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Thank you for reminding me of this one, @versmetropig

Fuck yeah

13.14m isn't exactly small

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If a state decides they need more prisoners to generate more revenue, it seems they can pretty much change what constitutes a crime - and the reintroduction of Chain Gangs by Arizona and Alabama (and possibly Florida) is redolent of slavery. Take the Cornell University definition of slavery and consider where it fits into the above: "Slavery is the practice of forced labor and restricted liberty . It is also a regime where one class of people - the slave owners - could force another - the slaves - to work and limit their liberty." [think before following links] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/slavery Also bear in mind that the Emancipation Proclamation only freed black slaves in what was technically a foreign country (and - being a lawyer - Lincoln knew the difference). Refer the following: [think before following links] https://theemancipator.org/2022/06/16/topics/histories/lincoln-gets-way-too-much-credit-freeing-enslaved-black-people/ [think before following links] https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/give-all-chance-lincoln-abolition-and-economic-freedom [think before following links] https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/articles-and-essays/abraham-lincoln-and-emancipation/ [think before following links] https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/articles-and-essays/abraham-lincoln-and-emancipation/ While he was morally opposed to slavery, if it didn't drive the economic engine of the Confederacy, he would never have given a flying fuck about actually freeing them at all.

There is a loophole in the 13th Amendment which means that slavery is still legal in "state-mandated cases".

Baseball Cardinal or Liturgical Cardinal?

My previous post was typed on my phone, so was only able to make basic points. This is a little more detailed, and I request that you read both it and the links in full before replying. 1 Historical Background: Hamas is mainly equipped and supported by Iran, and Iran and Russia/the USSR have been allies since 1531 (apart from between 1982 and 1987, when it backed Iraq in the Gulf War - which we know more as the Iran-Iraq War). Why else (apart from inconveniencing Churchill and Roosevelt) would Stalin have chosen Tehran as one of the places for a Big 3 meeting in 1943 if not to boast of the Russian presence in Iran - a country that was once described as a "Jewel of the Middle East"? [think before following links] [think before following links] https://przystanekhistoria.pl/pa2/tematy/english-content/92855,Stalins-victory-in-Tehran-Polands-fate-on-the-conscience-of-Roosevelt-and-Church.html. Russia has also been officially antisemitic since 1881. 2 Principle of a Second Front: The principle of opening a Second Front is to divert resources (namely money and ammunition) away from a Primary Front, which is, for example, why the Western Allies invaded Italy in 1943: [think before following links] [think before following links] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_campaign_(World_War_II). By supplying resources to an October 7 attack for a relatively small outlay, i.e., automatic weapons plus ammunition), Russia made sure that resources were drained away from Ukraine's efforts to defend itself. There was a further (unforeseen) recent byproduct of diverting resources, being the fall of the Assad regime: [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-world-clips/russia-and-iran-just-lost-their-crown-jewel-in-the-middle-east-kim-ghattas . Note that Russia has had better results since October 7, which is a result of fighting an enemy with comparatively less resources than it had before that date. 3 Lack of Intelligence pre October 7: Why were Israeli security and intelligence services unprepared for what happened? Usually there would be some sort of radio or internet chatter that would have been picked up on for a relatively large-scale operation - but there was nothing (at least nothing that we have been informed of in the West), which means that their communications were via a third party, as both Iran and Hamas are both under heavy surveillance. The fact that they didn't pick up anything means that Russia was involved, and as Hamas' top leadership have been wiped out, any information that they had has now been lost as it sure as heck would never have been written down: [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67103298 4 Did Trump play a role in events? It is worth noting that Trump may have also played a role in events. There was a top-level meeting in 2017 in Helsinki between him and Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, in which details of Israel's Iron Dome system were handed over. Given that Russia (and Putin in particular) is an expert in what we call "the long game", it is more than just conceivable that this information was used to subvert what the Israelis thought was ironclad: [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/ability-hamas-evade-israels-iron-dome-defenses-points-possible-intel-leak-trump-russia/ 5 Significance of October 7 as a date: Why October 7, 2023, as the particular date of the attack? Plenty of soft targets (a large music festival), plus knowledge that anything in the Middle East always takes time to fix, which means it then became a guaranteed election issue. With a then-large(ish) Palestinian supporter base, the Democrats lose votes in particular swing states such as Michigan, and with the 10 figures from AIPAC going into Biden's pocket, it was always obvious that the USA was going to be all-in with the Israelis, rather than use bodies like the ICC to achieve a diplomatic solution. Humanitarian disasters such as Gaza don't just spring up out of fresh air. There is always a start point. Ukraine beget Gaza.

For starters, the "Never Again Trumpers" all seem to have disappeared. Add to that the following: Biden deciding to seek re-election despite promising to be a one-term POTUS; Harris promising to do everything the same as Biden (even including perpetuating the assistance of genocide - refer below); Trump's bolted-on 46-48% of the active voting population; pro-Trump MSM/Russian social media disinformation; the refusal to attempt to grow the Democratic voterbase; Gaza (which we Kremlinologists know to be the Second Front of Ukraine); a perceived economic health downward trend/COL issues; the majority of the US voting public deciding that a black female was inferior to a white male; voter intimidation, e.g., arson attacks on ballot boxes and bomb threats being called in to polling places; and voter purges and you start to get an idea of what happened.

Depends on the type of visa being applied for: [think before following links] https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-support/meeting-our-requirements/health/threats-to-public-health

They need bloodwork done before they can get a permanent residency visa. Because medicine here is socialised, anyone here with HIV is seen as "being a drain on the public purse", hence the widespread encouragement from Sexual Health doctors to take up PrEP (plus ARVs are relatively cheap).

The Australian Government will also not permit anyone with HIV to relocate to Australia.

He has a history of being a d**k towards most of the membership here

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