Schadrach

No, you can't get fined for saying the N-word in the US. But, repeatedly shouting it while committing an assault pretty conclusively demonstrates it was a racially motivated assault, and lots of jurisdictions in the US have laws that aggravate a crime or add an additional charge if the crime was motivated by hatred of a protected class.

Those laws can (but almost never are) applied even if the member of the protected class is male, white, etc. I think the last time I heard of someone being given hate crime charges for doing something to a white victim was the 2017 Chicago torture case where the crime was streamed on Facebook. Two black men and two black women were involved, the men received bail of $800k and $900k, the women bail of $500k and $200k - in the end all did plea deals with the men getting 7 and 8 years in prison and the women 4 years of probation and 3 years of prison. Which demonstrates neatly how much sex plays into punishment in the US, since they were all part of the same case doing the same crimes.

It's both. The criminal justice system treats white folks better than black folks, and women better than men. Depending on what exactly you're measuring which one is the larger gap can go either way. For sentencing, sex means more than race - so she'd get a longer sentence if she were a black woman, but an even longer one if she were a white man, and a still longer one if she were a black man.

I'm actually surprised a white girl got a whole year for an assault. And not even a suspended sentence!

I've seen cases where it's like "white woman stabs boyfriend in heart, boyfriend narrowly survives due to prompt medical attention, 30 day suspended sentence" or "woman sexually assaults minor boy, gets herself pregnant from the assault, no punishment for her and boy owes woman child support for being her victim."

In the modern day or historically? And would the perpetrator in this case be a man or a woman?

Because I can point you to an interview from about a decade ago where a prominent researcher of sexual assault (as in she coined the term "date rape" and is the origin of the 1 in 4 number you see sometimes) reacts in utter disbelief to the idea that a woman could rape a man, and when given an example where the man is drugged into compliance declares that situation to not be rape but just "unwanted contact".

In the UK, a woman cannot commit rape by law unless she is trans (rape requires the perpetrator to penetrate the victim with the perpetrator's penis, cis women simply lack the equipment).

In the US the definitions aren't that bad, but they're close. The FBI redefined rape a few years back in a way that allowed for the possibility of a woman committing it, but is also phrased in a way that implies only the penetrating party can rape.

To be fair, we achieved flight by copying nature. Once we realized the important part was the shape of a wing more than the flapping.

Someone on here said Kamala will win the popular vote but lose the electoral college so I'm going with that.

That could easily happen if she's popular in CA by a massive margin but not so popular elsewhere. That's how it worked for the other times this has happened in recent history - the margin in CA being so large that the national margin is smaller than the CA margin.

Yeah, but that's all of them. Israel as our only real ally in the ME gets whatever Israel wants and neither major party is about to change that over a little genocide.

I'll make a safe one - regardless of who wins, about 1/6 of the country is going to lose their fucking minds and claim the election was "stolen" or some similar language indicating that the win wasn't legitimate. If Harris wins it will be "stolen", if Trump wins they will use a different word because calling an election "stolen" is right wing and thus icky.

Regardless of who wins, there will be recounts requested in at least two states and lawsuits filed regarding the election in at least one - these numbers will be much higher if Harris wins.

Put odds of a riot if Trump wins at about 50/50, odds of a riot if Harris wins at about 75%.

Yeah, well, he makes them a lot of money. The TOS only applies to people who don't make them a lot of money. Same as it's always been.

Whereas I miss the old Aldi "single use" plastic bags because I'd use them a few dozen times (not necessarily at Aldi) before they either got holes or a strap broke or something. I've still some stashed in places for when I need a decent plastic bag to hold something.

This wasn't about coke zero but about two batch numbers of the zero sugar version of minute maid lemon aid, in cans.

I mean, you could accomplish it, but there's going to have to be a line because to get enough BJs in there's no space for travel time. That's a lot of voters, and she's going to have to be fast to blow enough to tip an election.

could also be made to hate immigrants and queer people.

Less that and more that it turns out a lot of people don't vote based on how their candidate or his party feels about immigrants and queer people. There are even a lot of single issue voters whose single issue isn't immigration or queer people.