Remember when, in the 90s, it was the right wing calling federal agents "jackbooted thugs" and even saying to shoot them in the head if they came for you? What transformed them into the apologists and supporters of the same behavior today?
It has to be deeper than just "Trump."
@ScottGreenfield That phrase has always irked me. Correlation doesn't necessarily *mean* there's causation, but as a matter of course it always implies it.
(Unless you're talking to a logician, in whose jargon "implies" means "is sufficient evidence to conclude." But who talks to those weirdos?)
Just had some (many) pickled Carolina reapers, and then… … …time-warped to 1987 and going to an REM concert filled to the gills with Southern Comfort and Scotch Bonnet, then came down and my MOUTH IS BURNING OH GOD WHY IS IT BURNING?
Remember Trudy and her feathers? If so, I've added a new page to the section on Overcriminalization and Strict Liability that might interest you. https://t.co/qxQdMsCTgV
18 U.S.C. §§ 842, 847, 27 C.F.R. §§ 555.29 & 555.215 make it a federal crime to have trees that are 10 feet or shorter around the building where you keep your explosives.
On this day in 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
Let's learn more about this tragedy.
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