ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
6hr ago
And they can get bets from Nevadans and other people in places where betting is legal while not having to comply with a huge chunk of Nevada's gaming laws
ChickenOverlord
9hr ago
Oh I agree it's a legitimate topic for debate with plenty of room for changes in the law outside of "I really want to fuck 15 year olds and you should just let me", and the OP isn't being a blatant troll, but my default assumption when I see a top level post like this is that it's to get responses to share elsewhere about how we're a bunch of evil creeps etc.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
A top level post about an extremely... divisive topic by an account with only 3 prior posts all made 3 years ago?
On the off chance you're not here to stir up shit, I recommend that you please try to be a more active and positively-contributing member of this community before posting top level comments about topics like this.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Sure, but as fun as going "On the Demons and Their Lies by Frieren the Slayer" might be, my side still needs to win elections.
but they start from the unassailable premise that there cannot be legitimate reasons why a meritocratic test would show a racial or gender skew
Only when it's a skew that affects groups they care about.
If we went solely by disparate impact, based on the numbers we would need to assume that cops are several orders of magnitude more sexist (against men) than they are racist (against blacks). But I haven't seen a single DEI proponent arguing that we need to eradicate female privilege in arrests/prison sentencing/etc. The right has no problem with saying that men are inherently more likely to engage in criminal behavior than women, the DEI/blank slatist/etc. camp doesn't really have an answer to this.
Also Native Americans per capita commit more crime than blacks in certain categories, with similarly high arrest/imprisonment rates. And while the DEI crowd will argue that Natives are discriminated against, I don't see it claimed that the discrimination is to a greater extent than that faced by blacks. Discrimination against blacks actually gets almost all of the airtime.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
It's the reason why French is required to be used everywhere, even in Vancouver, a continent away from Quebec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Languages_Act_(Canada)
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Quebecois separatists managed to get some major concessions from Canada to placate them, so I'd consider them at least partially successful. Not really aware of any major concessions to Puerto Rico though.
There also used to be a bug on 4chan many years ago where two different images posted at the same time by two different users got swapped, due to uploaded image filenames basically just being their upload timestamp in Unix time. Led to some serious WTF moments in threads from time to time.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
One of my favorite stories is that Czechoslovakia was an early supporter of Israel and provided them with quite a few guns. Several of these guns were surplus German guns from WW2, so Israelis were literally fighting for their existence using guns emblazoned with swastikas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_shipments_from_Czechoslovakia_to_Israel
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Didn't plan it as a gotcha, just wanted to know if you were ideologically consistent
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
He can advocate for what ever he wants. If his beliefs are around restricting the negative rights of others then he can also face the consequences of what happens when people don't want their rights restricted.
The government should not be in the business of restricting speech, but people are allowed to respond to coordination of violence with violence. To do otherwise is just letting the fantasy of rabbinically-inclined and wordcells to replace reality
Please let us all know how you feel about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing. After all, he was fighting against the government trying to restrict his right to keep and bear arms.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Doesn't sound that way to me at all, it sounds like he's saying we shouldn't be shocked when a disproportionate fraction of these fuckups get themselves killed while behaving in ways that generally only fuckups do.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Eh, every single military has stupid busywork unrelated to actual military operations. This "raking dirt" meme from someone in the US Army was made back in 2013: https://i.redd.it/a83lodbdko3d1.jpeg
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
From watching way too many body cam videos, my biggest fear that would keep me being a cop is having to deal with nasty smelly hobos and druggies and their bodily fluids.
Yeah, the only NATO allies that would contribute any significant amount of forces and materiel are Canada, the UK, and France, but even then they wouldn't contribute much compared to the US. There are some NATO militaries like the Finns that I expect would punch above their weight, but they're too small to contribute too much. The US would be doing the bulk of the fighting for NATO in WW3, unlike WW2 when the Brits carried their own weight.
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
I am not delegating my security to this child with a gun.
Europe was more than happy to do so for decades, and frankly still is given the pitiful increases in military size and weapons production since Russia invaded Ukraine.
My favorites are when, roughly a decade ago, Germany had less than 10 fully armed and operational fighter jets and ZERO operational submarines.
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
China's recent rare earth policy suggests strongly otherwise.
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
Additionally, the entire Mexican population of the territories ceded to the US after the Mexican-American War (i.e. California and most of the modern Southwest and Mountain West) was only about 100,000. They were offered US Citizenship under the terms of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and roughly 80,000 of them took the opportunity.
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
By working under the table while also claiming benefits (by stealing someone else's identity). I mean, theoretically a white person can do the same, but there aren't entire state governments dedicated to helping them obtain benefits while being illegal immigrants, and entire DA departments unwilling to prosecute them for it. See this comic/infographic, along with the pathetic attempt to debunk it:
https://imgur.com/fwd-fwd-john-legal-vs-juan-illegal-lA0eug9
There's no contradiction there. He got in front while it was reversing and then stopped in front of it.
You're obviously arguing in bad faith, you've made that abundantly clear with this statement. Her car turned as she was reversing, and this turning is what put him in the way of the car, not his moving. He was moving before her car started moving. Fuck right off if you're going to blatantly lie about what is abundantly clear from the videos.
ChickenOverlord
24d ago
Which internationally-recognized aid organizations have concluded that starvation in Gaza was a myth? Israelis believe Americans are this gullible, that they can just call something a myth and that makes it so, and they can call something true and that makes it so. There’s a reason America’s approval of Israel has been plummeting. Let me guess, the Norwegian Refugee Council is Hamas?
I'm sure there is starvation in Gaza. Israel's claim is that Hamas seizes aid shipments which prevents them from reaching normal Gazans. Whether or not this claim is true, I can't say, and I can't really find any sources that haven't already picked one side or the other to prove or debunk it.
ChickenOverlord
24d ago
Him as the villain in the Rock's remake of Walking Tall is the version of him I have stuck in my brain, makes it hard to see him as anything else.
ChickenOverlord
26d ago
Do you routinely hear people complain about the Iranian diaspora?
There were two Iranian families in my hometown growing up (smallish town of about 30k people) thet had fled after the Shah was overthrown. One of the families had even converted to Mormonism and was a member of my congregation. The one in my my congregation was a wonderful family and I never heard any complaints about them (they had a son with some mental health issues but even that didn't really cause any problems). I had fewer interactions with the other, but the father of the other family was a school psychiatrist/counsellor at my high school and seemed like a decent guy.
But if someone pretty rabidly anti mass migration like me doesn't have any particular beef with Persians I think that's a pretty good sign of the character of the ones we have here in the US, at least the ones who came here in the 70's.
ChickenOverlord
27d ago
And honestly, learning fourth-dimensional math witchcraft from a rat-human hybrid that can move through walls seems kind of cool actually (though I could do without the ritual baby sacrifice.)
I mean, that story ended with the rat bursting out of the main character's chest to claim the heart he had promised when he signed a contract with Yog Sothoth, so not terribly cool even without the baby sacrifice.
It reminds me of how the Hollywood studio system had grown stagnant in the 70's and 80's, which allowed up and comers like Spielberg, Lucas, and Cameron to innovate and eventually take over the studio system themselves. Only now, 40 years later, it's still a lot of those same up and comers from the 70's clinging to power and not letting up and comers displace them. I think there are similar trends in politics and activism.
From the more rightwingish side of things, a lot of people from the Nixon era (including Henry Kissinger) were still power players in the Republican party and various GOP administrations all the way up until the 2010s, and even if they hadn't aged out they were effectively forced out by Trump and the MAGA movement.
I have little doubt that there are similar dynamics on the progressive protest everything activist side of things.
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