In Berwyn IL, you can't mace someone who comes up to your door unless you reasonably believe they are about to harm you. However, the state usually only prosecutes really clear-cut and well-evidenced crimes, and usually not when they're done by fascists. That's why the responding cops just made him return her phone. Fuentes could certainly argue that he was in reasonable fear of harm, and Rose could argue that she was just there for a friendly discussion.

none of this actually describes what Nick Fuentes was doing but it's not as simple as castle vs stand your ground. important to know if you own a gun or plan on taking a trip to Berwyn

720 ILCS 5/7-2

A person is justified in the use of force against another when and to the extent that he reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to prevent or terminate such other's unlawful entry into or attack upon a dwelling.

Illinois also has a (roundabout) home defense exception in 720 ILCS 5/7-1 but I'm not sure if it's argued this way in court. Residential burglary is a "forcible felony"

A person is justified in the use of force against another when and to the extent that he reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or another against such other's imminent use of unlawful force. However, he is justified in the use of force which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm only if he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or another, or the commission of a forcible felony.

note that this also does not impose a duty to retreat. You can use (non-deadly) force whenever it's necessary to defend yourself or someone else. Don't trust legal blogspam read the law yourself

lol he's a 20 minute drive from me

https://cockburnproject.net/albums/nightvision.html (too bad the painting was inspired by fascist Roy Campbell though)

Not all races have been reported yet but Republicans have won the senate and it really looks like they're going to get a majority in the house as well.

Wow I had no idea dunk tanks had a racist origin. That sucks. I hope people latch onto /c/counterpropaganda so I can block it like /c/the_dunk_tank. I personally just don't care to see the views of Twitter reactionaries, but those kinds of posts have been seeping into other comms recently.

I don't recall this being about sexual abuse, but you can google "On Alienation" which was written by a former member in my city.

I do think it's true that all American orgs of a certain size have SA problems. However, that is a terrible indictment of the current state of the American left and not a statement that it's OK. These problems are more than just bad apples. I suspect there's something about cadre orgs that enables abuse of members. A substantial reason I left Socialist Alternative was their unserious response to multiple sexual assault scandals (one of which was highly publicized and resulted in an international split), which was hampered by their highly centralized leadership. I hope this criticism shows that I'm not a PSL specific wrecker.

Non-registered writeins aren't tallied; it won't be viewed in any way at all except by a precinct worker.

looks like the Twitter advertisers have found a new home lol

stein if you live in a state where a big Green vote will let them skip the petition step of running candidates in lower offices. some more abt it otherwise it doesn't matter, write in Joe Biden

well sometimes you can't tell from the ingredients e.g. bone char sugar, cysteine from feathers instead of bacteria or synthetic. But those are edge cases

What do you mean soy sauce isn't vegan? Ingredients water, soybeans, wheat, salt.

The Fee Foam cocktail foam is legitimately much less hassle than egg whites. I'm vegan so I don't know if it tastes better (both are bad in large amounts) but I hear that it's caught on at bars.

yeah it sucks. I want to get out of apartments but I'm dreading having to participate in the housing market

i'm writing in Philip The Bucket and you can't stop me

Thanks. This is the most thorough treatment I've seen of higher races leading to lower ballot access.

Why would it be important to convince avowed liberals? They'll come around once there is an actually existing leftist movement that can offer them something real. In the meantime, liberal working people don't have any power to use for evil, so who cares what they think. We should be talking to the millions of ordinary people who are sick of this shit. Our task is to teach those people about socialism and show them that they have another option: collective action.

vote if you want, but since voting will not improve the situation you have a responsibility to do other stuff. I think people are getting too worked up about the election, communists and liberals alike. If the Greens got 5% for federal funding it'd be nice, but I think communists should view electoral power as something that comes from a strong workers' movement, not something where we do well in an election and then that magically conjures class struggle. We have to organize, there is no shortcut

gross. honestly I've had a couple first dates that ended in sex and at least for straight men it's just not good bc of power dynamics. My armchair psychoanalysis is that these men either (a) are just legitimately fucked in the head and could still get their rocks off with a partner who is still background worried for her physical safety (b) don't actually want what they want, and that's why they're half-assing the whole dating app thing. So they can say they put themselves out there but they don't have to be actually vulnerable - self-destructive behavior except they're doing it by being actively shitty to women

Don't ask for a date "sometime", give it a time frame like "this week". Short conversations are perfectly fine and lead to more than 1/3rd of your dates showing up.

an American presidential election? Goku isn't a citizen but because the Dems don't give a shit about DACA recipients Superman probably isn't either. So it's a tossup