Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
7hr ago
See if your job has an "employee assistance program" or anything like that. Sometimes they either give you free online tools, or an hour free consultation with a professional or something.
Mantergeistmann
8hr ago
Wait, there's only 2,000 ICE agents? Or just 2,000 in MN?
Mantergeistmann
15hr ago
I've seen it said that nobody (or vanishingly few) truly wants a democracy, they simply want a tyrant who's on their side.
Mantergeistmann
16hr ago
She went to an openly advertised training session to learn about how to ram ICE agents with her car.
Presumably it was advertised as less escalatory than that, as a fig leaf if nothing else?
Mantergeistmann
17hr ago
In a way it strikes me like a form of those "Scream Clubs" you see in leftist cities, just like the dark/evil version of them. I never understood the appeal of those scream clubs to begin with, but they seem very popular among women
I dunno, it reminds me of Rage Yoga, which I feel was more popular with men. And I can certainly understand the appeal of "exercise coupled with getting some good hearty shouting in". Sometimes you just want to be that guy from the Highlander: The One meme, ya know?
Mantergeistmann
17hr ago
The left has such open, naked hatred directed specifically at White men it just feels like self-preservation should kick in at some point and supersede the rest of your political preferences.
That, but obviously reversed, is basically what I've heard from a lot of my friends who aren't straight white men. And you could say "well, the difference is I'm right about how the Left feels whereas they're wrong about how the Right feels," or you can say "YesChad.jpg," but I feel like neither addresses the core issue of "everyone feels hated, probably in large part blamable on social media".
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Nonsense: 2016 is THE FUTURE! Time stopped in 2015, as far as I'm concerned.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
The only Gundam I've ever watched is G Gundam, so...
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I feel like that sort of thing is common with car makers... there's a "base model" with basically nothing - no cruise control, no power windows, etc. - and then there's the reasonably priced first trim upgrade that gives you all the things most people expect at a minimum in modern cars.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
There's plenty of evidence, just usually in the form of "breaking news story about a citizen being detained" or "someone arrested by ICE when their family says everything was in order" or "person deported for 20-year-old bad check that they'd already paid a fine for". You may not be seeing these stories, and wouldn't give them a thought if you did, but they're out there and all over the place.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Almost certainly they are frantically looking for a way to blame this shooting on Israel as a way of maintaining unity in their coalition.
I think I'd appreciate a bit of an elaboration here, because this is beyond crazy for the crazies I know.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Conversely, if Minneapolis had been ATF "rounding up illegal gun owners" and shot someone in a car with a MAGA bumper sticker, all other facts remaining the same...
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
The primary argument I know is "Babbit (and the rest of the protestors) were actively engaged in violence (see also: the one officer who was struck in the head with a heavy object), and therefore Babbit was shot in self-defence (usually accompanied by a photo of protestors inside the Capitol with fists raised looking angry), whereas Good was at no point attempting to harm the officer, and even though he was probably out of the way of the car (especially when he fired the shots), he at the very least put himself in harm's way."
Is it accurate to the situation on the ground, in either case? I haven't looked at any videos of either, and I'm sure the exact opposite argument is made in circles I don't really frequent. I'm merely summarizing/aggregating the argument I see most often.
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
That's Alberic's, right? Across the Sea from Louen and the Enchantress?
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
Yemen showed that a few desert tribes with some drones from Iran can tie down a third of the US Navy for over a year and win
Yemen showed that if you're not willing to commit boots on the ground, it's very hard to permanently take out 100% of mobile/distributed launch sites with just air strikes.
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
If a racist motive leads to uncovering genuine fraud, should that fraud then be ignored or tolerated
Suppose it's a political motive instead? I don't like political witch hunts, even when they turn up dirt, because it was never about finding and solving problems and crimes, it's about hurting the outgroup. I don't like the blatant lawfare against Trump; i don't like lawfare done against anyonr else, either, even if it turns out to have been justified after the fact.
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
Mantergeistmann
22d ago
My wife's assumption in the past has been "did someone steal access to our credit card?" but neither one of us is known for extravagant purchases (and sometimes things show up weirdly on the credit card statement...)
Mantergeistmann
22d ago
People who buy houses near military jet bases or farms and then complain about the noise/smell is... far, far too high.
Mantergeistmann
27d ago
Jesus, who supposedly stood up for prostitutes and adulteresses
"Go now, and sin no more." Does everyone forget that part?
Mantergeistmann
27d ago
Dugan's lead attorney "told reporters that he was disappointed with the ruling and didn’t understand how the jury could have reached a split verdict since the elements of both charges were virtually the same." A compromise verdict does make sense in the jury sense-making sense.
I knew a clerk who once told me of a case where a jury found a man on tried on drug charges to be guilty "possession with intent to distribute", but not guilty of "possession". I assume that sort of thing is reasonably common for legal purposes, but that attorneys will of course point to how nonsensical it is as a way to support their client.
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
Throughout the whole week I was impressed again and again by how kind and open the Spaniards I interacted with were. Yet another thing that Americans could learn from.
When you say "Americans", which part of America are you referring to? In my experience, New England is different from Metropolis is different from Midwest is different from Southern is different from...
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Sounds almost like you're advocating SafeStart: Coding Edition.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
where the Americans and the UK undermined French submarine sales
As I understand it, the French submarine sale deal wound up being... pretty horrendous, cost-wise. Granted, AUKUS may also wind up being do, but the French deal was not exactly an amazing bargain for Australia.
I probably would, but it seems unreasonable any time I have to be around other people in the near future.
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