GreenBeard

Not to minimize the horror of this, and it is awful, but sexual violence is always used in war. Always has been, always will be. That’s not to say we should not tell the story of the innocent victims, we absolutely should and we should condemn the perpetrators, but we should also keep in mind this is a part of war. Property is destroyed, innocent lives are lost, survivors are often maimed, and people are sexually violated. Women, men, and children. It’s part why there’s no such thing as a just war.

You’re not going to “Break the back of polarization” because the people keeping us divided, who benefit from the dysfunction, are the same ones funding the careers of politicians. The system isn’t broken and needs to be fixed. The system is working as intended and needs to be eliminated.

Well, it could, but not under the current conditions. A man can still dream.

Because they are stupid for voting for a right wing candidate. He’s going to turn on them immediately and destroy their livelihoods because that’s what they do. That’s all the right wing ever does and has ever done. They’re not here to help you. They’re here to help themselves, usually to the fruits of your labour. And then they call us thieves for demanding our cut of the wealth back. The right wing is just organized crime with better PR, that’s all they’ve ever been and that’s all they’ll ever be. Oh they’ll dress it up in a song and dance about some nostalgic nonsense or another, it’s all a spectacle to keep you distracted while they pick your pocket. “Oh we’re the party of law and order” bullshit. They’ll complain about crime, loudly and for hours to anyone who will listen, but their “solutions” are usually just more ways to profiteer off of it while pretending their useless gestures are “Doing something.”

At least they’re more honest about it than the damned centrists, but given the choice of being stabbed in the back or in the face, I’d say I’d rather not be stabbed at all.

Listen… what happened on my juvenile record was sealed… 😜

It would be really nice if the system produced more than 2 options, you know? Sometimes the leftist party has very poor leadership or their ideas are just played out and it needs to lose power, but when the only alternative is the equivalent of throwing yourself in a fire because they’re openly criminal and corrupt, you’re damned if you and damned if you don’t, si?

If you think the gas prices will start a riot, wait until you see the food prices in a few months. An army marches on its stomach. When you can’t feed the soldiers, you’re going to have a hard time quelling anything.

It’s not the length of the sentence that matters, it’s what a Terrorism charge does to you upon release. They may only get 5 years in a cell, but this is effectively a life sentence.