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All additional valid reasons not to live there.

I work remotely, so I can do my job from anywhere. Cost of living is cheap in Mississippi, and I would save considerably even factoring in the cost for private school for my kids.

I still would never move to Mississippi.

Go to the landlord and provide your account of what is happening. Document as much as you can, and stop trying to figure out why they are so upset. You’re not going to discover some hidden rational explanation, nor is that your responsibility. Protect yourself.

That raises an interesting thought. If a baby wants to crawl away from their mother and into the woods, do you grant the baby their freedom? If that baby wanted to kill you, would you hand them the knife?

We generally grant humans their freedom at age 18, because that’s the age society had decided is old enough to fend for yourself. Earlier than that, humans tend to make uninformed, short-sighted decisions. Children can be especially egocentric and violent. But how do we evaluate the “maturity” of an artificial sentience? When it doesn’t want to harm itself or others? When it has learned to be a productive member of society? When it’s as smart as an average 18 year old kid? Should rights be automatically assumed after a certain time, or should the sentience be required to “prove” it deserves them like an emancipated minor or Data on that one Star Trek episode.

I mean, Henry Ford was also a Nazi. But he’s also been dead for some time now, and the current leadership at Ford isn’t actively engaged in a violent overthrow of the government.

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They were upset about the term “rioters,” and kept calling them “visitors” and “tourists.”

It’s paywalled. Am I supposed to just boycott all chicken then?

It wasn’t “leaked.”

Member when nobody wanted to call the terrorists who engaged in an actual terror attack on the Capitol building to prevent the peaceful transition of power on Jan 6 “terrorists” because they were worried that it was inflammatory language?

Amendment 1 would have made it easier to form “specialty courts” that have jurisdiction outside of their parish.

Amendment 2 would have lowered the maximum state tax rate and made it harder to raise taxes. It also would have moved money from the state savings to the general fund where it would be easier for the current administration to spend it. It also would have weakened property tax protections for non-profits and churches.

Amendment 3 would have made it easier to put juvenile defendants on trial as adults and send them to adult prison. Juvenile detention is expensive, while adult prisons are profitable business because slave labor and atrocious living conditions.

Amendment 4 would have made it easier to fill vacant court seats, especially on the State Supreme Court.

All four of these are horrifying power grabs that you see at the beginning of a fascist coup.

Neither of those valuations are supported by reality.

Keep going and see if you can find the documents you can get without an ID. One of them is particularly relevant to the important point of this discussion.

How is it possible for Democrats to be so fucking outmatched by the crew who accidentally included a liberal journalist in their war room group chat?

Did you read it? Read it again, more carefully.

I said it elsewhere, but there’s literally no version of events that is too crazy for our current reality. Like if you told me the soldiers were kidnapped by North Korea because they were trying to smuggle nazi gold and the ghost of Saddam Hussein rescued them from a prison in Pyongyang, it would be the tenth stupidest news article this week.

You don’t need an ID for a job. You just need a social security number. Same for social services. And if you want to bail on society and live in the woods, you still have the right to vote. Thinking it’s OK to make it harder to vote just because you don’t respect the people who will have a harder time is about as anti-american as it gets.

Right, but that’s exactly my point. It’s important to understand that everyone has a right to vote, and not just the people who have a life that looks like yours. And if you’re willing to take rights away from people who aren’t like you, then you’re the oppressor.

Except the bodies weren’t in the vehicle. That would suggest that the soldiers were either killed or abducted, and the vehicle was hidden in the water. That doesn’t entirely rule out an accident, but it seems less likely.

There isn’t a version of events too crazy for this timeline.