It's not the players' fault they put the transfer window before the bowl games

You're called a "Tswift hates you"

The far more important point is that this shows food prices aren’t actually down, no?

I cannot overstate the extent to which neither of those places is on my list. I enjoy visiting both from time to time.

I'm going to keep offering this: I know we shouldn't use "gay" as an insult, but I think if we all started calling Pete Hegseth gay, it would totally break him.

"I will pardon these two white turkeys, but only if we kill four brown turkeys we had previously set free"

(If you're upset at my for non-critically talking about something Ezra Klein did, please save it. I know much of Bluesky automatically hates everything he does. No need to point it out.)

The Republican party has not existed since at least the 2016 Republican National Convention.

But even if she had the right Paul, her not liking him doesn't mean he's wrong about what he's saying here (which he is not)

I'm no Ron Paul fan. But it's not like he's ever been totally in line with the Republican party.

Sure, but one of the autocratic adversaries it helped is the Trump regime

You're like my kids. You say, "I disagree" then you explain why you agree with me.

As I said, in THIS context, the intent is clearly to obfuscate.

(I also said that, in other situations, use of these differing terms in non-notable.)

Nah, he's going to pardon them but then eat them anyway and say they were very bad turkeys

Wait, what? Dershowitz is pushing an "Epstein and his clients were trailblazing freedom fighters" narrative?

"they all end up in court" is not accurate. It's certainly true that the real legislative heavy lifting is done by elected reps, though. As I said, you can only have direct democracy in very narrow ways in large societies.

Historically, at least some of the Israeli kibbutz operated as direct democracies as to internal decision making, though I suspect that has waned as totalitarianism has become more acceptable there.

There must be small towns, and tribal societies maybe, that operate on direct democracy.

Direct democracy is only possible in small units or limited purposes. Tons of small companies operate by direct democracy. Many US states operate by direct democracy on certain issues (non-legislature proposed ballot measures).

Direct democracy and representative democracies are both kinds of democracies.

Republic/republican democracy is another term for representative democracy.

It's not notable to call a representative democracy a republic. But in these situations the intent is to obfuscate.

Miller believes executive authority is plenary, so this tracks