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DirtyWaterHotDog
17hr ago
Open carrying weapons is common in some American states, and nowhere else. By definition, this makes red states the exception. To each their own, but the base prior has to be that the 'woman wielding the unwieldy weapon was wrong'. The outrage was contrived.
Yeah, by default, weapons are illegal. If they believe otherwise, then the burden of proof is on the Americans. And the pudding ain't sweet.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
I suspect she was trying to impress some guy who does be a hardened criminal.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Literally not the same thing. She was probably holding a knife to impress some sixteen year old boy(I suspect she succeeded). There's no reason to believe she be a hardened criminal to do that(although almost certainly he is).
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I suspect that molesty subcontinentals who realize they've bitten off more than they can chew react by running away rather than filming it, though.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Yeah. The median Republican is not a fan of the gays; even most of the ones that are pro-gay rights are pro gay rights on libertarian grounds rather than 'not thinking it's wrong' grounds.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
18hr ago
At no point in my life have I ever been a libertarian.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I mean it's always possible, the FBI seems to try to recruit literally anyone with access to the far right.
jkf
18hr ago
Everybody be all libertarian 'till the tweens start a'yellin' I guess -- fuck this gay earth.
(you too @hydroacetylene)
ED: comment applies to you too, not fuck you too, lol
jkf
18hr ago
That's kind of what I mean -- isn't it a common pattern for people from shithole countries to anchor in second tier EU ones prior to heading somewhere nicer?
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
The Malleus Maleficarum was written by a man who was kicked out of multiple monasteries because he just could not shut up about witches and demons; he was under a gag order but that was probably more about him being annoying than about his theological views. Most women accused of witchcraft were merely unfortunate and a few of them probably did worship Satan in the edgy loser way or try to cast spells in the overweight loser way. But the median accuser was a peasant mob targeting misfits or irritating people, not a cleric, and witch burning was more common in protestant countries which militates against it mostly being a measure targeting heretics(Catholic countries being much stricter in that regard).
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
18hr ago
I register a strong prediction that anyone referred to as 'Bulgarian' is actually 'Bulgarian', including if they stand accused of serious crimes.
As I mentioned in another comment, gypsies alone probably constitute up to 10-11% of Bulgaria’s population, and then an additional 8-9% are Turks, so you’re looking at up to a fifth of its population that’s visibly non-Bulgarian. Yes, Bulgaria is poor and its native Slavic population is far from impressive in terms of development, but it’s still the case that a Bulgarian committing crimes abroad has a strong probability of being non-ethnically-Bulgarian.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
IDK about Scotland but in my dialect everyone except actual lumberjacks just calls a hatchet an axe- and my filter bubble is more aware of the difference than some inner-city Scotsmen.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I mean, the difference is that there are people who move to Sweden from the third world. Or Wales. Bulgaria is... not that. It's a depressing second world country with a population shrinking from outmigration because it's poorer than Mexico. I register a strong prediction that anyone referred to as 'Bulgarian' is actually 'Bulgarian', including if they stand accused of serious crimes.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
No, but I call in potheads behind the wheel. Granted, how much of this is due to concern for public safety and how much of it is because I hate pot I couldn't tell you.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
18hr ago
flat banned from carrying(including brass knuckles, switchblades
Those are legal now in Texas since 2019 and 2013, respectively.
Shrike
18hr ago
The one thing I will say is that it's quite possible in Texas that if the weapons were being used to prevent a more serious crime (which seems to be in dispute in this case), the potential illegal weapons charges would be allowed to slide.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
On 2)- any person waving an actual axe around and yelling at people is a police matter. In the US she would have been shot(and the shooter would walk free), assuming that this is indeed what happened.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I would also suspect that genuinely creepy migrants wouldn't be filming the altercation. If deterred they'd just book it.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
On the question of weaponry, it bears repeating that it is illegal in Scotland to carry anything that even vaguely resembles a weapon for self-defense. For the Americans in the audience, this is not Texas.
While carrying a gun openly on your hip is a sufficiently mundane sight here as to prompt no questions(or perhaps merely a harbinger of an hour long political conversation with no polite avenues for escape), carrying an axe will prompt questions- probably more in the vein of 'So, you heading to an SCA meeting?' or excited ten year old boys asking 'Can I see it?' than law enforcement relevant ones, but still. I believe there's also still a select list of weapons that are flat banned from carrying(including brass knuckles, switchblades, and sword canes- you can open carry a katana but not a 'concealable' blade). Holding a weapon in your hand is also illegal without very good reason, unless it's a polearm. And tweens don't get to carry weapons, you have to be a legal adult(either 18 or 21 depending). What this girl did would be illegal and unusual here- Florida man story. She could've probably gotten away with pulling a pocketknife or even a filleting knife, though. Technically illegal but no one thinks it's particularly serious.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
18hr ago
I, for one, wouldn't be surprised to learn that chaos did not reign in the years prior to widespread filming, because as far as I know those years largely overlapped with the years when children harassing random citizens could be beaten, and such applications of minor corrective violence were overlooked by law enforcement. Today are not such times. Neither is ignoring underage hooligans in the making a recipe for a pleasant society.
If someone speeds through a pedestrian crossing and nearly runs a crossing person over in a display of wanton negligence, I wholeheartedly support the right of that person to throw a brick through that car's window, and if there is no such right, I consider submitting video evidence to the police the next best thing.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
18hr ago
rancid little slapper
Always delightful to encounter more localized insults like this.
phailyoor
18hr ago
There is a possibility those "bulgarian" men may have only become bulgarian quite recently. And that they may be quite a bit more melinated than the average bulgarian.
Throwaway05
18hr ago
Many of the possible organic causes are horrible.
Many of them aren't though! And some if treated may remit.
With respect to timing .....not really brief, but things can get better spontaneously shockingly far out. The human brain gonna do what it do.
The increasing paranoia is concerning but not as unilaterally bad as you might expect, while getting worse is obviously not a good outcome, it can sometimes lead to treatment that makes things better in the long run!
Try and recruit as much support as you can. :/
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
18hr ago
Eh? Smartphones have made my life immeasurably better (well, I can measure it, in the sense I would willingly pay a lot of money for a phone if there was no other way to get one cheaper).
- It's a phone. People forget these devices do, sometimes, allow for phonecalls.
- It is a very convenient and half-decent camera.
- I can use the internet anywhere I please.
- I read books on it.
- There are very few tasks that make me want to shift to my iPad, gaming laptop or gaming pc. Mostly if I need to handle complex forms, multitask a lot, or need the screen real-estate. I do 99% of my writing on my phone, I can touch type on a virtual keyboard with my eyes closed, no joke.
The ball is very white as far as I'm personally concerned. Being even 50% as good at {everything} as a larger, more dedicated device is inherently valuable, especially when they fit in your pocket and carry charge for a whole day. I'd say it's closer to 80-90% in actuality.
If I am going to have a less than completely friendly interaction with 12 year old girls, I am going to be filming everything start to finish, out of simple common sense self-preservation. Moreover, if there are 12 year old rowdy girls loitering with axes in my neighbourhood, I will in fact be seeking an interaction to figure out what that is about (and potentially report them to the police, based on what that interaction reveals). To not do so seems irresponsible to me - what are they going to do with that axe? Break into someone's house? Threaten someone? Hurt themselves?
It seems to me that some people analysing this incident are operating off of a mental model of the UK as some sort of zombie apocalypse movie setting, where it is reasonable for children to carry scavenged weapons if they have to go outside in broad daylight to defend themselves from the hordes.
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