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Any red state. Many GOP people are not shy about telling you that LGBT people should die. Many more of them would simply go "well I don't think the government should be funding it."

The issue is they might not be lying. Like we've seen with foreign aid to war-torn SEA and African nations, you can absolutely pour aid into a place and it won't matter because it's not actually going anywhere but into a government warehouse. So the IDF could technically just have aid flowing into their stockpiles in controlled regions of Gaza and say "see look there's enough aid flowing in we don't need to examine hows and wheres."

And due to how Amtrak's scheduling works (because freight rail is prioritized over everyone else), you're likely getting that train at a bad time days before the game. If I wanted to catch a train from my home to Chicago, my only option is Thursday at 4AM. Outside the Northeast, you're lucky to get one passenger train a week from your major metro, if at all.

Moreover, like Hollywood, the gaming industry is largely run by people who truly do not understand the thing they're there to make. All of the C-levels still think it's the early 2000s where you could shit out anything that looked like a popular game and make 20 billion dollars from it. They think their entire market is dumb kids who will mindlessly play whatever is put in front of them without regard to polish, story, or even playability.

Especially since you can see the cop in question pointing his weapon directly at her and her news crew.

We absolutely have the ability to kill half the population if you're not too picky about targeting and happy to rule through the idea of death from above rather than soldiers on the street in Mayberry. This also doesn't account for police complicity, and the fact that there's an alarming amount of right wingers who seem rather elated by the idea of potentially killing their liberal/leftists relatives, coworkers, classmates and neighbors.

The same thing Russia is doing. They want to make it illegal to choose not to have kids if you're a married woman (and then they'll start penalizing not being married).

I don't honestly think he's thinking that far ahead. I don't even know if he can. You forget, Trump truly believes his own shit. Every word that comes out of him, he believes it. When he goes around and says he's the most popular president in the history of ever, he believes that.

We have a malignant narcissist running the country, not a rational actor in any form.

Sending war journos would definitely send a message.

Especially shooting her in the back. Great way to get a wheelchair for life.

Or you get a way to craft them and can make the most broken bullshit imaginable (Skyrim).

Less lethal, not less than. TASER wound up in a big lawsuit after a guy died from cardiac arrest being hit by one, so most manufacturers changed it to "less than", but then a couple more people died from being hit with beanbag/baton/rubber rounds, so now they're marketed as "less lethal" because legally they can't say "this can't kill people" in their marketing when it absolutely can.

Make sure to replace them when they get hit though. They're only rated for one strike, and after that the protection is not guaranteed.

They actually already do. Many grocery stores, when tossing food, require it to be made inedible - bleach or turpentine or something else horrifyingly bad to ingest and strong-smelling gets dumped on it.

They deliberately shot at UN officials, people who have really good connections internationally. I do not think they care. I think the IDF is so far gone that they feel immortal - Israel might truly believe that they can truly do anything and suffer no consequences.

And if they do? "Oh she died of disease/malnutrition/an accident, nothing we could do. No you can't have the body back."

It's sort of Francoist: "I'll kill half the country to satisfy my own ego".

Yeah, the training for these includes "well here's what not to do wink".

I was about to say, legally this is an act of war. There's also some parliamentarian from the EU on there, so...

Trying to bypass posse comitatus via EO? An interesting gambit, since TECHNICALLY it's not the president deploying troops.

Oh, Russia has an idea of their envisioned future. They even have a checklist for it.

Unfortunately, a good chunk of the steps are "and then the country surrenders to the overwhelming might of the Russian military".