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Well, I don't think Russia counts as a Communist country. The communist party runs a distant second to the ruling party there. And the ideology is, rather, fascistic based on a doctrine called Eurasianism and on a perverted version of Christian orthodoxy which extols warfare, and on mineral wealth and industry being treated as fiefdoms for the favored few.

'If the case means joining NATO grants some kind of immortality or unlimited exit card "Cant touch me I am in NATO and I can do anything i want", i dont think so,' Who has made such a ridiculous claiim? But if any country in Europe comes closest to fitting that bill, it's russia with troops stationed not only fighting in Ukraine, but stationed in Georgia and Moldova against the will of those countries' governments. And then there's Putin's speech in which he spoke of restoring the Empire of Peter the Great.

No,it was a discretionary life sentence. Here's an explanation of what a discretionary life sentence is as opposed to a mandatory life sentence Discretionary life sentences There are a number of crimes – such as rape or robbery – for which the maximum sentence is life imprisonment. This does not mean that all or most offenders convicted of these offences will get life. Parliament has made provisions that deal with how offenders who are considered dangerous or who are convicted of a second, very serious offence may be sentenced to imprisonment for life. https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/sentencing-and-the-council/types-of-sentence/life-sentences/ Bronson is currently serving a life sentence after taking a teacher hostage in prison, and has been through six Parole Board hearings without release since his minimum term expired in 2003. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/notorious-prisoner-charles-bronson-open-justice-parole-board-high-court-a4464331.html I think taking a teacher hostage probably counts as a very serious offense.

It's not really as convincing as you think when someone offers future scenarios as evidence to support their case. Unless of course you have a time machine or a fully functional crystal ball.

Yes, the real victims are white heterosexual males. Actually, in his mostly mediocre comedy special, Chris Rock did have a funny bit about the rioters in the capitol building. They were mostly white me who were there to overturn the power structure. Rock's point was that, in effect, they were there to depose themselves.

You sure about that? Accordiing to the BBC article you linked to he was given a "conditional life sentence".

And that was only due to war fever.

Here's something else Knowles said in the same article: “And the whole point of transgenderism is that it has nothing to do with biology.” Which just shows what an ignoramus he is: Research on the Transgender Brain: What You Should Know “When we look at the transgender brain, we see that the brain resembles the gender that the person identifies as,” Dr. Altinay says. For example, a person who is born with a penis but ends up identifying as a female often actually has some of the structural characteristics of a “female” brain. And the brain similarities aren’t only structural. “We’re also finding some functional similarities between the transgender brain and its identified gender,” Dr. Altinay says. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know/ Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955456/ Once again, the right reveals itself to be the party of denialism of science.

Well, I hope not because I have some devices that can only be controlled via a 2G channel.

What this bill is really about is empowering the wealthy and powerful to suppress criticism. It's right out of the standard Republican playbook. Do something that will increase the power of the wealthy and powerful, but do it in the name of ideology, in this case going after the liberal media. When it come to the Republicans the rule should always be "follow the money". In the UK, where libel laws are much stricter, this has allowed wealthy individuals virtual immunity to practice skullduggery. There was the famous case of Robert Maxwell who pillaged the pension funds of his workers but got away with it because the media was too intimidated by the prospect of a ruinous lawsuit to go after him.

The only name change was from Octopus-2G to Octopus. I do notice that apart from Octopus, my computer isn't finding any other 2G networks. That is a new development. I may try your suggestion. Right now my mobile is providing a hotspot.

A decade ago, Pennsylvania’s Republican state Senate leader and state party chairman both pointed to the state’s new voter ID law as helping their party win the presidential election in their state. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) did the same thing in Wisconsin in both 2016 and in 2012. And after that 2012 election, former Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer claimed his party was indeed trying to limit early voting to suppress Democratic votes. “It’s done for one reason and one reason only,” Greer told the Palm Beach Post, before saying that Republicans essentially believed, “we’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/14/gops-increasingly-blunt-argument-it-needs-voting-restrictions-win/

Really? He's making stuff up? In Arizona voters passed a referendum to establish an indendent non-partisan commission to create Congressional districts. The Republicans brought a lawsuit to declare the referendum unconstitutional. It failed. In Ohio the voters passed a referendum that dictated how congressional districts should be drawn. The Republicans actually violated the law in creating districts. Because there wasn't enough time to correct this blatant violation, the court allowed the districts to stand for the 2022 election. In North Carolina, as soon as the right wing supreme court violated their own alleged principle of non-interference in politic issues and voided most of the Voting Rights law, Congressional districts were bizarrely gerrymandered to confine most of the black voters into 3 districts. In Texas, most voters use a driver's license to establish their legibility to vote. But Texas refuses to have motor vehicle registration offices open late to accommodate working people who don't drive but need an identity card to vote. They will allow a fishing license also as an ID. But they won't allow a University ID.

And what do you think they see on the internet? There's plenty of straight and gay twerking. But it's only harmful when trans women do it? If these legislators and governors were honestly concerned about children seeing sexualized behavior, then they would ban all sexualized behavior in public regardless of sexual identity. Goodbye Superbowl show! And no, a biological male wearing a dress is not in and of itself sexualized behavior.

I guess I could but that would mean learning how to do it. I probably will have to do just that. Or call my ISP and ask them to deal with it. Anyway, don't you think it odd that my router would spontaneously rename a channel?

Despite that fact the voter fraud is virtually non-existent, Republicans have repeatedly tried and often succeeded imposing conditions that discriminate against less wealthy voters. In the 2020 elections the former president made accusations that in cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, and Atlanta there was widespread voter fraud. You think that's not a dog whistle directed against minorities?

I've been having problems with my http:/https: connections. (skype works just fine) Anyway, the name of my 2G channel seems to have been changed from Octopus-2G to just plain Octopus. Is my router breaking down? Can it spontaneously change the name of a channel? Or has it been hacked? Is this related to the fact that my http/https connection has been very irregular. Sometimes 0 bandwidth, sometimes slow, occasionally near normal.

Or spouting wild conspiracy theories including that elections are rigged.

Maybe you think it's okay for a parent to insist a young girl carry a fetus to term, but that's not the issue here. In this case, the government is claiming that it knows better than parents, what is good for their child.

Funny how this alignment works. It's pretty much the case that the same politicians who insist that parents know better than government when it comes to vaccination or abortion for minors, insist that government knows better than parents when it comes to gender reassignment for minors.

And this is a problem why?

Because such a large portion of the population is opting for this surgery?

The kindness of lynch mobs?

Not that it matters all that much, but I was under the impression that only trans women who have been surgically altered would be eligible to compete. But i don' know for sure. Even so, given that they had a kind of natural steroid boost for the first part of their lives even if surgery was subsequently performed on them, allowing them to compete against biological women is just nuts. One way we know it's nuts is that we don't see too many (any?) trans men competing successfully against biological men. Trans women should compete against trans women and trans men against trans men