Although distracting from the Epstein files and other domestic issues likely plays a part, it is neither the only nor the main cause of this war. Saying that effectively leads political discourse away from the actual cause: capitalism and its imperialistic nature. Even if Epstein reminders have some effect at the home front, let us fight the root cause.

Just you wait… They won’t stop at abortion.

They literally did, for anyone who doesn’t get the reference.

I keep most of them in a git repository that I check out at ~/.config. Some software doesn’t follow the XDG Base Directory Specification out of the box but can be configured to do so; the Arch Linux wiki has an article about it. For software that cannot be configured to follow the standard I have dedicated repositories, like for OpenSSH.

You propose to instill a deep conviction –that the death penalty is unacceptable– in a broad majority of people:

[…] you do this by making the death penalty something the populace opposes.

Then make the idea so repugnant only a minority of a minority of people would be okay with it.

How?

You put it like we haven’t tried. You put it like we can somehow do it. That contradicts current trends: political violence in particular and violence more broadly are becoming more and more acceptable again.

If the fascists take control then feel free to start killing fascists.

By then it will be far too late.

As times are now use the systems in place that will prevent the rise of the AFD. If the fascists take control then feel free to start killing fascists. Be sure to be early, but you do that after the systems failed.

The system and all its guardrails are actively failing before your eyes and have been for over a decade at this point. In fact, the system –capitalism– isn’t really failing, but simply succumbing to its own contradictions and evolving into its next stage: fascism.

It’s basically you should be afraid that those people over there will kill you so you must kill them first.

No. It’s neither fear nor hate. It’s not a tribal proposition either. It’s an instrument of last resort to preserve our chance of building a fair system.

The death penalty, especially for political offenses, always seems nice when its your side in power.

When “our side” is no longer in power, “they” might introduce the death penalty. What’s to stop “them”, once they are in control? Our good faith?

Limits on state power do not reliably prevent bad governments from abusing it, because bad governments can and do weaken and circumvent those limits. Are constitutional limits meaningfully stopping Trump? Did they keep Putin from the presidency?

In my view, this logic is another case of “when they go low, we go high”. The only reliable way to prevent the abuse of state power is to keep those who would abuse state power from attaining it in the first place.

If you reject the states power to execute it’s own citizens and make that idea unacceptable to the people then you take away one of the fascists’ best tools for oppressing the people.

Execution may be unacceptable to some of us, but –crucially– it is acceptable to those who would most abuse it, and they will cheer its reintroduction.

What is or are snecs? Neither an English nor a French language search would reveal anything besides some acronyms.

They could not only lose their income, but also be sued by someone with deep pockets –the deepest, if Mr Piggy resorted to the DOJ– and become unemployable.

Maybe France’s Snecma is an option

The company was called “Snecma” until 2016, when the board finally grew tired of repeating they do not manufacture smegma /s.

… a cephalodick, you say?

The article states that:

Eswatini agreed to take 160 deportees in exchange for $5.1m to “build its border and migration management capacity”.

By my account, that amounts to $31.875 per deportee.

Regardless of the sums involved, the United States are outsourcing their human rights abuses and bribing other countries to turn a blind eye by making them complicit. Eswatini and all the other countries that partake in “migration offshoring” schemes, like El Salvador, Albania and Rwanda, will likely not call out the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union for their criminal treatment of people who, by and large, desire to work and live in peace, because they would risk a source of income and diplomatic cover.

It might be veto-proof, but it sure isn’t pedo-proof! My guess is that, if the vote passes, the DoJ will release edited files that absolve Trump but implicate someone he wants to get rid of.

Surplus electricity would lower bills for both households, which have been particularly affected by rising prices, and different industries which have also had to contend with AI for capital.