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[EnigmaticHat]

To be fair, smart phones are pretty democratic... they've brought internet access to a lot of poor communities that would otherwise have none.  Without them income inequality would be worse in the US because you fucking need some kind of email or such to get a job these days.  And also to be fair, there are ways we could not be shit to the native americans that don't involve giving up all of our land.

[Trekkin]

I don't see anyone having already mentioned this, so here: Over Nielsen and Kelly's vociferous objections, President Trump has authorized troops at the border to engage in law enforcement actions and use lethal force against migrants.

There's an obvious question as to whether this violates the Posse Comitatus Act, and a broader question of how far this administration's tailspin is going to continue.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Posse Comitatus was repealed by the Patriot Act, so that's kind of irrelevant. Whoever they kill will be terrorists because they were killed by Our Boys, and anti-terror activities are not covered by Posse Comitatus.

[Loud Whispers]

Posse Comitatus was repealed by the Patriot Act, so that's kind of irrelevant. Whoever they kill will be terrorists because they were killed by Our Boys, and anti-terror activities are not covered by Posse Comitatus.

Shit dude that's Ork rules
If you shoot them and you miss, they were friendly units
If you shoot them and you hit, they were enemy units

[PTTG??]

Technically you are all equally participant in the ongoing genocide of native Americans just by living in the US though

Those who walk away from Omelas would be better to change Omelas instead.

[RedKing]

Guys, guys....you're missing the real meaning of Thanksgiving here. Trump remembered.

I'm pretty sure saying you're thankful for yourself gets your ass smacked with a wooden spoon in most dining rooms in this country. 

Also, he turned the traditional Thanksgiving call with troops overseas for the holidays into a chance to rant about the judiciary, border security, and Mueller. If he was any more self-absorbed, he'd disappear into a black hole. A yuuuge black hole. The biggest.

[wierd]

No no.  The hole itself is infinitesimal, regardless of its mass.  Now, the distortion it leaves on the rest of reality? That can be quite large.

[wobbly]

Guys, guys....you're missing the real meaning of Thanksgiving here. Trump remembered.

I'm pretty sure saying you're thankful for yourself gets your ass smacked with a wooden spoon in most dining rooms in this country. 

Also, he turned the traditional Thanksgiving call with troops overseas for the holidays into a chance to rant about the judiciary, border security, and Mueller. If he was any more self-absorbed, he'd disappear into a black hole. A yuuuge black hole. The biggest.

I think you get an exemption if you are leader of a cult & basically the mesiah. A lot of Trumpist's behaviour reminds me more of cults then politcs. Once you're ignoring any news thats inconvenient you are basically joining one.

[wierd]

Obligatory The Oatmeal, vis a vis "The backfire effect"

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Just saying.  Ignoring or downplaying unpleasant information is endemic to humans in general, not just Trumpists.

[wobbly]

Obligatory The Oatmeal, vis a vis "The backfire effect"

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Just saying.  Ignoring or downplaying unpleasant information is endemic to humans in general, not just Trumpists.

Not to this extreme it isn't. It's like saying extreme is normal because normal behavour is a less extreme version of the same. This attitude that Trump can do no wrong isn't the normal political attitude, not on such a scale anyway.

[scriver]

I thought that the bigger a black hole is, the smaller it is?

Anyway, I don't know what to say to that link except *facepalm*.

[Maximum Spin]

I thought that the bigger a black hole is, the smaller it is?

Anyway, I don't know what to say to that link except *facepalm*.

Once it counts as a black hole it becomes impossible to know what size it is at our current level of understanding of physics.

[Trekkin]

I thought that the bigger a black hole is, the smaller it is?

Anyway, I don't know what to say to that link except *facepalm*.

The singularity itself doesn't really have a physically meaningful size, but the Schwarzschild radius (the radius of the event horizon, and for all intents and purposes the size of the black hole as it concerns external observers) scales linearly with mass, as you might expect from a gravity well.

EDIT: Some pedant is going to chime in unhelpfully about the Kerr metric and how rotating black holes' event horizons don't correspond to their Schwarzschild radii, I just know it.

[wierd]

Naw, to me the funny thing about the comparison, is that like the singularity, Trump is a very tiny thing--- But the effect around him? YUUUUGE, and nothing can escape its ravenous maw once ensnared.

So, his rhetoric in that link--- "Thankful for the "difference" he made"... Yes, I am sure he is. It's how he keeps everything spiraling inward toward his infinite density ego, and unfathomable degree of Dunning Kruger. 

I find the analogy quite humorous.

[Il Palazzo]

I heard singularities have tiny hands.