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You would think a Pastor would have a serious problem with that. Only in Trumps America.

Nonsense. American religion has been this fucked up for decades. Every time I hear about some horrible act of depravity, I get less surprised when I find out it was perpetrated by a pastor, not more.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago*

    saying no to Donald Trump is the same thing as saying no to the Christian god.

    The right thing to do, because each has a documented history of being an utterly despicable despotic cunt?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    The Lib Dems basically gave away their negotiating power in the coalition agreement for nothing but an expensive failed attempt to change from FPTP.

    Expensive is an understatement. They threw away their promise on student fees in the process of this. Causing their vote share to collapse at the next election. Meaning that Cameron's plan to offer an EU referendum in the manifesto, but negotiate it away during coalition talks wasn't applicable. Meaning he had to actually offer the Brexit referendum...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    By spray painting fighter jets. I believe that this was based on paint having got into the engine and necessitated a full rebuild or something similar.

    But the figure came from the company who lease the aircraft to the RAF, and the MoD have never substantiated it or released their own.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    It's literally called the "department of corrections"

    And they literally manage "United States penitentiaries", so it's probably not worth playing the semantics game.

    Put it another way - is Trump really redeemable at his age? If not, what should happen to him after this is all over? I think that denying him his freedom, with or without an attempt to rehabilitate him, would be a reasonable punishment. I think he deserves worse, I just don't trust anyone to judge and administer that properly.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    In what sense are they supposed to be rehabilitation centres? Prisons have always been places of punishment, and places where we can remove people we don't believe are safe in society. Rehabilitation is one of their aims, and it would be nice if it were the main one, but I don't think that is functionally true almost anywhere in the world.

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    I wonder how many levels of remove are needed before the police will actually leave you alone.

    "I support people who support people who support the Palestine Action hunger strikers' mums"

    "I explicitly oppose all actions of Palestine Action, but support every one of their members on a purely personal level"

    "I support Palestine Action if the police officer who arrests me is a wanker, otherwise I don't"

    "Sometimes I support Palestine Action, but only when there are no people under the age of 80 within 50 metres of me"

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