I maintain that social decay is a result of wealth. We don't need anyone else to fulfill Maslow's bottom rung. Virtually no one has starved to death because of poverty in the United States in living memory. There was inertia that kept the systems going - hyper-available dopamine hits may have been the last straw - but now that the incentives for maintaining a social circle - going to church, joining a fraternal organization - are gone, atomization is just the natural outcome for a significant portion of society. Good news: their genetic lines will end. Bad news: they're going to vote in horrible policies until they shuffle off this mortal coil.
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2d ago
Depending on the day it could have been the majority. The prosecution admitted to 15, defense said it was higher.
Malheur Trial Defense Team Seeks More Info On Government Informants
prosecutors said in court the government used 15 confidential informants during the occupation.
Similar many if not most of those in the kidnapping plot of Gretchen were feds. The feds admitted to at least 4 defense says 12.
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9d ago
I've always suspected that a material portion of the fatalities are suicides.
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9d ago
Caveat: Generalizing
As pointed out men tend to drive more but also I would say it's just an extensions of women's general tenancy to nag and complain.
Proverbs 21:19 "Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife."
Remember "10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman" [Reddit threads] and then the pushback when people realized almost all the cat callers were men of color?
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17d ago
And then there's a decent change they're a paper tiger like it turned out the USSR had been since at least the 1980s.
Their latest gen weapons are very very efficient and the whole military industrial complex rot that infests the US military doesn't really exist over tere.
This is not clear whatsoever.
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17d ago
That's not a great example. "Equipped" is cheating and that women has higher testosteronal than any natural man.
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21d ago
Sauer: "It's a new world, 8 billion people are only a plane ride away"
Roberts: "It's a new world, but it's the same constitution"
ACLU lawyer: "let me be clear, we need to go with the original public meaning"
It would be funny if it wasn't so infuriating.
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1mo ago
Never underestimate 'There can't be any "members" of Antifa. It's just an idea, not an organization, bro.'
The top comment in /r/law on reddit: https://archive.is/FNOnK
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1mo ago
is a distraction from Trump maybe getting a massage from a 17 year old once 30 years ago.
This is an unfair portrayal. Significant portions of the left think this is a distraction from Trump violently raping young teenagers.
I think it feels like an over representation because they have a higher propensity for being terminally online.
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2mo ago
I think you're perhaps inadvertently reinforcing my point. magicalkittycat is taking a very literal understanding of the terms that I would assert is outside common parlance; at least outside of the common parlance of a significant group of people.
There was a "shooting"; shots were literally fired, multiple people were hurt. As you note a mass causality event, but within valid definitions of the terms "mass", "shooting", and "casualty" synonyms.
It's like when people post a stat about "gun violence" that include suicides. Yes, some literal definitions of violence can encompass suicide but it's not the norm.
As I pointed out with magicalkittycat initial example, the shooter got 5 years. While injured vs fatalities might make no meaningful difference to magicalkittycat it makes a massive difference to the justice system.
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2mo ago
Primarily because there is a maximum of one fatality other than the shooter in any of them.
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2mo ago
These are not "traditional mass shootings style school shootings" and Cristo Rey High School is more gang bangers being gang bangers.
| Location | Deaths | Injuries | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen High School | 1 | 2 | Shooter (suicide); two students critically wounded but survived. |
| Antioch High School | 2 | 1 | Includes the shooter (suicide) and one 16-year-old female victim. |
| Florida State University | 1 | 3 | Shooter killed by police; three victims wounded (one paralyzed). |
| Lincoln University | 1 | 6 | One fatality during Homecoming; multiple gunshot and stampede injuries. |
Sailer's Law...
Sentenced to 5 whole years!
Does it really need to be spelled out why the "average school shooting" is not covered? Because the "average school shooting" are gang bangers doing everyday gang banger shit, and not what people actually think about when "school shooting" is invoked.
Poaching Soviet talent has been a thing forever. The Karolyis defected in 1981. I can see getting bent out of shape about someone like Gu, but Ilia was born in Virginia. Kam and O'Shea are not even in medal contention and were the weakest in the team competition. Kam being the weaker of the two.
I haven't actually checked but I have a sneaky suspicion a bunch of the Georgians are Russian.
Edit: Lol at a using a song in English from an American band at a 100% Russian event
Downvoting because this should be in the small question thread.
I think numbers show it has been dropping. One as noted by others I don't think anything can meet the almost universal cultural phenomenon's of the past for myriad reasons because of modernity.
Two, demographic change. As the country gets browner we have less cold weather culture. My Scandinavian ancestors came here, settled in cold parts of the country. I love the cold and snow, the physical thing I'm the best at is snowboarding. I've got my toddler watching the Olympics and we'll be teaching him how to ski next year, but there will be proportionally less of us.
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2mo ago
Random story, I arm wrestled Tanya Harding when I was a kid. It's not like I ran into her in a restaurant, she - for some reason - was hanging out with my family for a whole weekend. I don't know why.
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2mo ago
I wish this was true as well but Trump loves tariffs. If it's not his number one thing it's second to immigration.
Guy is facing the rest of his life in jail and people can't help want more regulations.
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