JTarrou
2d ago
To the degree Fuentes is getting a publicity bump, it's mostly via the left choosing its destructor. By trying to offload one of their pet murderers onto some dank corner of the internet right, they wound up publicizing a relatively niche character. Who has played his moment in the sun pretty well so far.
And they can't even bitch too much about anti-semitism given lefty behavior in the past two years. This has legitimized right-wing JQ'ers in a way few other things could. Jew-hate is now the nobbly end of the horseshoe, the bridge between the left and right at the extreme.
JTarrou
2d ago
We all have choices to make in life. One can, with a bit of effort, be either above or below the law. The law is for those who cannot make their own.
JTarrou
3d ago
Had a bit of fun at work asking people where I go to sign up for a Handmaid after the election. The DMV people looked at me like I was crazy!
JTarrou
3d ago
Obviously no data that nuanced to look at, and it would be a dog's breakfast of definitions if there were.
My guess is roughly 90% degens, 9% assholes, 1% "basically ok guy", but obviously I have a side here.
JTarrou
3d ago
Two years divided by democratic prosecutors and judges is immediate release. There's no point in multiplying laws that won't be enforced and sentences that won't be carried out. We cannot change the laws nor the enforcement, but we can carry a gun.
JTarrou
4d ago
The furor over "stand your ground" remains silly, as it's not really implicated in most of these situations. Bashing SYG is a way of introducing a presumption of flight to every civilian interaction, which is ludicrous.
The fundamental question being asked seems to be if self defense is worth some single-digit number of edge cases per year in a country with more guns than people.
The answer is yes.
The better question is how much better or worse off the country would be with several thousand more "justified homicides" per year. Is not having to uselessly prosecute a lifetime felon for the umpteenth time worth some fractional enabling of a more tragic scenario? What's the optimal ratio?
As it has always been. Choose.
Also, the level of anarcho-tyranny does vary by state. One of the things you could hypothetically choose is to live in a less tyrannical and less anarchic area.
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