anti_dan
3mo ago
The incompetence was swiftly acknowledged. Which is why its not going to be a longrunning story.
anti_dan
19d ago
Should we be holding Republicans responsible for the recent stories of people trying to kill protestors yesterday?
Held responsible? OR Get credit for?
This is the really intractable portion, because killing protestors is probably net pretty good when done by private individuals. Protesting, even the "peaceful" kind is still highly antisocial, at best being a massive waste of time and resources. But usually also significantly interrupting business and people's lives. And more realistically, nowadays, most are used as cover fire for violent crisis actors. Its probably bad if police just shoot them, but guys sniping them out of windows would get us back closer to a more healthy equilibrium where protesting is reserved for important government scandals like covering up sex rings and the like, not for when a teacher's union wants a 10% raise or ICE agents are check notes executing lawful detention orders.
anti_dan
20d ago
The clicking is quite annoying and it conveys minimal information even in crowded traffic, let alone open road navigation.
anti_dan
2mo ago
But Trend de Aragua are a criminal gang
That is the word we use to describe them now. But the question at hand is what are the words John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would have used to describe them in the early 1800s. To those people in that time "gang" would have strong implications that a matter is local of origin and scope. Thus, I think in our hypothetical using the word "gang" to describe TDA can only serve to mislead.
A "transnational criminal organization" which controls diverse economic activities including gold mining and sex trafficking, and engages in political assassination as well as more commonplace "murder and torture."
This just sounds like a rogue government. Or some rogue offshoot of a chartered international corporation like the Dutch East India corporation. Adams and Jefferson would PRESUME any org engaging in all that sort of commerce must be sponsored by some government, otherwise the other governments would crush them. Or they would ask you something like, "this Venezuela is a lawless land of pirates then?" We hang pirates, or sink them, of course. "
The question is whether their activities in the US are in coordination with the Venezuelan dictatorship, as asserted by the administration. Coordination or permission is how I understand the idea to be being presented.
anti_dan
3mo ago
Do they also not have sisters and female cousins or friends or moms? Aunts? Grandmas?
Or dads to tell them to be gentle with women?
The levels of ignorance get really deep really fast. As a male, there is some gigantic certainty that you will at some point become much much stronger than the females you are close to. Maybe its your mom who you can pick up with ease at 13 even though she's heavier than you. Maybe its your sister. Older or younger doesn't matter, there are common feats of strength easily observable. Maybe its a cousin. Or an aunt. Maybe all those people and your dad or grandpa told you the importance of "never hitting a woman". Any normal individual understands this, it is because they are fragile. Which is statistically true.
Being a virgin isn't an excuse. You have to be the level of the the guy who wrote the original article to get close to having an excuse. He was all of that plus more.
anti_dan
6mo ago
That's the initial contact, but eventually the girls were detained in many cases.
anti_dan
9mo ago
"Great" is simply too far. He's been horrible from a Reagan or even GWB policy perspective. You have the right to remain silent. Or simply say, "his mediocre administration is an improvement over Trump's, because , which even if he did, it wouldn't be either accurate description of a Trump policy, nor an accurate description Reagan/Bush policy.
anti_dan
9mo ago
This guy is a huge Dem. He is all in on Ukraine and has lots of posts saying that Kamala should go visit the people who got shot at the Trump rally to one-up him.
anti_dan
11mo ago
I think RR has a skill with the pen that few others have, but he is also a fabulist and a weirdo and that color's my view of this book (and did at the time I first read it). RR, if you don't know, a bit before writing this book also penned a piece about taking his 14 year old son to see a SI photoshoot. When you are around that age you find him to be the coolest dad. When you realize he's probably committing several misdemeanors and are a dad, you realize he's being an irresponsible dad. And obviously not all he is saying makes sense at all.
So in the end is this account of Trump true? Perhaps portions of it are. Trump probably hit some decent shots. Did he hit a 310 yard shot? Probably not. It was probably 299. Still great, but not up to RR storytelling standards. So IDK what really happened on that golf course, but I do know nothing happened that RR thought was BAD happened, because RR the fabulist could contrive Trump glancing at the shirt of a woman wearing nothing but a wet white tee into sexual assault. So just take every 10 and make it a 7 and move on from there.
anti_dan
4mo ago
The implication is that they are not allowed to have them except under conditions strictly administrated by American doctors, probably few at all.
anti_dan
6mo ago
What I find interesting about the Chiefs is the low amount of haters they have. I think its because they started at the tail end of the Pats dynasty, and people were all hated out.
anti_dan
8mo ago
You don't think Jews colloquially referred to child sacrificing religions in their region as satanic? The Talmud discusses such a figure in several places as one who tempts to sin.
anti_dan
9mo ago
I find your articulation of the situation a bit confusing. Are you saying Israel ethnically cleansed Christians in Lebanon?
anti_dan
9mo ago
I think there are some arguments that it was not correct, but on the whole it wasn't solidified nor considered important in any way. They easily could have been absorbed into neighboring countries in 1948.
anti_dan
9mo ago
The radicals are no longer crazies. They see signs. Losing for them is winning because antisemitism is ascendant in the west.
anti_dan
9mo ago
The Obamacare question was fairly out of left field. The rest were mostly obvious. But order and framing are important.
anti_dan
9mo ago
While yes she gave weird scripted answers, that is better than her 2019 performance of being totally unprepared and rambling. Im sure she practiced (what else would she have been doing? not talking to press that is for sure), but its a plausible accusation. It happened before with Hillary. The moderators were clearly on Kamala's side. And its something fairly easily to do.
15 isn't really the danger zone if we are talking about boys who do physical activity regularly. The gap widens after that, but still, the gap is surely there by 15 for the 90% or probably even the 95%.
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