No problem. To add on being able to identify the way others view matters and the rational they employed to justify their actions allows us to identify logical reasons from their perspective for them to change their opinions.

On point A, I suspect he self-radicalized at first and then entered his own bubble where he further leaned more into radicalization.

On point B, I believe it does. It doesn’t matter what the negative label is; viewing individuals as the caricatures that float in our minds when we hear words like “tankie” or other words that serve only, for us, to brand individuals as part of a incorrect collective encourages us to make these same un-empathic mistakes.

We shouldn’t like many of these people we brand as things like “Tankie”; but we should understand why they feel the ways they do.

why would a leftist who hates fascism go join the Russian army?

Reminder that you are in a bubble. Do not shape your perception of reality based on what you see on this website. It is populated by posts from a relatively small amount of people who lean in the same political direction on many issues.

Russia has been calling the Ukrainians Nazis for years. Putin pointed at AZOV and painted all of the nation in the same broad brush. De-nazification is how Putin labeled his actions. Fascism and Nazism are words that have lost all meaning at this point. The muddling and devaluation of those words is leading our world on a path to authoritarianism.

When you view the matter from the lens adulterated by different propaganda the answer becomes obvious. To him the question was probably “How could a leftist not flee his capitalist homeland and father who is complicit to the oppression of the people’s cause to join the successor of the USSR in their fight to restore the former Union’s territory and drive the ‘nazis’ out of it.”

The federal rule of procedure don’t allow such broad sweeping remedies that apply upon parties not before the courts.

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Chicken breast: $2.99 / lb

They can. The issue is people want everything to be federal and ignore their own state. Most Americans can’t even tell you what the first article of their own state’s constitution is about. Or their own state house rep.

The elderly population has greater healthcare spending per cap than the 20-30 year old population. Getting old sucks.

The conservatives justices (if you buy into the whole conservative/liberal justices thing) would 100% be eager to up hold a state healthcare law if it meant getting to strike down Wickard v. Filburn and allocating more power to the states.

But thanks for being at least one person in this thread who appreciates that Medicare and Medicaid are not synonyms.

There is irony in making someone with your name explain themselves

Since when is it illegal to sell tritium in the US? Gun companies selling tritium glow in the dark sights all the time.

The Pitman Robinson act is fairly popular even among gun owners. That money goes to conservation which allows hunters to hunt game and allows for state agencies to establish shooting ranges for the general public.

This tax seems to be to finances a crime victims fund. A noble end but tied to firearms, peaceable gun owners may be apt to be offended at a perceived implications that they ought to pay for the wrongs cause by criminals.

America and Americans broadly do not respect “international law” as an idea. We don’t vote for representatives in a UN House of Reps or UN Senate. And if we did why would we wish to be beholden to a majority rules vote when that majority combined might be inferior militarily.

America tolerates international law when it doesn’t interfere with our course.

The idea of a “one world government” is treated as a fringe tin hat conspiracy theory nonsense that no one is advocating for.

Every year about 8,000 people file their cases for cert at the Supreme Court. Each year they grant cert on about 80. Roughly 1/1000 odds. Those about 8,000 cases include cases that have also previously filed in past years without cert.

Amicus briefs are not uncommon. They often don’t grant cert when there are no novel legal questions. The Supreme Court simply doesn’t not have the ability to hear every appeal. Them not granting cert in any case should not be taken as a dispositive.

In 21/50 you need a license.

It’s somewhat strange as a story. Polymer receivers have been around for some time. Being printed doesn’t have much market advantage.

Take a shot every time they say countermeasures without giving a concrete example of what from they will take.

Of the videos that have popped up in my algorithm I haven’t seen any Canada hate. If anything maybe some Mexico hate, he had a video essentially asking for a NAFTA 3.0 where we kick Mexico out of the deal so they don’t drag down US-CA relations w/ border politics. But half of his videos seem to be more on culture things like food or flags. Are there any particular anti-canada vids you have in mind?

Can’t comment on the fake accent though never met him. Could be an act.

Assuming you’re from Canada based on the .CA and says provinces (vs oblasts, cantons, or some other regional division), I would point at the interprovincial trade barriers.

Makes a sense in a pre-industrial pre-citizenship world. The broad idea is that you establish that the people voting on things are members of the community to be impacted. That way you don’t have transient people impacting the outcomes of elections.

The real question is why the hell is a governor engaging in international trade or diplomacy? Art. 1 Sec 8.

You realize that between the states the US has all of those?