So, a Google search says that Elon Musk is a citizen of South Africa, Canada, and the United States.

I know the United States does not recognize the extraterritorial application of speech laws from foreign countries, but does being a citizen of either Canada or South Africa render him libel under British law since they're both part of the Commonwealth?

Big business gonna business.

The biggest opponent of allowing states to tax internet purchases was Amazon. They threatened to pull distribution center deals from states that oppose them, and poured money into state politics.

Once they had distribution centers in something like more than a third of the states, they began to have a competitive disadvantage against other internet retailers- those distribution centers meant that they had a physical Nexus in the state and Amazon purchases would be taxed under the current rules, but other internet retailers who only maintained one or two warehouses nationwide would still be largely exempt.

So they seamlessly pivoted into being one of the biggest advocates for an internet sales tax, to eliminate their competitors advantage. It was never about protecting their customers or doing what was right, it was about what generated the most profits for Amazon.

Well, if that's true, the lawsuit she filed against them might have some merit. I'm sure all the facts will come out at trial.

"we understand he did X"

Is that some English weasel word version of "allegedly" that the press uses to avoid responsibility when they misreport inflammatory information?

Man it sucks when all the men being sent out to fight and die in a war means you have to hang out at the hookah bar alone.

The struggle is real.

Jesus, how do these assholes stay alive and cling to power for so long? She's so old she can keel over and die any minute. I wish she would.

Well, we know he was active today, because he censored one of my posts 8 hours ago. Wouldn't want to suggest that the English fight back against a government allowing Muslims to stab them.

I block the pajeets by name the first time I see them, so I'm not aware if they had any active posts at the time, but if they did, you can tell where his priorities lie.

Fang of the Sun Dougram is an early 1980's mecha anime that is one of my favorites. The plot is the independence movement of a colony seeking to break away from Earth from start to finish.

It has some surprisingly adult themes for a cartoon that was originally for children, and does a really good job of depicting the political infighting and maneuvering of various factions on both sides.

Just a warning that they put so-called "anti-Semitic" companies on their red list along with the woke ones. Be sure to read their reason why a company is included on the list and make up your own mind.

I'm primarily concerned with crimes against people. I firmly believe that breaking and entering, theft, etc should place your life at forfeit.

And by that, I mean the victim should be able to do with you as they please. If they catch you in the act, they can shoot you on the spot if they like, or they can keep you tied to a chair in their basement for a decade, cutting pieces off you every week and keeping you just barely alive.

In contrast, crimes without a victim shouldn't be crimes at all. I don't recognize the concept of contraband property, and I couldn't give a shit what drugs you are addicted to or how often you shoot up as long as you contain your problem to ruining your own life. The second you steal from someone else to feed your habit your life is forfeit.

The change was sparked following a single complaint from an RAF crew member, according to the Mail on Sunday.

That has "white woman" written all over it.

It's the same in the military. People are identified when they are junior captains and then given the right assignments and schools which eventually lead them to making general.

It truly is an uphill battle convincing these people to reform the system, because they don't see anything wrong with it. It works when selecting the best of the best- otherwise it wouldn't have picked them.

This is even more dramatic than the previous comment.

There's plenty of compilation videos of prominent democratic pundits saying people who don't get the shot should lose their jobs or not be admitted into hospitals. You're either being deliberately obtuse or you lived under a rock from 2020 to 2023.

U/Dialectic's point is that the same people pitching a fit that there aren't enough blacks in a 1950s TV show also oppose pretty much everything the people here stand for, and I agree with him.

I post in firearms forums on Reddit, and every once in awhile we'll get someone who drops in that has never contributed before and throws out a bunch of contrarian noise. I check their post history, and they always have the standard prepackaged Democrat platform beliefs: guns are bad, Trump is Hitler, covid was worse than the plague in the Middle Ages, whites oppress minorities in everything they do, etc.

Every. Single. Time.

And these people are a threat, because even if they have relatively "moderate" views for the left, they won't lift a finger to stop the extremists.

It's probably not too far from the truth though. Look at all the people who were aggressively advocating for completely destroying the life of everyone who didn't take a covid vaccine.

They wanted you fired, cut off from healthcare, and basically ostracized from society. All neatly deconflicted with democracy and freedom in their mind because they weren't outright physically harming you. Using all the levers of government power to reduce you to a destitute wreck was A-OK in their book.

And to counter that group, how many said "I took the vaccine but I'm not okay with destroying the lives of people who didn't, because that doesn't fit the values of a free society"? Almost none, those that weren't trying to destroy you were silently sitting on the sidelines just watching it happen.

Thanks.

Like most things on youtube, I have no idea what anybody would want to watch that.

WTF is a "Vtuber"?

Scotty doesn't know.

It's literally right beside the Capital One arena. Did anyone correlate the time it was there with any event?

We're not voting our way out of this slow motion train wreck, regardless of the results of this election.

The real question is what's going to ultimately kick things off and when. No one knows the answer to that.

We know that and they know that, but they've been pretending he was fit as a horse and sharp as a tack up until now.

It's only cognitive dissonance that prevents the same group that was calling for him to drop out of the race from also calling for him to step down now.

Which is crazy. I'm sure a large part of the military will stay and obey their orders, but a non-zero amount is going to either desert or defect the other side and take their equipment with them.

Not to mention the National Guard. If things devolve into a civil war along left/right lines a number of states are going to be seceding and taking their National Guard with them.

They will undoubtedly ignore the larger issue: if he's too incompetent to seek a second term, he's too incompetent to serve the remaining 6 months of his current term.

Jackman's looking pretty old too. Definitely not getting the "ages incredibly slowly due to healing factor" vibe from him in that clip.

I was unfortunately at lunch with a leftard when the news dropped and they said the same thing.

I tried to explain how, even with the best marksman with the best equipment, bullets arent laser beams, and only a fool would let someone shoot at them like that. Of course they wouldn't know anything about it, since "guns are icky". Morons.