You really need to read up on American history.

There is a legal, regulated, mostly safe method to buy cigarettes. It is inaccessible if you are under a certain age, but only the seller/provider is punished for violating regulations. It’s okay to have restrictions on what children can consume.

While current laws on illegal drugs do not work, arguing against any regulation whatsoever is similarly silly, the laws obviously work. Smoking rates have dramatically declined since those laws and public education campaigns began.

Look at what Texas did to HISD: took it over claiming “poor outcomes” despite it being one of the best districts in the state. I’m not sure how it works in Virginia but they may try something similar.

*Qs up

That vatnik is a troll, astroturfing for the Russian government, or an idiot. Whatever it is, really not worth engaging.

It’s the ousted leader of a country making a statement about his ousting. We don’t treat state leaders’ statements as “mere opinion” when they’re televized, this isn’t different. It’s just not being contextualized by a third party so it doesn’t go in the News section.

Never mind that this actively hurts troop readiness, morale, and the general effectiveness of the military. Republicans truly and actively hate the troops.

Authors waiting in the wings for just this moment.

I have lived in two of those places for years and I can tell you that you have no idea what you’re talking about.

For example, Fairbanks is only one third of the way up Alaska. There’s still so much left north of it.

There are certain very small remote communities in the far north that are isolated and hard to reach. Whale and seal hunting provides a guaranteed food source for these small communities so that they don’t have to depend on incredibly expensive (both resource and moneywise) imports. The Faroe Islands is not one of those places because obviously a cruise ship can easily get to it.

Their comments are PR mitigation. Pulling up to the whale butchering was definitely not a PR stunt.

These reports are showing it’s not just a couple bad justices, it’s a systemic ethical failure.

If you have a cell plan, they can push to your SIM.

Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn’t make it legal.