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We tend to forget he was the "Example" the authorities tried to make at the time.

He was portrayed in court as "a man who could whistle nuclear codes" as the reason for preventing him from having access to the phone as he was entitled. They took his cans of tuna-fish away because too many people were providing him food assistance from outside the prison.

I will remember Kevin as the "kid that coulda been me." His persona and personality afterwards, well I try not to judge him too harshly, but I got "Do you know who I am"'d at least once while volunteering at a Con by him. He definitely enjoyed the limelight and played as many encores as the staff let him get away with.

Never had a beer with him, but I'll pour one out for him this year. RIP the last man to be able to whistle the nuclear codes.

Well theoretically 100% of the unsolved could be, they haven't solved them after all.

Of course Florida would do this, they're part of the "Mark of Cain" south.

That is: Southern Preachers maintained the horrific canon that black slaves would only survive as subservient to their white masters, because god had marked them. This is a big part of all the separations of churches during the civil war.

Systemic refers to it being ingrained in the system. This is a town that refuses to accept that a black man won the election because they only handed it down among white folk.

If the system is 2 people, 1 in power and 1 without it can be regular racism and systemic racism.

Their representatio ratio is as systemically biased as apartheid south africa... So... yeah its systemic, but it really seems regular racist too.

That's basically a prison graveyard, they're on prison property and no one can visit...

In cases such as this it would be amazing to bar them from having funerals.

“You’re too old to sit in a cell, so we’re just not going to ever lay you to rest”

Maybe it would help these criminals think about ramifications before committing their heinous offenses.

Oh come now, we have much worse punishments: they're now under conservatorship, by Britney Spears dad and are on their way to the cheapest old folks home in their state. They're "technology safe" so they can't access the internet for their own personal safety...

Ya know, old folks prison, where poor people go after their family forgets about them and they die of neglect.

That honestly just sounds like they're going after more government contracts. Gov't compliance can sometimes require asinine security controls because they expect the users are the weakest link in every design. That can sometimes be true, but when folks are developing things you sometimes have to let them make foot guns or they can't build things.

Churchill, FDR, Stalin and Hitler were contemporaries, we're talking about history and ideology. It is perfectly reasonable to speak to an example scenario where his contemporary whom he tried to draw stark contrast in public media did the opposite of him.

I would say that the writers of FDRs biographies have definitely biased his historiography to the point where he's a "Great Man."

I would say they underappreciate the capitulation he was forced into with regards to the New Deal, and how he essentially appointed socialists to his cabinet to stop what he perceived was a potential Bolshevik style revolution. The same thing is essentially what happened with the FEPC where he made an agency specifically to "eliminate discrimination in the defense industry" he perceived a very real threat of black men marching on the capital in protest if they weren't provided equal protections and it would affect the war effort.

When asked about the "jewish problem" his plan to "spreading the jews thinly" across the world was arguably advocating for cultural genocide.

You could really look at most of what he did and see it does increase the non-segregated races average income, and thinks like infant mortality... these were all great, and things he wouldn't have even considered if he didn't think they would starve out the oncoming violence.

You can look right at one of the first things he did during his administration for this pattern of capitulating to what he perceived as dangerous political movements:

The first people to hear about the announced CCC jobs and available positions were the Bonus Army camp in Washington, D.C. It worked so well it basically ended the entire movement. Congress later (3 years) did it anyways, despite him vetoing it, but it's pretty clear he didn't consider their request. It's basically the very essence of the current Conservative "work for food" mentality with welfare programs.

So While I see that some of the historiography likes to paint him as a Great Man for some of the things he did, I would say he was a Great Politician, and a very average upper-class rich man for his time.

"Always was..."

To clarify, most individual donors are check bundled as part of "not pac" Pac activities. Look at the donor lists and dates where there are hundreds at the individual donor limit, and all received during the same day... it happens all the time for all the politicians that are for sale. (I guess everyone but the handful of house members ala: Katie Porter has said they'd take PAC money...)

We've got 2 types of politicians now, Populist Polar Penguins, and Middling Milquetoast Mouthbreathers. If you don't want the Penguins you gotta vote for the Mouthbreathers that will get the most votes. And vice versa. The parties are just outfits the funding sources put on their puppets every election cycle, they love it though since they get to share the strings on either one.

I feel like I did when I was a kid, and Pro Wrestling was obviously fake, but saying that outloud was going to get me kicked out of every backyard WWF match in the neighborhood. There's a big group of people that look at politics and don't see the obvious pagentry and don't draw the stupidly clear lines between the haves and the poltiical campaigns around the nation or if they do "it's only the other guy that's faking it!"

"You're right, Macho Man is faking it, but so is the Hulkster."

"YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"

Sounds like a great way to lose lots of smart, educated, well funded professionals from your population. They know they're in the EU right?

While I appreciate thinking of this in absurdity, you're being disingenuous here. It's like reading a book for a person with eidetic memory then asking for "writing in the style of so and so." And so you use exactly the sentence structure, the verbiage and even the paragraph style. When inspected, you perfectly reproduced the writing style, but effectively only changed a couple words to match the request.

You reproduced 95% of an essay, and 5% of it is yours. You didn't improve on the work, you simply changed the least amount of it you could to suit your purpose.

The way these systems retain the relative symbols is irrelevant if the structure and form of the original is what gives it it's value. The parameters are simply those things that are elements of someone elses copyrighted material. The lawsuit alleges that the books were used, well it's not too hard to get GPT to spit out gutenberg books, or to lie to it and get it to think other books it knows are now public domain and have it do the same. Paragraph and page you can get it to barf them back out verbatim.