Israel has labeled BDS, the actual peaceful option, terrorism.

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.

Why is what? Why did the ban expire? It had a sunset date and wasn’t extended. Why are fully autos not popular? Combination of laws and practicality. Why are certain civilian semiauto rifles called assault weapons? Military has assault rifles, civilians use the broader term assault weapons to capture a broader category.

Why not go after handguns? NRA and their ilk keep blocking those efforts.

The Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired in 2004. In the civilian context, an assault weapon is semiautomatic. Fully automatic weapons are, to put it lightly, uncommon among civilians so assault weapon refers to a variety of styles of semiautomatic firearm.

*Qs up

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

Due to the way Lemmy is set up and how people subscribe to communities, if you want something to have a wide reach, you need to post it to multiple instances of the same community. Similarly, if you’re trying to gauge, as I am, which of the 7 different “tech” subs or “news” subs actually has community engagement, you need to post to all of them. Interestingly, with the news subs, the ones with more comments are not consistent and not always the ones I expected. Also, the type of engagement varies from community to community so it’s pretty interesting seeing how different people in different instances react to the same article.

It’ll even out over time, but if you don’t like it, you can always block me.

Probably because it’s expected, it’s happening “somewhere else” to “minorities,” and the people being racist aren’t always using slurs. Same reason news outlets don’t really report on crime in known high-crime areas. Many people do not understand that these issues also affect them because it normalizes racist behavior, which in turn hurts the economy.

Oreo O’s. Easily the best.

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.

Also sexual harassment and wage issues, but as a hockey guy as well, the rest is pretty bang on.

You still have to apply to the job and the new company doesn’t necessarily have to hire you. I know many people who lost their jobs when a federal contract went to a new company even though the actual job didn’t change.

The problem is that puts some of these people and many many others, who are completely innocent, out of a job. It’s contracting, typically if you don’t work you don’t get paid unless you take leave.

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.

Dogs can look up.