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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
19hr 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
19hr 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
19hr 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
19hr 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
19hr ago
flat banned from carrying(including brass knuckles, switchblades
Those are legal now in Texas since 2019 and 2013, respectively.
Shrike
19hr 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
19hr 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
19hr ago
I would also suspect that genuinely creepy migrants wouldn't be filming the altercation. If deterred they'd just book it.
hydroacetylene
19hr 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
19hr 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
19hr ago
rancid little slapper
Always delightful to encounter more localized insults like this.
phailyoor
19hr 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
19hr 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
19hr 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.
greyenlightenment
investments: META/FBL, TSLA, TQQQ, TECL, MSFT ...
19hr ago
that actually makes perfect sense as a deterrent
jkf
19hr ago
So it’s not a police matter, but also regular civilians are not supposed to intervene or even film? This is a recipe for utter chaos and disorder.
You will be surprised to learn that chaos did not reign in the years prior to widespread filming of public activities -- I guess if the guy wanted to take her toys away himself I'd be OK with that, but would recommend just ignoring her. Going to the cops is just weak -- do you record speeders with a dashcam and call them in?
greyenlightenment
investments: META/FBL, TSLA, TQQQ, TECL, MSFT ...
19hr ago
This is why I withheld judgement and just waited for more info to be released. It's too easy to be swayed by out of context videos and narratives.
Scotland has its own problems, but racialized sexual predation is not at the top of the list.
The thing about this type problem is you don't need many incidents for it be a major problem.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
19hr ago
What makes you think that? They seem to be mostly running away in the video.
Yes, this is extremely typical of teenage troublemakers. The second the threat of consequences or being caught/embarrassed appears, their brash aggression is replaced by the performance of fear and vulnerability.
So what? A twelve year old yelling at people is not a police matter, even if she has a hatchet.
So it’s not a police matter, but also regular civilians are not supposed to intervene or even film? This is a recipe for utter chaos and disorder.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
19hr ago
The Bulgars, much like the Magyars whose language managed to persist in Hungary, did not intermarry with, and thus left little to no genetic impact on, their Slavic subjects. What did leave a Turkic ancestral legacy (and the legacy of Islam) in the Balkans was the Ottoman Empire, which conquered the Slavic Bulgarians in the 14th century. Many in the Balkans today do have some Turkic ancestry, but it’s not because of the early medieval Turkic confederations, which were Turkic only at the most elite levels.
jkf
19hr ago
- What makes you think that? They seem to be mostly running away in the video.
- So what? A twelve year old yelling at people is not a police matter, even if she has a hatchet.
jkf
19hr ago
Have you met Bulgarians? Been there? I'm one for two, so while I'll grant that there's probably a range of appearances I stongly suspect that either these two or their parents (or both) were not originally from Bulgaria.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
20hr ago
I am, in fact, rather fond of Wikipedia. It is a handy utility.
It also, quite helpfully, notes that the ethnogenesis of modern Bulgarians, includes, among others:
Bulgars – a semi-nomadic Turkic tribal federation, possibly from Central Asia, which settled in the northeast of the Balkans in the 7th century CE, federated with the local Slavic and Slavicized population, organised early-medieval Bulgarian statehood and bequeathed their ethnonym to the modern Bulgarian ethnicity, while eventually assimilating into the Slavic population
The couple in question, while ethnically ambiguous, look "Turkic". It is certainly not out of the question, unlike labeling the offspring of two Nigerian immigrants as Welsh might be. I have functioning eyes, and the myopia is corrected by glasses.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
20hr ago
I suspect that the kids were walking about acting disorderly, yelling at people and/or waving weapons around.
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?
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