Their only comeback so far has been to accuse the entire Republican party and/or all Trump voters of being moon landing deniers.

We know who wants to tear down every single achievement of Western civilisation, and it's not the Republicans.

No, this is not racist, and neither is the reverse. If a white man dressed as Wesley Snipes as Blade it would be a statement of admiration for Wesley Snipes' work, just as this is a statement of admiration for Arnold Schwarzenegger's work.

Shot... Again: shot with a gun... over a half dozen puppies to death, in their cages, in the pet shop, to prevent owners from retrieving their puppies that had been rightfully purchased. All so that the owners wouldn't cross the illegally constructed internal boundaries.

Unless you're talking about a different event, it was fifteen dogs in a dog pound in Bourke, not half a dozen in a pet shop.

If she was a man, she wouldn't have written her PhD about "Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying".

FI = Fucked Ifiknow??

Financial Institution, I assume.

That has more precedent - in both Eastern and Western folklore there's a belief that a vampire was compelled to count and could be distracted by scattered seeds or a bag of rice.

To be fair, people have been complaining about pacing in broadcast anime since Dragonball Z. If you're not trying to fill out a half hour timeslot you don't need to stretch the manga out like they have in the past.

That's an ice axe. It's a real thing.

You've found an excuse to purge every communist and Islamist from society. Stop whining about it.

If I was Trump, I would have donated $1,000,000/1024 to the charity. For less than a thousand dollars he could goad the entire left-wing propaganda engine into running front page articles about how her claims of Native American ancestry are overblown.

Or the Italian who tried to mock Trump by depicting him as a seven story tall armoured god.

Sure - gatekeeping means keeping them out of the chain of command. Being open source means they could create their own parallel command structure by forking the project, but it doesn't compel you to invite them into yours.

A more honest interpretation would be that he was carrying out a false-flag attack to justify reprisals against the "racists."

Apparently Cloudflare’s business model is something like the mafia’s

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zj7ei5Egk8

I remember this one, and I think Cloudflare was in the right.

The customer was creating trouble for Cloudflare by running an online casino using Cloudflare's cheap service. Doing this both risked poisoning Cloudflare's IP addresses by getting them banned for hosting an illegal website and potentially would get Cloudflare themselves in legal hot water since it's their name on the paperwork. At that point, Cloudflare would be 100% justified in banning the customer on the spot for brazenly violating their TOS in ways that would damage the company.

Instead, Cloudflare directed them to Cloudflare's expensive service. This service gives the customer more control over their plan, including the option to tie it to your own IP address instead of using Cloudflare's. Since it would be the customer's IP address at risk and the customer's name associated with the website, it would solve the problems on Cloudflare's end and thus they could reasonably say the expensive service is acceptable where the cheap service is not.

Cloudflare is guilty of bad optics by giving the banned customer the option to switch to the more expensive plan where Cloudflare's liability is removed, but the only alternative was to ban the customer outright.

Could it be hazing? Apparently bullying down the pecking order is a noteworthy problem in the Russian military.

Pokemon is almost 30 years old. Patents expire because they are meant to promote innovation by giving inventors a competitive advantage over anyone who lurks about waiting for other people to do the R&D for them, and not stifle innovation by giving inventors a permanent veto over who gets to iterate on their invention. So a lawsuit on those grounds years after any such patent would have expired is clearly invalid.

We can agree it's not a sport. I can't comment on whether it's any good as a form of dance.

Fuck moral relativism. The deaths on both sides of the Ukraine-Russian War are tragic, but the only good Islamist is a dead Islamist.

Your last sentence is incorrect. If the pagers were spontaneously combusting then using a battery as a pyrotechnic device would be more credible, but if you've watched any of the videos it's clear that they're using some kind of high explosive.

Personally, I'd attribute that to the three adopted kids having such a terrible home life that being adopted out in primary school is a lesser evil. You don't need vaccines to explain why pound puppies aren't well adjusted.

Good on her and good on Salvini for defending her.

Why wasn't it more powerful?

Because a pager is small, so you can't hide a very big grenade inside it. It might also have been a deliberate decision since you're just trying to kill the guy with the pager and not the entire room.

and why were they targeting a random cashier?

They weren't, the cashier ran off. It was the customer who dropped to the floor after the pager exploded on his waist.

And just one day later one of her supporters has tried to create justification for this ban with an attempted assassination against her political opponent.

You're correct. "Assault rifle" means something. "Assault weapon" is like wanting to ban cars that look fast.

Open border libertarians are short-sighted individuals who do not understand the need for preemptive defence. The first requirement of a libertarian state is that it is able to defend its libertarianism - if China can skip the One Child Policy by sending all their surplus population to the United States, you'll soon find you've been outvoted and are now a Chinese vassal state.