It’s not that simple. Changing positions will probably polarize people to vote against him as much as it will win over votes to him.

Especially because those who are likely to withhold votes over this will probably demand the most drastic of actions before Biden passes their purity test.

Geopolitically it’s a bad move on top of that as it ends the relationship with practicallythe only middle Eastern power we have as an ally.

The reproductions of that alone is certain to energize opposition to Biden in the far right.

While he may lose voters over his current inaction, taking action could easily lead to a net loss on election day.

Unfortunately what is best for a country geopolitically and what is morally right often don’t agree with each other.

18 billion yearly profit last I checked.

Not enough.

Never enough.

Yes, truth is a defense.

The grey area this law attempts to exploit is that terms like ‘racist’ have no absolute definition. The term can be used as a response to anything from ‘i don’t like Indian food’ to ‘Hilters views on the aryan race were right’.

Take the Indian food example. If you were you say that, and I called you a racist for it, is that a matter of opinion on my behalf or a fact that is the basis of a defamation suit?

My mother is like this. She rents out her house for under half it’s market value.

The tenants know they have it good though and do a lot of things that really should be my mother’s responsibility like pay for or do minor repairs when they come up.

I have told my mom that the needs to raise rent at least some because she’s not saving enough for big things that will come up like roof replacement, but she’s terrified of her tenants leaving.

Yeah, but I’m talking about if this happened to me when I was a kid.

In the era of social media it’s become common for someone’s racism views posted on their personal social media to get forwarded to their professional relationships (employer, clients) leading to fallout, for example.

This is an attempt at stifling that sort of thing. When this first started the people on the receiving end complained about ‘freedom of speech’.

They where told freedom of speech isn’t freedom of consequences.

This is Floridas attempt at getting rid of the consequences by silencing free speech, ironically.

I kinda would have been, but I had a dictionary at home so didn’t use the library one much.

A 16 year old can get emancipation from the court in Florida. Doing so would make it so parents or guardian would no longer have claim over any money earned.

That’s the one decent argument for this law; an emancipated 16 year old needs the ability to work a full time job to support themselves as no one else is legally required to do so.

The programs these churches run are typically filling in gaps in social programs that the government doesn’t have the political mandate to enact.

If these churches were taxed you’d see their charities diminished while the funding went to some pork belly spending project, or at the very least not related to what services the church is suddenly not providing.

Not all government spending is a net positive.

Most tropical/subtropical areas will have a heat index in this range for the majority of the year thanks to humidity.

I live in Florida and maybe for two months of the year I could cycle around without getting soaked, either by rain or humidity.

I do cycle around for fun though.

Wouldn’t know, have ublock.

8gb of RAM? What year is this?

Bashforever.com

What media is an LLM going to be able to reproduce that I can’t already reproduce with a copy paste?

No joke, 50th anniversary of the first F16 flight is coming up very soon.

Granted the guts of that plane have been upgraded over and over, but still.

It’s no different, both scenarios are threats to your life until the point the trigger is pulled (then it goes from threat to attempt).

I think the issue in the US is that there are so many guns per capita and the population is so anti authority that it will take generations of confiscation before you’ll get a majority of personal firearms out of personal hands.

And in the meantime you’ve removed the right for individuals to have the opportunity to defend themselves in dangerous situations.

It certainly happens.

Just last week I saw a video where a man ran up with a gun to start a robbery. A woman whipped a handgun out of her purse and shot him.

The idea that personal firearms can’t be used for self defense is a silly argument.

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We just had one!