ABigGuy4U
3hr ago
Now, for Europe, which has a much smaller share of migrants
Europe is in a much, much worse position when you consider the ages involved. The Muslims are disproportionately young adults and children, and the middle aged and elderly dying people are disproportionately white.
ABigGuy4U
3hr ago
The problem is, Piers Morgan’s audience is mostly going to be dead or in nursing homes in five to ten years.
ABigGuy4U
3hr ago
Pretextual stops are ok, but you need to be able to point to some correct ostensible reason for a search and arrest. Like for example, a random McDonalds volunteer totally recognizing the killer based on one blurry frame of video. That said, your ostensible reason has to be real, you can’t just make it the fuck up.
ABigGuy4U
4hr ago
Well, the whole reason for the initial bourgeois revolutions in England, America and France was that the ruling aristocracy had devolved from warrior poets into a bunch of incompetent inbred pajama boys.
ABigGuy4U
5hr ago
You need probable cause to actually search and arrest someone. If all your actual reasons for arresting and searching them are illegal, then the evidence collected during the search is illegal.
I don’t think he was necessarily framed (in the sense that I think he might have actually done it). But I think the media was genuinely being tone deaf and stupid about what the coverage would be, like they always are. They were equally tone deaf and stupid in the way they portrayed the victim.
ABigGuy4U
7hr ago
Robinson was like Timothy McVeigh, he made some nominal attempts to escape, but was overall resigned to being captured and didn’t make a particularly serious attempt to get away with it. Otherwise I don’t think he would have admitted to it in his discord group. Mangione seems to have actually developed a pretty detailed exfiltration plan which makes his later bumbling around odd.
ABigGuy4U
7hr ago
That’s because those people were morons who didn’t know anything about Ukraine’s actual force composition. They thought Ukraine had roughly the same military strength as Latvia.
ABigGuy4U
7hr ago
younger Taiwanese people are increasingly open to reunification or some sort of a new deal
And one thing I don’t think I’ve seen mentioned here yet is that the Chinese sympathizers are most densely concentrated in Taiwan’s own military forces
ABigGuy4U
18hr ago
It’s been so long since I watched it, I might not even be thinking of the right show. But it’s a young kid who genuinely thinks that peaches are an artificial manufactured good because they’ve never actually seen a peach tree.
ABigGuy4U
19hr ago
you saw what that led to in Russia
It seems to have led to Russia winning the war.
ABigGuy4U
19hr ago
I don’t know about better, but they definitely have more. They are probably the only country other than America that could do 2000 PGM strikes a day for two weeks straight.
I mean, what's the theory here, that the police already knew who he was and where he was and made up a fictitious person to take credit for the arrest then inexplicably decided to do a U-turn
Yes! I think they probably traced him from New York all the way to the McDonalds with some kind of illegal-for domestic-use Palantir-type monitoring software that’s probably embedded on every cell phone in the nation. They interdicted him there, planted the evidence on him (the arresting officer that handled the backpack “accidentally” switched her body camera off while she was handling the backpack). Then they needed to write this up in some way that wouldn’t get the case thrown out of court so they ginned up this McDonald’s employee whistleblower so they had a reason for actually being there and finding him. I say this as someone who thinks what he did is morally repugnant, by the way. I think what Brian Kohbargher did was horrible too. But I’m seeing worrying signs that these types of surveillance back doors are now regularly being deployed against American citizens. It always starts being used on scumbags, then five years later it’s being used on everyone else.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I don't know why 2020's America, a society which produces mass material prosperity on a grander scale than any other in human history
Everything is cheaper and easier to access now. Except food. And housing. And cars. And gas. At least electronic gewgaws are cheaper... oh wait that’s over now.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
They weren’t able to match the DNA on the sheath until after they had already caught him using sketchily collected cell phone data. Hence the plea: if all that stuff got thrown out the state’s case is screwed, if it stays in the defendant is screwed. No one wanted to risk it.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
children of the upper middle class bourgeoisie (especially lawyers, doctors, and bankers) who had been bred for success but weren't seeing it, or had a sense of their opportunities drying up
Only 14 percent of Zoomer college grads actually have a job that requires a college diploma.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Don’t worry bro, it’s just the Great American Hazing Ritual in action. In fifty years, your Catholic half-Hispanic grandchildren will be bitching and moaning about how we shouldn’t be letting in infinity Congolese.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
There was a nut in Idaho who murdered four sorority girls who recently got a sweetheart plea deal (well he got life in prison instead of the death penalty) due to basically all the evidence against him being collected illegally with intelligence tools.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Historically, these were the kinds of people who occupied the middle or upper middle classes who served as a bulwark against radicalism
Lenin, Trotsky, Castro and Robespierre were all middle class university graduates that could have had pretty decent careers in the square world if they had wanted to. Same with Mao, although he was more from landowning small gentry than the university set. Stalin was born in the lower class but was able to get into seminary and probably could have had a pretty comfortable middle class life too.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Immigrants are taking our jobs, except when they're mooching off welfare.
People literally do this, you can get paid under the table in cash and then get various types of benefits that you shouldn’t actually be eligible for.
•Initial reports that the identifying witness is named Nancy Parker, photo circulated by media
•there’s only one single photo of her in existence and it looks like like something a three year old instance of stable diffusion would crap out on a bad day
•initial reports that she’s 85 and lives in a nursing home and she is technically a “volunteer” at McDonalds so the press can’t interview her and there’s no actual record of her employment.
•FBI quietly says she’s not actually getting any reward money due to a technicality
•all the information about her and the photo all seem to have been subsequently retracted and scrubbed
•all subsequent media reports just call this person “the employee” and don’t give name, age or gender
•So now we have no name, no face, we don’t even know the employee’s age and gender and no one is actually getting a reward
I’ll be interested to see if this person actually testifies at the trial or if they’ll find a way around that
But in America, the different ethnic groups are held in tension. In Europe there’s one mostly contiguous ethno-religious block waiting in the wings to seize power.
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