Yes. The partisan Republican justices are brazenly issuing not coincidentally generally unexplained rulings with little to no regard for established law, precedent or the Constitution, and by doing so, are clearly violating their oaths of office. That is an impeachable offense. They should be removed, and prosecuted.

I have to push back a bit that the core of the proper definition of libertarianism is freedom from the state.

I’m not sure why you feel a need to push back against something I didn’t say.

Depends on how it’s defined.

Current libertarianism is just rebranded reactionary conservatism.

Classically though, “libertarian” simply referred to someone who advocated for maximum individual liberty and minimum state intervention. The term first gained popularity in the US in the wake of the New Deal, when the term “liberal,” which had up until then referred to that position of maximum individual liberty and minimum state intervention, was coopted by leftist authoritarians. Since the classical liberals needed a new term, they shifted to “libertarian.” And notably, at that point, libertarians were at least as likely to be left-wing as right, with the two groups merely splitting on which specific government services should be counted among the minimum.

That started to go wrong when the Libertarian party was established, and finished going wrong when the Tea Party was transformed from a series of protests against the Wall Street bailouts to a traveling carnival of hate.

And there’s also the political compass sense of “libertarian” as simply the opposite of authoritarian, by which I’m as “libertarian” as it’s possible to be. It should be noted though that in recent years, mostly through meme communities, even that conception of “libertarian” has been increasingly characterized as more of an alternate authoritarianism.

So there’s a conception back behind each use of the term “libertarian” that is at least close to mine (I’m actually an anarchist). But IMO not coincidentally, the term has been in all cases warped to refer to some form of authoritarianism, which I unequivocally oppose.

People complain about the evil of landlords, but it’s nothing compared to companies like this.

Landlords at least nominally provide some sort of ongoing services. There are no necessary services a font company could possibly provide - there’s no maintenance, no upkeep, no ongoing costs at all. This is just pure, and purely evil, rent-seeking.

Um…yeah. About ten seconds of critical thinking also shows that language is not the same as intelligence.

I don’t think that internet technological development is even relevant.

Internet sociological, philosophical, cultural and psychological development is about at the level of the Dark Ages, and that’s the problem that needs to be addressed.

Um… no. I’m an anarchist.

And you sound like a helicopter parent who’s balanced on that fine line between hysterical tears and explosive rage because somebody at the playground said something mean about their darling USSR.

It didn’t. And I’m an anarchist.

If you’re going to rely on ad hominems, you should at least try to make them somewhat accurate and relevant.

Stalin was the leader of the world’s first socialist state

Socialist state is a contradiction in terms.

Stalin was CEO of USSR Incorporated.

Funny that this is the exact same “logic” the libs use to try to defend running a pro-zionist, pro-corporate, pro-billionaire slimeball in the last US presidential election - “But Trump was worse!”

The problem is that the ban is one-sided, and generally boils down to “the oppressed are disarmed but the oppressors are not.”

Then it’s not even a matter of choosing one - they already chose one.

The rest of my point still holds - everybody involved, from the judge(s) on down to the prison guards - knew full well that putting a child sex abuser in with the other prisoners was effectively a death sentence, so for all intents and purposes, they did sentence him to death. They just relied on someone else to carry out the sentence for them.

So it would appear that the death sentence wasn’t actually abolished - it was just disguised.

And that’s cheap and dishonorable.

I think judges and prosecutors are cowards who won’t go so far as to sentence child sex abusers to death, but instead sentence them to imprisonment, then put them in the general population knowing full well that that’s effectively a death sentence anyway.

If the state is going to have child sex abusers killed, then the prosecutors and judges should own it. And if they’re not willing to do that - if they can’t or won’t pass down a death sentence themselves - then they need to sentence them such that they’ll be protected from the other inmates.

I honestly don’t much care which they choose, but they need to choose one. This trick of avoiding responsibility by passing it on to inmates is cheap, dishonorable bullshit.

Imitation meats have never impressed me. They get close, but they inevitably fall just enough short of tasting and feeling like real meat that it feels to me like a wasted effort. I think I’d like them better, oddly enough, if they didn’t even pretend to be meat - if they were marketed as something else entirely.

I love the concept of lab-grown meat, and it seems as if it should be without issue, since it basically is meat in all senses, except that it’s grown in a vat instead of inside an animal’s skin. But since I haven’t had a chance to try it, I can’t say.

One of the very few satisfying things about gung ho murderous assholes is their self-righteous shock when the psychopaths they worship throw them under the bus.

“Sorry [applicant], our social media evaluations find that you do not meet the standards of rage, hatred and ignorance expected of Oklahoma teachers.”

Of course not.

Since his first attempt at a military dictatorship, in LA, didn’t really succeed, he’s had to pull back a bit.

Washington, because of its unique status, is his best shot at fully establishing the precedent that he can institute a military dictatorship in any city he wishes at any time he wishes.

Once the corrupt and compromised conservatives on the Supreme Court rubber-stamp this takeover then he can use that as a precedent to try again in somewhere like LA.

Different reasons for different people.

Some because they expect to benefit from it - they expect to be a part of the autocracy.

Some because they’re angry and stupid and all they know is that people they hate are unhappy about it, so it must be a good thing.

Some because they can’t wrap their heads around it - they can’t believe that it’s really happening.

Some because they think they’re powerless to stop it.

And some because they just want to watch the world burn.

If your party is likely going to lose because it supports destructive and unpopular policies, there are two ways to win instead - switch to supporting constructive and popular policies, or cheat.

Trump and the Republicans have chosen cheating.

That says everything that really needs to be said about them.

Right - that’s the new Christian Single Commandment - “Thou only need bother to be somewhat less evil than those other people over there.”