I think it depends on your legal system. Appointed judges that can overturn legislation are a problem, but if the judges don't have that power and all they're doing is running a courtroom then a judge representative of the community would be an asset.

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New record format just dropped.

Yes, but we're taught that those democracies don't count because they're non white.

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die of blood loss because mouth can't be stitched back together

Elections in America are all about vibes. People who care about facts are nerds.

Saw similarly strange pizzas when I lived in Japan. I think in Asia generally they just have a different idea of what to do with pizza.

Ooh I wanna try this. I used to eat a lot of spam, but then I moved and it wasn't available anymore.

Right. I was saying that Hexbear isn't a cult on the same level as the named examples, that it's just some people with a different view of global politics than the norm, in response to a commenter who insisted that they were a dangerous cult that should be stamped out.

Any state can, but many don't. And the point here was to explain why I don't believe that blaming famine deaths on Mao Zedong is a justified position to take, when the cycle of famine was ended under his watch.

When I was a kid they taught penmanship too. I was awful at it but then when I was an adult I had a job where I actually had to use those skills and I was glad to have them - same with everything I learned in Home Ec, most the stuff I learned in wood/metal/auto shop, etc. I think all of those classes are extinct now, based on how people talk about school never teaching them anything useful.

We were talking about cults, I brought them up as an example. I could have just as easily used Scientology.

There are so many regional differences even if the recipe is 99% the same. Denatured coca leaves aren't a thing outside the Americas, different bottling plants will use different types of sugar, water of differing quality will affect the taste, etc etc.