walruz
7d ago
People fail to collapse like a sack of potatoes in response to getting shot all the time, especially with handguns. The variance of how much damage pretty much anything does is huge - people have survived falling 10+km without a parachute and people have died from falling 2m. People have survived being shot with handguns, rifles, machineguns - it wouldn't surprise me if someone has survived a hit from an autocannon at some point.
If the guy clocked his assailant before the first shot went off, this goes double - hitting someone who doesn't want to be hit is hard. It's not as if cops have handguns with 15+ rounds in the mag because they need to be able to drop 15 suspects before reloading.
walruz
7d ago
No, he insulted my pedigree by insinuating I don't have one. If you look up the definition of pedigree, it's an insult to blood. I'm sure he meant school but that's almost as bad, especially by repurposing that word.
This whole class of "whining about word choice because the etymology allows me to claim it is racist despite any sane reading makes it 100% clear that it isn't about race in the slightest"-style argument belongs on 2014 Tumblr, if that. Do better.
walruz
7d ago
Killing military commanders of a country that is actively invading you isn't "the most appalling horrors" lol, what the fuck are you even on about.
walruz
7d ago
- And this, like most war crimes, wasn't terrorism.
- I really don't care. Killing Russians is based as fuck. (I'd argue that the defending side in a war isn't morally beholden to respect the laws of war if it helps them win) (especially against an opponent that routinely commits more and worse war crimes)
walruz
7d ago
I couldn't really care less about a random politician in whatever country you think I'm from getting killed. However, to the extent that I would favour retaliation, I would do so because it is an act of war, not because everything I don't like is magically "terrorism".
However, if my country had invaded Iran and Iran responded by killing a high-ranking military officer, who is, let's be clear, not a member of the cabinet, not a civilian, and obviously a completely legit military target, then I obviously would be off my rocker if I wanted them nuked in response.
You don't want your military personnel to get killed? Don't invade other countries lol.
walruz
8d ago
The problem with such a loose definition is that for example completely legal executions (which seek to deter crimes by tapping into would-be criminals fear of getting fried) fit the definition equally well.
If I said "the racist notion that black people are of higher risk of sickle cell anemia", I am technically correct, but I am also at the same time quite obviously full of shit.
walruz
8d ago
Killing a high ranking military official isn't terrorism. Either he was killed by the Ukranians, in which case he's a completely legitimate military target, or he was killed by the Russians, in which case it's just their ordinary procedure for replacing high level functionaries.
walruz
10d ago
If a large part of your identity was about promoting the right to carry a knife and someone stabbed you, yes, that'd be equally funny, even if it would surely upset people in your own circle of acquaintance. Just like how, while I'm sure it was a tragic event for himself and his family, the inventor of the Segway dying because he accidentally drove his Segway off of a cliff is objectively a hilarious way to go.
walruz
12d ago
A lot of people would probably have been less sympathetic to Floyd if he had made his living arguing that cops should be allowed to kneel on suspects more often. No matter what you think about Charlie Kirk the person, a gun rights advocate getting shot is pretty funny.
walruz
26d ago
Maybe they're just communists who want to take away all the guns, let loose all the criminals, and steal all my wealth through taxation. And maybe if the gun-grabbers didn't want me to think they're nothing but communists, they wouldn't always be on the side of criminals and taxes.
Or maybe laws are made by voting among a body of legislators, and are differentiated in regard to the ease with which they are passed.
You'll also note that making it harder to create your own guns is orthogonal to whether guns are allowed in the first place; it is perfectly cromulent to have legal recreational McNukes (for example), but where the government wants to know who happens to own WMDs.
walruz
26d ago
No, it should never be a crime to fail to act. Otherwise would be literal slavery,
There exists zero jurisdictions in which it is a crime to not be a police officer. Police officers are not drafted. Being forced to do your job, that you volunteered to do and get paid to do, isn't slavery.
Once you've signed up to do certain jobs, not doing those jobs should certainly be criminal. If you call 911 and the EMTs show up just to watch you die, I'd certainly be in favor of a legal regime that sees them charged with something.
walruz
26d ago
I wonder how gun control advocates have responded to the fact that police have no obligation to protect anyone, if they have even addressed that at all.
The fact that (American) cops are under no obligation to protect anyone isn't a law of nature.
Just like a gun control advocate can advocate for changing the laws with regards to who can own which gun, he can obviously also advocate for actually forcing the cops to protect people.
You can probably count the actual people who hold the implied opinion "nobody should be allowed to defend themself, and cops shouldn't protect anyone" on the fingers of one hand.
walruz
27d ago
Well, if you're European, there's zero chance of being invaded by China, while there's a non zero chance of being invaded by the US.
walruz
27d ago
Before Trump started going off about Greenland, I'd be very surprised if a significant share of those respondents even knew that there was such a place, let alone finding it on a map.
The first game in the US remake of Squid Game could just be "Name three countries".
walruz
1mo ago
At this point the only foods remaining regional are really ones that nobody else wants..
You could have chosen surströmming, or balut, or nattō, or kholodets, but you chose a normal-ass hamburger.
walruz
1mo ago
Nybbler claims that Trump is trolling about invading Denmark (as if "haha he's actually not pissing away every drop of American soft power and dismantling their entire alliance structure for some kind of gain, he's just doing it because he feels like it" was some kind of own). I am saying (implying) that if this was actually the case, we should expect him to have been trolling the last time he talked about starting a war for no tangible reason.
walruz
1mo ago
If police aren't paid enough to sometimes not shoot people, surely the civilians on the other side of the interaction - who are paid even less - are even more justified in shooting?
walruz
1mo ago
What are you on about. Pissing away the last 70+ years of soft power is in no way mainstream republican policy (for all their faults).
(that is to say, Venezuela could well have been GOP capture if it happened in isolation, but repeatedly threatening to invade your allies because you looked at a mercator projection and thought Greenland is actually that big is fairly obviously just Trump being a retard)
walruz
1mo ago
On a geopolitical and moral level though, I have little sympathy for Venezuela, for the same reason I have little sympathy for Ukraine. If you repeatedly antagonize your neighboring superpower, you get what you get.
Somehow I don't think you'd be consistent in your views if China bombed your house because the US antagonized China.
(and Ukraine doesn't neighbour any superpowers)
walruz
2mo ago
Since ICE destroyed the evidence that the lady's car rammmed theirs, and since the body cam footage apparently shows bad enough stuff not to be released, the null hypothesis should probably be that ICE rammmed her, or indeed that nothing even happened.
ICE shot a woman, it is on them to prove that they were in the right doing so, which they haven't done.
walruz
3mo ago
My opinion about banning people for using emojis, especially when they are obviously used as a rhetorical device (as opposed to the entire post being written in zoomer brainrot) is: 🤡.
walruz
4mo ago
Trump doesn't want any airbase in Afghanistan back, though. He threatened Afghanistan with "bad things" if they don't "give (Bagram) back to those who built it".
Now exactly why Trump feels so strongly that Afghanistan should give an air base to the Soviet Union we'll probably never know.
Nudging in the economics sense has been debunked? At least in the form presented in Nudge (by Thaler and Sunstein), I highly doubt that.
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