That’s actually not far off from how things shook out economically in the Civil War. The North had roughly 5x the manpower, firepower, and money of the South. The South was never going to “win” the Civil War, due to that disadvantage. For them, “winning” would have been making the war costly enough to the North that the North gave up.

Calexit is the name of the California secessionist movement that has been around for a few decades.

This is lemmy. All these people are like 14. They have no idea who Dawkins is.

Only in the long run. A lot of them died and suffered horribly first.

You’re overthinking it.

Dani Davis, who is queer

Ohhhhh

None of this made much sense until then. This is why she was fired. Not capitalism or whatever bullshit you’re talking about.

“lol fuck you idc” is the standard response 99% of the time. It’s only the small minority of cases that get picked up by the media where they pretend to give a shit.

Only applies to rich people and cops. For the rest of us, we have to follow the law.

One already tried to shoot him.

Oh yeah, when was the last time your country had a violent popular uprising that deposed a highly militarized government AND managed to build an effective democracy in the aftermath?

“Just do a revolution bro” is the most useless goddamn shit

His property taxes have gone up because his wealth has gone up. Sounds fair to me.

I paid off my house to avoid a 20k female flood insurance bill

Female flood sounds interesting

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And now we’re at the part where you start making up shit and claiming I say it. Cool cool cool. I think it’s nice we usually get 2 or 3 honest exchanges in before you remember your propaganda mission. I’ve missed that.

All trans women/trans athletes should be banned from sports competition

The fuck bullshit is this?

you pivoted so quickly away from Phelps

The fuck bullshit is this?

Did you respond to the wrong comment? Literally my previous comment, the one you responded to, is about Phelps.

Edit: also

don’t you post actual peer-reviewed studies

Sealion.

Not anyone to my left. Just anyone dumb enough to enable fascism by rejecting an alliance (even of convenience!) with liberals.

Well lemmy is a hornets nest of particularly stupid leftists, so yeah, that’s a big part of what I do on this site specifically

I’ve never seen people care this much about Micheal Phelps biological atheletic advantage.

Have you ever seen Michael Phelps compete against a league of teenagers?

Or a regional swim meet in Idaho?

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