Chrisprattalpharaptr
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Chrisprattalpharaptr
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13hr ago
It matters if I am now expected to say, as Just Being Courteous Nothing More, that a biological father is, in fact, a biological mother.
So the whole legal discussion was just a sideshow for coming back to the main externality, which is that some people expect you to say a certain thing and you dislike that?
I may be a Catholic, but even I try to hang on to some shreds of accordance with actuality and physical reality. If I'm supposed to just shrug and go with the flow, then hell why not accept perpetual motion machines, phlogiston, healing crystal vibrations, and drinking bleach to cure autism?
I'm sure you could manage to construct a beliefs system that encompassed the holy ghost, transgenderism and your hatred of Kamala Harris while excluding perpetual motion machines, phlogiston, healing crystals and drinking bleach without too much cognitive dissonance.
In fact it is. The application for citizenship is on the basis of the biological parent who holds Irish citizenship. The mother (woman) isn't an Irish citizen or holding Irish citizenship. The person who fertilised the egg is the one claiming Irish citizenship and requesting it on behalf of the child.
Am I understanding correctly that the child could be granted Irish citizenship if either parent were a citizen? From your post:
Persons born outside of Ireland who have an Irish national grandparent born in Ireland may obtain Irish citizenship through registration with the Foreign Births Register, which is maintained by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The woman further submits that she could have claimed to be the “father” of the child and “could have possibly obtained citizenship by descent that way”.
So in a hypothetical where an Irish man abroad who can't get it done the old-fashioned way uses an IVF clinic with his own sperm to impregnate his foreign wife, is their child eligible for citizenship? And/or if the subject of your post had filled out the paperwork as father (which, for the record, you would probably still have posted here as evidence of trans hypocrisy), her child would have been granted citizenship?
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16hr ago
It boils my piss
That sounds unpleasant.
If you're going to smear a 'not insignificant' fraction of his fellow partisans in this community as misogynists, you better have everything cut and dry or I'm going to assume you're talking shit. Name names.
Her fellow partisans.
Naming names is either ban-baiting me or trying to start drama, but if you like, here are incidents where her piss is being boiled -
Here's her and sloot. Number of other comments in that thread.
Took me a while to figure it out, but here's her getting into it with 'The Mountain' guy on her previous account (you can follow her comments on his weekly posts if you like).
Here's what I thought would be the next flameout.
I would call the viewpoint that women are lesser, less agentic, less intelligent, less capable (excluding less physically strong) misogynistic. I don't think these arguments are particularly rare around here. Would you disagree with either point?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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17hr ago
The government should not assert that the male person who fertilised an egg is the child's mother
But who fertilized the egg is not what is being asserted, and outside of hospitals and genetics studies, 'who fertilized the egg' is not equivalent to 'father.' A baby wearing a shirt saying 'I love my two dads' isn't engaging in science denialism, it's just an expression of their relationship with two same-gender parents. Ditto for children of a remarried widower calling their father's new partner 'mom.' Gattsuru has other examples above.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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17hr ago
Careful, you're going to trigger the libertarians.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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18hr ago
Now, I've been gently chided by other commenters on here about my attitude regarding transgender activism. It's only a few edge cases and nothing to do with the reality of trans people's lives, I get told.
Indeed. The pro-trans lobby here is vicious, I'm not surprised you were mauled for daring to bravely express your skepticism of trans activism.
what I do care about is precedent that "trans gender you identify as is now the same as your biological sex, now if you're a trans woman you're a mother even if you're the father because calling you the father would be offensive, even though you are a father not a mother" for future cases. If the precedent is set, it won't be limited to "parent of child wishing to be identified as legal mother not legal father".
Why? What does it matter to you if the state calls her a woman or man, mother or father? At least in the women's sports and prison rape questions I can see the negative externalities, here I don't see how it affects your life at all other than People Are Doing Things You Don't Like. You seem to agree that the child should legally have a right to Irish citizenship so presumably the outcome will be the same either way.
I think my main objection here is the twisted logic on show: "You can't call me a 'father', I'm a woman! women are not fathers!" Yeah, but people with functioning male reproductive systems that are capable of getting cis women pregnant can be women. Uh-huh.
In a future where genuine SRS is possible and she could have first extracted sperm, then either grown a womb or implanted with an artificial one, would you call her a woman? What's your threshold?
But remember, it's just a few crazy college kids, it's only edge cases, and none of this will have effects on your life, straight cis people! It's just asking to be allowed to use the bathroom aligned with their gender identity, nothing more!
Again, I fail to see the effect on your life besides you getting angry about a news story and complaining on the internet.
Years back when I was asking "but what about if someone abuses this?" and was being assured (in a rather patronising manner) that nope, that would never happen ever. Slope, slippery, what that? We can dismiss that happily as just a fallacy, nothing that will ever occur in the real world.
How is this an abuse of the system? The kid is going to get citizenship either way if I'm understanding correctly, it's just a question of what gender/sex the state recognizes this individual as?
Is anyone surprised I'm a cynic?
Not particularly; some not insignificant fraction of your political allies in this community are genuine misogynists who think women have the intellectual fortitude of children and should mind the house. You're attracted to this place because you like complaining about the trans people and the abortions, but you flame out when the leopards inevitably start eating your face.
The modern major general one was good though, can we do that again?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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1d ago
I mean, sure, if I absolutely had to, maybe I could have stretched and gotten way less house for way more money with a far worse mortgage a year or two later and been "fine".
Instead I'm great, and it's a hell of a snowball effect.
Glad things worked out for you, and I don't know the specifics of your housing market. At least here, open houses in 2022-2023 had ~50-100 groups swarming them and you needed to be prepared to waive every contingency, plus have 20-40% down and also offer anywhere from 10-20% over asking to be in the running with the final sale often being 30-40% over asking. And even then, sometimes a developer swoops in with a case offer and blows you all out of the water.
Rates were higher in 2024-2025, but houses were only getting 1-2 offers (depending on the price point), and usually around asking. I shudder to think of what's going to happen if rates go back to 2.5%...
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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1d ago
Where would all your peers get the money to push you out of the market? Do you mean literally buy this year or be priced out forever?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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3d ago
I made the same argument at the same time, but bought a bit later than you for life reasons. And then recently had to spring for a new one because my 3bed/1 bath wasn't large enough for the family.
Thing is, it mostly turns into a zero sum game. When rates were low, people could make crazy offers on houses because their monthly payments were so low. Now that rates are high, there's less competition and prices...well, they didn’t go down, but they also didn’t go up as much. And you can just refi in 5 years. I think you would've been fine buying a bit later.
My brother, on the other hand, who bought in the early-mid 2010s has seen his home triple in value...
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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12d ago
What was your point again?
- You're underestimating both the value and breadth of American cultural power.
- The rest was meant to be a joke, not a snipe. I thought you'd find it funny, but I apologize if you were offended.
the popularity of your national media does not translate into political allegiance. That's not how the causality flows. America did not become the Shining City Upon a Hill and the leader of the strongest military alliance in history by producing popular media slop, it's just one of the many facets of their current eminence.
Then how did we get there? Military power alone isn't sufficient; we never conquered Europe. US GDP wasn't orders of magnitude greater that Europe's in the late 20th century. America became the Shining City Upon a Hill by producing film, TV, literature etc proclaiming itself to be so. No, cultural output isn't a geopolitical 'I WIN' button, but it's a piece of the puzzle.
Great Britain's greatest media days were after the British Empire collapsed.
I imagine it was a bit harder to spread propaganda in the age of sail, but who knows? Maybe you're right. I admit I'm ignorant as to what soft power the empire could wield in her day.
Hong Kong out-soft-powered all of China, their content was popular in the Mainland, they still got crushed and now they pitifully complain in the UK to stop the construction of the Mega-Embassy.
Yes, if we were playing a game of risk and you offered me a choice of a 7.5 million person city state that makes kung fu movies versus a 1.3 billion person police state I'd also choose the police state. Life isn't a Foundation novel.
But America is not HK, and...well...I guess China actually is China, but my point stands. I'd take America's soft power stat over China's any day.
Brainrotten Russian teenagers may hunt for signs of racism at home, but they know where Saint Floyd perished, and won't buy into the more carefully curated myth of Jeans, Bubblegum and Freedom like their parents did.
Because if there's one great and terrible thing about the USA, it's that it's optimized for giving you what you want. You can have a big house in the suburbs with your own yard, you can have a giant car, you can do drugs, you can play video games for 16 hours a day, you can hire a tutor for your kid, you can get rich playing arcane financial games or spend your life moving bits around instead of manufacturing hard goods. Broadcasting that to the world makes people want to come here. People who explicitly do not want anyone else to come here are tarnishing that image because it furthers their goals.
You have no idea how little this pitiful anklebiting attempt (or whatever it was) stings. I have no need to seek or beg or whore myself out, and I could come to the US any time I wanted, welcomed and accommodated, within the last 2 years.
I resent the accusation of podophilia. Feet are gross.
Regardless, it was just a joke that I thought you would find funny. You had a line 6 or 7 years ago about the tweet about BLM by some San Francisco teen thundering? trumpeting? across the Atlantic or something along those lines. I thought you'd also find it funny how quickly the child prodigy becomes the prodigal child (less the repentance) when a fickle crowd stops liking what you have to say.
As for the rest, why Argentina man? Aside from the aforementioned tango, what is there? A woman? Your other line that stuck with me was 'women demand, men provide.' Provide her the white picket fence and large backyard.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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12d ago
Not sure what you're trying to imply here. 50 million outside of China is quite impressive. Not as impressive as the Japanese or the Koreans, of course, but still. Even if that 50 million consist of 20 million overseas Chinese primarily in SEA, still.
Whichever way you slice it, it just had minimal impact outside of China. 50 million USD for Ne Zha 2 versus 1.3 billion for Zootopia 2. Add up the international earnings for all the American offerings and it's more than 2 OOMs higher. Expressed as a fraction of earnings, 50 million of 2.2 billion is 2% of earnings, whereas the majority of the American films profit was overseas.
The fact that you have heard of Lin Dan and Shi Yuqi (I have no idea who this is) is a win. I'm celebrating every win whenever I can. It's getting better, that's all I know.
Yes, it is. I'm not out to trash Chinese culture or people, but I want to push back against American cultural exports being 'capeshit and funko pops.'
I played and watched a lot of badminton in the era when Lin Dan was a beast. Apparently Shi Yuqi is world #1 since Viktor Axelsen is aging out, but I've never watched him play. Growing up, most of my closest friends just happened to be Chinese.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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12d ago
I guess I don't know, I'm not a Western person, maybe this whole story of the Hajnal Line anti-racism was a lie, and y'all are invested in White Supremacy enough to accept such blatant gaslighting indefinitely. Maybe that's the Soft Power, the Charisma. But I'm getting the impression that this is not the case.
Ilforte-Kendi going woke was not on my 2026 bingo card. But then again, Ritchie Hanania leading the anti-Trump vanguard wasn't either. I guess I'm just bad at these things. An anti-forecaster.
Replying to some of your other comments here, why the obsession with Marvel and funko pops? American cultural exports and soft power extend way beyond that, and you know it.
Look at the top grossing movies of 2025. Ne Zha 2 tops the list with an impressive 2.2 billion, of which 50 million was from outside China. Second highest grossing Chinese movie, the battle at lake Changjin made just over 900 million and 890 million of that was domestic sales. Zootopia 2 grossed 1.7 billion with 1.3 billion of that from international markets. 8 of the top 10 grossing films are American.
Next - some significant fraction of Chinese can talk intelligently about the lakers or European football. How many Americans have heard of Lin Dan or Shi Yuqi? What about famous American musicians? Half of Tay-tay's death march was sold out international venues. Globally, do you think more people can describe the gist of the declaration of independence or Xi Jinping thought?
You can sneer at Marvel and other lowbrow entertainment exports, but I would bet the pattern replicates among 'elite' media as well if you could slice the data properly. Canada is so steeped in American culture they have to force Canadian TV/radio stations to play a certain amount of Canadian content.
Seriously, though. You should go back to making fun of teenage girls from San Francisco tweeting 'defund the police.' The crowd loves it. Make a patreon and gofundme, some Thiel acolyte with deep pockets will buy you a Trump Gold Card and you can come home to the motherland. It's gotta be better than inflation-land, unless you're really into dancing tango or something.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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18d ago
It seems insensitive to link the south park clip, but like...someone has to do it, right?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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19d ago
So... is there a reason you asked how we could interact in ways other than criticism?
Because I find it so unpleasant that I haven't replied to any of your posts in something like three years now despite telling you to stop and go away, and detailed why, but you keep coming back. I told you I'd rather be able to read your writing than just block you and move on.
No, it is not. A coherent claim has to have some clear logical support. There needs to be an X thus Y component; otherwise it's just an ipse dixit.
I see. I wasn't familiar with the formal definition of coherent.
And this sort of game is what drives me bonkers about HR815 getting used as a cudgel. You're not "specifically referring to that bill", and you aren't even saying it's an example or part of your example now, but you're also not going explain any level of specific support that could be falsified, to confront any of the reasons people might disagree, and you're not going to recognize that the people defending it here had to constantly lie completely miss details about every single section.
I'm 'not specifically referring to that bill' because I'm trying to avoid this exact conversation with you where I get linked a 30 comment thread that takes a law degree to parse! No, I don't have an example of case law where 'The legislature can explicitly give litigants the standing to enforce “shall” rules,' and it doesn't sound like mr populist did either. You won that argument, and you'd win this one.
But then, I can probably name less than a dozen case laws starting with Roe v. Wade, and I don't trust you to not be Eulering me. Why, in your view, were Lankford and other senate Republicans so incompetent as to draft an immigration bill that was harmful to their interests? And why discount the funding for enforcement, border wall (previously a major sticking point, with the border wall being hugely unpopular to the dem base), CBP, etc?
No, my position is not "we will never trust any legislation on immigration again". My position is that any compromise on immigration needs to have immediate, serious, and costly compromises paid by the group that has spent half of the last forty years exploiting and ignoring the law for their own purposes, instead of people insisting that it's a compromise because it's an immigration bill and Ezra Klien lied about it.
That's foolish. You say that Border Patrol won't report real numbers, that the courts won't enforce the rulings or grant standing. Besides, anyone on the left who actually suffers consequences will just get a pardon or a friendly DOJ/DA will refuse to prosecute them, and they'll inevitably win cushy appointments in NGOs or university faculties. Not to mention, democrat politicians see 'words as a mean for deceiving humans.'
If you think fedposting is bad, you probably will do a better job arguing against it by arguing against it, instead of just going nuts shoving words in other people's mouths.
Why don't you try arguing with them yourself before lecturing me about it?
Trivially, as I demonstrated in the link that coincidentally wasn't worth responding to, it's actually pretty unclear how incompatible it is with winning in the court of popular opinion or passing laws in congress.
How did you trivially demonstrate that rhetoric is incompatible with winning popular opinion or passing laws?
EDIT :/ Just as trivially, the DACA 'deals' had a different result than you might remember. /EDIT
I conflated the 2017 and 2019 DACA debates. In 2017, he chose to try and end DACA rather than take a deal. In 2019, how does it go? Ah - the time for rapprochement is before someone else is (about to) have power over you.
More critically, if a policy someone in the media gives a bad name, mean words, and sketchy misuses of DoD funds are all that it takes to make someone not-moderate on that position, you're going to have to give up ever Dem politician on the national level in the last thirty years, especially on gun control.
If the left ever elects someone who acts the way Trump acts, you're going to lose your mind.
And, of course, this had zero impact on Bill Clinton's then-active campaign for a federal assault weapon ban, which passed in 1994 and only ended when an unrelated Republican wave coincided with a sunset provision. Wasn't even controversial at a federal level until a couple complete nutjobs spent five-plus years digging into it and revealed that the official story in both cases had more holes than Ben_Garison's Lankford story, and even then you didn't get national television heads suggesting that maybe you can't shoot people or burn them on a pyre for being annoying and 'resisting arrest'.
What's your point, that the left can send in the feds to shoot up conservatives and still win elections? Or that violence is Popular, Actually?
(Not that one in a hundred normies could tell you what, say, LaVoy Finicum was protesting, either, but he didn't have a vagina, so he doesn't count.)
Indeed, the operative difference between LaVoy Finicum and Renee Good was their genitals. And you also might be surprised what normies could have told you about Lavoy Finicum six years ago.
No one cared. Progressives don't give a damn about women getting shot. They care about what's politically useful, and what's on the television. And, hell, I'm not saying conservatives are different! (although I personally try to care; in addition to my IRL work, I've pointedly tried to stick to 'don't speak ill of the dead' for this specific example.)
Your link is broken. But progressives care about what's politically useful, and what do you think those politics are a means to? Personal riches? Power? Please, teach me what truly motivates progressives.
Make your reply so that you don't complain about the 'reply and block,' then I'm done. My family and job deserve better than me wasting an hour of my day on this and coming home in a bad mood.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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20d ago
I'm sorry that I'm not just pointing "this (up arrow emoji)" on the MMUD or tauren druid posts, but I generally try to avoid posting unless I either have further information or a correction, especially since this time of year is a clusterfuck.
If you think I do this for the adoration of the community and the fuzzy feels, look at the vote counts on most of my posts. Or I can send you some of the death threat DMs, although those died down a bit since I mostly started avoiding grabbing live wire culture war issues.
That's more close to a coherent claim
Saying that conservatives should have taken HR815 as a compromise is a coherent claim, just one you dislike and disagree with.
But you do understand why it's not that persuasive as a crux of your argument? There's zero trust that 'moderate' enforcement regimes would be tolerated or accepted -- not just because of the Lankford bill showing that 'moderate' meant no actual mandate, or that literal decades before that 'moderate' enforcement meant wildly net-positive illegal immigration, but simply that Trump tried that in the first administration, it was overwhelmingly not tolerated or accepted, and indeed its use was made to justify the massive uptick in tolerated illegal immigration under Biden.
I understand why it's not persuasive to you, and frankly to the others with dug in positions on immigrants and American identity. Do you understand why 'we will never trust any legislation on immigration again' is also not persuasive as an argument, in addition to being rather stupid? If you're done with the legislative process, go join the fedposters and leave me alone.
simply that Trump tried that in the first administration
He did what? You think the rhetoric around muslim travel bans and shithole countries and building the wall with DOD funds rather than taking a DACA deal is the 'moderate' position? Stoking partisanship is going to win you elections and make your base love you, but it's not a recipe for passing laws in congress or winning in the court of popular opinion.
indeed its use was made to justify the massive uptick in tolerated illegal immigration under Biden.
Yes, extreme positions and rhetoric provoke backlash, the same way that Biden suffered a backlash on immigration near the end of his term and Trump is probably suffering some level of backlash on ICE now. Time will tell, but however much people like to play rules lawyer about cars being lethal weapons, I don't think normies like seeing normie moms getting shot in the head.
Why do you think anything could be done about immigration on January 19th, 2025?
Because Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul and a host of influential figures on the left admitting that illegal immigration is a problem and the Biden admin fucked up combined with shifts in the general population is the ideal time to pass immigration legislation. When else do you think it's going to happen? Now that Trump is calling blue cities warzones and making shitposts about Chiraq and we're seeing ICE raids in our neighborhoods? The opportunity for rapprochement and compromise was wasted.
If you want to interact with me in some mutually beneficial way, then interact with me.
I don't know how, and frankly I'd rather not - honestly, we'd both be happier if you went and found someone else to argue with.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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20d ago
Perhaps the way I wrote my comment misled you, but I wasn't specifically referring to that bill. The majority of Trump's agenda has been through executive orders that will be reversed the day after he leaves office, particularly since the center and center-left have soured on immigration enforcement after the last year.
I'd rather not block you because I sometimes enjoy reading your writing, but I'd also appreciate it if you stopped dropping by now and then with a 'you're wrong about everything, actually.' I respect and admire you, but I'm also at a loss as to how to interact with you in any kind of mutually beneficial way.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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21d ago
During medical school I once got covered in my supervisor’s blood, and on another occasion, I had to carry away a chunk of somebody’s scalp. A guy I know from medical school once responded to a code in the middle of the night and found two patients and a nurse wrestling in the nursing station while another nurse slowly bled out from a neck wound.
I’ve been swept by a gun during a trauma (fucking search the bangers before, thanks), and handed a knife by a guy who was already searched while alone in a room. Yesterday, a nurse at another hospital in my region almost had their finger bitten off while restraining a patient, which is why I decided to write this.
Do you think these situations would have been improved by you being armed with a gun? And given that many doctors suffer a...size disparity from your average trauma patient, and fists can easily be a deadly weapon, should the doctor have shot the patients in any of the stories you list above?
Where do the NRA and courts land on arming doctors/self-defense in hospitals, anyways?
The groypers/tankies/islamists would kill/expel/rape/torture/imprison me anyway, so I’m unclear as to why I owe them any empathy.
Pretty small subsets of society, but sure, you can have a pass on people whose platform is explicitly kill/torture Jews. The woman who got shot in the head was presumably none of those things, although I doubt she had warm feelings for [edit] Israel.
But the episode taught me one thing. If you give the left an inch, they take a mile. If you agree that a single cop did something dumb, you get the police defunded, a wave of ridiculous and damaging woke in the private and public sector, and the greatest crime wave in decades. So while I don’t defend this, I know the only thing for it is to say “OK, what about it?”, to give not one inch.
And if you give the right an inch, they take Venezuela. Compromise is for suckers, smart people hit defect, right?
But regardless, you learned the wrong lesson. Defund the police didn't happen because you gave an inch to extreme leftists, it happened because broad segments of the population across the political spectrum were disgusted by what happened to Floyd. COVID lockdowns didn't happen because you ceded ground to some tiny fraction of hypochondriacs; they were supported by the majority of Americans, particularly early on in the pandemic.
You can be as callous as you like when you're in power, but a majority of Americans disapprove of ICE. And when they're back in power and you trumpet the latest MS13 murder, what's to stop them from smiling and saying 'why should I care?'
There was a moment at the end of the Biden administration where I thought there was relatively broad bipartisan agreement that something needed to be done about immigration. The left knew it was a losing issue, all the talking heads on the center left agreed something needed to be done, etc. The right (well, Trump really) chose to score political points instead and unilaterally take a bunch of actions that will be reversed three years from now.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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26d ago
Jeez, how many people can report a comment in 45 minutes? Are they just sitting there refreshing the new comment feed?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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26d ago
How full is the water bottle? And it's a normal person throwing it with a predictable windup or it's just magically headed directly towards my center of mass and it's a question of reflexes to get out of the way? I feel like a childhood of playing suicide (apparently called butts up in the US of A) gives me pretty good odds.
But also, without caring that much about the underlying specifics, the cop did 'just dodge the car.' He wasn't meaningfully hit. And even if he had been hit head on and still shot and killed the driver, it didn't stop the car from accelerating and crashing into the other parked car. If anything, shooting her probably made him less safe than jumping on the hood of the car or something.
Not to mention, if you shoot me in the chest or something I'm 100% going to do my best to run you over even if that wasn't my intention before.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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26d ago
What a childish argument.
When you stand against immigration enforcement you stand against the future of the entire civilization we share. You are saying that you want your descendants and mine to live in a dirtier, poorer, more squalid, more corrupt, more unequal, more violent country, forever.
If you obstruct ICE in any capacity, why should I care what happens to you, when by your very action you are saying you don’t care about what happens to me?
Why should I care that Charlie Kirk was shot? Trump? Should I care when the Sandistas drag your rich family from their Manhattan penthouse, given that I suspect I'd take a dim view of how you acquired your wealth if I knew the details? Should I cheer for cops to shoot people violating COVID lockdowns because they obviously don't care about what happens to me?
Have you met your quota of 8 white/Jewish babies? Do you support my policy of sterilizing the genetic undesirables? Have you donated to my paramilitary group going door to door administering rapid-SNP tests and euthanizing people with below-average IQ PGS? No? By failing to out-reproduce the blacks and latinos and borderlander dysgenic trash you're dooming my descendants to squalor! Why should I care what happens to you?
Have some empathy and respect for your country(wo)men because the alternative is worse. Even if you're acutely self-interested and lack any altruistic impulses whatsoever, the alternative is worse for you as well.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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27d ago
From DHS twitter:
Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.
Was, uh, a riot going on down the street or something? Or do the videos you linked capture the totality of the violent riot?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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29d ago
It's a different world man. I checked the FBI crime statistics, and in my home town, when I was allowed to bike 30 minutes as google map says, probably 60 minutes as a kid bikes, down the bike path on the parkway to the nearest shopping center for a slushy, the murder rate in my county was 0-1 per year. Entirely domestics. In the year 2025 it's closer to 50, and lots of gang deaths.
I'm really baffled as to where you grew up, Petersburg? As far as my experiences in Virginia, it's overwhelmingly been one of gentrification - admittedly limited to NoVA and Richmond. I can't speak to Norfolk or Charlottesville. In DC, the majority of the city is unaffordable to anyone but wealthy professionals and the politicos, with the poors being pushed across the Anacostia. H street is a filthy den of hipsters (or may have progressed to a fully upscale neighborhood since I left, I don't know) and you have to go pretty far to the northeast to get anywhere grungy. NoVA is a gleaming mass of towers full of consultants milking the feds (where you possibly work making useless software?) and I'm not even sure how far you have to drive outside the city before you stop seeing Mcmansions and nice suburbs.
I don't know Richmond as well but The Fan and Jackson Ward both gentrified pretty heavily. Nice downtown core, UVA seems to be metastasizing, lots of mcmansions and farmers markets.
Are you confident that your quiet suburbia was invaded by illegals rather than most of the successful, law-abiding people being siphoned off by the gentrifying cities? Brain drain to the city cores will hollow out the suburbs and revitalize the downtowns which seems to be what's happening (although I haven't noticed the apocalyptic degradation of the suburbs you write about extensively). It's surprising that I lived in fairly similar areas to you without ever hearing about Teen Dismemberment Tuesdays. Why do you think we had such different experiences?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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1mo ago
Being top DPS on your MMO raiding guild is competitive and zero-sum, but unlikely to attract many girls (though not zero)
Every guild has a female tauren druid who ends up getting involved with the GM...
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1mo ago
He was, for some reason, a big fan of Perplexity -- an AI tool that I’ve heard very little positive feedback about from anyone else.
For a long time (and possibly this is still the case) perplexity was the only tool that would give me actual papers as references. If i said i wanted protocols for x in cell type y chatgpt would hallucinate a bunch of papers with chinese surnames that didn’t exist.
Chatgpt is a lot more interesting these days (for my work) but even as recently as a few weeks ago it made up papers instead of giving me real references.
I'm no narc, you can be as pedantic and annoying as you like.
Your babies are just dumb compared to mine.
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