The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
9mo ago
Yes, I say if some ordinary person rolls up the tinted windows between them and a cop at a stop that's already contentious, the cop is going to put a few rounds into the window and say he was afraid the driver was using the tinted window as cover to get out their own gun. And one "Hoffmeister25" would be among the first to defend said cop. There's no statistical question here -- most people don't do what Hill did, after all.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
9mo ago
I do think this depends on the officer's assessment of whether Hill posed a threat to him. If he knew who Hill was (and he probably did), just taking this approach would have made sense.
My guess is that if he didn't know who Hill was, or if he actually thought Hill was a threat (even if he did know who he was), this ends with a few rounds through the window, killing Hill.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
9mo ago
Tyreek Hill's job is to catch a ball and run. The cop's job is to enforce the law. Tyreek Hill being kind of an asshole to someone who is, after all, his enemy in that moment is not nearly as concerning as the enforcers of the law being authoritarian bullies based on the slightest excuse.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16d ago
That argues against demographics mattering. Both Iranian and Arab Islamic populations show affinity for the strictest Islamic governments.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
19d ago
But where I am at least the combination of "where practicable", minimum 1m passing distance, and lane widths means that it's virtually always legal to take the lane, as it's too narrow for a car to safely pass within it.
The ability of cars to pass legally does not affect the practicability of riding to the right. That's the cyclist-advocate logic I'm referring to.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
23d ago
That is a very non-standard meaning of "buying trinkets", Mr. Dumpty.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6mo ago
I'm an opponent of gun rights for certain people, yes. As almost everyone is.
Ah, good old "We've established that; now we're haggling over the price". The purity test is in the Constitution; it admits to some quibbling over exceptions (including felons and non-citizens, as well as minors), but there's no way in hell it admits to "loners" as an exception.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8mo ago
Japan is totally a police state.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
9mo ago
Yes, but they generally don't believe in problem cops. Unless the cop is literally caught doing rape or murder, they side with the cop in all cop/citizen interactions.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
9mo ago
As far as I know it is not the responsibility of a belligerent in wartime to feed enemy civilians not under their direct control.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
10mo ago
You didn't say "the economy is worse than under Trump".
We're talking about an election campaign here; the comparison is obvious.
Average Overall Unemployment:
- 2017Jan to 2019Dec = 3.975%
- 2023Jul to 2024Jul = 3.875%
The averages obscure the fact that the trend was downward then and upward now.
Average 12-month Inflation
- 2017Jan to 2019Dec = 2.07%
- 2023Jul to 2024Jul = 2.92%
2.92% is considerably worse than 2.07%, particularly considering what immediately preceded that 2.92%.
Now, again, explain how the only way someone can think "the economy is doing just fine" is because they're lying.
I've presented my case.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11mo ago
Shakespearean English is recognizable today. And I'm talking about dialect, not accent. And I'm not talking about a few hundred years, but a few decades. Your post is just a smokescreen.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11mo ago
Why would it make a difference that they're a de jure state rather than merely a de facto one? Gaza was not occupied in any real sense before 10/7.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
23m ago
The "underlying issues" are that your same 100 people want to keep taking drugs to the exclusion of everything else.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1hr ago
Safe Injection Sites. And the provenness of their effectiveness is certainly disputed. As is that of enforcement, as the 80s drug war showed. And rehab is a joke.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
15d ago
Freedoms come with responsibility, as they say
The "they" who say this are generally authoritarians, who sometimes write unintentional parodies of Bills of Rights in the form of paired statements of the form "You have the right to do X, you have the responsibility not to do X unless we say it's OK".
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
17d ago
I know the Persians are a civilized people, so they may not resort to brute force violence.
LOL. You know, the storming of the US embassy and the ensuing hostage crisis is in fact within living memory.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1mo ago
It is perhaps more accurate to consider the pre- and post-Mao CCP as entities that share continuity but otherwise represents a break
In which case you have precious little precedent to demonstrate that it is necessary to guarantee reasonable standards of living to rule China.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2mo ago
What makes you think Trump thinks the tariffs on phones would have helped? Just by imposing and exempting he promotes the desired diversification from China without having the country take the short-term pain. Win-win.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5mo ago
As common as middle-aged adult men who aren't hardened criminals themselves are in UK prisons.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6mo ago
Drug use should be made safer by safe needle sites and the like because it is personally risky.
Wait, you just converted that "personally risky" activity to "evil" by imposing the cost of safe needle sites and the like on other parties (taxpayers) without their consent.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8mo ago
Because alcohol licensing isn't quite costly enough to make bathtub gin look attractive to customers.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8mo ago
If you prefer sneering in order to paper over the point that "more of the same, which had absolutely terrible results" is transparently a very bad idea, knock yourself out.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
9mo ago
It also radicalized an enormous amount of people who are now extremely pissed off because the covid hysteria was needless, wasted enormous resources and all that.
What, a single-digit percentage of the public that was supporting RFK Jr.? There's more people still wearing masks.
I dunno, but to listen to cops and their apologists you'd think that all of them would involve deadly force (on the part of the person stopped against the cop) if the cops weren't so insistent that the stopped person respect their authority.
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