anti_dan
9hr ago
Yeah. Most people are bad at aiming and shooting firearms at distance. Double that with the actual adrenaline from doing an assassination, most people are going to miss. The Charlie Kirk thing was an aberration. Also, Charlie Kirk didn't have SS level security.
anti_dan
11hr ago
Some people have long guns in their car almost all the time. But they dont have much interaction with the criminal elements we are currently discussing. And you sure as hell don't want to be caught by one of them breaking into said truck.
anti_dan
1d ago
A handgun is a very convenient tool for the casual homicide. You don't have to be smart to use it, and it is a minimal inconvenience to carry it around while you go about your daily business until one day, you decide that someone needs to die (or be stopped from whatever he is doing) and can enact your decision within a few seconds.
Very true. When you work in the criminal justice system you will often have a sort of yo-yo on your positions on gun control as you see more and more gun crime. Initially you will see something like an armed robbery gone wrong and think gun control sounds pretty good. The fact is that most criminals do not have grand criminal plans, everything is basically a crime of opportunity, and disarming people in those situations would be a social good.
But then you realize those people just get guns anyways. Even after they are convicted felons. And you realize the only people who ever actually face consequences for violating gun laws are 45 year old tow truck drivers who use a revolver to stop a 20 year old punk from attacking him because he's towing the car the punk parked in a tow zone.
anti_dan
1d ago
This is pretty much the logical end result of feminism and the progressive left's social project, so I don't see why you find it surprising or refreshing to see it written out.
anti_dan
2d ago
Black culture, despite the bad parts, has some really lovely vitality and openess and warmth that a lot of more standardized western culture lacks.
Huh? Like what? Rap? Scam culture? So confused by this comment.
anti_dan
2d ago
I think Jim Crow is worse than DEI actually
On the books, its possible, in practice DEI actually held back far more people with potential.
anti_dan
2d ago
I find the trend of these markets siccing law enforcement on anyone who beats them to be pretty disgusting and we should probably pull their license regardless of any real cheating happening.
anti_dan
4d ago
Of course, Donald Trump has made an excellent case for reducing our dependency on fossil fuel which is entirely orthogonal to climate change. Yes, sure, most alternative forms of mobility also depend on global supply chains, e.g. for lithium batteries. I would claim that this is a higher order effect, though. If the price of oil explodes, an ICE car is just a dwelling which is too small for comfort. An electric car will still work for years before the lack of replacement batteries would immobilize it.
Only if the power is on, and in most of Europe that still requires Russian gas. Renewables aren't up to the task, and may not be for several more decades (if ever).
anti_dan
4d ago
Withholding support from Israel doesn't mitigate the problem that they have a bunch of hostiles in land adjacent to them that use children as human shields, both literally and nutritionally.
anti_dan
5d ago
Americans can’t affect humans rights abuses in Iran, Belarus, or Sudan
This seems like the opposite of correct. You could almost certainly stop human rights abuses in Belarus and Sudan with decent sized cash payments (totally not bribes). There is a plausible military path to regime change in Iran wherein a non-human rights violating government comes to power.
The only plausible path to ending human rights abuses in Palestine is by doing one big, quick, human rights abuse and shoving them all into boats and dropping them off somewhere they are not near lots of Jews. Madagascar has been floated elsewhere in this thread in other contexts. Works well for this plan.
anti_dan
5d ago
Yeah I blame Israel for attacking Iran and starting this war. The Hormuz blockade was an entirely foreseeable consequence of that.
Only if you think the Iranians have no agency.
anti_dan
6d ago
Appeals inherently dull the intended effects of deterrence and the lack of ability for a prisoner exchange.
If due process is what the objection is, well, maybe thats true. Or maybe modern due process is actually an affront to victims rights.
anti_dan
6d ago
Antisemitism is a result of massive, society-wide misinformation perpetuated by the press, universities, and social media. This is the “wall of dead children” model. Israel’s actions don’t really matter because they will be twisted and misrepresented anyways. The solution is to exert more control over the information environment.
I mean, I suppose I fall into this camp.
When I look at Israel's actions during the relevant time periods where support for the state has gone down, I simply think they couldn't have done anything different, or at least substantially different. Because of the way Hamas and Hezbollah operate, every square foot of an area they occupy ends up being a legitimate military target. This is, of course, famously schools, hospitals, mosques, etc. If you want to disable Hamas soldier and rockets, you basically have no choice but to bomb targets in those categories. This will then create the "wall of dead children" as you put it. IMO responsible reporting would ignore said dead children, or, if they did report, emphasize strenuously that the children were killed by Hamas's actions.
That said this isn't unique to Israel. The same tactics are deployed by American press against America all the time. The press, as a rule, does not like competency and patriotism, and the mix of competency with patriotism is particularly offensive to them. Well, Israel is both so they will be hated by the press.
Does antisemitism help drop Israel below the floor that the press can drive America to? Yes. But the press's vitriol for a winner is even more important.
anti_dan
7d ago
In practice, third parties affected by either blockade will judge it in their interests not to start a war over it.
This is, also, why in practice the JCPOA was folly.
anti_dan
7d ago
I've yet to see any rigorous studies showing that transition is helpful in reducing objective measurements like suicide, criminality, etc .
In any case the happiness of the trans is orthogonal to whether they are delusional, and the appropriate measures society takes to limiting the delusional population from committing acts of violence.
anti_dan
8d ago
To be honest, seems fair.
No one ever said this before when anyone did this against ships flagged by or en route to neutral countries.
People are making up a bunch of new rules just to help Iran out.
anti_dan
8d ago
I've been getting ads against this act on some podcasts. I would say that it is absolutely in the category of a bad law. "Think of the Children" is the alleged reason. Huge delegation to agencies. Almost no specifics.
If you wanted to actually help children, you'd withhold federal funds from any school that allows cell phones inside the building.
anti_dan
9d ago
There was clearly much wrong with this person beyond anything to do with being trans.
This is always the case with shooters. It is also always the case with trans people.
Whether trans is an extra violent subset of the persons who are very delusional and crazy is for researchers. Meanwhile, treating them akin to paranoid skitzophrenics is mostly appropriate via the precautionary principle. It is just as likely that a man is truly a woman as it is that a man's dog is satan and ordering him to kill people. Perhaps the latter is even more likely, many prominent philosophers of the ages have thought demons were real.
anti_dan
10d ago
Grade inflation has made that a thing of the past. A significant portion of the T12 and T50 discourage graduates from putting their gpa(if it exists) on resumes.
anti_dan
11d ago
As someone who has taken and passed the bar exam, I am much more perplexed as to how anyone can manage to fail. I legitimately think there is a very good chance I got 100% on the multiple choice portion of the exam. Alas, we will never know because this is from there era where you didn't get scores, just a simple pass/fail.
The idea that Trump is Putin's puppet is the longest running and most heavily invested into psyop the left has been conducting about Trump. It literally started in 2015, now over a decade ago. That Trump is betraying Ukraine is just the modern iteration of that joint media-IC operation, so it is a manifestation of a lot of work.
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