Don’t know if I’d say simpler, some of the games for the NES are downright punishing in their difficulty.

No, not even a little bit. There is a difference between being an asshole and committing a hate crime.

I’m not sure there is a difference with this law.

Hate crime laws, when properly crafted and enforced, are an important component of a functional society.

I’m not sure that’s true. Freedom of speech is an important component, and sometimes that means tolerating distasteful speech.

They can act as a deterrent, but they are also a way for those materially harmed by a hate crime to get justice.

What constitutes harm though? The UK tends to include offense (or offence) as a harm.

Free speech is never a universal right, anywhere in the world. There are always legitimate restrictions to ensure the public’s overall health and safety.

Absolutely, but being offended by a bigot probably shouldn’t be criminal without some component of advocacy for violence.

A person commits an offence if they communicate material, or behave in a manner, “that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive,” with the intention of stirring up hatred based on protected characteristics.

Take away their veto, it belongs to the Soviet Union, which they are not. Give it to Ukraine while you’re at it, they have roughly as much claim to it.

Is my pareidolia flaring up or does that glacier look like Trump’s face? (which also appears to be melting)

Increase the seats to correspond to the number of federal districts, currently 13.

Because bad guys show up for every election, and the good guys, which are the majority, don’t.

20 gunmen killed*

• gunmen may or may not have had guns when shot, but don’t worry IDF soldiers immediately placed guns on each body before alerting the press

we don’t even need evidence to know

No matter what follows this…yes, we do. You should need evidence to believe anything; understanding of course that the more extraordinary the claim, the more extraordinary the evidence needed.

giving them merely some jailtime is not working either, but whatever

Then imprison them for life. Guess what, life imprisonment is cheaper than the death penalty, and can be overturned if there’s an error.

it definitely will make other people think twice before they do the same thing

There is absolutely no evidence to support that assertion.

There is no proof that the death penalty deters criminals. According to the National Academy of Sciences, “Research on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is uninformative about whether capital punishment increases, decreases, or has no effect on homicide rates.”

US Department of Justice

it’s not a great approach in most cases

Any cases.

Do you think a death penalty for netanyahu unfair, in fact not giving a death penalty is unfair to all the children and women and everyone else he has killed

Fair? What does fair mean? Does an execution un-kill the victims? What a ridiculous notion that any sort of punishment for a perpetrator could be “fair” for the victims.

The death penalty is an abject failure. It has no benefits and numerous issues. Practicing barbarism can never be justice.

I have no opinion on the Mexican president, but I live in the States and there’s about 70m people I could ask if Trump is an authoritarian or fascist and they’d say no. So simply living somewhere may not be the best barometer.

come up with a solution

But not just a bandaid solution… probably something more final.

Multi-party, new party…maybe…but single party, I’m not sure I’ve heard anyone advocate for that, certainly not a lot of people.

So weird that they’re not successful at something that they don’t care about.

Have they though? I struggle to find positions that the Democrats hold that are to the left of where they’ve been for the last 20-30 years. They are pro-choice, for racial equality, for gay rights, etc. Republicans on the other hand have swung wildly to the far-right.

I wish the Democrats would move left, but I haven’t seen it in my lifetime, they are a party of centrists, for the most part.

What are you talking about? It’s the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea… democracy is right there in the name! /s

Except that the money flowing to the top 1% are the result of politics. The tax cuts which funnel money out of the public coffers and into billionaires’ pockets also require cuts to services, like education. Polarization is what’s required to motivate voters to continue to vote against their own interests. They’re very much connected.