Upvoted because it's true. Duh.

I think the literature actually says that conservatives (not authoritarians) are more likely to have a lower genetic disgust threshold than liberals.

That last "I gotta go" seemed like a slip back into a bit of maleness.

Let's wait until a hundred bucks buys you a single cigarette.

My favorite thing about Marx is his famous quote:

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions"

So deliciously ironic.

I won't drill into the minutia, but the 16th Amendment (like a vampire at your doorstep) has no power over you unless you allow it ("let it in" or believe its lie). Sadly, we all allow it. Those who don't, get crushed. Not by an honest application of the 16th, but in various ways by the state before the truth is exposed.

Technically, the 16th only has power over (some) business profits. Through obscurity, tricks of language and a century of media and judicial gaslighting (we all remember recent gaslighting about other topics, right?), we have been brainwashed to believe that the 16th applies to wages.

We believe it so thoroughly that we are like the covidiots and election-steal-deniers we all make fun of. We double down on the 16th amendment narrative we born and raised with. Laughing and ridiculing anyone who questions the narrative.

Just like the stolen election, the courts won't even entertain the counter-narrative because exposing the fraud of the 16th amendment is unthinkable to the state.

The writers of the 16th could have made it air-tight, but they deliberately didn't. Taxing wages would be unconstitutional, and would have not stood up in court. So, they wrote the amendment in such a way as to NOT tax wages while making everyone believe that it did. That's why (even to this day), IRS instructions state that filing is voluntary. It's the loophole they need to remain constitutionally unassailable while merrily taxing individual wages without fear of being stopped.

Stealing elections is illegal, too.

So, what's your point?

The most casual observer would be compelled to ask, "Why are dems closing ranks to defend a loud-mouthed MAGA-hat wearing Trump supporter?"

It's relatively easy to get a non-resident carry permit from Florida through the mail.

Cuz they think it's funny.

Are venomous snakes malicious or incompetent? Neither. It's simply their nature to be dangerous, and they need to be avoided or killed.

And they certainly should never be listened to nor obeyed.

I wonder if she would have done that to a girl.

It's pro-children. Not anti-trans. The trans movement is an evil, destructive hoax.

"Eight Defendants Indicted in Michigan for Obstructing an Abortion Clinic"

FTFY

If that's true, it's not surprising.

To people like Bragg, life is completely Machiavellian and (like von Clausewitz) they view politics to be on the same continuum as war - and they see no reason that "All's fair in love and war" shouldn't apply to politics, too. No honor. No shame. No guilt. If they "get caught", they don't care. It's just factored into the game like everything else.

Somebody needs to get punched in the face tens of thousands of times.

Please elaborate.

Bullshit. People have been farming in “The Ukraine” for centuries. You think the millions of people who live their and the Ukrainian language just magically appeared in 92?

Ukraine has been known as the breadbasket of Europe for centuries. Their topsoil is four feet thick.

Born in New York.

Mel Gibson

When will a distributed database of the elite's biometrics and real-time location be developed?

I think the world needs a publicly searchable database enabling the ability to instant identify and locate each and every elite on the planet.

Sort of predicted by Adrian Krieg in his book (published in 2000): "July 4th, 2016, The Last Independence Day"

https://www.amazon.com/July-4th-2016-Last-Independence/dp/0873190475

Unregulated in the sense of uncontrollable. Governments may try to regulate it, but like 3D printing, blockchain or home-brew pharmaceuticals, I think AI will eventually become a people's technology, and be very hard to stop.

Your black pill analysis is sound.

But, I think it's a bit shortsighted. Chat bots are not the be-all nor end-all of AI. AI innovations will emerge that will make today's chatbots look as quaint as Pong compared to VR. Or Eniac compared to a smartphone.

Uncontrolled AI will become ubiquitous, decentralized and cheap.