Hell the U.S. DOD had to get Sig Sauer to add a thumb safety to the p320 so they could buy it, and the damn thing will still go off in your holster. www.upi.com/amp/Top_News...
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Hell the U.S. DOD had to get Sig Sauer to add a thumb safety to the p320 so they could buy it, and the damn thing will still go off in your holster. www.upi.com/amp/Top_News...
It’s worse, they are feeding both sides of the paranoia divide, and making firearms less safe in the process. Look at the near disappearance of thumb safeties on pistols in the last 40 years. It part of this marketing that you always have to be ready to kill at a moment’s notice.
Again it’s not that things in the US got worse, though there was an uptick in urban violence from the 1970s until the mid-1990s, it’s that it failed to get better as fast as everyone else.
If you wanted to fault two events that make the US the outlier in regards to a persistently high murder rate in the US it would be the 1977 “Revolt in Cincinnati” that put the gun manufacturing lobby in charge of the NRA, and the GOP constant assault of social welfare programs starting in 1981.
Also if you look at crime over the last 5 decades, it’s not that America is inherently more violent, we were at the same level of most of Western Europe. Violent crime dropped everywhere but it dropped faster in most OECD as quality of life improved for even the poorest and weapons were restricted.
Well, a couple of asterisks to your list: - Many of the guns feeding violence in Mexico (and to a lesser extent Haiti and Bermuda) come from the U.S. -Puerto Rico, despite our president’s statement, is part of the U.S.
I agree. But this must be the most New York Timesy-sounding thing that you’ve ever written.
Oh I came to know them as an adult too. When my kids were small we had a van with a dvd player in it for car trips…I think we got the vegitales dvds from a truck stop bargain bin but they were the only videos I didn’t dread listening to while I drove.
Really? No Brassards. No Bianca gear. And that patch is the 300th infantry BDE from NC. What makes you think they are MPs? Also MP teams are usually three troops with the lowest ranking as the driver.
Okay can I be real for a sec: I’m a 46 year old atheist who profoundly loves OG Vegitales. It was a creator with a vision and a worldview who expressed that in an original artistic way. And the songs were catchy as hell.
Hold up. Three white troops have pistols. One specialist of color is unarmed?!
The wind smells of cordite and maple bacon…
They are taking away functionality that was introduced in MS-DOS 3.3. We’ve somehow lost 35 years of progress. 1990-imagine what we will be able to do in 2025. 2025-we can’t edit text files anymore
To be fair the autism-adenosine triphosphate connection is legitimately a new one to me. At least it’s novel crazy.
We are killing our children for an industry marketing campaign.
How do we upload klonopin?
See Sherrie Burr’s (Yes she’s a Black descendant of that Burr) book Complicated lives. American Slavery isn’t an Ancient Custom, it came into being by accretion and it was the expansion of slavery rather than the end of slavery that was the issue that propelled Lincoln to office.
And it wasn’t until 1691 that free blacks lost their voting rights. After the revolution while most northern states eliminated slavery, the southern states did loosen laws and improve pathways to freedom, only to go back and implement the slave codes a generation later.
Mine is “Slavery would have faded away on its own.” The first Africans brought against their will to Virginia in 1619 actually had 7-year indenture contract just like the white folks auctioned off besides them. In wasn’t until 1670 that a black immigrant was assumed to have lifetime indenture.
I was more, “That sounds a lot like Jonathan Frakes…wait that IS Jonathan Frakes.”
What would be next? Eyes? Ears? Mouth?! It will never end!
He’s just three Goebbels in a trench coat.
He lacks the integrity to be Javert.
Yeah, like you can spend billions on a sports stadium and get millions injected in the economy, along with the hassle of sports riots, or you can spend millions on a nature park, get billions in revenue, and worst case you get hippies and ATV enthusiasts.
All babies look like Winston Churchill.
They were wrong. Democracy died in broad daylight.
Agreed. But also how many laborers are out there destroying their bodies building America with no healthcare whatsoever?
It’s very obvious that no one on that panel, on either side of the issue, has spent 30 years doing physical labor. I spent 23 years in the military and I’m broken as hell in my mid 40s, I have peers who have spent that same amount of time in construction and are much the same.
What if this was all an elaborate April fools prank?
Uh-oh head of state not in a suit, time to invade.
I’m pretty sure the only thing worse than being sick in Thule Greenland is being stuck in Thule Greenland with JD Vance.
I see you’ve read his book.
Trump: doing for billionaires what he did for Rudy Guilliani, Michael Cohen, Atlantic City, the XFL…
This is why authoritarians suck at handling crises. They are too busy creating new ones.
Only they could.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
Since its founding as a remote walled cantonment in 1156, can anyone name for me a time when the Kremlin has been in the right side of history?
ABC news announced they are shutting down 538. Coincidentally, this occurred the day after Trump’s net approval rating went negative on 538’s polling aggregator. In December, ABC news also agreed to pay $15M to settle a defamation case brought by the president. Disney is the parent company of ABC.
Well, at least we liberated Andrew Taint. FML.
Here’s what gets me about Trump and Musk: for all the pain, misery, and chaos they are sewing in the world right now, presumably for their own gain, do either of these guys look happy?
A cologne for men over 40. Call it “Experience” and it’ll smell like book leather, pipe tobacco, & single-malt whiskey. With hints of Icy-hot, stale coffee, a McDonald’s hash brown that’s been in your car seat for 6 months and a fart you just don’t care enough to hold in anymore.
Yelp folks, I made it to 11 AM before y’all made me want to start drinking.
Someone needs to report these yay-hoos to ICANN for misuse of a .gov domain.
I’d say that’s true of many American Bishops of a certain generation. It seems guys ordained in the 1980s absorbed a lot of the non-denominational protestant evangelical moral flavor and then tried to justify it through a paleoconservative approach to doctrine.
“Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain't satisfied 'Til he rules everything”
And yet the person never pauses to question the virtue of the golden ass he worships.
Hey can we report these guys to ICANN for misusing a .gov domain?
I think Vance converted for the bling. Like he’s probably working up the courage to drive over to Catholic university and try on the popes old crown.
“Faith without works is dead.” James 2:26 I’ve already heard someone question the Pope’s Christian credentials as a result of this. The argument was along the lines of “yeah he’s in the Vatican, but just because I’m in a garage doesn’t make me a car.”
“Faith without works is dead.” James 2:26 Vance’s faith is dead, but somehow still has ass cancer.
The word is chaos Matt…
Pray for our President. I recommend Psalms 55 and 109. And pray for Elon Musk Though I can’t find a verse that explicitly mentions ass cancer.
Serious question: isn’t there a state law he can be charged under?
I would have gone with Gulf of Credibility.
You’re describing the civil service, the folks he’s firing.
We do (usually) enjoy a better retirement plan and more job protections than most non-union private sector workers —but that’s an argument for more worker protections in the private sector!
“Look, learning is for suckers. They taught me that at the Warton Business School.
Your neighbor breaks into your house, murders your son, assaults your daughter, tries to to murder you. You fight him before managing to reach the phone and call 9-1-1. The cops arrrive and their first comment is, “Well you’re just going to have to let him keep the kitchen.
Any chance this is tRump giving fElon enough rope to hang himself? Like he put him on the hook for slandering federal workers and violate private citizens privacy?
* So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us face…*
That’s too much credit, it’ll be the Lee Greenwood cover.
What regime? You guys won, remember? These fucks are so unused to actual consent they can’t recognize yes when they hear it.
Also, having known several generals, those that ignore judges’ rulings tend to retire as colonels.
And having known several generals, they tend to listen to what the JAG tells them, or they retire as colonels.
For the record, every competent General I knew kept his JAG close by. The ones who didn’t tended to retire as Colonels.
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Questions: Can’t bots be set up to just replicate Twitter content from official accounts to Bluesky (with a warning)? Doesn’t the Library of Congress archive all tweets on Twitter? Is there a way to make that searchable in Bluesky?
In government, when you move fast and break things, a lot of what you break are people’s lives.
Many of these people risked, and many lost, their lives in this endeavor. If this is truly the end of USAID, the face of America to millions suffering around the globe for six decades, than these men and women deserve far better than to be slandered as a “criminal organizatio
I would not suggest that USAID is beyond reproach. I myself have been critical of some of the organization’s practices, but I never questioned their intent, because, like most civil servants, they never did anything other than try and complete the mission given to them by Congress and the President
There are 99 names on the Memorial Wall at USAID Headquarters in the Ronald Reagan Building. The corresponding CIA memorial at Langley commemorates only 140 fallen, despite being twice the size and having 15 more years of history than USAID.
Way to start off with a bang.
You are doing God’s work…vengeance…
That can be fixed.
Elon Musk sucks at that game too.
This is the grift. Trump makes some ridiculous noise and then claims he negotiated a deal. That way he takes credit for Biden Administration accomplishments on the border.
And crap like this won’t stop until someone stands up to him.
This is the grift. Trump makes some ridiculous noise and then claims he negotiated a deal. That way he takes credit for Biden Administration accomplishments on the border.
Most Government functions are utterly incomprehensible to the current generation of billionaires, because they involve foreign concepts such as integrity, transparency, and serving the public interest.
Yeah, I don’t know a ton of government employees who own their own island. I do know at least one government contractor who does.
Remember the idea that made Musk rich: Credit Cards but on the internet.
I believe this move is called the Unsmooth Criminal.
Jefferson Davis was the Elon Musk of the 19th Century.
In my government position, in four years of the Biden administration, I never received any guidance directing me not discuss any topic, not matter how sensitive. In the past two weeks I have received no guidance except various things I am not allowed to say.
So if I’m tracking the information provided to me by my president, mentally-ill dwarfs are to blame for the deaths of 67 Americans.
Sharks and Alligators both have brains the size of golf balls and have survived since before the dinosaurs. Not everything dangerous needs to be smart.
Watched Creature Commandos. G.I. Robot may be my spirit animal.
I love seeing GOP congressmen argue that the only real functions of Congress are to defend the Whitehouse in media interviews and obtain favors for wealthy donors.
I guess DEI now stands for: Dependent Failchildren Extramarital Eye-candy Invertibrate Sycophants
Folks, can we trust a SECDEF who skips leg day?
It’s kind of like how if a country has “Democratic” in the name it’s almost certainly not a democratic. Anyone who self identifies as a “libertarian” almost certainly does not care about individual rights or popular sovereignty.
And the White House makes problems.
youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok
Welp, I guess we are now solidly in the “find out” phase of American history.
I like that the article on the Joe Louis Monument in Detroit has a “See Also” link to “Fisting (Sex Act)”.
Recapping the genius ideas of the three richest men alive: Zuckerberg - Your high school yearbook, but on the Internet Bezos - Walmart, but on the Internet Musk - Credit cards, but on the Internet* *shared with Peter Thiel
What if every year the president gave the Medal of Freedom to like the five folks who paid the most personal taxes. They get to be reminded how rich they are and we get the money they would otherwise hide in shelters.
Just for the record, if a 2nd Lieutenant were found to be drunk on duty, credibly accused of sexual assault or relieved for cause for financial malfeasance, any of those would be career enders.