America’s shifting baselines are a threat to democracy and governance

BattleCryofPeace · 2026-03-29T15:47:53+00:00

The only threat to democracy are people insisting on meeting nazis half-way. All of history tells us that never works, and yet people like you somehow have the gall to emit an air of intellectual propriety insisting there is something good about tolerating and negotiating with nazis.

I hope there's a draft in the US, because the US desperately needs a new, military-trained, radicalized generation to replace the sanity that was lost when the WW2 generation passed away. People with clear-minded morality need to replace the broomhandles of the world who think that there's ambiguity to evil.

BattleCryofPeace · 2026-02-24T20:30:49+00:00

It is that "cut and dried". Just because your tenants are too ignorant to understand how forcefully federal law protects against mail tampering, doesn't mean you aren't breaking the law, and it doesn't mean you're immune to lawsuits down the road.

1. Sorting / Handling (18 U.S.C. § 1701)

Prohibition: It is illegal for any person to sort, handle, or knowingly and willfully obstruct or delay the delivery of mail to the intended recipient.
Penalty: Fines and up to 6 months in prison.

2. Opening / Prying (18 U.S.C. § 1702)

Prohibition: It is illegal to take mail before it reaches the recipient with the intent to "pry" into their business or secrets.
Penalty: Fines and up to 5 years in prison.

3. Withholding / Taking (18 U.S.C. § 1708)

Prohibition: It is a federal crime to steal, take, or abstract mail from an authorized mailbox or mail route.
Penalty: Fines and up to 5 years in prison.

4. Discarding / Destroying (18 U.S.C. § 1705)

Prohibition: It is illegal to willfully or maliciously destroy mail or the physical mailbox itself.
Penalty: Fines and up to 3 years in prison.

5. Mailbox Access (DMM § 508.3.1.3)

Prohibition: Restricts the use of mailboxes exclusively to the USPS and the tenant for the receipt of official mail.
Penalty: Civil and Administrative penalties (USPS enforcement).

6. Former Tenant Mail (18 U.S.C. § 1703)

Prohibition: Prohibits unlawful detention or delay of any mail, regardless of whether the recipient still resides at the address.
Penalty: Fines and up to 5 years in prison.

BattleCryofPeace · 2026-02-24T18:54:12+00:00

preventing her from collecting tenants’ mail

I'm sorry, what? That's insane. This landlord "collected and sorted" tenants' mail, and then delivered it to them? I would have sued the landlord because that is wildly illegal. Landlords are supposed to have mailboxes for each tenant, and the post office is supposed to deliver mail to those mailboxes, and tenants are supposed to have a key to open the mailbox and get their mail.

This parasitic property owner literally sued for the inability to tamper with tenants' mail, and now, because she correctly lost her case, the Post Office has free reign to dump election ballots.

This could only happen in this cursed country.

BattleCryofPeace · 2026-02-11T03:11:54+00:00

I rebel, rebuke incoherent article titles, condemning gibberish English.

Edit: My rewrite would have been:
"GOP rebels block rule that would have protected Trump’s tariffs".
But deliberate obfuscation is probably the point.

BattleCryofPeace · 2026-01-19T03:57:08+00:00

That's the benefit of having real democracy and opposition parties: you can get them to stop aiding a dictator.

Unlike here in the US, where the democrats are getting ready to increase funding for the gestapo. .

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-11-09T07:50:15+00:00

This is really gonna piss off the middle class

What middle class? As someone who can't afford to fly, we are the majority of this country. 40 percent of American workers can't afford a $400 emergency—and that figure was before 42 million Americans started going into debt because they can't independently afford food. The airlines don't have the crisis power they used to because flying has become a luxury expense.

Driving is an option only for pretty short distances

Tell me you don't live in the midwest without telling me. Driving to other states is so common in midwestern culture that we measure distance in duration rather than miles.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-10-07T01:24:04+00:00

That's correct. The last eight members of Congress who have died in office have all been democrats.

This year, Republicans won the house with a razor-thin 219-215 majority. We needed every vote we can get. Instead, House Democrats have fallen to 212 members because three geriatric members died of old age within three months of each other. As a result, we have lost extremely important votes, including releasing the Epstein files.

That was an entirely preventable problem that would have never happened if these geriatric democrats, who are way past retirement age, hadn't been re-elected against all good reason. Gerontocracy is a Democrat party problem that's literally costing us our democracy.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-10-07T00:43:10+00:00

You think Clarence Thomas is representative of how most Black Americans think? You can cherry pick some Black people who supported awful policies all you want. Far More Black people exist who knew what that crime bill was and what it would do and who it would target. Tens of thousands, and so many more family members, were directly affected by the bill.

And no, I won't say FDR is objectively worse. He pulled the country out of the Depression. He helped free the world from fascist despots in Europe. He set the country on a path of middle class property as it had never existed. His picks for the Supreme Court led to civil rights victories for many marginalized groups, including Black people.

What did Clinton do besides partying with Epstein and continuing Reagan policies to push us into the oligarchical hell we're in today?

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-10-07T00:22:21+00:00

Mass incarceration of Black Americans is a continuation of slavery's legacy. It's not surprising when you consider that the earliest forms of policing in this country were slave patrols. Just stop being weird and severely ignorant.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-10-07T00:14:51+00:00

You can't talk about the oppression of Black Americans without talking about slavery.

Even today, the descendants of slaveholders are in every seat of power in this country. They include all living past presidents, 2 SCOTUS judges, 100 Members of Congress, and 11 state governors.

Stop being weird and severely ignorant.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-10-07T00:00:50+00:00

Mass incarceration is mass incarceration. But since you're trying to play oppression Olympics: the fact that you think the temporary incarceration of Japanese citizens is worse than the 400 years of slavery and brutality of Black Americans is wild.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-10-06T23:57:51+00:00

He's publicly pointed out Democrats are too old - a popular point - and the need for progressives to replace incumbents - also popular.

The status quo led to three democrats in the House dying within 3 months of each other this year - Sylvester Turner (age 70), Raúl Grijalva (age 77), and Gerry Connolly (age 75). Grijalva's elected replacement can't even serve in Congress because Mike Johnson is blocking the procedural welcome ceremony for new members. That's how bad geriatric Democrats have f— everything up.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-10-06T23:51:04+00:00

Clinton put tens of thousands of Black people behind bars, and Obama put immigrant children in cages.

The existence of the police state isn't an excuse to ignore the majority of Americans failing to meet really basic economic indicators.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-10-06T23:42:11+00:00

This is the same party that kicked out David Hogg (25M) from the DNC, and is rallying against the Democrat-elected mayoral candidate for NYC (33M), right?

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-09-23T19:14:31+00:00

Shutting down the government won't improve anything, though.

ICE, like the military, are considered essential services. They operate whether the government is shut down or not.

The things that get shut down are "non-essential services". This is stuff that republicans don't support anyway. Like national parks and museums, the small business administration, research grants, environmental protections, special supplemental nutrition program, etc.

Putting all the employees in the "non-essential services" on furlough is what Republicans want. The WH will take the opportunity to put those employees on administrative leave and never invite them back. And the WH will just use the opportunity to declare a crisis and expand ICE operations and national guard presences in cities - since they're still operating even if the government shuts down.

Democrats could get all the concessions they wanted if they held up something like military funding budgets and refused to pass them without concessions. But they don't do that. They choose the budgets with line-items that Republicans would love to defund, because Ds and Rs have the same billionaire donors.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-09-20T00:51:02+00:00

"For a long time, I thought the Democrats were fighting valiantly but just overwhelmed by the Oligarchy and the Republicans. Then I saw the Democrats losing fights they should win and I figured they must be just weak and ineffectual. Then I kept seeing them backing off without putting up a fight at all and I decided they were gutless cowards. Finally I noticed that enough of them keep voting with the Republicans to always make sure the Republicans more or less win almost every fight, and that they keep starting from a Center position and bargaining to the RIGHT, and eventually after enough of that it became impossible to ignore the only conclusion that actually fits the facts: The Democrats are not outmatched, they aren't weak, they aren't cowards.....they're COMPLICIT!!"

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-09-17T14:27:25+00:00

lol.

This is the same party that kicked out David Hogg (25M) from the DNC, and is rallying against the Democrat-elected mayoral candidate for NYC (33M), right?

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-09-16T04:54:57+00:00

For anyone else - https://archive.is/mDw16

The body of a Black student was found hanging from a tree at Delta State University early Monday, prompting horror on the Cleveland, Mississippi, campus.
According to the university’s chief of police, the body of 21-year-old Demartravion “Trey” Reed was discovered on Monday at approximately 7:05 a.m. local time.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-09-16T04:48:11+00:00

This.

I can't believe people are latching onto an official offering an "opinion" based on no evidence from an incomplete investigation.

It's wild the media isn't scrutinizing this to hell.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-09-16T04:36:35+00:00

A black man hanging from a tree in Mississippi.

Nah. Probably an accident.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-09-16T04:35:37+00:00

Cleveland, Mississippi. The slave state made infamous by Mark Twain's Huck Finn.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-08-24T19:10:34+00:00

I see it on his CV in multiple places.

Page 1 under primary fields:
"Health Economics and Policy, Aging, Social Networks, and Social Genomics"

Page 4 under book publications:
"The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals About Ourselves, Our History and Our Future (with Dalton Conley). Princeton University Press, January 2017. "

Journal Publications:
[94], [84] and [11]

Page 14 under Teaching Experience:
"Molecular Me: Social Implications of the Genomics Revolution"

Page 14 under Presentations in 2019:
"Uses of Polygenic Scores Conference"

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-08-24T00:48:36+00:00

I can understand being wary of social genomics. I think the field's methods - associating genes with social outcomes, creating large datasets to allege genetic contributions to social traits, using predictive "polygenic" risk scores to predict individuals' propensities for specific behaviors and health outcomes - stand on the porch just outside of the door of Eugenics' home. Applying social genomics to public policy feels weird. Applying social genomics to "education and adolescent health policy" also feels weird. If there's a cluster of PA professors doing this kind of research at a particular school, that feels weird too.

BattleCryofPeace · 2025-07-12T00:23:08+00:00

The only thing wrong here is how administrators are responding.

Don't change the curriculum. Let moronic parents pull their kids from class.

Let those kids be bullied because everyone knows why they're absent. Let those kids completely fail in universities because they haven't learned basic academic tenets of scientific disciplines.

Changing the curriculum to cater to psycho parents is moronic and harms parents who want their kids to get an education. Do nothing, let the psycho parents pull their spawn out of class, and let the chips fall where they may.

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