Vivek is really bad at this. I have no idea why Republicans lined up behind him, this was obvious when he was a presidential candidate. I guess he had enough high-placed friends and they thought Ohio was safe?

It’s wearing Hugo Boss, but it’s not actually fascist. There is a lot more to fascism than “wears shiny uniforms” and “has a military,” and the actual substance isn’t there, just superficial aesthetic symbolism.

Your understanding of the film goes no deeper than Verhoeven’s understanding of the book. And he had a friend read it for him and give him the Cliff’s Notes summary after he couldn’t make it past the opening chapter. Lotta difference between humans and Bugs.

A lot of them over the age of 45 probably wrote fan fiction offline. I remember reading an author’s note from the 1970s where the author asserted a majority of the other female authors she knew had started with fan fiction.

Verhoeven didn’t even read the source material he was adapting, much less understand it. That means the actual contents of the film are a mismatched melange, with Verhoeven’s intended messaging constantly undermined by contrary elements.

Higher rates of admixture in Spanish vs English colonies mostly has to do with higher ratios of native populations to migrant populations. North America, the southern Cape, New Zealand, and Australia were quite sparsely inhabited compared to Latin America & the Philippines.

There was very little negative stereotyping of Indians in the US even ten years ago. Twenty years ago, Indians were often lumped together with East Asians as “model minority” immigrants. Call centers & outsourcing customer support may have as much to do with it as immigration.

Sent you a DM. Should be enough to give at least a modest test. Curious to see if it can figure out anything at all beyond “male, likes SF&F.”

As a data pack rat, I should have some short stories from when I was 11-12. File format could be an issue, but I may also have printed versions.

Burning down this building saved approximately 0 human lives. Committing arson likely endangered lives, and the expected net effect of burning it was entirely negative for everyone involved. There is a term for this - "senseless destruction."

The Ottomans’ main solution to ethnic tensions near the end was genocide. So, perhaps it might be peaceful and not have very few people in it other than the Turks. Not quite sure that is the better outcome.

In practice, the schools will have completely different grading standards. You really need standardized test scores to be able to compare those students academically.

There is a sort of trope that I've observed that paints the ideal wife as someone who is devoted to her husband (and later children) but otherwise essentially an amoral sociopath with regard to everybody else. Not sure if it's the same as the "I can fix him" bad boy for women.

It’s on the other side of Mason-Dixon (which runs north-south instead of east-west for that segment).

Delaware was part of Pennsylvania originally. Granted, Delaware should be abolished, but it’s historically a northern slave state.

... I think that if the courts decide against her, Congress will not try to declare her eligible, and is reasonably likely to formally expel her instead rather than starting a crisis over a pretty unpopular member of one party.

Section 6 doesn't really distinguish between civil and criminal arrest. It's also limited to "during attendance" and "going to and returning from." Congress could overrule the executive, probably by declaring eligibility, definitely by passing a writ of citizenship... but...

Clearly the executive branch can toss members of the legislature in prison for a term that prevents them from attending a session, provided they get a conviction through due process. That precedent goes back to the Adams administration. I don't think deportation is different.

No more and no less than it prevents her from being arrested or imprisoned, i.e., at best in a very temporary fashion. Members of Congress have been jailed - Matthew Lyon missed most of the whole of the 3rd session of the 5th Congress (and was re-elected while incarcerated).

The Senate has admitted senators who were actually under the age of 30. Congress can decide to ignore reality if they want *for their purposes*. But that only applies to being a member of the chamber, not avoiding incarceration, deportation, etc.