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The lemon frosted cashews came out pretty decent for something made so lazily.

So, like. What you do! Is you take a bowl. You pour like... some powdered sugar in it. Then you take one (1) lemon, cut the end off the lemon. Put the lemon over the bowl, cut end down. Squeeze. Squeeze until it's done.

Then stir it up until you have frosting! It's good frosting, I have described this frosting before. It may not be the best lemon frosting but it's pretty damn good and it's impressively difficult to find a better effort to taste ratio.

Once you've done that, you (and this is the lazy part that can be done much, much better with just a little effort like putting it on a pan and baking it for a few minutes or whatever, there's tons that can be done here) take a pile of cashews, dump them in the bowl, and then stir until they're coated.

I left it in the fridge overnight to set a little, but you don't, like. Have to. You can just eat them.

Anyway, they pretty good. Lemony, sweeter than usual cashews. I like 'em, everyone else that's ate them likes 'em. Just remember, folks. Icing is super easy to make, and at the end of the day you can put it on anything.

If she wins, the unborn children will not die. 

This... isn't true, though. If she wins, somewhere between a similar number and more unborn children will die, and so will more mothers and more actual children.

Some of the folks her and her ilk are swindling may be able to truthfully say they're legitimately and unwillfully unaware of that, but a SCOTUS judge doesn't get to make that excuse. No leader or person particularly invested in the issue does, as they have the time or resources to do the research.

And McTraveller was right.  Two wrongs don't make right.

I would argue as to the "entirely within the President's Legal Powers" bit.  It's just that the Supreme Court hasn't bothered to stop it, yet.

Which means startlingly little as to whether it would be within the president's legal powers, at this point. Majority of the court are now hacks willing to toss out half a century of precedent for political gain. Their rulings don't particularly mean much of substance anymore, to the extent they ever did.

Any case, "providing reproductive healthcare for areas without access" would be, like... if not the exact opposite of authoritarianism, at least highly orthogonal to it. It'd be harder federalist than we've seen in a while, I think, but not authoritarian.

Not particularly likely to happen, anyway (far as I'm aware no one of note has suggested the possibility in meatspace -- it's circulating a bit online, but that's it), so it's a pretty moot question.

So... what do you want to do about it? Complaining doesn't do much. I mean yes the current GOP and its supporters is going down a path I don't like.  All I can do is discuss with my sphere of influence, vote against the GOP, and give support to non-GOP causes.

That's about all most folks can do, really. Vote the scum out, give succor to their enemies as you can, and to the extent you're able counter their propaganda horseshit in your personal life.

More than that takes organization beyond what you're probably wise attempting online, given the US's traditional hostility to non-conservative groups, but if interested you're probably best off finding active protest and/or community action groups and getting involved and networking with them. Just, y'know, be careful, for all sorts of reasons from grifters to state sanctioned brutality

Yes just what we need, more executive orders to bypass Congress.  You know how you get an authoritarian state? Executive Orders.

I mean, you know how you get one much, much faster? A coup. Remember what happened not too long ago and was supported by folks on a certain wing of our political spectrum all the way up to swaths of that congress, the spouse of a SCOTUS judge, and the literal president? That up and down that line show every indication of being willing to try again the exact moment they think it's a good time?

Short form, if you're worried about that, you've got a much, much larger concern than executive orders, right now, and it's called the GOP and pretty much everyone aligned with them, who are actively working towards an authoritarian takeover and either entirely okay with that or incapable of figuring out what they're doing.

And while I've not voted conservative in quite some time, I'm going to have to sit and think more about these cries about the new "conservative" party. I know a lot of people there, and they are generally just people trying to make their way through the world and wouldn't directly harm anyone. But I do see that many of the things they support do indirectly harm people.

So how do you get these people with legitimate personal concerns, who don't feel that the alternative party is even talking to their concerns, to stop supporting the party that talks to their personal concerns while simultaneously stomping all over "public" concerns?

There's some success with personal, one on one interaction over a long period of time. It's risky on several different levels (because let me tell you from personal experience, a lot of those folks you're saying are just trying to make their way through the world are incredibly capable of various sorts of much more direct harm than you're thinking, under the right circumstances, such as a black person courting their kids, an immigrant moving into the neighborhood, or finding their children are some form of lgbt) and likely enough to just not work, but it's possible to do if you're willing to take on that tremendous amount of time and often enough danger.

... on a wide scale level, you can't. It sucks to say, but practically people particularly attached to the GOP are lost to communication. Most of these folks are hateful shits about one subject or another, and are generally sunk deep into a propaganda sphere being propagated and maintained by shitsacks that are even worse, one that blankets their entire community from news to radio. It's effectively impossible to break that under the constraints the US is under. You'd have to be able to kill Fox and its ilk, Sinclair, enforce libel and whatnot en masse on public radio in a way that would be a blatant 1A violation (possibly manageable due to this shit being a stochastic terrorism breeding chamber, but let me tell you it'd have anyone worried about actual authoritarianism), break the back of all the voter suppression and intimidation coming out of the US conservative political machines, and things of that nature.

The GOP and conservative politicians in general are pretty damn unpopular in this country with somewhere between a majority to a supermajority of the population. You just have to figure out a way to make that matter in a political system that is viciously engineered to favor anti-democratic rightwing extremists, which is damn difficult when the system you're trying to work with is rigged as hell in their favor.

Electric Swing Circus - Shake. Just kinda' eh on the vocals, but that instrumentation is wild. I think it's trumpet? You'll know it when it happens if you listen. Some kind of brass, anyway, and I want more like it rather intensely.

e: seriously, anyone who listens to that, if you happen to know if there's a specific term for how that brass is played when it flips out please, please tell me

The forums itself? Some sort of ISOT or system apocalypse, probably. Some of those are fairly gentle in terms of electronics sticking around. Most other sorts would thoroughly trash internet infrastructure and potential backups.