JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
10d ago
Democrats don't want you dead, because the democrats asking for your head don't have any understanding of violence.
Most of them may not have a practical knowledge of how the violence is done, but they will wholeheartedly support, enable and defend those 10% who do. And another 10% who want to and will play the meat shield for the previous ones should it prove necessary (like it's happening in Portland right now) and commit as much of haphazard and ineffective violence as they can, fully taking advantage of the fact that nobody would fight them like the real enemy (while they would, as much as they could). And those 20% are enough to deliver a lot of damage, especially given that there's no organized opposition to them so far (every attempt to do what they are doing on the right had been forcefully squashed by the law enforcement, and likely many of those were the fake from the start, clearly created to weed out the active 10% on the right and put them out before they can do anything).
Grunts are cheap though. Cheap and replaceable. If you have tens or hundreds of thousands of people who think murder of political opponents is A-OK, and all their peers think the same, and all their reference circle thinks the same, and literally everybody they know think the same - it won't be hard to find one or two to commit the action when necessary. Gavrilo Princip wasn't some kind of superhuman terminator, he was a poor student. Most assassins are totally unremarkable. The candidate pool of them is inexhaustible once the proper mindset is entrenched.
My point is, they shout about killing Trump because they are unable to imagine the act of killing, punching or drawing blood.
I am not sure how the person with knowledge of the events event for the last year can say something like that. I mean, they literally shot him in the head. And tried to do it again. They very well can imagine it, and that's exactly what they imagine in their wet dreams (when those aren't occupied by trans furry porn, of course). Many of them may not know the technical details of how to effectively do it, but as we are being proven repeatedly, it doesn't take a superhuman, just a random joe with the demonic idea possessing him harder than most of his peers.
The slightest glimpse into real violence leaves a lasting negative taste in one's mouth (unless you're a psychopath).
Their ideological drivers are smart. They know humans don't like violence. That's why the decades-long campaign of dehumanization of the right is (was, has been) necessary. Violence against Nazis is not real violence. That's why this word is being used. It's a marker. Once you are marked a "Nazi", you are excluded from the human empathy mechanism, and the left by now is very well trained to do this. It may have taken a long time, but now it is done. The code is written, uploaded and running. The barrier is down. There's no pit in anyone's stomach about killing the Nazis, only the righteous rage towards the enemies of humanity.
then, call in the national guard.
Haven't you heard yet? National Guard is now owned by a certain Portland judge, and she in the Supreme Commander. Nothing can be called anywhere unless all Antifa-loving judges agree with it. So, you have nobody to call.
JarJarJedi
10d ago
They are not direct ancestors maybe, but close relatives. Cousins or something like that. The totalitarian mindset is the same, the world model is the same - there's a group of people which is the reason of every evil and must be suppressed by all means necessary. It's true that for the modern Left the inclusion of the Jews into this group is consequential to them being so close to foundations of the Western civilization (which is the real target) that it's impossible to not include them, while for Nazis the Jews were pretty much the sole focus. But looking beyond those surface differences, the ideological skeleton behind it is surprisingly similar. And I don't think this is a coincidence.
JarJarJedi
12d ago
But they don't compete. They blend. Her grandpa hated the Jews and she hates the Jews. His grandpa knew the country can be only saved if certain troublesome groups are eliminated and the political debate is curtailed - and he knows the same. It's not a competition, it's an evolution.
JarJarJedi
12d ago
Post-war Germany adopted this, at the Allies' command, and went full hog
Yes, but. Initially, the former Nazis were hard suppressed. Then, they were softly and quietly let back into the normal life. Of course, no openly proclaiming their views allowed ever, but you could be, e.g., ex-Nazi - especially if it's low level position - and hold a government job. Even be a lawyer or a judge. I assume most of them are dead by now, but how ironic would it be if an ex-Nazi judge would imprison a Jew under the censorship laws meant to prevent the recurrence of Nazi atrocities?
JarJarJedi
12d ago
See, that's the difference. The left feels, with no supporting evidence (not that any were ever necessary), that the right wants to kill them. The right knows, on many past examples and repeated, incessant public confessions of the leftists themselves, that the left wants to kill them. And not only wants but does.
JarJarJedi
14d ago
Don't forget that you can be convicted of serious charges in a "he said she said" case, on witness testimony alone
That's scary. Though the cousin being a felon and the accusers being women probably paid a serious role. It shouldn't have, but I am sure it did.
Is there any way to have known, back in medieval times, that there were two massive continents across the Atlantic ocean?
I imagine since there were Vikings - and probably others - that reached them by then, there could be sources that at least describe the presence of land there. Though probably not about what kind of land and whether that is the same land mass as Asia probably nobody knew definitely by that time. In fact, one could imagine a world where Bering land bridge stayed above water - would it then indeed be Asia?
JarJarJedi
19d ago
- Roth IRA limits are not that high. ~250K currently, with for two-income family - or moderately well earning one-income - is not a lot. Once you hit that, no Roth for you.
- After 60, there will likely be a significant amount of medical bills. No insurance, as far as I know, covers 100% - especially not Medicare. So getting the money out of the HSA wouldn't be a big problem, however unlike Roth you can get this money untaxed on the way in and on the way out.
JarJarJedi
21d ago
Are Russia trying to send the message that they will be able to kick various Europeans right in the testicles if the war becomes hot(tter)?
I'm not sure who this message would be addressed to. EU military, unless they are hiring literally idiots, already knows what drones are, and saw how Ukraine and Israel used them to perform deep-inside attacks. Deducing Russia would be capable of doing the same, should they want it, is not something that needs any special messaging. The general public is not itching to have any conflict with Russia anyway - I mean, they don't like Russia, but they'd prefer to limit themselves to expressing grave concern and maybe sending some money to Ukraine (not too much), but that's the extent of it. And they certainly wouldn't understand this message anyway - it would require proven connection to Russia (which would be an act of war by then) to have it enter into normie awareness, or at least willingness of the press (which means of the government) to proclaim it so - in which case the normies would ask - if Russia is already attacking us, why you guys aren't doing squat? And nobody really wants these questions asked or answered.
It could be a test, or it could be just some local drone operators not giving a flying frick about any regulations and just YOLOing it around the airport. It's not like it takes a genius with 10 years of training to fly a hobby drone...
Drone fired by Yemen's Houthis wounds 22 in southern Israel, in a rare breach of missile defenses
Wait, if it's a drone shouldn't it be "drone defenses"?
Hamas reportedly preparing for street-to-street fighting as Israeli forces near Gaza City centre
As opposed to? They have been street-to-street fighting for the last 2 years. That's the only mode of fighting that is available to them - it's not like they have tanks corps or navy or anything but infantry hidden in the residential neighborhoods. So the headline is "Hamas is reportedly preparing to keep doing what they've been doing for 2 years now". Well, gee, thanks BBC for informing us.
Gaza aid flotilla rejects Israel's demand to dock in Ashkelon, calls request part of blockade
I just wonder, what they are planning to do if they actually reach Gaza? Whatever shit they have on their ships, nobody needs it, Gaza has a lot of supplies going in. I mean sure, a lot of people would be happy to relieve them of the goods and sell them on the nearest market, but then what? Take selfies and back home? Or try to get killed and make a huge stink out of it? What's the game plan? I mean, Israel Navy probably would intercept them, feed them sandwiches and deport them again, like the last time, but I'm just curious what's the idea.
JarJarJedi
21d ago
I'd rather expect they are about to hear something that is not going to please them, probably "we thank you for your service, bye now" for some of them. And Hegseth does not want an organized opposition and the press circus before he does the deed. It will happen afterwards, but that'd be too late.
JarJarJedi
21d ago
It's too late for you, it must be done on pre-natal stages. You can still have severe liver damage up to fatal, if you like, but that's all you're getting from acetaminophen now.
JarJarJedi
21d ago
I imagine different states have different definitions of what kinds of murder they prosecute. The point is nobody is (so far) arguing it's not a murder or shouldn't be prosecuted, the question is just some technical points which aren't hard defined one way or another.
JarJarJedi
21d ago
he just got murder one dropped down to murder two for his trial
I suspect this is a result of overcharging, since they tried to charge him with terrorism, while in his case he was aiming at exacting revenge for his beef against health insurance industry, not as a general political statement. So the terrorism part was kinda iffy, and at least from casual reading of the statute, murder two is your regular murder, while murder one is super-super-bad murder where the specific reasons for super-badness are enumerated, so if it doesn't match any of them, it can't me murder one. So it's not necessarily a reflection of any opinion about the case itself.
It seems to me that not only does the left have a very serious violence problem
The Left doesn't have a violence problem. The Right has the problem of the Left being violent, but it's not a problem for the Left - for them, it's a desirable feature. They do not "realize" it because it's not a problem for them, so there's nothing for them to realize. Of course, they would condemn violence from both sides any time it's convenient, but having violent storm troops that would attack their enemies on cue - while being completely free from any legal consequences for it - is not a problem in the least for them. Expecting them to do something about it out of kindness of their hearts and compassion for people who they have been calling Nazis for decades now is plain stupid, and if the Right wants it to stop, it needs to realize the only way to do it is to use all the force they can bring in to handle it. The Left did not hesitate for a second to do it in Covid times, and when suppressing people who investigated 2020 elections, and when stomping Jan 6 protesters into the ground. What would be the Right's answer to much more violent and massive attacks from the Left? So far it's prosecuting immediate perpetrators in a handful of high-profile cases and short raids into the enemy territory. One can't hope to win a campaign this way.
JarJarJedi
25d ago
Yes, but somebody needs to make the wheels of justice grind. And for those people, forgiveness may not be the best priority. I agree that those may not be the concern of the widow, but they are certainly a concern for me as a member of the society, which wants the criminals like this murderer ground very thinly.
JarJarJedi
25d ago
a retarded autist named Martin Luther decides that he doesn't like the Church that Christ founded
That's not how it happened though. Luther didn't have a plan to destroy the Church or even leave it. He just had some issues with some stuff that representatives of the Church were doing (come on, selling indulgences? wtf is that?). And he voiced his objections. The Church refused to consider them and demanded he immediately declare himself complete idiot and prostrate himself before the Church, or be kicked out. Luther did not, and had been kicked out. Unlike many other people who crawled back on their knees or somehow dealt with it (or, if they could, installed their own Pope who overruled the last one, that happened once or twice) he did not just take it, but founded his own movement instead. Of course, the fact that there were a lot of powerful people around which weren't that happy with existing Church and its powers also helped a lot. Definitely however not what he planned from the start.
Many such cases btw - a person wants to improve the system from within, the system reacts harshly against him and pushes him out, he founds an alternative system which supplants the old one.
JarJarJedi
25d ago
I am not a Christian and I do not feel qualified to judge what constitutes a moral progress for a Christian. And even less qualified to pass any judgement on the widow and how she deals with the horror that entered her life. But as myself, for my own selfish reasons, I'd like my leaders be more like Trump. Being rewarded in the next life is not enough for me. I am not a Christian saint. I want bad people to be punished in this life, on this Earth, in front of my eyes. That's why we pay enormous money to the structures of government - to ensure things happen as they should here on Earth, not in the next life. Some Christians may not care about it, fine, but I do. And I do not see how mercy and love alone are going to protect me from people who were overjoyed by this murder - and all the previous murders - and already are itching for the next one and preparing the lists of candidates. I do not see any way to kumbaya out of it, sorry. I don't mean of course the right should start mirroring the left and descending to the depths of depravity that bluehairsky personalities are wallowing in. But to feel certain revulsion towards them and to have a plan to seriously address the threat they are presenting is something that I feel appropriate.
JarJarJedi
25d ago
Any strategies for bypassing automated screenings or similar?
Networking. Make a list of your Linkedin contacts and where they work today. If it's something relevant for you, and they know who you are (otherwise why would they be in your Linkedin?), send them a nice message asking for internal referral. Doesn't matter if you haven't talked to them for ages - just say something "we were colleagues once, now I am looking for job, does your company hire? Could there be something you could refer me for?" something like that. Worst thing, they would refuse or ignore and you wasted one email message. Best case, you have a good way around most initial screens.
Also, being fired is super stressful. There's no way around it. Take time to self-care and do whatever helps for you - the gym, walks, music, food, whatever it is - take time to self-care. Financial par is important, but psychological part is no less important.
JarJarJedi
25d ago
Do you mean this guy? https://x.com/TheOmniLiberal/status/1969862447155540269
I haven't heard much about him before, but I am very skeptical he ever had any habits like that.
JarJarJedi
26d ago
It's not "long term" really - they bombed it quite recently. And it's not just standing ships there - it's unloading, etc. - it must take some infrastructure? How hard it should be to destroy this infrastructure to the point it can't serve as a port anymore?
JarJarJedi
26d ago
Israel strikes Yemen's Hodeidah Port twelve times after Houthi attack on Israeli airport, claiming it was used by the Houthis for weapons transfers from Iran.
This is where my ignorance shows up - how hard is it to destroy a port? I mean Israel has been bombing it repeatedly for a while, and it's way too short timeframe to build a new port, so why it's still capable to accepting any weapons transfers from anywhere?
JarJarJedi
26d ago
a backwards society one generation removed from functional chattel slavery into a superpower that dominated half the world
By bringing the slavery back, only on the state level (what do you think people were doing it Gulag, knitting?). And that society barely lasted 3 generations.
I expect AI to never figure out how to do maintenance on its own datacenters
They'd just hire humans though a shell company for now.
JarJarJedi
26d ago
Oh my, is it the "games make people commit terrorism" season again?
JarJarJedi
26d ago
GoatGuns look kinda cool and I've considered getting one to fidget around with but probably won't.
I got one. It works great as an ornamental piece. Of course it doesn't have all the detail (that would be awesome but I doubt you can pull such thing off for 50 bucks). I do not regret getting it. It kinda sounds silly - what a tiny gun that doesn't work is useful for? - but turns out sometimes having some silly things around is enjoyable. I have no idea where I heard first about it though... theoretically could be an ad, I just don't remember.
What's "the narrative"? I certainly think that Biden had been absolutely horrible. I don't have legal education enough to see if he could be plausible charged with treason (probably not successfully), but I think he certainly did not have mine or The People's interests in mind even in those rare moments he was able to keep anything in mind. And certainly whoever was running the autopen in his stead - which must be some kind of serious crime, though I again don't know how to properly call it - did not. Do I want Biden on the gallows? Shit no, what would it give me? I don't even really want him in jail, he probably wouldn't be able to even understand what's going on. But I wouldn't mind seeing in jail some of the people who were running the clown show. But much more important is to do everything possible to undo at least some of the harm that they inflicted on the country and the society. If believing all that makes me an "idiot" in your eyes, so be it, it's not my problem.
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