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Comment Re:Piracy faded when Netflix et al were proper. (Score 3, Informative) 160

Don't forget annoying UI issues, like randomly picking another movie to watch, not even letting you turn off autoplay on at least one service (Peacock I think?), laggy screens, flickering on some devices (Max on Roku TV), autoplaying preview videos (part of the lag really), etc.

Comment Re: Gee every thing going up is a necessity others (Score 1) 261

Unless they are working remotely across state lines, in which case that type of transaction in particular would be interstate commerce, it's only intrastate commerce.

Wickard vs Filburn was a terrible decision. It effectively defined away 'interstate' as meaningless and irrelevant.

Comment Re:Thanks! (Score 1) 394

Comment Re: FBI is massively racist... (Score 1) 151

I don't trust cops much, but mass destruction of their own property is unlikely.

Regarding your link, participation does not mean sole responsibility. He fired his gun at it. Four other people were indicted for the actual fire, and no one has claimed them to be left wingers that I found after a quick search.

Here is a larger list. Please stop trying to pretend that there wasn't widespread violence from the left during the BLM riots. The "mostly peaceful" excuse is bullshit.

Comment Re:FBI (Score 1) 151

They treated Clinton with kid gloves compared to Trump... but plausibly because they thought she was going to be the next president (one of the released texts indicates they were worried about retaliation) rather than political bias. They also demonstrated a distaste for Trump, but there is no definitive proof that it was the reason for difference in treatment. The best defense the FBI had after the OIG report was that they are routinely abusive and didn't single Trump out. Durham managed to prove a falsified warrant application and demonstrated a discrepancy between the two presidential candidates, but otherwise didn't turn up anything people didn't already know if they were paying attention. The real FBI bias is against anti-government types. They're fine with the republican establishment.

Comment Re:FBI (Score 1) 151

Re-opened, and did so quick enough to re-close it before the election, although claiming you reviewed thousands of emails in a couple weeks is sketchy. It's plausible that Comey thought failure to handle the new evidence on Huma Abedin's laptop would undercut his next boss and wanted it out of the way, and that he misjudged how people would react to it and/or overall odds of her winning. Almost everyone thought Clinton had it locked up. If they had ignored it until after the election and it came out, that would have been at least as much of an issue for her as the russian collusion claims were for Trump, or worse since she absolutely did mishandle classified intelligence. There is no 'extremely careless' exception in the law, just gross negligence. There SHOULD be a mens-rea requirement in white collar work, and on those grounds I could kind of approve of not charging her IF they applied the same standard across the board. They don't.

Comment Re: FBI is massively racist... (Score -1, Troll) 151

There exists misleading images of the protests. That does not negate all images and records of events. It remains true that they burned down a police station, CNN reported "fiery but mostly peaceful" protests with multiple fires in the background, and the CHAZ had multiple homicides during it's brief existence.

Comment Re:poling places must stay open and curfews can no (Score 1) 235

You literally exemplified the very argument I was referring to in my last paragraph. The MOST you can honestly say is that there has never been any proven fraud worth mentioning. You can examine the structure, and see how it make fraud difficult to identify, but the opponents of tightening our election use the lack of proven fraud to argue against making it easier to catch. As an argument, it's not nearly as persuasive as you seem to think.

Comment Re:North Carolina terror. (Score 1) 235

I don't think the subgroup of queer theorists is actually representative of all queer individuals. Sexual abusers do appear to be disproportionately homosexual, but I'm not sure how good the statistics on that actually are.

We do have things like this article by Chris Rufo in which he quotes and links to original writings in which seem to imply exactly that claim about childhood innocence . Perhaps I'm extrapolating too much from the writings of Hannah Dyer, who wrote “Applying queer methods of analysis to studies of childhood can help to queer the rhetoric of innocence that constrains all children and help to refuse attempts to calculate the child’s future before it has the opportunity to explore desire,”. Rufo perhaps over reaches a little when he assumes Hannah Dyer and Harris Kornstein (who is personally involved with Drag Queen Story Hour) have the same beliefs, but their linked papers have a similar enough tone that I think think he is likely correct.

Comment Re:North Carolina terror. (Score 1) 235

So, you're just going to ignore the context of the comment I was replying to then, which was derailed into discussions of drag queens several levels above it. I did not call for violence. I did NOT correlate disapproval of drag shows with an attack, and I questioned the claim that it was the reason for the attack elsewhere. I pointed out some uncomfortable facts regarding the drag movement and queer theorists, and that was all, in response to someone suggest drag queens were a 100% innocent. I provided a source and a quote.

Stochastic terrorism is a mad up phrase used to smear people in instances where no terrorism or violence is involved. Much like the redefinition of racism away from it's pre-existing generally understood meaning, it's rhetorical trickery used to poison the well when the left doesn't want to deal with uncomfortable facts.

Comment Re:poling places must stay open and curfews can no (Score 1) 235

There is no careful chain of custody with mail in ballots. It's the reason I oppose widespread absentee ballots. Absentee ballots should be non-anonymous ones. You want anonymous votes? Go in person so that we can maintain chain of custody to make sure no one's adding untraceable ballots. You want to vote in a way that is impossible to do that? Then vote by name so that people cant at least spot check votes so that fraud can actually be caught.

When people say fraud is rare, they should say that caught instances of fraud is rare. The current system makes it very difficult to catch unless someone is stupid.

Comment Re:North Carolina terror. (Score 1) 235

"If we're all about parents getting to raise their children in the manner which they see as being the "right way" why is someone else's way "wrong" if it doesn't affect you or your children at all?"

We're NOT all about that. It's an obviously stupid argument, since it would also cover teaching them to have sex with adults.

Queer theory explicitly disagrees with the concept of childhood innocence.

Comment Re:North Carolina terror. (Score 3, Informative) 235

Fun fact: one of the people on the board of Drag Queen Story Hour wrote “It may be that DQSH is ‘family friendly,’ in the sense that it is accessible and inviting to families with children, but it is less a sanitizing force than it is a preparatory introduction to alternate modes of kinship. Here, DQSH is ‘family friendly’ in the sense of ‘family’ as an old-school queer code to identify and connect with other queers on the street.” The people behind it WANT to teach kids to live queerly. That's a few steps beyond tolerance and acceptance. Someone else in the queer movement dismisses the concept of childhood innocence, but the author of the linked article may be slightly unfair to lump Hannah Dyer in with Harris Kornstein. The queer theorists, as opposed to queer members of the public, seem to think there is nothing wrong with sexualizing children.

On a mere factual note, we have more than one instance of abusive behavior at these events. Can you actually back up the pretty much zero versus lots of evil? What sorts of evil are you including? Which religions? Per capita or total counts? There are lots more religious people than queers of any sort in the USA.

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