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I get it, but I mean… their track record isn’t so great with Kennedys assassination attempts.

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You’ve heard of race riots? How about labor / union riots? I’m not saying the same thing as the user you responded to - not ALL rights are won through violence certainly, but there have been rights secured since the civil war in the US through violence. So it’s more complex than “no rights since the civil war”

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Kinda close… women painted lume on clock dials and arms. They were told the luminous radium paint was safe and they used their lips to put a point on the paintbrushes they were using. The same companies that told them it was safe pushed the dentists and doctors seeing the effects attribute it to STDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls has a really good summary.

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5.6 times the mass = Humans couldn’t live on it even if we could reach it. An 85kg person (187 freedom units) would weigh 476kg or 1047pounderoos. You wouldn’t be able to move and barely breath. Your body would give out.

Oh, and the gravity well would be insurmountable to any technology we have today. So you’d never get off the planet once you got there (and died swiftly).

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only far far worse

The aim in a 2nd term for Trump would be to immediately politicize thousands of government positions that are apolitical and require years of education and experience to be competent. The administration felt hampered by being told “no” and “that’s illegal” and “we can’t do that” by so many of these long-standing staffers that they want to sweep away more than just cabinet and executive positions, but also thousands of jobs that literally keep the government going. It’s a GOP wet dream… say that the government is useless and inefficient to get into office and implement changes that make those claims true. But beyond that, it immediately sets up even more executive power which has been their aim since Nixon.

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That’s the neat thing! They don’t.

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this one feels “oddly specific”

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I mean, isn’t a lot of the Alaskan highway built like this?

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