Those suckers are built like a fortress, although Bubba probably knows a guy with a wrecking ball.

Nah, they look at Saudi Arabia

Not me, but then again I regularly swallowed 40 robitussin gelcaps at once freshman year.

Now, I do have one pill that always gets stuck in my throat, but that’s probably because either the filler or medication absorbs fluid very quickly.

No they wouldn’t. It would be some other Middle East, African, or South American country being targeted.

Fascism and right wing extremism is on the rise in Europe too. And billionaires are pulling the strings.

It won’t do any good if the Senate refuses to remove him.

I apparently scan stuff too fast, so I get flagged multiple times while checking out. And I’m not really any faster than a cashier. That’s really only at Kroger, though

Those are maga thugs. You made the distinction between the two earlier.

The conservative voters think everyone ICE is kidnapping or killing is a violent criminal, because the media they were brainwashed into believing tells them so.

And they’re also trained that empathy is a weakness. That’s why you often see them change stances when something actually affects them. It’s not because they’re incapable of being empathetic, it’s because they’ve been trained not to be and the issue impacting them sometimes makes them realize how other people felt.

Of course, I’m definitely not saying that every person can be converted. Some people are too entrenched, but it’s definitely not all of them. But it’s absolutely a mistake to dehumanize every conservative like that. It’s one of the main tactics of fascism, and removes empathy from the equation.

Also, the approach to converting these people is crucial. If they even catch a hint that you’re talking down to them or trying to prove them wrong, they’ll shut down. You have to make it seem like you’re on board with their position, and ask clarifying questions to plant seeds of doubt.

They legitimately don’t know that they’re the ones causing the harm. The propaganda they’re fed has them convinced the Democrats are causing it.

Their cult actively punishes critical thinking and questioning authority. They don’t know that they are voting against their best interests.

Like, I live in Texas, and YouTube has been showing me tons of Paxton and Abbot ads. They always lead with, “They want to raise taxes,” which is true, but they leave out the part where the taxes are on the billionaires.

Considering that beef is a potential carcinogen, it’s actually good advice. Plus, cattle are a massive producer of methane, which is far worse for global warming than CO₂

Not to mention screw worms.

You’re talking about their constituents, who are stupid and brainwashed.

The politicians use this to their advantage (which is why they spent decades dismantling our education system), and use the stupidity act to weasel out of culpability.

Even GW was more intelligent than he let on.

For Republican leadership, Hanlon’s Razor is flipped. Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.

Not from what I can find. I do know he threw away the draft of Carrie after 3 pages, but his wife recovered it.

Yes, they can. There’s a reason that college “turns kids liberal.” It’s because meeting people from various cultures and backgrounds and learning that they’re just people too does a lot to combat the indoctrination they experienced.

Many of these people literally don’t know any better because they’ve been lied to their whole lives. Critical thinking and questioning authority is actively punished. The media that they were raised on trained them to think that any other source is lying to them.

It takes work, sometimes a lot of it, but most people can be reached. I’ve personally helped several people, even converting a “god put dinosaur bones in the ground 6k years ago to test us” believer.

But saying every conservative is a sociopath incapable of change just shows that you lack the ability to be empathetic. If there’s absolutely no room for forgiveness, then what reason do they have to change?

That was true for band nerds too. The only period in my life where I had any game was when I attended band camp. And they sought me out.

I worked with an Indian guy whose name was Shithead, pronounced shi-theed.

They’re not dumb, they’re evil.

What a stupid take. Cult deprogramming is a thing.

I mean, it sucks for the surrogate, but if she signed a contract and was compensated for carrying the baby, then she has no real legal standing.

The child isn’t hers, unless the contract had a clause making the request for an abortion a relinquishment of parental rights. Based on the previous rulings, I doubt this is the case.

From the article it seems like her argument is that because they wanted to abort the fetus, they won’t take care of the child, which is flawed logic.

This really isn’t a case that the SC should hear, because it’s not about government infringement on constitutional rights.

They’re both valid statements

So they got standard police training