Well, mine is dead, so at least you have that.
TheSanSabaSongbird
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This has actually been studied pretty extensively and because suicide is often about opportunity, most people won't simply do it another way. I know it's counterintuitive, but it's what the data shows.
Suicide is often a spur-of-the-moment impulse. Therefore opportunity plays a huge role. Remove the opportunity and a lot of people won't go through with it. This has been studied extensively.
I downvoted you for being a condescending piece of shit, not because I think you're wrong. Just sayin'.
All that and The Golden Gate Bridge is still way better looking. It's not even close.
That's the ironic thing about a lot of your far right militia types; most of them are fat-bodies. Knowing about guns and how to shoot is great and all, but guess what? Actual combat is possibly the single most physically demanding and exhausting activity there is. There's a very good reason why every military on the planet requires that its fighting men be in excellent physical condition. Most of those chumps wouldn't last an hour in a real firefight.
Right? With friends like these...
I think Lemmy skews towards the younger end though. Of course I could be very mistaken as this impression is entirely unscientific and is based solely on the levels of knowledge and general discourse that are prevalent on Lemmy.
To my eye, a large percentage of Lemmy's users are both relatively low-information and lacking in real life experience. They also tend to be very ideological which in my experience is something that tends to diminish with age.
Again, I could be very wrong about this.
Indeed. It was specifically written to be self-executing because it would have been impossible to charge, try and convict all of the tens of thousands of former Confederate officers it was meant to bar from federal office. Because it's self-executing, a simple finding of fact is sufficient for it to apply. The question then isn't whether it requires a conviction, but rather whether it applies to Trump.
To me it pretty obviously does apply to him, but I'm definitely biased as fuck.
The 14th is self-executing which means that you don't have to be convicted in order to be disqualified. The reason it's self-executing is that it was originally designed to prohibit former Confederate officers from holding federal office, and since there was no way that every one of the tens of thousands of former Confederate officers could be tried and convicted, it was written to be self-executing meaning that a simple finding of fact rather than a conviction was sufficient to bar one from running for federal office.
Now, you may not like that and if you're a constitutional scholar you may even have some decent arguments as to why it doesn't apply to Trump, but leaving that aside, you are absolutely full of shit when you imply that he needs to be convicted before the 14th applies. That's why it's a question for the SCOTUS and not random idiots like yourself.
Sorry for being a dick, I'm just tired of this stupid phony talking point.
I think this is a lot more true than many people here suspect. What we're realistically looking at is relatively low-intensity insurrection on the level of, say, Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles. It's still a very bad thing, but it's not existential and if the comparison to The Troubles is accurate, the violence will mostly target federal law enforcement and any military that's brought to bear should Biden invoke the insurrection act.
The real existential threat is Trump actually winning another term.
Also, millions of people make more money than me. The real question is are they happier or more content than me?