TIL: Invaders and Collaborators == "political opponents"

Obviously La Résistance was being hyperbolic and reactionary by refusing to engage the Vichy government in peaceful political protests.

/s

That's one city, there are numerous other cities without Infrastructure problems who are dealing with broken water mains because of the cold.

It's not so much that the infrastructure down here is decayed (though some is), it is that we don't bury our water and sewer pipes as deep into the ground as is done in the North There is usually no need to.

As a result when the temperatures got down into the single digits, the ground got cold enough to cause the water in those pipes to freeze.

It is not just the infrastructure.

In Atlanta, we had multiple water pipes break in our building's parking garage. The design was built to withstand below freezing temperatures for a handful of days.

Not temperatures in the teens for almost a week, it just doesn't get that bitterly cold down here to call for the insulation necessary for that.

The jackpot's elbows are too sharp, wouldn't bang buy a ticket

I agree that this is a really complex problem, and the policy definitely needs to be sunset in a rational and controlled way. But I am still wondering under what authority the SCOTUS is acting to extend it indefinitely.

Well, that is not what I said.

And I am not feeling like debating the minutiae of Rousseau and the trade offs that are made of personal liberties for the benefits of communal society. First because that is not within the scope of what I was suggesting, and second because the nuance of the social contract I feel might be lost on your misguided moral absolutism.

What a cute straw man you have there...

But, the nations I listed are all democracies. If they no longer saw a need for compulsory military service then the people would vote to end it (the same way that Germany and US did). But the people of those nations see a societal good in it, for most of them it is because there is a belligerent nation just across their border (or in the case of Ukraine currently invading), and having a population that could be ready to take up arms in defense in a disciplined fashion is a good idea for them.

Wow... the level of privilege dripping from that statement is ridiculous. I am going to guess you have never served. And have never been in a situation where people were fighting for the survival of their home and family. And you obviously have never lived fearing what might come the next day because the people across an imaginary line have rifles, artillery, and missiles pointed at you.

How comforting it must be to live in that blissful ignorance and not having to exert any empathy towards those who live on the knife's edge.

>Compulsory military service is a massive human rights violation and a form of fascism.

That is the single most ignorant thing I have read this month. Compulsory military service is not a human rights violation or a form of fascism, it is a method to make sure that your population is trained and ready to defend themselves in the event of an invasion from a larger force... You know, like China.

It is used by nearly every nation that has a belligerent on its border. For example:

• Ukraine
• Finland
• South Korea
• Germany (during the Cold War)
• Austria
• Georgia
• Greece
• Lithuania
• Estonia
• Norway
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Armenia

In the US, with his accounts frozen, wearing an ankle monitor, with not only all of his money but his parent's money too locked up in a bail agreement, and his face plastered everywhere so even if he managed to go on the run everybody would recognize him immediately.

But sure he is "free".

Wouldn't that be considered cruel and unusual punishment?

"Masked Gang" is a weird euphemism for a group of FSB assets.

A number of companies have made (or are contemplating) similar bans. If your phone is provided by the company or is a personal device that connects to the company communications then you cannot have TikTok installed on the device.

In three days the weather phenomenon that is causing this extreme and sudden turbulence is likely to have passed.

I am thinking that we may be seeing the initiating events that create a replacement organization for the UN.

I may not be a medical expert, but that just seems like a bad idea.

A little context on this from a local.

Nobody here in Atlanta wants 'Cop City' except the cops.

Ma's FinTech company Ant Group (which is funded by his Alibaba fortune) is a direct challenge to the CCPs centralized hold on the nation's capital. So they are cracking down on him and trying to seize his assets.

Gone are the days when Twitter was a force for global communication. It is quickly becoming a tool of fascists and terrorists.

They would have to go to federal court to block it now... which is highly unlikely to succeed.

Jordan Peterson, the guy who showed up for a debate about the works of Karl Marx, but apparently had only ever read a 23 page pamphlet that the philosopher co-wrote.

Crazy idea I know, but what if the Republicans were to start advocating for popular policies that helped everybody and that everybody liked... Instead of whatever it is that they are doing now.

And there is the problem with our current legal theory of self defense. It makes gun battles between groups of people unjusticiable... In effect, you can legally commit murder, if you know that the people you are shooting at will shoot back.

That is exactly the "legal theory" that the prosecutors cited. They should be disbarred for failing to competently and diligently represent their client (the people of Chicago).