT news orgs while it’s still legal. (And also once it’s illegal, if you can)

Not really. In the UK, the center-left won which was widely expected. The greens (left) did slightly better than expected. And the far-rightnot really. In the UK, the media said that the center-left labour was going to win in a landslide. And they did.

But in France, after the centrists and the left decided to not compete with each other, the left actually came out on top. Where’s in the UK, the left (mostly greens) is still very marginalized.

The fact the NYT is reporting this makes me think it’s joever

So you can let a steak get to room temp, and it’ll be medium rare?

fuck.

Are we sure this isn’t everyone?

Then you missed the context of my post! Look at the comment I was replying to

Someone said the point of the second amendment was always about fighting tyrannical government. Then I replied.

I think you mean like Peru and Chile told Bolivia,

I’m arguing against the idea that the second amendment was designed to protect individuals against tyrannical government

I didn’t say it was specifically/exclusively to protect slavery. I didn’t say anything about slave rebellions. The constitution was all about balancing the power of wealthy landed slaveholders of the south with the wealthy landed urbanites of the north. Ensuring state militias was one element of that balancing act.

Pretending the second amendment was written to protect against tyrannical governments is ahistorical right wing propaganda. * Unless you view it as one sovereign being protected from the tyranny of another. Eg Virginia is protected from the tyranny of Pennsylvania or vis versa

If you want to read a rebuttal of halbrooks legal theory, read the Heller dissents