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wow i got the same result, must be something to this
honestly let them, if people want to move to the mojave in 2025 i welcome the supply being freed up in habitable locations
The US historically didn't let women vote and let people own slaves, I don't think justifying things based off the US's historical practices is very useful either. I think we can just say the justice system should be merciful without going back to Jordanian Bedouins or the hatfields and McCoys.
you can think of millions of different solutions and still be creative, but I think people are more interested in useful solutions. I don't think the US is going to model their justice system on Bedouin vendettas.
The wild thing is, if he really is dead, this posting is some of the most short sighted nonsense ever. they're going to look dumb as shit in a week when his body stinks too much to do this weekend at Bernie's shit. they're wasting time they could be using furiously backstab each other
the media perpetuating the idea that troops are effective law enforcement is dangerous and short-sighted. in the same way moore doesnt need our help you dont need to defend abc holding water for a fascist takeover of dc
abc did it as well bsky.app/profile/atru...
ringworld
i think we can hope for a Jiang Qing situation
suicide by firearm is much more dangerous than other methods because of its almost guaranteed success. there's a reason we banned the kind of stoves that you could stick your head in and asphyxiate yourself. ease of action is very important in suicide cases and hanging yourself isn't as easy.
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I agree that waiting periods are a good stop Gap approach that prevent the vast majority of gun deaths, suicides. I do still think they're a stopgap but stop gaps are better than nothing. while I want broader regulation gun control advocates should take what we can get where we can, pragmatism wins
part of that reset is going to be a fundamental reconfiguration of the American constitutional order, including the supreme Court and the current amendment system. to put it plainly, America on the other side of fascism, if we get there, will not have the current supreme Court and it's jurisprudence
The kind of broad regulation that would actually have a meaningful impact was made impossible by Heller and bruen. frankly, it's a miracle that the NFA has survived this long. whatever turmoil is coming in this country and anyway we find out of it will necessitate a broad political reset.
for instance, accessories were not regulated until the NFA, a technological reality as much as a legal one, as you probably know better than I do. it is true concealment and where a gun could be carried is as old as the country. but those regulations aren't in contention here. classifying guns is.
I think you could make an argument to push back the start of modern gun control to 1934, but Heller in my view is a better starting point because without the individual right broader gun control legislation becomes more possible, like the handgun law in contention in heller.
wait i am starting to think we arent pivoting to asia.
our lack of gun control is not because we havent found the right legal framework for regulating guns. Americans simply don't want to regulate guns and any regulation, poorly written or well written, is picked apart by those who still want unrestricted gun access. it is a matter of political will
modern gun control jurisprudence started in 2008. The way to uncomplicate gun control is to ban whole categories like semi-auto and require licensure for ownership of any gun. we uncomplicate things by broadening not by diving into obfuscating details. we regulate plenty of things more complicated
do you think what we're currently doing is anything close, comprehensive gun control? we are currently in an environment without gun control, so I agree with you that what we're currently doing isn't working
if it is so uninfluential among those on the right, why does it cater to the center right's perception of it so often?
it is the center left paper of record that consistently goes out of its way to undermine Center left positions and candidates in the name of balance towards parties that think it's a communist rag.
isn't it bad that they are a overridingly obsessed with that caricature to the point of altering coverage and focusing on some stories over others?
fr, this is never appropriate but their bodies arent even cold gowdy, save your simpering ministrations.
also like, which nationalism? pretty famously some nationalities fared better than others
but then there is the other side saying there is never going to be a better time to get a cut of the pie than right now and he wont live forever. that then runs into the fact that dems(or whoever else with good will) wont be in power forever and handing the next fasc a fully primed MIC is a mistake
i am of two minds on this. we need to find a way to make contractors shrink costs and fight the rampant overcharging and underdelivering in the defense industry but there is nobody i trust less to do that than trump and his slack-jawed goons. idk if nationalizing is the answer but it isnt right now
this is it, we are stuck with boomers who grew up on rose goggle stories of the 50s
ah yes the famously carefree decades of the 60s and 70s
eh, this is too far. they will still always be the guys with the guns
delusion makes it sound bad, I like social construct personally
lol it would be cooler if they were just robots
eventually you will run out of hive worlds if you just do SOP and glass the planet from orbit to kill the cult of like 12 guys. also everything makes more sense when you realize these guy arent smart, they worship with tech manuals and think their guns are filled with ghosts
if you want some scifi I,robot Consider Phlebas world war z artemis hail mary project the martian red mars, green mars, blue mars ministry for the future termination shock three body problem the dark forest dune ender's game other stuff: Collapse by zubok good omens road to unfreedom kickback
the alternative answer is the one they were told repeatedly, that a person can get covid multiple times and that getting is detrimental to your. they didnt believe it or act on it because doing would have required them to take basic precautions they were unwilling to do.
because its also wrong, they were told that repeatedly. they chose not to believe it because of the mentioned propaganda machine
they cant just be dumb assholes! that would mean i cant engage in good faith discussion and that we must be in conflict and as a centrist pundit there is nothing i hate more than conflict
just seeing the fjords is amazing, if you are into hiking i highly recommend hiking around bergen
why does his head spin around like it's in the exorcist?
i think the problem isnt that other games exist but that people feel like soulslike dominate the discourse. these opinions originate in the discourse, people who arent talking about games are just playing whatever they want. people who talk about games tire of the current trend, many such cases
that rules
this is them raising their prices
when they say crimes, they mean disorderly vibes and this presence is aimed at those people who they think perpetuate The vibes. this is why they harp on the four-wheeler drivers and the homeless more than the murderers. they will start with rounding up homeless people since they're the most visible
immortality is not possible, but age extension definitely seems like it's possible. is there a distinction in your mind between the two? is there a point where the amount of age extension becomes bad on its face? is there a scenario where we have this technology with some equity?
I think that GTA 6 is going to pop the post covid video game bubble and also herald a larger collapse in consumer spending, thus ushering in the first stages of formal recession/depression. the discourse is are gamers a load bearing function of consumer spending and an important enough industry
the problem is it was isolated rhetoric, we needed concerted policy action. if they think it was heavy handed before they wont like the backlash that mandates vaccines and charges people with child endangerment
we might be from different walks of life but i would follow capt boat shoes to hell in back, sub in hand
this is 100% true but it's the reason we should change things not the reason things will never change. Police relying on unenforceable laws to be able to arbitrarily enforce fines is bad and can change. good things are possible
ngl i dont think its true because driving out of a kettle requires hitting police officers with your car. this is stupid, you are all up and down this thread making a fool of yourself so that people can speed down residential streets to get to McDonald's faster, not be totally based freedom fighter
if you can't fix the problem until the problem is already fixed, we're never going to fix the problem. at some point we will need to change incentives, even if those changes have externalities
it's true, we shouldn't fix any problems until they're easy
the "i would be fine being killed for landback" is a specific example that happened a few years back and was discourse for a few days and i have personally seen the race is mixing is bad but wokely stuff irl, not even just on social media. its real and very dumb
I'm sure any day now we will have a story about conservative politicians having to be anti-woke to appease the groups on their side and how it makes them unelectable. any second now.
yeah that works a lot better
I also think Hajime Isayama, the creator of Attack on Titan. very nationalist irl and attack on Titan is essentially nationalist, exterminationist fan fiction but in the middle is a fairly serviceable political thriller.
this wouldn't work, as terrible as education defunding is it's not deterministic. there will always be smart and talented people who rise above a shitty system. idiocracy is biologically deterministic, there's nothing we can do to stop it and it affects everybody. it's a key part of the movie
liu cixin, He's a rabid Chinese nationalist and it definitely comes through in his books but I really do like the three body problem and the dark Forest. The others are kind of trash though
The ender Shadow series has some very choice things to say about immigration and the ability to quantify and actualize intelligence in breeding. I also wouldn't necessarily say it's liberal when it comes to international relations. I would say more neoconservative which is anti-maga
inbound, i think chorizo breakfast burrito is the first on the menu
thats awesome, will do
that smash burger is making me swoon, might mosey on down to amazon town. do you think gas is necessary?
yep, especially from the orthodox population who saw the Romaniote as heathens and a threat in the minority/dhimmi power politics ladder and the arab population as zionism started to ramp up. there were not terrible responses like Abdulaziz tamping down on blood libel in the 1860s and legal rights
they did do all those things, its a matter of historical record
it did, i agree. The status of Jewish people in the empire was on a decline since the rise of zionism. even before the end there were deportations and pogroms during ww1. its also true that jewish subjects were dhimmi and also benefited from the tanzimat reforms.
fallout new vegas
jewish people have lived in palestine since the bronze age. the question is if they were living peacefully why did they need to colonize the area, ethnically cleanse the area and setup a nationalist ethnostate? the key is the transition from an integrated Ottoman minority to a nationalist movement
the ACS is definitely the most direct example. it even has morally corrupt outside supporters doing it for racist reasons in coalition with religious factions doing it out of a sense of moral culpability in past crimes. Ben Gurion is also VERY explicit that israel is an ethnic colony built by force
many Native Americans, especially first nations, are still on smaller tracts of their original land. Assuming the worst-case scenario, where NA retake and resettle land outside of the current reservations, then yes, it would be. but its a dumb example because israel is real and that isnt.
I don't think it has to be deterministic of anything to be bad. I think it makes sense that people are mad about something that has been really bad for a while. people have longer memories than a couple of election cycles, especially for something as important as housing
why does newly matter?
komo?
this is a comforting thing to believe if you have the political inclinations you're likely to have if you're reading this, but is unfortunately not true. alternative medicine is huge in Germany and the UK for example.
yeah today it's a reactionary thing mostly, but for a long fuckin' time until *very* recently there was way too much tolerance for this shit in left and liberal spaces. from "oh it's not harming anyone" to "different ways of knowing". RFK jr fucking came from that milieu.
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
I don't think so, I should have said no need to play it further as I had about 2 hours in when I decided to go to the let's play. as I said, it didn't grab me, but I realized the story was good enough that I wanted to finish it out.
they wont care about $8 Oreo or whatever if their rent and child care costs are lowered substantially. I get that it's really frustrating that people don't know as much about the issues as you or I do but calling them stupid is not going to work. even if it's true. we do need to actually kill glonzo
they are wrong in the details but they are correct in that affordability is a problem, and has been for a while. sure, we can't touch grocery margins but we can go after housing, healthcare, child care and transportation which are the actual largest line items in people's budget.
groceries and gas are expenses that people have to deal with multiple times a week and are very easy to track on a week-to-week basis so any increases, even if they're a small proportion of their income, are very noticeable. these concerns are nullified if affordability generally is tackled.
I agree that people don't know exactly what they want and are not well versed in policy, but I also think it's fair to ask what you would do instead of meeting them where they're at currently? it seems flattening to say that low info people only care about groceries. they care about affordability.
they wont care about $8 Oreo or whatever if their rent and child care costs are lowered substantially. I get that it's really frustrating that people don't know as much about the issues as you or I do but calling them stupid is not going to work. even if it's true. we do need to actually kill glonzo
they are wrong in the details but they are correct in that affordability is a problem, and has been for a while. sure, we can't touch grocery margins but we can go after housing, healthcare, child care and transportation which are the actual largest line items in people's budget.
groceries and gas are expenses that people have to deal with multiple times a week and are very easy to track on a week-to-week basis so any increases, even if they're a small proportion of their income, are very noticeable. these concerns are nullified if affordability generally is tackled.
I agree that people don't know exactly what they want and are not well versed in policy, but I also think it's fair to ask what you would do instead of meeting them where they're at currently? it seems flattening to say that low info people only care about groceries. they care about affordability.
Grandma was nice and all but think of all the any-tiezers you missed out on at Applebee's with the boys
very good point, I think this also relates to the idea that the same kind of people who still care very deeply about 9/11 are often the same people that only cared about covid once they found a way to blame it on China.
i am from the south and it is so much worse than people imagine. i await Reconstruction2 like a thirsty man in the desert. i have found that the least forgiving dems come from the south, the coddling is from overly pious yankees. i wish we were flyover country, would be better for everyone involved
I watched a let's play of the game and I didn't feel the need to play it. The story was good but even for crpg I thought that it was a little wordy and had hard to understand mechanics
question 1: would you support the continuation of satanic rituals in all condos less than 15 minutes away from a transit stop, if yes how many puppy sacrifices is too many? please give your answer in increments of 10, you monster.
i saw a couple gamergate videos in high school but bounced off, best laziness of my life. at the time i was the perfect demo
that person is projecting so hard they're going to be able to use their sharingan to brainwash the planet using the moon.
social darwinism is the heart of trumpism, before the consequences comes for them it either isnt real or its the fault of whoever has the misfortune to be caught beneath their treads
the pretense that they cared about the hostages was always thin, especially as his rabid far right cabinet clearly only cared about their ability to use 10/7 to forward their territorial ambitions. the way they mourned them before even trying a rescue or negotiation was extremely telling
the government doing stuff is woke and the more stuff they do the woker it is
you are telling people to stop posting opinions you disagree with because they are politically unacceptable to you. do you think these opinions go away if people are shamed into not posting them? you dont even know if this person is real lmao
lol okay lets say 1k. or maybe we could just let people post what thye actually think and stop trying to censor our personal opinions on our personal accounts to appease hall monitors obsessed with the electoral implication of posts on blusky with less engagement than your average airport food court
cmon man, its not even 500. this is silly, its okay to just admit you found a rando that fit the opinion you wanted to dunk on. again, would we have ever seen it if it wasnt screenshot and spread around?
i have dyslexia but pop off king and i didnt think it mattered enough to delete and repost but i can see that pointlessly dunking on pedantic bullshit is a trend. do you think those extra likes make it worthy of discussion?
i dont think indyrefugee is ejecting anybody from anything. i think they are posting an opinion that got 134 likes and didnt accomplish anything. roy cooper is still praying as we speak, everything is gonna be ok. i dont even care about religiousity but this micro-level tone policing is ridiculous.
regular people on social media, who might not even be real, have no obligation to censor their views to help democrats. they arent pundits. every utterance and opinion shouldnt be triangulated to maximize electoral math. if anything you dredging up randos to dunk on is doing more harm than they are
bingo, winning is more important than pointing out you don't like something, an opinion which wasnt asked for. i was born down here and hate religion as much as the next atheist but i love winning more