stuckinbathroom
No bio...
User ID: 903
stuckinbathroom
6d ago
(Not OP)
As stated, I think the claim is hyperbolic and TTBOMK wrong.
Having said that, the Bush-era GOP-controlled White House and Congress could have prodded states to mandate that all employers use E-Verify, by threatening to withhold various federal moneys from noncompliant states, but they didn’t.
I grant you that this would have required Congress to pass new legislation, so the blame doesn’t lie solely with Bush, but Bush had a trifecta for a decent chunk of his 2 terms and easily could have made such legislation a priority. That he didn’t speaks volumes about the values of the GOP establishment of that era.
Anecdatally, it feels like the backlash against (what was perceived as) the Bush-era GOP establishment cucking on illegal immigration was one of two initial rifts within the party that first emerged in the late 2000s/early 2010s, then metastasized and eventually led to Trump’s 2016 takeover (the other rift being the Ron Paul libertarian/Tea Party movement)
stuckinbathroom
12d ago
Naval mines are one obvious possibility. It’s even conceivable that the mines are already in place, awaiting remote activation—though if they were, I’m sure US/Israeli intelligence would be aware
stuckinbathroom
12d ago
stuckinbathroom
13d ago
“It’s a pity they can’t both lose”
—Henry Kissinger (well known far-right Jew, referring to a war between Muslim states)
stuckinbathroom
16d ago
New Russell conjugation: I am a Platonic philosopher-king, you engage in hairsplitting pilpul, he says “It depends upon what the meaning of the word is is”
stuckinbathroom
17d ago
Sounds like your notion of traction is a combination of internal locus of control and grit, both of which are mostly reinforcement-learned by exerting deliberate effort towards a goal and then achieving that goal. Ideally this happens many times in varied contexts throughout the subject’s development.
stuckinbathroom
18d ago
and Indian guys and Asian girls independent of assimilation
don't I fucking know it ...
stuckinbathroom
19d ago
Not sure how much that would have helped. Eventually, CCTV footage would either find him leaving Central Park and heading out of the city, in which case his choice of destination wouldn’t really matter—indeed, a psueodonymously-booked Airbnb would look extra sus. Or it wouldn’t, in which case he could go basically anywhere, even home, so long as he had a reasonable explanation for his absence. Maybe a weekend Airbnb booking would help establish an alibi, but then it’s better for it to be in his own name.
If I were him, I would have immediately destroyed the gun and tossed it into a large body of water—you could even do this while still in Central Park! I would also have brought a change of clothes and found a hiding spot in the park in which to lay low overnight, perhaps 24 hours or even longer, to throw off CCTV-based detection.
Uh, in Minecraft, of course.
stuckinbathroom
20d ago
(Arguably, the most valuable contribution an IDF soldier could ever hope to make to Israel's wars is to suicide when captured. Most soldiers can never hope to personally neutralize 100 enemies, but a captured soldier can prevent 100 enemies from being un-neutralized.)
This is precisely the rationale behind the so-called Hannibal Directive
stuckinbathroom
21d ago
And less famously, not all Iranians are Persians. A good ~30% of Iranians are of Kurdish or Turkic stock, for instance.
stuckinbathroom
21d ago
The UK and France. Although it’s almost certain that Russia and China have nuclear-armed submarines on patrol in the western hemisphere, too.
Sounds more like (possibly-left-)libertarianism than “populist leftism”, fam
More options
Context Copy link