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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/revealed-russia-anticipated-kursk-incursion-months-in-advance-seized-papers-show There had been Russian anticipation of a possible Kursk incursion and attack on Sudzha, months in advance. This is embarrassing in different ways for both Russia and...

The specificity directly affects whether something is likely to be considered protected. That's how the constitution works-- and its how the judiciary works, too, because their entire job is to make calls when things are arguable/ambiguous. You cannot discuss this seriously if you refuse to...

Firstly: the fourteenth amendment is far, far more explicit and specific in banning slavery than anything that could be construed as protecting same-sex marriage. The exact parts of the constitution that you're arguing protect same-sex marriage... were not written to protect it, don't mention...

Yet again: not interested in your opinion about whether the different provisions in the RFMA would be sufficient. That's not what we're discussing. This is just another way for you to argue it doesn't matter if Obergefell is overturned, which is an irrelevance to our discussion. ....you...

Hmm. I don't have any of those plats, but I do have the specific trophy they give as the reason for Sackboy to be on the list (the time trial composed of 15 other time trials back to back). It was indeed bloody hard, but Hollow Knight is a harder plat (which I do have but ain't on that list) as...

It's fucking hilarious when some Internet commentator with absolutely zero relevant expertise confidently insists that such absurdly gigantic projects are "easy". Personally, I don't know why we don't just hire elemental sprites to work for us in terraforming the moon. Why haven't scientists...

And a second round of simultaneous explosions in Lebanon, this time targeting handheld radios/ walkie-talkies. 3 dead, ~100 injured. The Taiwanese company under whose brand the pagers were sold denies manufacturing them, and says they were made by a Hungarian company. The Hungarian company...

Approximately 2800 injured (including civilians), 300 critically, by the pager attack on Lebanon. 12 dead, including 2 children. Lebanon intends to file complaint with the UN. It's blatantly a breach of international law, and potentially an effort to stymie negotiations and geographically...

RFMA simply factually doesn't do the same thing. It doesn't ensure that states cannot ban it, which is what Obergefell does. You can argue the different provisions in the RFMA are sufficient all you want, but that's not what we're discussing. ? I don't even understand what point you're trying...

OK, so back onto the topic, now that we've established that there actually isn't a law that would negate reversing Obergefell. So on the question of whether it could happen. Your initial claim, that the Constitution itself precludes the Justices from overturning it, fell apart. What else have...

When you stopped trying to argue that it couldn't happen, and instead started arguing that it doesn't matter, that was an effort to shift the topic, yes. No: my claim from the start has been that the Constitution doesn't prevent them from ruling how they want. They have other considerations...

Not too consistent-- he voted for him in 2016.

And again, that isn't what we're discussing. We're not discussing whether recognition of out-of-state marriages is sufficient. Stop trying to shift the topic. "I don't care". I know you don't care. Stop trying to shift the topic. Except I didn't literally say that. You introduced that to...

I'm not interested in having a discussion over whether the recognition of out-of-state marriages is enough. The fact is that overturning Obergefell would allow states to ban the provision of same-sex marriages, which is what we're actually discussing, and the RFMA would not change that. All...

https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-says-moscow-will-respond-if-kyiv-uses-us-atacms-missiles-strike-russia-2024-09-11/ Ukraine has requested that it be allowed to use US and UK armaments to strike targets in Russia. Putin has said this would mark a major escalation, and that it would be...