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5·2 months agoIt happened in a federal courthouse.
Private security wouldn’t be allowed firearms, and cops aren’t about to fire on feds. He was there to try to protect immigrants.
This is literally a Democrat personally escorting immigrants in and out of immigration court and being unlawfully arrested for the “crime” of demanding to see a warrant from ICE thugs. I get it, but this kneejerk is so unproductive.
Don’t worry, actual vikings within one generation of the fjords get a pass for being fans.
Same with Italians and being fans of (ancient) Rome.
Not Germans, though. Sorry Germans. You know how it is.
4·2 months agoWe can compromise - 95. That seems like a good number if you really want to proof things right. You want at least 95.
1·2 months agoThank you!
3·2 months agoThe American experiment isn’t done, because a complete rebuild was always going to be necessary.
The founders themselves saw the flaws, and fought tooth and nail over the “right” ways to fix them, but eventually compromised on short-term solutions that they knew would eventually fail. They themselves were just as flawed, but they were still radical.
Their constitution and government was nothing more than a model for future generations, a design for an experiment that was ongoing. It never should have been a long-lived foundation which would undergo centuries of institutional rot, let alone deified into the false idol that it is today.
No matter what they built, it was unfortunately always up to the next generations to rebuild it and figure things out for themselves. You can’t build a system - any system - that someone else can’t break down after you leave.
Jefferson - The Earth belongs always to the living generation. Any law or constitution expires, and if it is enforced longer than a generation, it is 'an act of force.' (paraphrased)
We seem not to have perceived that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independant nation to another…
On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation…
Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19. years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right.
Washington - But the Constitution which at any time exists, ’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government.
All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are distructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force—to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Madison - A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.
The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people…
Franklin - “[the constitution founded] a Republic, if you can keep it.”
The truth is they didn’t keep it. We don’t have a democracy, or any system of self-rule. The first trial failed. But the experiment isn’t over. As long as people are willing to overthrow tyrants and rebuild something better, then the experiment can continue.
“So, like, you can just conjure up a gun out of a brick?”
“It’s more complicated than that! You have to do a bunch of math and science and draw a circle and stuff”
“Okay, sure… but then you can just create a gun. Or you can science water into wine. Or any dirty liquid into clean water. Or medicine? You can turn dust into medicine. Using nothing but your brain and a stick of chalk.”
“Well, yes! Isn’t it cool!”
“And what did you say your title was, again?”
“The big fucking gun alchemist, why?”
1·2 months agoA small, bloodstained journal.
"Duke says he heard a rumor there’s a group in town with enough gold to see us all the way to the Sword Coast and then some. Party of adventurers sitting pretty on loot from a goblin camp. Spent all night drinkin’ and celebrating, says they’ll be easy pickings.
Duke sent word to Artur, but he’s worried it’s too big for us. He said he needed a cleric, told us not to make a move until he got here, but Dutch says this is our only chance. They’ll be in the city by tomorrow, safe behind the walls and guards."
“He says this is the last job. I’ve heard that before… but we’re struggling out here. I don’t know how much longer we can last like this. Something’s got to give. One more winter, one more orc raid, and we’re finished.”
“If you’re reading this, I’m sorry Artur. I don’t know where Jarn and his family went, but you find them. Keep them safe. If you ever manage to reach the loot we stashed in Waterdeep, you make sure to use it on living softly, instead of dying rough.”
19·2 months agoHer guy friends are only friends with her because they want to fuck her.
It’s not misogyny to think other men would try to fuck your girlfriend.
Even if you can be correct in a given individual assessment within the context of your own life, you made a broad, unconditional statement where you intrinsically assumed the guy you’ve never met is correct in his assumptions about multiple friendships you have no knowledge of.
It’s not mysogyny to be wary of the intentions of other men. It’s mysogyny to assume all intergender friendships are exclusively sexual. For all you know, the boyfriend in the OP is just deeply insecure.
Edit - besides, it really doesn’t matter what other men “would try,” unless you have reason to believe the person in question is dangerous and will act without consent. If you think she will cheat on you, that’s an issue with your relationship, not her friendships with others.
Her guy friends are only friends with her because they want to fuck her.
That’s not nuance, that’s literally the toxic masculinity the post is talking about.
Anyone can be friends. Assuming anything less is unnecessarily divisive.
The assumption the boyfriend is making - the same assumption you’re making - is just mysogyny.
8·2 months agohave not adequately explained why at this point they still face an imminent danger of irreparable harm.
I’m not sure if he meant it like this, but it sounds like “everyone got pardoned by the guy who started the coup, I don’t understand what you’re worried about at this point”
When the offending officer is the Commander-in-Chief, standard procedure breaks down. If the orders come down for Marines et al to march on U.S. soil, the unconstitutional order has gone from the very top to the very bottom. Disobedience can surely lead to Leavenworth as easily as going AWOL.
That being said, don’t obey, don’t quit, don’t go quietly either. If you have sworn an oath to support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, keep that oath above all else.
Almost all game-slowing doors are just hidden loading screen baked into the gameplay.
Ah yes, people are the problem, but you’re not people. You’re better than that.
1·2 months agoThe patriarchy is “some men.” The term is literally describing what you want. The subset of men who are in power.
You are not the patriarchy. You should be fighting the patriarchy.
How would I react if you described the matriarchy? What matriarchy? What world do you live in that there is a social heirarchy dominated by women in power?
Please answer the question about white moderates. Was it wrong to refer to them as white? Was that “toxic”?
7·2 months agoI mean, in both cases it’s because the LLM and interpreter do things you wouldn’t expect.
Nah, time heals all wounds… as long as they have time to heal.
This self-loathing bullshit is way too common.
People aren’t the problem, the average person is average, the system is what drives down the average mental and emotional intelligence instead of up, and humanity is filled with plenty of people like Mr. Rogers, Bob Ross, and Harriet Tubman.
“People” are okay. They’re just suffering under the boots of a small group of people who are not.
Neither. You are the table. It’s a mimic!