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Even if your anti occam's razor speculation is true, why would left-wing folks stage this and why would it work? What climate do we live in where it's entirely and easily believable that MAGA Republicans are larping as neo-nazis?

Many Americans haven't viewed covid as a serious threat for over a year now. And I'm not talking about a fringe of conspiracy right-wingers, I'm talking about all of us. Even if we believe in our heads, we've mostly all been over it in how we live out our personal lives for a while now. Sure we'll wear masks or get tested when required, but unless you've got a unique scenario we're moving on as fast as we can.

Also old enough to remember when even most eventual Trump voters didn't even like Trump and thought there's zero chance he gets the nomination.

There's a binary of 'able to birth children or not', which progressive folks do not associate with gender, so not sure what you're talking about exactly.

I legit think Frost would be at least .500 if the Akron game didn't get canceled. That set up a massive voodoo curse (or massive psychological hump) that we're still trying to shake. I think with how well we played in the Colorado game, it's very safe to assume we would have beat Akron, and then beat Colorado the next week. Presumably Troy as well. With good momentum and confidence we easily could've flipped at least one of the NW/OSU/Iowa one possession games, which would've put us at 8-5 in year one. The rest could easily take care of itself.

Are they still planning on the elevator/upgrade to north stadium?

Trump running is the only way I'll vote for Biden again. Without Trump as an opponent, I'm abstaining entirely.

As long as we have a drill sergeant with a mute button as the moderator.

For the last 50 years nobody has been in danger of not having a constitutionally protected right to get an abortion. Until, presumably, not long from now. It's not hyperbole to guess at how things might change based upon the news that...things are changing.

Maybe it's just the fact that you used quotation marks that has me laughing, but in no way is your definition of that "quite obvious"

As I've seen it, there's a correlation between how zealous a Christian someone is and how much focus/obsession they have on the afterlife, which lends to narrower and narrower beliefs in who makes it. Similar psychological trait as the most die-hard fans of a sports team being the ones who care and get in a stink about bandwagon fans.

The religious folks (and by that I think we both mean specifically the right-wing Christian folks) always confused me on this one though. If you're very serious about your Christianity, and really care about abortion, there's a good chance that you believe the following: 1. Some version of the concept of original sin with a loose exception for children being blameless 2. Some version of fetuses having a soul 3. Some version of the 'narrow path' where most people who live are going to hell And if you believe those three things, idk why you wouldn't be happy that all of these babies are aborted - those souls now have a 100% chance of going to heaven instead of a ~50-90% chance of going to hell if they would have lived and grown up and not been saved.

I think Louie CK pretty much hits the nail on the head, essentially hinting that we all kind of deep down know or believe that it's at least.... kinda murdering a baby, but plenty of us think women should have the right to do that.

Carrying a pregnancy to term is 100% a case of a woman's body being harmed. Usually the harm is considered a worthy price to pay but not always and that's up for individuals to decide. Nonetheless, that does not exempt it from being harm. That's a flimsy bottom line.

Laughing about how we apparently can't have certain rights because... our country has a history of not granting certain rights

Weird bc I thought they hated identity politics. Wait a second. They used to rant and sow anger/fear about identity politics, but they also used to do the same about things like sharia law. If the roe v wade leak is any indication, maybe these things they make big stinks about are... just because they're jealous and want those things for themselves?

The numbers have been steadily going down for well on 50 years

In case people don't know, it needs to be made clear that the right to be able to have an abortion has been the historical norm in America - the banning of it is the outlier in terms of our country's history.

I'm glad to check out some substantiated sources on Biden checking all those boxes.

I'm confused here and not sure if I'm missing something - isn't the current status of Roe the common sense compromise? It federally protects the right to an abortion but it gives states the freedom to impose certain legal restrictions. 43 of the 50 states have a prohibition on abortion after a certain point in the pregnancy - that doesn't sound like all or nothing.

You can speculate and imagine implications about the 'sketchy' nature of a career politician until you're blue in the face (we all understand that Biden, and politicians in general, are not and can not be squeaky clean), but when it comes down to the preponderance of direct evidence, there's no argument for what you're saying. One of the two has had dozens of sexual assault allegations, the other hasn't. One has professionally and politically surrounded themselves with criminals (some of them proven to be actual traitors, and some of them in prison), the other hasn't. One has a consistent history of defrauding employees, contractors, partners, construction crews, "students" and so on out of millions of dollars, the other hasn't. One has bragged about either committing or the idea of sexual assault and also admitted to watching minors change in dressing rooms of their pageant, the other hasn't. One has been found by the DOJ of engaging in racist housing policies twice, the other hasn't. One has more than a few times followed/liked/retweeted s#!t from alt-right and neo-nazi twitter accounts, the other hasn't. One has openly asked our biggest geopolitical enemy to spy on their political opponent, the other hasn't. That's only the easiest, smallest low hanging fruit start of the list.

Maybe not defending, but there's an awful lot of false equivalency between him and Biden as far as character and behavior in here.

Well, only 19% of the culture thinks abortions should be illegal under all circumstances, so the cultural change has happened, and the legal one is presumably about to go against it.

I voted for Biden because he wasn't Trump, and wasn't as bad as Trump. Outside of that, I'm completely apolitical about the guy other than a general hope for whoever's in the office to not f#&% s#!t up too bad, which I share equally across all Presidents. This will never happen, but here's one interesting way that you could theoretically inject this idea: https://bigthink.com/the-present/malcolm-gladwell/

None of that even starts getting into the fact that....he isn't conservative. His policies aren't conservative, his ideology isn't conservative, he'd been a Dem his whole life, and then he co-opts the party, and suddenly lifelong consistent GOP members are RINOs. I guess the term isn't wrong if being Republican means following Trump and abandoning principles of good conservative policy.