ArmedTooHeavily
Whatever happened? A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being. Its weapon was like a sword without hilt or plate, a two-edged blade cleaving everything; but he who is to wield it must grasp the blade and turn the one edge toward himself.
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Yeah, and it looks like both were incendiary devices placed on the exterior of the boxes. That disqualifies criddlers, so now my money is on anarchists.
G502 and a pretty large mousepad.
I think you have a massively optimistic idea of the competence of law enforcement.
That's why I'm going with homeless drug addicts or anarchist dipshits, this is definitely not part of some greater plot.
/r/Portland being absolutely 100% convinced it was the proud boys just makes me more sure.
A couple points here:
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There is a significant chance that this was just methheads doing methhead shit and there's no political motivation at all. This is the most likely, imo.
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The next most likely outcome was that this was the local anarchist/black-bloc idiots. So theoretically left aligned, but mostly just retarded agents of chaos. Slightly better organized than the drug-retarded agents of chaos in #1 above, but still not great culture war fodder because basically everyone already hates them.
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There's a slim, slim chance that this was anything more meaningful, but what would the purpose possibly be? The local elections are absolute chaos because the city switched to rank choice voting and expanded from a five person city council to a 12 person city council all in one shot, so there's no clear benefit to burning ballots because nobody has any clue how this is going to shake out. For national elections Oregon is as blue as it gets, so pretty much nothing can move the needle there.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space
It seems you are perhaps some combination of uninformed and unreasonably impatient.
Artemis 3 is due to put people back on the moon next year scratch that, it's a shit show, next couple years.
How much did it cost to put 1 ton of cargo in orbit in 2005 and how much does it cost now?
The US has been building up it's space warfare capabilities significantly for decades, though most of it is heavily classified. There's an entire branch of the US military devoted to space warfare. SpaceX takes military contracts for satellite launches and who knows what else; they effectively are the non-missile orbital launch capacity of the US government.
I think "5.3 million people with an IQ of 180" is also pretty fairly covered under "has never been seen before."
I think if you watched it you would be very pleasantly surprised. I was.
You clearly live in a much nicer area than me; meticulousness is absolutely not part of standard operating procedure at my local grocery stores.
Reality tv is not "real." You are drawing strong, condemnatory conclusions about people in the real world because of the way characters in a TV show behave.
Perhaps you shouldn't be too quick to condemn anyone for ignorance.
If he were savvy, which he seems to be, would you be able to tell the difference?
I think "my child has been murdered and I want all of the cruel, idiotic culture warring about his/her murder to end" is more than sufficient to explain the parents trying to block the release of the manifesto/diary. Perhaps not actually the tactically correct move to achieve that goal, but eminently understandable.
I think that the progressive prosecutors who release violent criminals (a constant problem in the deep blue city i live in; its very common to see news stories about a violent attack by a perpetrator with 10+ arrests for other violent crimes in the last couple of years) would not say that the goal of their policies is increasing violent crime, but that increasing violent crime is an unfortunate but acceptable side effect of their pursuit of criminal justice reform. So deliberate not in the sense of being the primary goal, but deliberate in the sense that they know it will happen and forge ahead anyway.
Very interesting idea. Whats the male version of this "disarmament treaty" you feel we have lost?
The steelman: cars are dangerous heavy machinery and neglect of maintenance causes a significant amount of death and destruction. Public safety is substantially served by requiring cars be kept in good order. Just like how it's reasonable that cars be required to have working head and tail lights, its reasonable to require they have working brakes and suspension, and checking those requires a mechanical inspection.
Incentivizing stable families would make a massive difference, I'd bet.
Most of the dysfunction in this country is due to neglecting very, very basic truths, and the people in charge clearly aren't capable of acknowledging them, let alone dealing with them.
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
Does the vast number of illegally owned machined guns (glocks with "switches", mostly) matter at all here?
This is an excellent and underappreciated point. Oregon legalized cannabis to basically no ill effect whatsoever (actually the worst outcome has been that credit card processors won't do business with pot shops, so the pot shops only deal in cash, so they get robbed a lot). Oregon legalized all drugs and it has been an absolute disaster because "all drugs" included meth and opiates.
Good stuff, thanks.
Can you link to any news or discussion about this?
For god's sake, don't harass away every leftist who comments here, this place could use some more ideological diversity.
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I am opposed to the government funding the practice of religion on the basis of separation of church and state. This seems to obviously violate that. Am I missing anything here?
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