hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
7hr ago
'Pulling it out of your waistband' almost certainly is a technical violation of the law around presentation or brandishing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
"Not having rules because they shouldn't apply to respectable people" is like Anglicanism's raison detre. See also, their origin story.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
While suppression of 'thug' culture is a good thing, it probably won't work(people will just get mad about it) and a lot of fairly justifiable criminal stereotypes are not something an individual can change- young black males getting hassled can't exactly michael jackson on short notice.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The store ain't calling no cops when you'll pay for the goods.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Ditching the gun was a serious crime. Carrying it may well not be.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The sine qua non of keeping the peace at protests is separating the two sides. The police following proper procedures around patriot front doesn’t require explanation; them not following proper procedures around other groups does.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In reality, the police will just say no, and only beat you if you resist arrest.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Gun rights orgs have been very successful at expanding concealed carry. They’ve made real progress on silencers. Losing in blue states is almost exactly the same thing as prolife- both have managed to defeat federal efforts.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In practice, that tends to turn into the Turkish arrangement….
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Conservative Christian churches have behavior codes and statements of belief that get them like 80% of the way there. Lefty groups use self attestation, which is easier to get around up front.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Wouldn’t this be reasonable suspicion, as for a traffic stop, and discarding the gun is itself probable cause?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I think that was part of the problem for this location…
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Odd. I’ll occasionally see a Hispanic or Asian masking- but never black.
White people who mask seem to generally be in clearly poor health.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
In 1900 ‘native Brit’ probably referred to people who lived there before the saxons/celts/whatever in romantic imaginings. ‘Native’ wasn’t how they talked about civilized people then.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Have you considered that the establishment/conventional right just doesn’t agree with aryan race warriors rather than being intimidated into moderation?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The prolife movement and gun rights movement have been extraordinarily successful- much more so than the DSA- in right wing organizing.
What tends to happen is that right wing ideas about race are mostly embraced by very disagreeable people who cannot cooperate. But there’s plenty of anti-LGBT orgs, gun rights orgs, anti-tax orgs, socially conservative groups, etc.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
‘It’s wrecker shit’ from people who keep claiming that they don’t want to do a Stalin.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Or they didn’t find it particularly important, because this novel was already going to be the award winner and they didn’t give a damn about anything else?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I don’t have a hard time believing Talarico is likely to win. The public doesn’t know him, Paxton is a terrible campaigner who’s mostly known for bribery and sex scandals, and it’s a blue year.
I do think that Abbott and French are significantly undervalued.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I give Paxton’s odds at 45%. Higher than prediction markets give him, but he is mostly known for bribery.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Consequences? Well the democrats will impeach Trump again, launch some investigations that go nowhere, and eventually the government will shut down.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I suspect that rural western Mass doesn’t have tons of homeless people to begin with.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
These people were just not charging when people asked not to be charged. These kinds of self consciously far left revolutionary businesses usually fail not because of lunacy like their founders leaving to go to clown school or fights about masking but because of ideologically demanded poor business decisions like that one. Thats the common thread in these kinds of articles, is the coffee shops that decide payment is optional or workers don’t need to listen to management shutting down because that won’t keep you in business.
Christian or mainstream businesses don’t do stuff like that. They may go under because they don’t have enough customers or are bad at setting prices or can’t keep costs under control or any other more pedestrian- or dramatic- reason, but they’re very unlikely to decide that employees(writ large; some of them have sinecures) don’t need to do any work or customers don’t need to pay when they don’t feel like it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I’ve seen a lot of white hispanics take advantage of affirmative action programs. They were all legitimately smart. IME Hispanics love community college programs to become, like, phlebotomists and technicians of some description who earn the same amount as the college graduates who shouldn’t have gone anyways(with shorter training and less prestige, of course), and that eats a lot of the crowd that would normally be demanding affirmative action.
There’s a separate ‘national Hispanic merit scholar’ thing, that’s like a 1450 SAT instead of 1500. That sort of thing is pretty common for Hispanics who are, shall we say, college material.
I have considered it, but I like my truck.
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