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... except that saying that islam doesn't correspond to 99% of the population's beliefs is so hella' wrong it actually is a lie by just about any metric you care to use. Saying that the folks making that claim are white supremacists is a pretty decent attempt at guessing why they believe it. Might be factually wrong at the end of the day, but positing the root cause is that ain't dumb by many measures of it I've seen.

There's significantly more similarities between islam and christianity than there are differences, and by extension that puts it in line with quite a lot of this country religious and not.

E: Though to be clear, the devil's in the details and exceptions more than commonalities. Only problem there is we legislated various degrees of acceptance or protection for a lot of those exceptions long before muslim was a word most of the population even really knew the basic nature of. Harping on a lot of them (if not all) kinda' falls flat when stuff like 14 year old marriages and crap were legalized for christian denominations.

E2: Though largely unrelated to that, apparently the PR referendum is currently looking extremely inclined towards statehood, with something in the upper 90% with about half the vote counted. Participation in vote's also apparently low as hell, but... still. It's looking a lot like we're going to have a petition to put another star on our flag coming up in the very near future.

I'unno, and I don't recall at the moment 'cause applicable populations basically aren't where I live, but I think a question that might decide how the GOP in particular (given attempts to court the cuban/etc. vote in recent years), but both parties to a degree, would jump, is "How do minority populations in florida feel about PR statehood". Maybe another state or two that's potentially effected and not, y'know, New York.

Generally speaking, some of those demos are probably a proof-of-concept for the title before the full work starts. And it'd probably be a shame to just throw something like that in the trash, so why not use it?

Oh, sure. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't saying it was bad practice or whatever. If you have good assets there ain't much problem in using 'em, and in particular demo/trailer stuff being integrated into the main game is a nice bone toss to the more dedicated fans. Quite often hear folks playing through a game mention appreciation for seeing preview material once again and/or more fleshed out. Good hook, good follow through (assuming the quality is good, anyway, ha).

45-55 is middle aged actually, with old generally seen as over 60 and pegged as 65+ specifically in most developed countries.

Eh... that depends on the complexity and whatnot. Generally older players (which tend to be who play older stuff, far as I know) are more chill, but sometimes they... aren't. Particularly when idiot scrubs are crapping up their nice clean murder exchange.

... gods, populist idiot actually a deep cover <something> bent on undermining a country is going to become more of a thing in the near future, isn't it?

I mean... sorta'? But also sorta' not. The end word on that would be SCOTUS, not the executive branch, and congress et al could have a go at it, too (though it'd end up in the courts to decide if screwup has actually occurred). You could call it a right, but it's not an unconditional one, for all that to date we haven't really had a president inept enough to test it.

E: Or to clarify it a bit, there's actually very, very little the executive branch -- any of it, up to and including the president -- decides the legality of. They can decide what it means to enforce that legality (to a degree, anyway), but not what it is. That particular function belongs primarily to the legislative and secondarily to the judiciary.

Though mind, as an addendum to that, that "lie" was the exact sort that trump and friends have been rolling in pretty much since day one. Very specifically worded in an attempt to get around the precise phrasing of the involved laws, materially deceptive despite it.

There was apparently a point in my life that was impeachment worthy :V