(November 6, 2024 at 3:36 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:(November 6, 2024 at 3:28 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Sure. Russia has elections all the time.
Fucking EXACTLY!
Come on, the reason Russia has "elections" and is a pseudo-democracy is because Putin murders all of his opponents.
Trump did say that he will persecute his opponents just for opposing him, but that would trigger unrest among the people because Americans are not spineless little turds like Russians. So, he would need to be in an arms conflict with the democratic politicians and half of the US population. That would probably trigger the civil war.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
