Poultice
20d ago
Are you having issues reading what was written?
"the police cannot shoot someone to stop them from fleeing." is an entirely different sentence than what faceh wrote which was "Police officers are not allowed to shoot people driving vehicles at them."
It's right there in the comment you were replying to.
Poultice
1mo ago
Microcenter also has a rewards program and they ask your name and address at the register.
One would assume that he wouldn't give them at information if he was purchasing bomb components with cash... but maybe?
Poultice
2mo ago
So the penalty for being late, is the same as the penalty for rebellion you say?
Poultice
4mo ago
he also said, "We don't know what happened yet, it could of been one of his pro-gun followers popping off a round in celebration."
not only was it crass, it was so incredibly dumb. He deserved to be fired and shunned.
Poultice
4mo ago
I'm sure all the military vaccination requirements and DEI initiatives had nothing to do with purging the military and were just best practices.
Poultice
7mo ago
This is a bizarre statement to me, Trump's cultists are not "mainstream" in any meaning of the word.
I'm old enough to remember the dozens of covers of actual mainstream newspapers and magazines with pictures of Obama with the Presidential seal positioned just so behind his head to give the appearance of a halo.
Do I need to provide links to the "Lightworker" articles or the newsweek "god of all things" Shiva cover? This is either absurd revisionism or you're very young.
Poultice
7mo ago
I have family that were in law enforcement and I am very much aware of my pro-blue default nature but I also have some vestigial libertarianism that counterbalances my bias.
I'm not even saying you're wrong, I just think it's too early to judge (the soup/meat analogy is perfect).
If anything the last 10+ years has taught me is patience, especially with incidents like these.
Poultice
7mo ago
Do you have a different video that provides more context than the one I've seen?
You've written up a whole story, psychoanalyzed this officer and based on very scant video. We have no context for what was occurring around her, or the officer, we have an incredibly narrow field of view and for all we know someone adjacent to her could have been throwing something and the shot was errant.
Poultice
7mo ago
"We burn, break shit, and threaten people all the time, which is fine and good"
"You only do it the once, when you're really upset, so that's bad."
It's really solid, well founded logic.
Poultice
7mo ago
This is particularly rich because so much of the justification for puberty blockers and minor transition has been a "You can have a live daughter or a dead (suicide) son!" fear mongering which turns out to have been based flawed/non-existent studies.
Poultice
8mo ago
Your comment is very confusing, you say you're pro-puberty blocker and list your reasoning, and then every one of your reasons contradicts themselves.
"Adults should be allowed to make their own decisions regarding their body." We're talking about puberty blockers which by definition have to be proscribed to non-adults.
"I'm uncomfortable with non-adults making permanent, irreversible alterations to their body" it seems to me there's fair evidence that puberty blocker's side effects do exactly this.
Poultice
9mo ago
You see the difference is that Karmelo was actually trespassing while Rittenhouse was spiritually trespassing (on public ground in a local community that he has ties to). Obviously Rittenhouse's offense was much more egregious.
Poultice
9mo ago
I think he didn't bother defining because it has been the subject of a recent Scott post, and featured in a post on the Motte 2 weeks ago.
Poultice
10mo ago
I’ve made converts of friends and acquaintances with recordings of Pavarotti‘s Nessun Dorma, and YouTube clips of Donizetti‘s Cheti, Cheti/Aspetta duet. Anything current? Sadly, no.
Funny enough I became a fan of opera for almost precisely this reason. I credit Tom Cruise and "Rogue Nation" for introducing me to Turandot and went to see it performed live at the MET a few years back.
Poultice
10mo ago
According to PEW party affiliation of Asians is merely 2:1 in favor of the Democrats, I'll leave that up to the reader to decide whether that is "solidly left"
Poultice
10mo ago
I checked their website on the wayback machine but it wasn't loading fully me so I don't know if they claimed to be "private" or you misunderstood but according to Wikipedia at least they weren't just "founded" by Congress they're also "funded" by Congress.
I don't understand what the word "private" is supposed to mean in the context of a publicly funded organization.
Poultice
10mo ago
It's funny how so many people I read who are made at Musk are writers who don't have the ability to promote their Non-X writing platforms on X anymore. They find this to be a huge injustice and immoral, I find it mostly annoying because I have to read them complaining about it all the time.
Platform X doesn't let me promote other platform Y doesn't seem like a shocking situation to me. Nothing is preventing them from writing an X-article or wtf X calls their longer form platform if it bothers them so much. They're not being censored, they're being encouraged to produce on the same site they're promoting on.
I don't know why everyone keeps saying "The suspect was disarmed so therefore the police had no reason to shoot him."
Removing one gun from someone violently resisting you doesn't mean they're any less likely to have a weapon on them, in fact it means they're more likely. They've already demonstrated the fact that they have access to firearms, your updated priors should be "he likely has a 2nd weapon/gun on him and continues to be dangerous until subdued."
There isn't some immutable rule of physics that people are only able to carry 1 gun at a time.
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