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We can't be mad about these draws at all, both guys got great draws. Not perfect, I suppose, but think about what we've gotten so far, lol.

No, he was saying the guy Malik replied to deleted it and he was wondering what the person Malik had replied to had said. @1032004, looks like it was in the comments as a screenshot.

I can't imagine skipping the Opening Ceremonies, but also, I'm not an Olympic-level athlete, unless they're getting a new beer drinking event going. He gets to choose for himself how he wants his Olympic experience to be. Hell, he could have wanted to go but needed some sort of medical treatment. Not to get too dragged into the politics on this sub, but...if we just assume for the purposes of this conversation it was the Last Supper they were re-enacting and not the Feast of Dionysus (that's in dispute, but for the purposes of this post, lets assume it's true), how is the event mocking Christians other than that it was LGBTQ people who participated? Their mere existence is mocking now? It's not like they got up there and said "eff Jesus." Besides using the "Last Supper" tableau as a model has been done in pop culture for decades. Off the top of my head I distinctly remember advertisement for the Sopranos and Simpsons.

This was truly devastating news.

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And multiple state elections prior to that. And graduating law school, and passing the bar examsl, etc. All real world accomplishments beyond what most accomplish. What have you done equivalent to winning an election to be a US Senator? I haven't done anything to eclipse that.

I disagree, but even if I agreed, it still doesn't address the issue I raised. Arguing she hasn't accomplished anything is just false.

I've got news for you about both major party candidates for president...neither is a good orator. Thay wasn't what I was talking about in my post, though.

She won multiple statewide elections in the biggest state in the country, she became Vice President of the United States, she graduated law school, all legitimate accomplishment. Far more than most of us have accomplished. You can not like her policies, but lets live in the real world.

This doesn't have anything to do with trans people. The Algerian boxer is not trans.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c2j3jg51rg4o?xtor=AL-72-[partner]-[bbc.news.twitter]-[headline]-[news]-[bizdev]-[isapi]&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_format=link

At least we're now to the point where some people are tacitly acknowledging they understand that gender isn't as easily defined as they used to pretend it was.

Speaking of old men who shouldn't be president... will the Rs have the courage to put the old boy out to pasture and run a coherent candidate? Christians and gunowners, not big voters.

Possibly. Not likely, though, if none of the major possible nominees run against her, though.

They are essentially required to vote for the person who won the primary, unless that person drops out, in which case they can vote for whomever they want. This is the system for both major parties, to my knowledge.

To accrue party delegates to cast their votes for the nominee.

There are pluses and minuses to all options at this point. Harris makes the most sense from a political logistics perspective. There are rumors that some of the other popular figures (like Whitmer and Newsom) have indicated they're not interested. I would guess it will be her.

Biden is not, formally, the nominee until the party convention. We literally just watched Donald Trump become the nominee like 3 days ago despite campaigning for the last year.

What kind of shows are your favorite?

The storyline was way too jumbled that they weren't able to give enough time to any of the potentially interesting stories, and the actress in the main role was kind of bad. Lee Jung-Jae and Manny Jacinto were great! However, given the jumbled up nature of the storyline, and again, the focus on the Mae-Osha story without an actress who was able to hold the center; this gave short shrift to the potentially good storylines. Really, though, this series, to it's credit, did have some of the best Star Wars action sequences of all time. The fights were awesome. Mainly, this show suffered from what most of Disney+ shows suffer from: they try to do too much. I disagree with this being the worst show of all time, though, it's not even the worst Star Wars show of all time. Book of Boba Fett was worse, IMO, unless you just give it credit for basically being Mandalorian season 2.5 in the second half.

Yes. The definition is the right of citizens to political and social freedom and equality, equality being the key here; all women everywhere should have complete control over their bodies.

So yesterday @Paul158 had asked me a question about comparing marijuana laws to abortion laws and @PortaJohn had asked me to address it. I just typed out a whole long reply, but then the thread seems to have been deleted while I was typing, so that sucks. I'll give you the gist of my answer here: The change in marijuana laws reflects the will of the people in individual states which has prompted a federal reconsideration. It's still federally illegal, but essentially the feds have kind of let states do their thing while they investigate, look into rescheduling, etc. It's a topic that was voted on by many different states. It's an ongoing discussion and while it's being figured out, people in States where it is legal aren't being prosecuted as long as they abide by their individual states. The change in abortion access is related to an opinion written by 6 people after 50 years of it existing, which has led to immediate loss of access to the abortion services in many areas, despite when it has been voted on, it has been approved of by individual states, many of them red like Kansas and Ohio. The women in many states lost access to these services based on the opinion of 6 people, not the will of the people in their states prompting a reconsideration at federal level. They're completely different scenarios.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/16/sen-bob-menendez-found-guilty-in-corruption-trial-00168659 Bye Bob!