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The Satanic Temple, an activist group based in Salem, Massachusetts, is threatening to sue Twitter for religious discrimination after one of its co-founders had his Twitter account permanently suspended.
Lucien Greaves, the Satanic Temple's co-founder and spokesman, said his Twitter account was permanently suspended without any notice after he asked his followers to report a tweet that called for the Satanic Temple to be burned down.
"We're talking to lawyers today," Greaves said Friday about whether he planned to take legal action.
Source: http://www.newsweek.com/satanic-temple-threatens-sue-twitter-over-religious-discrimination-780148
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Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday January 16 2018, @04:41PM
What that was actually about was no more than the US declaring a no-fly zone in Syria.
How exactly would that *not* have started a war with Russia when the US shot down a Russian jet that inevitably disregarded the no-fly zone? And what gives the US authority to declare a no-fly zone in Syria in the first place, especially when the Russian military is already operating there? What makes you think the Russians would agree to that?
Clinton had serious - even terrible - warts. But "wanting to start a war with Russia" definitely wasn't one of them.
I disagree. Even W. Bush wasn't that bad: at least he had the intelligence to invade countries that didn't have Russia already operating there. You may think Russia doesn't want a war, but that doesn't mean they're just going to knuckle under any time the US decides to unilaterally impose its will.
Her problems were in fairly usual areas for a Democrat: fluffing the rich and powerful; constitutional erosion; crushing personal and consensual choice; the drug war; OMG "terrorists"; "think of the children"; that sort of thing.
But now we're here. Trump's year-long list of errors, lies, and general incompetence still hasn't penetrated through many of these voter's heads
And compared to Hillary (whose problems you yourself list here), exactly how has Trump done such a terrible job? Honestly, I'm aghast that I'm defending Trump here, but as lousy as he's been, I really don't see how the outcome is any worse than Hillary, and in fact it's probably been better. We would absolutely have gotten involved in some type of military conflict with Russia in Syria, and if you can't see that, I feel sorry for you. The biggest problems I've seen with Trump's actions this first year are 1) nominating (successfully) a very conservative SCOTUS justice, who we'll now be stuck with for several decades, and 2) picking Jeff Sessions for AG, who's now attempting to bring back federal MJ enforcement, though not much has actually happened there yet. Sometimes I wonder if Trump isn't just a puppet for the PTB, because we're really not seeing the complete disaster that seems like should have happened with his incompetence, and he seems to have actually picked a few good subordinates (Mattis and Tillerson in particular), and his antics are just a diversion.
But we - I - know from past experience that when things go seriously off kilter, as they have with this president, the voters have always stepped up and swung the pendulum back. They did it with Bush; they'll do it again with Trump.
Now you've actually proven that you don't know what you're talking about. The voters didn't "step up" with Bush (II), they re-elected him for another term after he started two, not one, but *two* wars in the mideast. The same thing is going to happen in 2020: the Dems are going to pick another lousy candidate (either Hillary again for a 3rd time, or maybe that idiot Oprah who peddles snake oil and quackery on her show), and they're going to lose, and we'll have 4 more years of Trump. And it's not just the voters that are incompetent, it's the opposition party, for picking such terrible choices. And Kerry wasn't even that bad, but these days the Dems are intent on picking people that are far, far worse, so the Reps can get away with some really awful candidates.