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SteveKirk
1m ago
Conservatives were stupid enough to think these weapons were only going to be used against Osama bin durka durka jihad, which is why all the original tools had foreign activity requirements.
None of them ever suggested using them against domestic political opponents, and naively believed Democrats would also consider that out of bounds.
Primaprimaprima
Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
1m ago
I think you're implying that we've become too ideologically homogeneous and people's viewpoints aren't being challenged often enough here. Maybe that's true if you restrict yourself to only looking at "basic" culture war issues - Trump, trans issues, DEI, etc. But if you look at the total range of issues that get discussed here, we have lots of arguments over lots of things. We have plenty of substantial disagreements with each other.
It would be better if we had more "garden variety" leftists who were anti-Trump, pro-trans, etc. so we had more ideological diversity, but, the reasons for our lack of leftists have already been discussed ad nauseam.
I also see that you haven't made a top level post in the last 3 months. You are the forum. If you think the posts here are low quality, then write the kinds of posts that you would prefer to read.
zeke5123a
2m ago
Court intrigue and usurpers seem categorically different from the modern assassin.
BahRamYou
2m ago
Yeah it's a weird double-mission in the modern era. I guess it made more sense in the wild west days, when they were more like frontier super-policemen.
Botond173
3m ago
I'm not sure I understand if HBD has some unified perspective on this. While I see darker hispanics, most hispanics I see are majority European.
It's because Hispanic is a linguistic category, not a racial one.
SteveKirk
4m ago
Did anyone who complains about "trumpers" ever complain about the opposite, or it is just usual tactic of "identify the community population as problematic, suggest doing something about them"?
zeke5123a
8m ago
I doubt many people here are Trumpers. They are probably better described as anti anti trumpers.
2rafa
17m ago
Fair enough, I just think conservatives should own up to the ways in which politicians they elected are in part responsible for the dramatic escalation in state surveillance of financial transactions and other data in search of allegedly malicious actors.
hanikrummihundursvin
22m ago
'Wow, a viewpoint or topic I don't agree with? This place is getting a bit too low brow for the likes of me'
You are equal to a Fox News viewer, believe it or not. You just come at it from a different direction.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
29m ago
And Americanization programs in public school systems.
MaiqTheTrue
Zensunni Wanderer
35m ago
I’m gonna agree here. We haven’t had a situation like this since the civil war — both sides absolutely believe that the nation will be in grave danger if their guy doesn’t win. They’re not going to simply cower in the corner and do nothing when they believe that the country’s future is in the balance. There’s a not insignificant number of people on the left who believe that Trump is Hitler with a bad combover, and likewise a substantial number or people on the right who believe that Biden is a Mao or Stalin. Furthermore, the belief on both sides that the election is being manipulated in various ways creates even more tension as the losers can absolutely believe that the president in question cheated.
Recursive_Enlightenment
38m ago
Trump is Tiberius Gracchus
On which of these other places would you see a comment like this implying that readers know who Tiberius Gracchus was?
The Tea Party wasn't coopted by the mainstream GOP, it became the mainstream GOP. When Ted Cruz could force a government shutdown and the Tea Party could force Boehner out of power, they're the ones with the whip hand.
Edit: Lest we forget, the big representative of the GOP 'Establishment' (a vacuous concept to be sure -- Trump is the establishment) this year, Nikki Haley, was elected as a Tea Party Republican, originally.
And, of course, Boehner himself was originally elected all the way back in 1990 as part of a micro-anti-establishment wave with particular bugaboos about corruption and the GOP Establishment being gentleman losers. But, of course of course, they actually were corrupt, gentleman losers when Boehner was elected, having not held Congress in 40 years, and there actually was genuine Congressional corruption he could attack, like the House Bank scandal. It's just an eternal cycle with the Republican Party.
urquan
The end desire of the system is Kubernetes for human beings
48m ago
It’s still fascinating to me we got the people who investigated money to be the presidential guard. I guess all around they’re there to make sure the presidents’ face stays intact.
urquan
The end desire of the system is Kubernetes for human beings
50m ago
Bill McKinley
I definitely had to look this up, you’re talking about William McKinley. I didn’t recognize the name from the list of presidents stuck in my head, I thought you were talking about some other politician.
laxam
55m ago
It has been quite the journey over the last decade seeing this general space, in its various homes, drift from being a place for a variety of dissenters, idle imaginers, original thinkers, and malcontents to being just another space for Trumpers to get together and gripe about everyone but themselves.
Or "AI has two letters, my plan for alignment."
Moofy
Chacrinha of Cold Brazil
1hr ago
Wikipedia says their black population is 10%, i.e. a smaller percentage than what the US has.
Going deeper into this, the Wikipedia article on the Demographics of Brazil makes it seem as though only those with almost entirely African ancestry are counted as black (at 7.6% of the population) and then indicates that 42% are classified as Pardos (with a mixture of white, indigenous, and black ancestry). The article on Pardo Brazilians includes some genomic analysis that indicates between 10 and 30% African genomic ancestry for Pardos in most areas, and that in many areas, those classified as black have at least 40% European genomic ancestry.
Botond173
1hr ago
"never ask a Latin American father about his teenage/young adult daughter's 'social' life"
Never ask a Latin American father about his teenage/young adult daughter's 'social' life.
"ghost gun raid on Staten Island nets arsenal of firearms"
"Members of the financial crimes task force are embedded with Homeland Security Investigation's NY EDTF"
"We just basically track Internet purchases from eBay, PayPal, Amazon, different various online companies. We get a list every other month... With people purchasing components that could possibly create a ghost gun, like the rails, the 3d printer "
Should a certain number of purchases related to making a ghost gun be made, Vaughn says the task force moves toward in conducting investigations on the individual, including social media
The last two paragraphs were edited out of the article, but you can still see them on archive.is. DHS and fincen are still trying to keep it under wraps that literally every bank and store sends them complete customer data to comb through, but every so often some junior dumb fuck assigned to a state task force brags about it on record.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
1hr ago
While the establishment Democrats probably don't want a civil war, there are those on the SJ side who think a civil war beats another Republican presidency, particularly if they can leverage being technically in power into enough control of the military to win that civil war.
And, of course, assassinating the President is very much a "unilateralist's curse" issue.
2rafa
1hr ago
This is just cons complaining about the lib version of 'noticing'. Pattern recognition applies to everyone. If they've detected specific transaction patterns highly predictive of possible mass shootings, why is it wrong to acknowledge that? Would you have the same sympathy with some Muslim garden supply business owner regularly profiled and investigated for his high-volume fertilizer purchases? I know for a fact that this kind of transaction analytics is responsible for preventing a lot of successful terrorist attacks, and I also know that conservatives don't care when it's used on their outgroup.
When dealing with the contemporary version of it, after centuries of abuse, I hope we don't have to wait as long as the Romans did for Severus Septimus to put the Praetorian guard in its place.
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