[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderick%E2%80%93Terry_duel
[2]https://www.google.com/maps/place/Broderick-Terry+Duel+Site/...
Among congressmen 80 and over, 9 are Democrats and 2 are Republicans
Among congressmen 70 and over, 57 are Democrats and 19 are Republicans
Among senators 80 and over, 2 are Democrats and 3 are Republicans
Among senators 70 and over, 18 are Democrats and 7 are Republicans
Among senators 60 and over, 34 are Democrats and 28 are Republicans
If McConnell and Schumer hate either other that much, they should have PPV duel with the proceeds to going some charity.
If that's too grisly for folks maybe allow mutual combat. Remember when Biden told that voter to if he wanted to step outside and settle it?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/10/you-wanna-go-ou...
Hell yeah I would've loved that.
Imagine you're drinking beer with a buddy and someone you don't like comes up, and you say "yeah that guy is a total chode." He gets wind of it, is aghast and offended, and publicly challenges you to a competition where you try to shoot each other to death. You say no, and you're now a dishonorable coward and are never getting the company of a lady again, or any position of respect or business from many of your peers. You have to say yes, and kill someone or die or get grisly wounded for life.
People romanticize it, but I wouldn't want to live in a society where I have to kill people or die over petty squabbles.
Again, not a fan of dueling, just steelmanning it. Giving more power (in terms of freedom to express oneself in a political context) to the more martial members of the ruling class would likely be a very dangerous thing, but I just wanted to point out that that specific example is something that dueling is meant to eliminate. Certain societies enforce politeness (with big, big air quotes over "enforce" for some) with social opprobrium and centuries of precedent. Others enforce it with threat of force (as others have pointed out, honor/warrior cultures tend to default to this). Having it not be enforced at all is interesting, and I wonder if over time rifts between factions will only deepen due to mutual disrespect. I wonder what effects that will have on public trust in the institution (already not at great levels, I'm aware).
Isn't that basically saying that libel laws should be enforced by the death penalty?
If I say my local chiropractor knowingly promotes bogus treatments - should my life be in danger?
The only thing changed in most of the world today, IMHO, is that you are shot in the back instead of being shot in the face.
In a lot of inner city American neighborhoods today people do live like this. And it’s pretty horrid for the kids growing up in it.
That said, it wasn’t an everyday thing, and given the dire consequences it wasn’t something done lightly out of the blue yonder. People knew not to offend or risk the possibility. And for the most part this was ritual for the upper classes and not for the village boors or even commoners.
You're clearly talking to different people than I am.
What one thing, hateful toxic masculinity and bullying from a white male in a position of power and privilege?
You're saying that like it is not also "honestly pretty messed up".
I'd engage but you've crammed every red flag codeword you could into your statement that tells me there will be nothing interesting coming out of it at all.
For the record, toxic masculinity is bad, and a power differential makes it worse. Toxic masculinity coming from Kamala would have been just as bad. It's the power, regardless of source, that makes the toxicity more destructive.
(A friend and I had a code word for if either of us thought we had gotten into a bad situation. She had been flirting with a really drunk guy in a bar, not really interested, just liked the attention. The guy started following her around the bar. I wasn't sure if she was playing hard to get, until she got into a corner and started shouting our code word, which just confused the guy. I put my hand on the guy's shoulder and suggested he give her some room, at which point he suggested he and I take a step outside. A simple "nah, I think I'm fine" was sufficient to avoid a fight, but didn't really calm him down. The only time I used our code word was when we were vacationing in a developing country, had both gotten drunk, and some people we met invited us to a restaurant for some sober-up food. The restaurant didn't have a restroom, and one of the guys clearly took me a long twisting way to a restroom and promised to wait for me outside. 30 seconds later, my guide was nowhere to be found. I ran back, the short way, to the restaurant to find my guide and the others pressuring my friend to do some shots. I told her our code word and we left some money on the table for a couple shots and walked as fast as we could back to the main tourist strip.)