zeke5123a
1d ago
Still in his Wikipedia. Here is a WaPo article strongly hinting it was made up with zero evidence (ie they took the five year plea because they were convinced they’d receive no justice—yet the paper didn’t include any of the evidence supporting the conviction). https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/george-floyd-america/policing/
zeke5123a
1d ago
I think he did. Anyone who points a gun at a pregnant women while robbing their house deserves to hang
zeke5123a
2d ago
And? Maybe violin is different (practically kids don’t have big enough hands to play guitar) but maybe starting insanely young isn’t actually necessary to be a virtuoso as demonstrated by two of the best guitarists of all time.
zeke5123a
4d ago
There are literally professional athletes who only started their sports a few years before they went pro. Of course, they are largely massive physical specimens.
Similarly, there can be some degree of cross training due to playing multiple sports. For example, soccer (barely a sport) does teach foot eye coordination. This is helpful for hockey (a real sport) since you sometimes need the puck to go skate to stick.
zeke5123a
4d ago
Maybe there’s a difference but I learned guitar after 12 (largely because I noticed girls liked the guy who played guitar).
zeke5123a
4d ago
Biden advertised as a moderate but governed like a radical. Style aside, Trump is still a Clinton Democrat.
zeke5123a
6d ago
That seems like an overly narrow definition of bureaucracy. All of the revolving door between the official bureaucracy and the related contractors (with people going back and forth) form the true bureaucracy.
zeke5123a
7d ago
Organisms attempt to grow. Unless there is a countermeasure, they will grow. There was for a long time no countermeasure to bureaucracy and therefore it grew.
zeke5123a
9d ago
In moderation, alcohol can create social cohesion. The moderation is the key bit.
zeke5123a
9d ago
If we are talking about the “Maryland Dad” then yeah the guy just coincidentally hung out with MS-13 gangbangers and the tat just looked like an MS-13 tat by happenstance.
zeke5123a
11d ago
I am thinking Braveheart. You care about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
The plot does drive the movie (along with certain twists, etc.).
And of course there’s some fun action.
zeke5123a
11d ago
My favorite line was “they do move in herds.” Here was a guy who spent his life claiming to be an expert but the statement revealed his inner uncertainty.
Just chefs kiss.
That and the whole hubris of man theme.
zeke5123a
12d ago
The original movie had dinosaurs attacking people and an amazing script. In fact, the former was used somewhat seldomly which (1) made it better and (2) played into what makes the script so good.
zeke5123a
14d ago
It is evil in the same way that when you strike a bargain, you ought to uphold the bargain.
Sure bargains are revisited after some time. But most people understand that a bargain is designed to last at least for some period of time; not weeks.
Activists therefore are violating the spirit of the bargain.
I also think activists frequently have wrongheaded goals and make things worse off but that’s a separate matter (though it no doubt makes me less favorably disposed to activists in general — in truth I think an activist is a shameful “profession.”)
zeke5123a
16d ago
And this is why the activists win. Every time you move the line a little, the next movement of the line is only slighter more expensive compared to the new status quo and the government has already admitted the alleged moral case.
I find activists in part evil because they never hold up their end of the bargain. On Friday, they will celebrate their hard won compromised victory and on the next Monday they will be telling us how the status quo is intolerable and needs changed.
zeke5123a
28d ago
I think modern weapons are different from ‘Nam area. My understanding with some of the weapons is we basically did everything but bit the fire button.
zeke5123a
28d ago
I think it’s a bit more than “we think they are here.” From my understanding, we did everything but pull the trigger and without us Ukraine couldn’t have fired some of the weapons.
zeke5123a
29d ago
Originalism isn’t strict textualism. It is trying to understand the public meaning at the time of enactment. To understand that, you obviously look at the words but also the entire context.
Note that even textualism (for reading statutes) tries to ignore strict textual conclusions. Scalia and Garner wrote a book on how to interpret texts from a textualist perspective. Strict literalism is something that caution against. Doesn’t give license to ignore the words but there ought to be an attempt to give the most reasonable interpretation of the words that puts the words in proper context.
zeke5123a
29d ago
American weapons guided with American intelligence have hit Russian targets. I fail to see how different that is to bombers dropping bombs.
zeke5123a
30d ago
I agree the dude just appears to be totally nuts. In a way that’s the best outcome.
So we now believe the victim who identified Floyd is lying because an officer involved happened to be dirty?
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