ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
4hr ago
Yeah, the only NATO allies that would contribute any significant amount of forces and materirl are Canada, the UK, and France, but even then they wouldn't contribute much compared to thr US. There are some NATO militaries like the Finns that I expect would punch above their weight, but they're too small to contribute too much. The US would be doing the bulk 9f the fighting for NATO in WW3, unlike WW2 when the Brits carried their own weight.
ChickenOverlord
7hr ago
I am not delegating my security to this child with a gun.
Europe was more than happy to do so for decades, and frankly still is given the pitiful increases in military size and weapons production since Russia invaded Ukraine.
My favorites are when, roughly a decade ago, Germany had less than 10 fully armed and operational fighter jets and ZERO operational submarines.
ChickenOverlord
7hr ago
China's recent rare earth policy suggests strongly otherwise.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Additionally, the entire Mexican population of the territories ceded to the US after the Mexican-American War (i.e. California and most of the modern Southwest and Mountain West) was only about 100,000. They were offered US Citizenship under the terms of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and roughly 80,000 of them took the opportunity.
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
By working under the table while also claiming benefits (by stealing someone else's identity). I mean, theoretically a white person can do the same, but there aren't entire state governments dedicated to helping them obtain benefits while being illegal immigrants, and entire DA departments unwilling to prosecute them for it. See this comic/infographic, along with the pathetic attempt to debunk it:
https://imgur.com/fwd-fwd-john-legal-vs-juan-illegal-lA0eug9
There's no contradiction there. He got in front while it was reversing and then stopped in front of it.
You're obviously arguing in bad faith, you've made that abundantly clear with this statement. Her car turned as she was reversing, and this turning is what put him in the way of the car, not his moving. He was moving before her car started moving. Fuck right off if you're going to blatantly lie about what is abundantly clear from the videos.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Which internationally-recognized aid organizations have concluded that starvation in Gaza was a myth? Israelis believe Americans are this gullible, that they can just call something a myth and that makes it so, and they can call something true and that makes it so. There’s a reason America’s approval of Israel has been plummeting. Let me guess, the Norwegian Refugee Council is Hamas?
I'm sure there is starvation in Gaza. Israel's claim is that Hamas seizes aid shipments which prevents them from reaching normal Gazans. Whether or not this claim is true, I can't say, and I can't really find any sources that haven't already picked one side or the other to prove or debunk it.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Him as the villain in the Rock's remake of Walking Tall is the version of him I have stuck in my brain, makes it hard to see him as anything else.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
Do you routinely hear people complain about the Iranian diaspora?
There were two Iranian families in my hometown growing up (smallish town of about 30k people) thet had fled after the Shah was overthrown. One of the families had even converted to Mormonism and was a member of my congregation. The one in my my congregation was a wonderful family and I never heard any complaints about them (they had a son with some mental health issues but even that didn't really cause any problems). I had fewer interactions with the other, but the father of the other family was a school psychiatrist/counsellor at my high school and seemed like a decent guy.
But if someone pretty rabidly anti mass migration like me doesn't have any particular beef with Persians I think that's a pretty good sign of the character of the ones we have here in the US, at least the ones who came here in the 70's.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
And honestly, learning fourth-dimensional math witchcraft from a rat-human hybrid that can move through walls seems kind of cool actually (though I could do without the ritual baby sacrifice.)
I mean, that story ended with the rat bursting out of the main character's chest to claim the heart he had promised when he signed a contract with Yog Sothoth, so not terribly cool even without the baby sacrifice.
Copypaste this into America and say it's sovereignty; that's odd to me. I may be misunderstanding you.
Not OP but for most it's not a hatred of anything foreign/unamerican (though that can play a role). It's the idea that the citizens of a country have absolute authority over who is or is not allowed to live in a country, regardless of the individual merits (or lack thereof) someone who wants to come live here may have. We may want to allow in talented doctors and engineers etc., but just because you are a talented doctor or engineer doesn't give you any sort of moral right to come here. We can choose exactly how many (or how few) doctors and engineers we want to bring in here, and we can decide we'd prefer more British, French, and Japanese doctors over Zimbabwean, Saudi, and Pakistani doctors or whatever arbitrary distinctions we want to make (more hot women and fewer men, or more tall men fewer short kings, etc.).
The big divide between the right and the left here is that the left is effectively saying we cannot choose who to allow or not allow into our country. Sometimes this is done under specious arguments, i.e. "all of those young Syrian men on the rafts are totally doctors and lawyers and engineers coming to enrich our country and therefore it is wrong to prevent them from coming here" and sometimes it's even more baldfaced (see all of the proactive attempts to protect criminal illegal aliens who have been convicted of heinous crimes like murder and rape from deportation). It's a fundamental mismatch of values, and I don't see it resolved any way other than one side giving up on their values, or one side conquering the other.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
Police, including ICE, are told not to stand in front of moving vehicles and not to shoot at their drivers.
He didn't stand in front, he wasn't in front until she reversed. And cops are absolutely allowed to stand in front of parked vehicles to keep them from fleeing.
I already addressed this in my other comment, but cops absolutely can shoot fleeing suspects if they reasonably believe they pose a threat to the cop or others. A lady whipping her car around with reckless disregard for the agents in order to escape (and, to the officer who got hit, with seeming intent to hit him) it is absolutely a justified shoot.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
The police cannot shoot someone to stop them from fleeing.
This is flatly untrue. They can, they simply have to have a reasonable belief that the person poses a threat to the officer or others. They can't shoot them solely for fleeing
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
The probability of someone getting hurt if they just arrest in a her a normal way is absolutely miniscule compared to the guaranteed harm of shooting her to death.
They were trying to arrest her in a normal way, she chose to flee instead. I really don't know how else to explain this to you. If we implemented your (and apparently many leftists') ideals for policing, the clearance rate for all crimes would drop somewhere between 90 to 99%. I'm not exaggerating here.
I'd be willing to let that happen, in exchange for citizens being allowed to blow away criminals without fear of prosecution. But I doubt that's a deal the left would be willing to make. So no, I'm not going to stand by and let the left undermine essential rules and tools for being able to maintain public order.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
The car was pointed right at him when the first shot was fired, the wheels didn't turn right until after. Watch the video in slow motion. And regardless, with how fast it happened there was no way for him to know it was turning past him.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
But even if they had been, why wouldn't it better for the police to simply pursue the car, stop it, pull her out, and arrest her normally?
Because car chases put the general public in danger. I'd much rather cops just blast people like this then let them put the public at risk.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
And lesbian bed death shows you the same for many women
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
At worst, he would have been knocked over.
And then dragged under
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Were the videos of the Rittenhouse shootings viral videos posted day of?
I saw the video of the skateboard attack and the false surrender/bye-cep within 24 hours of it happening. I'm pretty sure video of the initial shooting of Rosenbaum came out at about the same time but can't remember for sure, it was definitely only a few days max.
No, that effectively makes being in a car a get out of jail free card, especially if they haven't identified you yet, if the car is stolen, or the plates aren't visible etc. People learning to not be retards who try and run from cops (and who fight it in court if it's legitimately a wrongful arrest or whatever) is the only option that will lead to a stable society.
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
The whole point of prediction markets as a concept is to aggregate information for the benefit of non-participants.
No, their purpose is to make money for the operators of the sites.
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
I'd just like to say, thank you for making an actual argument here. I can still tell that this is a topic you feel passionately about from the way you talk about it but you're expressing it without resorting to snark and sarcasm. And I actually share most of the same views as you, especially about the socially conservative society I would prefer being blown to bits. I'm not a mod here, but please, more of this.
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
Do you not see any difference between that argument and your strawman of it?
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
"Her arguments are bad but a score of zero? The teacher is treating her differently, more harshly."
No, people on the Motte said "Her arguments are bad, but according to the published grading rubric there's no way it deserved a zero"
From watching way too many body cam videos, my biggest fear that would keep me being a cop is having to deal with nasty smelly hobos and druggies and their bodily fluids.
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