The FBI and DHS are federal police.

You know he considered investing in Action Park but decided the vision for the park was too risky, right?

Like that place was such a horrifying deathtrap that Trump's conscience kept him from getting in on it. That's a fucking low bar.

The best part of that line is that everyone left of fascism reads it as a direct threat - bow to our will or there will be blood, while the right can claim it's just them worrying about the left turning violent.

I find it amusing that you're being downvoted by people who likely also claim ACAB and want to "defund the police", since DHS and FBI are federal law enforcement, aka federal police.

I prefer approval voting, it's easier to explain and at least as good. Most voting systems also have support for it already.

Easy to teach people new to it too, just pick everyone you are ok with winning.

Axe makes me break out something awful. Only been two periods of time I wore it, both because the lady I was with commented on it smelling nice when we were in a store, and then only wearing it on nights I was going out with her and hoping I'd recover before next time.

I have little or no allergies regarding anything else, but deodorants for some reason are prone to setting me off (my suspicion is that it's particular fragrances used in some of them). Currently Dove Men + Care is safe for me, so I use that.

As commander in chief, communicating with the military is definitely a core duty and absolutely immune. So is writing pardons. So you just order the military to crime in your name and pardon them afterward.

Could he? Wizards are apparently able to handle significantly more physical trauma than Muggles and have access to considerably more advanced medicine.

Like, they teach 11 year olds to play sports on flying brooms several stories in the air in which they hit heavy balls at each other very fast. They teach 16 year olds to teleport with the explicit risk that they might mess up and leave part of themself behind (and we don't even ask the question of what happens if there's something physically blocking their target location, such as another person). Somehow, the school doing these things doesn't have multiple fatalities every year which means that getting hit then falling 60 feet to the ground is generally not a death sentence, or even a particularly serious injury.

You shoot Voldemort pre-horcruxes and he's likely going to apparate away, drink a healing concoction of some variety, and try again in a few hours or days unless it's a headshot. You shoot him post-horcrux, and even if it is a headshot that's just a somewhat longer delay. And that presumes a lack of some kind of magical defense that would block a small projectile coming at you very fast.

I mean I’m somewhat interested in how the Wizarding world manages to keep hidden despite all the kids from the muggleworld supposedly having friends and connections and things before Hogwarts.

I imagine the kindest answer to that involves magical law enforcement obliviating and confounding any witnesses, akin to how Gilderoy Lockhart had a career but perpetrated at scale on a large populous of second-class citizens (aka Muggles). Which is horrifying, but any other answer I can think of is somehow worse than wizard cops mind raping anyone who saw anything.

a country built upon colonization, Genocide and slavery

Which country wasn't?

Probably the two most unusual things about the US are that instead of either absorbing and assimilating, killing off, or enslaving the natives we mostly relocated them and that we imported most of our slaves from overseas instead of primarily enslaving the conquered people(s). I mean those, and we're one of the later examples of all of it in history.

I used to argue that whoever was ultimately responsible for safety at a chemical plant should be required to have them and their family live close enough that if shot goes wrong, they'll definitely be among the worst effected.

But then I live within the greater Charleston, WV area, and there's a plant in a town called Institute here that makes and handles MIC, most notoriously known for being made less poisonous for use as pesticide and being the stuff that leaked and caused the Bhopal incident back when.

And this has convinced me I am officially an old. I'm not sure what language about half of that is in and can't even guess at what some of it means from context.