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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Obviously the US needs crime reform but in enforcement, changing trials won’t fix the main problem of low-level nuisances because they’re not getting arrested in the first place.
They get arrested quite often. The first level of major breakdown in the system seems to be the "decision to press charges" stage.
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2d ago
Four story fall seems to be the 50% fatality point. Eight story fall is 90%. I would guess that a two story fall has a fatality rate well below 25%. The bigger flag is the wrist-slitting. She used a huge kitchen knife and managed to only give herself minor wounds going the wrong way. You'd think that if a nurse knows anything, it's where the wrist veins are.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Sure enough, she did try killing herself.
No she didn't. She's a nurse who made some cat scratches across the road and then threw herself out of a second floor window. Very obviously a fake attempt to provide cover for her triple homicide. The only thing she didn't plan was actually hurting herself in the fall.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
The closest actual character I can think of is Benny from The Mummy, who was explicitly not Jewish, IIRC.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Hanania has "sketchy merchant who betrays the protagonist because the villain offered him a child bride" physiognomy. I am surprised and kind of appalled to learn that he is married with children. I assume a mail order or green card are involved.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
Another round of justifying it by exaggerating the outgroup's policies and claiming "we're only spending in retaliation for how much spending THOSE guys did!!!"
Please cite a link where you made similar complaints about the trillions in cash giveaways Biden did.
Another round of everyone looking around for where the money went, while conveniently forgetting about Social Security and Medicare.
Please go on the record and state that you'd like to see old people kicked out of nursing homes to live on the street.
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4d ago
Seriously, bro? An AP article about (N=40) agents who posted their hiring publicly, where most of the (4) "problems" are that a few of them had declared bankruptcy before? And then a single one where the problem was that one time he was sued by a woman who sounds like a Karen, with no meaningful details?
I think that just buttresses my point. "Deeply motivated investigation by top-level journalist outlet managed to find a single time where a guy was accused once of possibly making a bad arrest."
Which was dismissed with prejudice. Feel free to sign up for the 14 day free trial to read the full details.
In comparison, ICE has arrested 170 citizens in the course of some 582k arrests, which is a 0.0029% bad arrest rate. Compare that to things like the overall rate of false arrests, accidental IRS audits (10%), and wrongful executions. And that number is still an exagerration, because the cases that got enough attention to derive news articles were actually pretty reasonable, like the DISABLED VETERAN CITIZEN who was detained for three days by ICE for, er, working security at a drug farm that was using mass illegal labor include the purported use of migrant children as child slaves.
Or the kid who was technically born in the US, then taken back to Mexico as an infant to be raised in a village so remote he didn't even speak Spanish. When he came back to the US, he had no papers and hopped the border with his other illegal friends. When they were all arrested, it took an entire weekend for ICE to find a translator for the Aztec language he spoke to get his shit straightened out.
Just outrageous.
I never said they didn't go to other states, it's that Minnesota was particularly targeted as defacto retaliation for displeasing Trump.
Doing the same thing they're doing in all the other states, but it's "targeted" because "political experts say", even as they admit that the state is a hotbed for immigrant fraud.
So part of this is potentially understandable (send agents where there's less cooperation)
This is just a surge. They've talked about this as a tactic, and done it in 20+ cities. Minneapolis is just the only one that had Walz staffers and government employees actively coordinating activist harassment and likely using internal government tracking data such as license plate readers to help the activists impede and harass agents.
You are just making up the "trigger happy" accusation.
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4d ago
Maybe to a tiny handful but it's not useful to collapse strategy down to the what the most hysterical Blues would think. The majority of normies want immigration laws "enforced" in some nebulous way, they just don't like seeing it done.
Every vaguely politically aware Blue was being bombarded with agitprop about the MN ICE surge. I had random strangers histrionically rant at me about it from nothing. It was protrayed as the Trump Gestapo kicking in doors to kidnaps, exile or just disappear anyone who was brown.
It was an accident because the ICE agent was trigger happy.
I'd really like to see how well you keep your cool when dozens of people are given free reign to be as stress-inducing as possible while continually flirting with and threatening violence against you. Or how well you can distinguish "I've got his gun!" from "He has a gun!" after I spend an hour blowing an alarm whistle in your face.
Aggressive, rapid hiring for ICE that let jumpy agents in.
Absolute nonsense. Pure, empty, bad faith talking point. Available data suggests that ICE is probably our best federal agency in terms of not making overzealous fuckups. You're about a hundred times more likely to have a "jumpy" IRS agent accidentally audit you.
Targeting Minnesota in the first place, which did not have an unusual number of illegals relative to its population, and which had an unfriendly state government.
MN was not a unique target, they went to tons of states. The difference is that most of those other states had some level of cooperation, even if it was quiet so as not to enrage the Blues. What made MN special was Tim Walz and Keith Ellison doing their best George Wallace impersonation, which is exactly why Trump made some comments to drive the point home.
States don't actually get to openly flaut black-letter federal law. This is well established precedent.
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5d ago
I would be willing to offer a reasonable asylum hearing to Europeans being threatened by their governments for proscribed speech.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Be as minimally inflammatory as possible when enforcing your immigration policies, while not actually changing the substance of the policies. If two actions lead to the same result, but one excites Catturd while freaking out the normies, do the other thing. Don't send in trigger-happy ICE agents to Minnesota with tweets implying it's "punishment" for other offenses.
Enforcing immigration policy at all is maximally inflammatory to many Blues. There are numerous videos from MN of ICE officers explaining that they are trying to apprehend a literal convicted child rapist while some liberal white woman screams that she doesn't care. The one actually bad shoot from that scenario seemed like more of an accident than "trigger happy" and it took something like 100k acts of deliberate provocation to conjure up by what was functonally deliberate Blue policy of trying to generate martyrs and bad press.
And when that was stopped (which was mostly just a matter of going elsewhere for a while before going back), the Blues switched to trying to instigate riots and shit at ICE facilities themselves. You are assuming a level of reasonableness, media-savvy, good faith and mistake theory from the pro-immigration people that is just not in evidence.
Desantis who would presumably deliver on immigration without the buffoonery and baggage of corruption.
Desantis will be portrayed as a corrupt buffoon Nazi by every media outlet to the left of Fox News in that scenario.
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5d ago
I will point out that those who were raised Blue were raised to give a fuck. "We on the left do not blacklist," etc.
Sure they do. Do you think any of those good decent Blues would fund a film by Mel Gibson? They just won't blacklist communists, aka traitors trying to sell us out to an omnicidal tyranny.
Sorry, there's a big fence here called "natural born citizen". They would have to be crazy to think about tearing it down.
there is nothing to lose from escalating back
It's not an escalation. It's an undoing of a previous escalation. A deescalation, even.
Do you actually think/feel that you have nothing to lose, in your current situation?
No, I think I have everything to lose. Which is why I want to win.
And again, beating this same drum for the thousandth time, this sort of argument only ever goes one way. No one even bothers trying this sort of argumentation on leftists because everyone knows they don't give a fuck. Mainstream, high level elected Democrats support open borders, mass replacement migration, packing the Supreme Court, abolishing the filibuster and their more extreme flanks are talking about abolishing the Senate.
It is an absurdity to look at that and then tut-tut about conservatives wanting to send back ethno-narcissists and communists who got a piece of paper two years ago.
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5d ago
Yes. I don't think that's a likely scenario. But if the premise of the hypothetical is "EU leadership escalates the war towards an outcome where Russia straight loses", then that is an option that Putin has available.
That's why I am much more concerned about escalating conflict with Russia than I was about Venezuela or Iran. Only one of them has a "global catastrophe" button.
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5d ago
It's always fun to hypothesise about all the things you could build after cutting down a (Schelling/Chesterton) fence, but the thing with a fence is that it holds back people on both sides. Do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that will blow once "strip citizenship from someone on the enemy team" is on the political menu?
The fence is down. If we can grant citizenship to infinity foreigners, then the blowing wind is sending them back.
I don't believe any law or norm or principle or logical consistency would stop the extremists on the other side from trying to denaturalize me if they thought they could get away with it.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
How many people voted for open borders? Is everyone else then far left?
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5d ago
The can't win, but they do likely have the capacity to ensure everyone loses.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Also, isn't Germany still effectively funding Russia via Green energy policy?
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
In fairness, that was a longtime friend who went trans (and far left) for what I'm pretty sure was 99.9% projection/ego defense reasons. This gets to be a thorny issue because I think people go trans for a large number of different reasons, and that particular individual did so for perhaps the worst one (e.g. "It's not my fault that I'm an alcoholic domestic abuser because I was being repressed by society but now I'm a heckin' valid woman with a clean slate and a moral blank check!")
The only other trans person I have regular contact with IRL is a lot more sane and chill.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
The reality was an eyeroll and a snicker, and they managed to convince themselves it was a threat of violence over a 30 second period of histrionic catastrophizing. Repeatedly describing the experience, but in more and more extreme terms until the version they were describing bore no relation to the experience as seen by anyone else. It was alarming, not just that it happened, but how quickly it spiraled.
That game of solo telephone was a bit of a recurring issue with that person. "Surreal" is a good adjective.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
There are suggestions that BSW is considering breaking the firewall and forming a majority coalition with AfD.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
I have personally seen IRL a trans person straight up hallucinate violent threats from blue collar working class people. The worst actual responses from that class are more like this.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
Julian sighed— "Alas, our ancestors were barbarians, Medes; and the sluggish blood of the North flows in my veins. It is true, I am no son of the Hellenes!"
"My friend, Hellas has never existed," murmured Maximus, with his old bewitching smile.
"What do you mean?" asked Julian.
"The Hellas that you love has never existed."
"Do you mean to say that my faith is futile?"
"We are only to believe," answered Maximus, "in what is not, but shall be. Your Hellas shall exist, shall be the reign, the kingdom of divine men, men daring all things, fearing none."
To make it even more on the nose, Julian ultimately died while fighting a military campaign against Persia.
Iran is not Persia. If they wish for triumph, honor and glory, then they should heed the wise counsel of RomanHelmetGuy and embrace that ancient name anew.
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8d ago
Or is it just 'existing in a way that wasn't part of what I learned when I was little'?
FWIW, that does constitute a (minor) harm. Social friction isn't cost-free. Shared norms and expectations lubricate every interaction you have with other people. What hydroacetylene is talking about here is just the most stark gap in American culture.
In 2019 there was a list of "murdered trans people this year" going around. I was skeptical, because there was a similar list of purportedly murdered gay people from a few years earlier that was entirely made up names, so I started searching. The trans list was real. Most of the names had local news reports about the murder. And as nearly as I could tell, every single one where the offender data was known was a case of a trans sex worker murdered by a black john. Because in that specific American sub-subculture, finding out that your whore has a dick is an insult and status-loss that is worth killing to redeem.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
If the juror is acknowledging there is reasonable doubt but voting to convict that's pretty different.
Perhaps it was "Yes, there is reasonable doubt by MA statutory law, but that law is insane". That would be pretty standard nullification.
That doesn't really matter. If she had easy access to a much higher window and chose the 2nd floor one, then that would be strong evidence of faking it. But you can find her address easily. The house is literally on Zillow. The only second floor windows I see drop onto grass. I literally used to jump out of those for fun when I was a kid.
The point is, that drop is rather implausible as a method of suicide when you could have just turned your knife 90 degrees, like most adults and damn sure every nurse knows.
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