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[โ€“] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago

And the general distrust of the medical community that RFK preys upon. Don't forget she also helped publicize, and likely contributed victims indirectly to, John of God, a rapist cult leader who (by some estimates) raped THOUSANDS of women and girls.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean, it's never happened. But the US declaring war on Danish territory would violate Article 5.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Remember that you'd have to get at least 38 state legislatures to ratify it as well. Getting any amendments passed in the modern day is a whole circus in and of itself, and I highly doubt there's enough political capital to get such an obviously targeted amendment (since the candidate in question would've had to have two nonconsecutive terms - meaning this applies to Grocer Cleveland and Donald Trump) passed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Nah, "get rid of FEMA" has been a thing for a long while, since before 2000. The issue is FEMA looks like a giant black box that does nothing but suck money when they aren't being actively used, at least to the layperson, and when they ARE engaged with a disaster, people don't get that it's almost always local aid networks and such that actually handle distributing things because they know their town and the people who need help better than FEMA does, so they still look like all they're doing is dumping truckloads of supplies off in the middle of the area. They also buy scary things like body bags (because natural disasters tend to wind up with a lot of dead bodies), making dumb people think they have some ulterior, sinister motives (see X-Files).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Keep in mind that the American side of the Catholic Church is almost at right angles to the RCC nowadays, to the point where some in the Church hierarchy are starting to see it as a schism.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lions Led By Donkeys! Weird and usually stupid military history, featuring everything from Roman warfare up to Vietnam.

I'll also toss in Well There's Your Problem. It's an engineering disasters podcast. With slides (if you're watching on YouTube).

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Omnibus is also good in this vein. Ken Jennings and his friend go over some weird and obscure history you might not know about. It's not very in-depth a lot, more factoids, but always pretty cool.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In an administration run by a man who has stated he wants to be a dictator, we shouldn't assume the rule of law will hold any force, including whistleblower protections.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Eh, Ramsay's attitude is mostly put on for American audiences. If you watch his stuff that isn't exclusively for American TV, he's still fairly foul mouthed, but fairly chill and humble about a lot of shit. His Last Meal episode on Mythical Kitchen's YT channel is well worth a watch for a decent insight.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I forgot how accidents only happen here in the US. Couldn't possibly have collisions with anyone in the EU or UK. Couldn't have anything bad happen on a bicycle anywhere else. Nope, just the US.

Wear your damn helmet. You'll thank me when your skull doesn't get fractured because you ran over a small rock or hit a wet patch and lost control.

They don't call them "accidents" because you can avoid 100% of them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You really should. You've only got the one brain, and that brain is actually pretty delicate for how squishy it is, given it's contained inside a very stiff skull. A helmet at least puts some extra shock absorption between your brain and whatever's going to hit your head.

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