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3hr ago
People who make money through business are not "exploiting" society and greedily stealing from everyone else, but contributing to society through providing goods and services.
That is no longer true in the current world of extremely progressive taxation and extremely profligate social welfare spending.
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4hr ago
Define "cosmopolitan liberals", because I have also heard this over the years. Based on that experience, I think you are probably overreacting to a couple of oikophobes* (or, if you're on the internet, Europeans), who are themselves overreacting to some chest-thumping chauvinists with a highly exclusionary conception of American culture.
In my experience, it is most likely encountered as an argument against the claim that too much indiscriminate immigration alters our culture in undesirable ways.
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5hr ago
Maybe the only thing I really can ask is what you can do to help someone who's clearly overloaded, but can't stand it when something isn't done the way they would do it, and doesn't know how to explain what they want?
My suggestion based on some limited experience is to help in ways they care less about but also take effort: if not household tasks like cooking and cleaning, maybe it's running errands and getting groceries, fixing things around the house, or maybe it's handling mail, bills, paperwork, and tax prep.
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9hr ago
This seems delusional to me. They are dealing with people who are committed to using escalation as a tactic. There is almost no chance de-escalation techniques will do anything other than aid the obstruction.
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20hr ago
I may have been one of the few people who thought that Buy'N'Large was one of the greatest human achievements ever depicted in film
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1d ago
Well, compare that to the situation where the police handcuffed a knife to the suspect. I think that in that case they did throw away a lot of legitimate interest in not being knifed by the suspect, and they shouldn't claim "he was a threat because he had a knife". If they are actually knifed by the suspect, you can charge the suspect, but the standard for self-defense against being attacked by the suspect should be stricter than it usually is--strict enough that police only handcuff knives to suspects when it's actually necessary, not when the main effect is giving a reason to shoot the suspect.
Suppose instead, they are questioning someone in their own kitchen, and the officers clearly observe a knife block within arms reach. They tell the person that they are under arrest, at which point the person grabs a knife out of the block and lunges at an officer, causing the suspect to be shot dead. Does the fact that the police could have asked the person to move to a different location before attempting to arrest them negate the self-defense, in your view? If yes, and the suspect knows that, then doesn't that give the suspect the ability to put the police in a no-win situation of either getting stabbed or getting charged with murder?
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1d ago
I'm not persuaded that chain of logic holds together. To whatever extent it was under control of the ICE Agent, it was more under the control of the driver of the vehicle. ICE could have avoided it by potentially being sure to stay out of any possible trajectory of her vehicle. They also could have even more reliably avoided it by simply sitting in their cars doing nothing. While it is true that self-defense may not be used in cases where the person claiming it deliberately (and with intent) created the situation in which its use would be necessary, it does not follow that a person is required to take every possible means to avoid the outcome.
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1d ago
Suggestion: don't sleep on county parks. I've found them to be very underutilized due to their lack of centralized (or any) reservation infrastructure, smaller size, and general emphasis on recreation rather than natural wonders. But while the quality is more uneven, some of the best places I've camped have been county parks.
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1d ago
If it's legally controversial, then sure. But the vast majority of people don't know much about the law at all, so their intuition about what is legally controversial is irrelevant. I don't consider show trials acceptable.
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1d ago
It's possible to do both, though almost nobody, including myself, is "cheering." Declining to be emotionally devastated is not the same thing as cheering it, at all, and I feel this may be where the failure to model your interlocutors is occurring.
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1d ago
That kind of makes a mockery of your commitment to due process, if we're just making decisions based on public opinion.
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1d ago
Do you believe that the officer should be charged, or punished in some alternate way? I'm not asking what you think the result should be. I'm asking whether you think he should even be investigated and considered for punishment.
My personal opinion is that this agent is too trigger-happy, possibly due to his having been attacked with a vehicle in the past, and that it would be appropriate to reassign him to different duty while he conducted psychological examinations and additional use-of-force training. But that's me holding him to a much higher standard due to him being a police officer. I don't think he should be criminally prosecuted or personally liable.
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1d ago
Time, place, and manner restrictions, applied in a viewpoint-neutral manner, have been repeatedly held to be fully compliant with the First Amendment. The First Amendment doesn't give you the right to scream directly in someone's face, if that would be disorderly conduct in any other circumstance.
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1d ago
So you really think that cowering in your home, as the cited person on twitter was saying, is a valid thing we should accept as a society?
After the government and media messaging circa 2019-2021, I think that would be an unequivocal yes from the vast majority.
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1d ago
People are regularly charged and very infrequently prosecuted. I have completely lost confidence in the ability of the judicial system to appropriately punish violence by left-wing agitators.
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1d ago
They're not obliged but neither should that be a veto of federal enforcement. From what I gather, more deportations have actually occurred in states that are cooperating, but with no real drama. If the locals do not want to cooperate even to the extent of refusing to enforce blatant lawbreaking when directed at targets they deem acceptable (and how's that for your selective enforcement, by the way), they can't complain that the enforcement measures are harsher there.
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4d ago
Was anyone anywhere unaware that the U.S. does in fact have the ability to seize Greenland by force? I understand it's politic to pretend that this is irrelevant, but I think a lot of people have started to think it really is irrelevant. It's not irrelevant, and it's fair to remind people: we're negotiating not because we have to, but because we want to.
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4d ago
I'd agree it's risky, but not reckless. People should generally be free to act under the assumption that someone will not try to murder them under any circumstance that they are not immediately threatening the lives of others. I have no interest in bending social convention to accommodate the homicidal.
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4d ago
I think it's relevant that the pardoned Jan 6 people, most of whom were nonviolent, had already served far more time in custody at the time of their pardon than almost any lefty protestors did. I happen to agree they should have been charged but the sentences were absurd.
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4d ago
I also thought his comment yesterday about how vital states rights are to resisting the federal government interfering with the agricultural productivity of its non citizens to be a little too on the nose. (The phrase "way of life" especially.)
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5d ago
Picked up Planet Crafter to play with my sister. It's a mild first-person survival game built on the concept of surviving, exploring, and terraforming a planet. Nowhere near the depth of, say, Terraforming Mars, and sometimes too much running around from one place to another, but reasonably good-looking and low on system requirements.
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5d ago
I am attacking the ICE agents for poor police work culminating in a legal but avoidable shooting.
I think it is a valid criticism that ICE agents are not well-trained for performing this kind of policework. But it is the local officials who have forced them into this role, by refusing to allow local police who are better-trained for this to do their jobs. If those officials truly want to de-escalate, they should start arresting people who obstruct ICE themselves, rather than treating them as outlaws.
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5d ago
What would be the basis for sanctions? Has not Denmark already committed to respecting the decision of the Greenlandic population on the question of political separation?
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5d ago
North American indigenous people have also been some of the most patriotic and fiercest fighters for the United States.
Is the taxpayer, whose earnings are confiscated to pay for it?
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