birb_cromble
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birb_cromble
10d ago
This seems like some remarkably bad faith on your part.
First, you claim that nothing like this happens. Then you Darkly Hint that no one will provide examples, because they have a convenient excuse not to do so.
Then two people provide an example, despite your Dark Hinting.
After that, you employ what I can only call a reverse isolated demand for rigor to blow it off as an isolated incident and not useful as any kind of corroboration for lived experience. You and other mods have banned people for that kind of bad faith behavior in the past.
At this point, I'm going to ask you outright. What would you actually require to believe anything that I have said? Because from where I'm standing, it seems like your mind is already made up.
birb_cromble
10d ago
who the hell cooks rice and beans in the same pot
People who were never taught how to cook and didn't have the time or ability to learn.
birb_cromble
10d ago
One was in the York/Dover area, and one was around Frederick.
One would have been around 2005, and one would have been around 2008-2009. I had already left the area, so I don't have firsthand information.
birb_cromble
10d ago
I like them now that I'm an adult who has learned how to cook them properly.
As a kid being served rice and beans boiled in the same pot so one is over cooked or the other is under cooked? Not a fan.
birb_cromble
10d ago
Also for @Amadan, who asked in another thread.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/fairfax-county-butt-slasher-to-be-sentenced-friday/1924072/
Pimentel was arrested near a shopping mall in Peru, in January 2012. He was extradited to the United States in December.
birb_cromble
10d ago
especially in the Baltimore -DC corridor
That might be a big part of the distinction here.
articles would be tantamount to asking someone to dox themselves,
I'll give some location details anyway. I'm not talking about Chevy Chase and Darnestown. I'm talking about Rocky Ridge and Harney. These were poor, fucked up areas that only got more fucked up. The people living between the beltways just assumed it was rednecks doing redneck shit and never looked any deeper. Given the age of the events and the crap sack quality of the local newspapers, I doubt that I could find anything without going to microfiche at a local library. Since I'd rather set myself on fire than go back there, you can retain your sense of disbelief.
birb_cromble
10d ago
Believe me. After we got over the initial shock, the topic was the butt of our jokes for weeks.
birb_cromble
10d ago
I spent some time in Virginia, Maryland, and South Central PA about 20 years ago.
I can absolutely corroborate the profound weirdness of the crimes that started occurring as the illegal immigrant population increased in a given area.
We always had a lot of bar fights, domestics, and drunk driving arrests, but as the area started getting flooded with migrant labor, the profile of the crimes started changing.
There were not one, not two, but three distinct men who were arrested for stabbing women in the ass in stores. Specifically women, specifically in the ass, and specifically in stores.
We had another rash of complaints about a serial truck bed shitter.
Later, we had a rash of cattle mutilations that turned out to be... I guess you'd call it poaching? Rustling? Either way, it was illegal immigrant orchard workers cutting their own steaks from the local dairy cows.
Don't even get me started on the cock fighting and dog fighting operations.
Believe me when I say that the character of a place does change once the illegal immigrant laborer population reaches a certain critical mass.
birb_cromble
11d ago
The actually poor whites and blacks won’t eat rice and beans.
Are you kidding me? That was a staple in my destitute Appalachian community growing up. When you could afford dinner, that was definitely one of the most common meals. Nobody liked it; it wasn't as good as half a can of tomato soup made with milk and a bunch of crackers, but it sure beat having a big glass of water for dinner.
birb_cromble
12d ago
I don't have a Twitter account, and I don't go out of my way to follow twitter e-celbrities.
Maybe you can help me out here. What's this "Hanania" guy's deal?
Everything I see about him here on the motte seems to suggest that his entire schtick can be reduced to "poor people are gross moral failures and I'm clearly not poor. Are you poor? Are you a gross moral failure?"
Am I missing something here?
birb_cromble
12d ago
Smaller studios like A24 are promising
If you haven't seen it, A24 distributed a film called Warfare that was actually pretty good.
birb_cromble
13d ago
It's all second and third order connections, but it's a suspiciously large number of second and third order connections.
There is very little in the way of actual policy outcomes that is easily traced to Biden’s senescence.
How much of that is due to small changes in policy positions, and how much of that is due to the entire liberal establishment utterly stonewalling any effort to find out?
birb_cromble
14d ago
would be impossible without cooperation from practically the entire Department of Corrections
One of the parties implicated in this affair recently blew the dicks, assholes, and/or parinea clean off 3,000 people in multiple countries with devices the targets willingly put on their own bodies.
Given that display of competence and coordination, it feels like your assessment of what is or is not possible in this case may be overly conservative.
birb_cromble
19d ago
You're right. I can't type for crap tonight. I meant III, which is rated for 7.62x39
birb_cromble
19d ago
5.56 out of a 20" barrel can defeat level IV plates at 100 yards, and possibly up to 200, depending on the bullet construction. Velocity is a hell of a thing.
birb_cromble
20d ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm interested in the fact that the judge has defined a class where, due to the linear nature of time, the majority of the members of the class do not actually exist.
Is there any historic precedent for that kind of class? It seems like there's an issue if standing if you don't exist yet. Is this some sort of legal fiction, like when the government sues a barrel of vinegar?
birb_cromble
21d ago
I think they dialed it to 6
birb_cromble
21d ago
I'd say Tolkien, Twain, Orwell, Heinlein, and Hemingway clear the bar. Theodore Roosevelt does too, though he was a man who wrote books more than an author.
birb_cromble
27d ago
it doesn't give the Executive that much discretion to determine the grounds for denaturalization completely freeform.
We live in a world where supreme court precedent has determined that growing your own grain and feeding it to your own stock on your own land can be regulated under the aegis of "interstate commerce". That ship has sailed.
That is... That is an uncharitable take on what I said.
First of all, I'm not WC. Please do not treat me like I am WC. Please do not put WC's words in my mouth. Please do not assume that my intentions and his are the same. We are not the same person. We have different goals and intentions.
Now that's out of the way, you're reading a much stronger version of what I wrote than what I intended to write. Did I say "hellhole" anywhere? No, I did not. That's your interpretation through the lens of whatever other biases you have. WC might have said it, but I did not. I didn't mention Black Americans either. I'm not even sure why you're bringing it up now.
What I did say is that, in my experience, crimes get weirder as illegal immigrant migrant labor increases in small communities. I provided some examples of that. I did not make inferences about larger civilizational impacts, because once again, I am not WC and I do not share in his motivations.
All I can say is that you can tell me that I'm wrong, but I'm still the one that spent an afternoon hosing human shit out of my cousin's toolbox.
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