ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
I knew Tolkien was a linguist and did a lot of work with Old and Middle English, but for some reason it's only just now that I realized all of the names/words used by Rohan (i.e. Eorlingas) are just thinly veiled Old English.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Desert Storm, and arguably the initial invasion in 2003 as well before it turned into an occupation/counter-insurgency. Saddam had (on paper) the 4th largest army in the World in Desert Storm IIRC.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Only other egregious example I can think of is Rage Against the Machine essentially being blacklisted by any radio stations owned by Clear Channel. But yeah that's nothing compared to a lot of the crap the left has done in the last 14 years or so.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
I got the feeling she'd already given up on trying to keep her job
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
The real question was how much blood should be taken, with most responses landing somewhere between "massive" and "infinity".
You seem to be deliberately ignoring the parts where people were saying "Enough until the left no longer uses cancelation as a weapon/realizes what they've unleashed and decide to stop"
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Kamala gets to appoint her own VP if Biden resigns/gets 25th Amendmented. It's subject to congressional approval but it's still her nomination.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
And if a megacorp like Amazon (or technically Jeff Bezos) buys a newspaper, does that newspaper suddenly lose its speech rights?
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Trump got Babbit killed.
How, exactly? Please explain the causal chain between something Trump did and the Babbit shooting.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Trump is a liar. He lied about something to such a serious degree that twelve citizens were firmly convinced that he is guilty.
He (or one of his accountants) labeled a payment for an NDA as a legal expense. If that's somehow a felony then either the law making it such is terrible, or the jury instructions were terrible, or both. That's before you get into the time travel aspect of this (Trump's mislabeling of a payment made in 2017 was in furtherance of another alleged crime, that being unlawfully interfering in the 2016 presidential election).
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
That is what gymbros call a "strongfat" build. Seems to be most common in Polynesians. But you can tell that guy is strong despite also being a fatty.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Gonna go out on a limb here and guess that that agent can't do 26 situps in a minute or 1.5 miles in 16:34
They also handle anti-counterfeiting operations (in fact that was their original purpose) but I'm not sure how much of the budget goes to that.
Edit: Just checked and the "Protective Operations" budget is about $1 billion
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/U.S.%20Secret%20Service_Remediated.pdf
So for all practical intents and purposes, given the small number of people the USSS has to protect (all current and former presidents, the VP, parts of their families, current candidates polling over x%, did I miss any?) there's no excuse for them to be spread so thin. Incompetence and administrative bloat are the only reasonable sounding explanations (other than more conspiratorial angles) I can think of at the moment.
Edit 2: So the Secret Service's budget for protective services is roughly the same as the entire military budget of Latvia, a NATO member with a population of about 2 million doing a massive military build up in response to Russia invading Ukraine.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
I've certainly caught myself doing that more times than I care to admit. It's definitely something more aspirational than what I am actually capable of consistently living up to.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
My take for many years now has been "turn the other cheek" in personal matters, but don't allow the wicked to cause harm unabated to others. Forgiving others their trespasses against me, even seven times seventy times, does not mean allowing their trespasses against other innocent people to go unopposed.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
That's all well and good, but the head of the secret service's claim was that no one was posted on the shooter's roof because of safety issues due to the slope, even though people were posted on other sloped roofs (and roofs that appear to have a steeper slope than the shooter's roof)
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
...but the counter sniper team was on a sloped roof, what the hell? https://i.redd.it/3dc6t8vjbxcd1.jpeg
Is she just that stupid or does she think that will actually mislead a significant percentage of the public? How did the interviewer not call her out? That's straight journalistic malpractice
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Australia is going to have to add a right to freedom of speech in their constitution first then. And an actual one, not a "subject to reasonable restrictions" one
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Your list is sorely, sorely lacking in classic rock. The closest you have to it on your list in some 1990-2010 era alternative rock, but that's basically a whole other world of music. And you're just missing stuff from before the 90's in general. And all the amazing music before the modern era.
A few gems for you to try:
Princes of the Universe - Queen The Spirit of Radio - Rush War Pigs - Black Sabbath Layla (both the electric and acoustic versions) - Eric Clapton Blackbird - The Beatles Rainbow in the Dark - Dio Pressure - Billy Joel The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughn Williams Jupiter - Gustav Holst
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
He likes guns, so I think he's at least been pro-2A for a long time.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
1 No Country For Old Men
The movie was excellent, but it missed one major feature that the book had. Specifically the sheriff's monologues at the start of each chapter, which give a moral framing to the entire story. The sheriff doesn't really do much throughout the entire story, he acts more as a witness to the events and to a world which is simultaneously getting worse every day while also always having been this bad.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
FWIW, the "outsourcing" to local PD has been going on for decades (at least). I have a relative who was a cop who was assigned to Hillary's security detail during some cross-country campaigning trip or something along those lines that Bill and Hillary did back in the 90's, when they made a stop in my relative's jurisdiction.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
And significant black, Hispanic, and Native American populations in otherwise red states like the deep south, the Dakotas, Alaska, etc.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
greatest threat to public safety since AIDS
I mean unless you're a gay man or shoot up heroin, has AIDS ever really been much of a threat?
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Eh, you're a gay furry ex-Mormon (which is like a triple strike against you in my book) but I still like you well enough. I think the Libs of TikTok thing could have been handled better but I don't think it was an inherently wrong thing to do.
You do you, but I think you're missing out if you leave this place behind permanently.
The X-Games are basically that (but with an alternative rock extreme sport sort of vibe)
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