I was gonna ask you to bite the bullet and do a food review, but it seems that the article thoughtfully anticipated that and included some.

It was boring and straightforward - the only reason to patronize this restaurant over others is its atmosphere of fawning jingoism and political backbiting.

Is this because Denmark’s AIPAC analogue can’t effectively compromise students?

Hope and trust will only take you as far as your politicians are willing to play along. Trump happened to the United States, but demagogues with great aspirations and a willingness to bend rules to (and beyond) the breaking point are by no means unique to them.

Which is to say: make it legally binding instead of relying on the goodwill of politicians.

Semi-automatic is a specific type of action where after firing, the bolt removes the spent case and chambers the next round without further manual input from the operator as would be required in lever actions, bolt actions, etc.

Well, semi-automatic also interrupts the action so it only gives one shot per trigger pull, versus burst mechanisms or fully automatic.

So as for what is not a semi-automatic? Any gun requiring manual operation to clear the spent case and chamber a new round or can fire more than one round per trigger pull.

I’d dispute that. Single action is a specific type of system.

Guns… are specifically dedigned to kill people

Damn, dude! Better not learn about HEMA or fencing. Shit may give you an aneurism.

My sincerest condolences. Watching him sounds like torture.

My fellow Americans, ‘CPS’ here refersto the ‘Crown Prosecution Service’ and does not necessarily implicate the Tates of that more evil crime associated with Child Protective Services.

The more you know. ~☆

The eternal battle of fairness and ability, i suppose… But I wanna know what your issues with Ocasio-Cortez are. It’s a rare sort that cops to that in these parts.

No of course not. Things are what they are.

The Democrats’ long-term planning skills are not in question here, but they must recognize that they cannot enact those long-term plans without access to the levers of power- and that short term concessions must be made to that end.

As for voters: we all wish they thought more and weren’t constantly led around by the nose, but both facts and feelings are part of their individual calculus for support. Obama was carried in on feelings of hope which vibed with the zeitgeist. Trump came in on a presentation of a strong figure (that we know to be false) that complements the uncertainty about the future that Obama left behind when hope kinda petered out over his term.

The feelings in this case are critical because we know politicos cannot possibly keep all their (sometimes contradictory) campaign promises and they cannot voice their position on every issue. So it falls to the voters to suss out what priorities and allegiances the politician has and how they will respond to any given event.

Inflation has largely been controlled during that period, but real wages have stagnated since at least the housing crisis of '08. It doesn’t make a lick of difference how well inflation is managed to the poors when buying power is lost.

Pandemic (and even prior) economic malaise is not the fault nor legacy of the Democrats necessarily, but political cynicism bites both ways, and is a lot harder to overcome when the party tells you economic factors are looking up and asks you to wait it out for an uncertain boom in the future.

Yes, Republican (esp. MAGA) policies and mentalities make that promised economic future dicier, but they deliver a feeling of doing something.

For realz, I’m not a Democrat! I just vote for them in primaries and general elections and defend them when those mean ol’ leftists come around.

The Democratic party may be a big tent party with values of varying progressive pedigree, but the adage of lying with dogs and getting fleas applies.

It’s different because no jury in Israel will convict someone of warcrimes (against Palestinians).

No conviction, no crime. EZ.

Nope, she delivered a party-like reply.

But you’re probably right.

See, here’s where I disagree:

Unless there is a clarifying statement about his ass-backward mentality following the dedication, the snark will be lost to time and only the “generous donation” will remain.

I have a similar (if smaller) beef with Carnegie libraries that are just PR washing of an oligarch. His crimes are remembered in spite of his donations only because he was memorable outside of them.

Please note: none of these chucklefucks cares one whit about his corruption. This is simply islamophobia with a patchy veneer.

The policy on preservation of natural areas was not terrible. It was probably executed poorly and wasn’t intended to be anything but a bludgeon of the state to displace people, but nature preservation as a concept is a necessity.