Because when people write manifestos, they are often trying to convince the reader that they are highly intelligent more than they are trying to plainly explain themselves. They are usually a product of mania.

Plenty of job openings with ICE and related gangs, so you would still end up having to deal with them.

Police officers as individuals are generally MAGA. If they were ordered to take up arms against ICE, well more than half would walk off the job by my guess.

Oh, and the mayor would be branded a traitor and be treated accordingly. So Democratic leaders are not exactly lining up around the block to pull that move.

This is probably one of my bad takes, but here goes.

I imagine for some people at least, saying “I’m asexual” is easier than saying “I’ve been subjected to some sort of sexual trauma that makes the idea of being sexually involved with anyone incredibly painful and therefore I have no interest.”

But I guess someone can come to have no sex drive without trauma? But that’s hard for me to wrap my head around too, like someone who doesn’t enjoy food, or music.

“Stumbled across” yeah

Teachers use AI to generate assignments, kids use AI to generate answers, teachers use AI to grade answers.

Yeah, we’re cooked.

These are the Shen Yun people, right?

Yeah. They are far-right creationists and proselytizers. I don’t know to what extent China suppresses them, but I can expect that any unsolicited tale about their plight against the Chinese government is going to be both embellished and straight from the Church’s propaganda arm.

They serve different strategic functions but they are of very similar ideation. That being racist cruelty, and keeping America white.

When asked to respond to Falco’s inflammatory remarks, the church said in a statement that the preacher was “only calling for the death penalty and suicide for the actual sodomites (homosexuals). The Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death. They are supposed to be executed by the government. We are not to take the law into our own hands.”

This is the “reserved” and “compromise” position in their eyes.

Basically every “group plot” I can think of in the last 20 years (regardless of ideology or motive) has been broken up by one or more undercovers or informants before they can do anything.

Maybe his methodology was dumb but reaching out to the ether for partners in crime is dumber.

From what I hear, many of the big “technical schools” are basically worthless as far as preparing you for the work, and they cost as much or more than community college. You’re better off just going into a trade as a complete novice and building up experience that way.

He was still a wealthy prince, no? If he was charming and kind on top of that, I think a lot of women wouldn’t mind, even ones that aren’t furries or monsterfuckers.

If I’ve ever watched the movie I don’t recall it at all, admittedly.

The cost of anything beyond our current small-scale exploratory probing of space has to be astronomical with our current footing. Imagine how much fuel/energy you would need to get industrial mining equipment to the Moon or asteroid belt, extract meaningful amounts of material, pack it up, send it back to Earth orbit, and de-orbit it intact.

Your wife is going to be grabbed out of your home and thrown into an unmarked SUV and you will never see her again. And you’ll let it happen because you would rather be a slave to a regime than confront the fact that you’re wrong.

For those that don’t know, even for basic gun ownership in New Jersey you need to acquire an ownership license, which needs to be signed off by the local police chief (or the State Police chief if your town doesn’t have a police department). Carry permits are a similar, but significantly more stringent process.

In theory, they cannot arbitrarily deny applications and must process them in a timely manner.

In practice, there is a big difference between getting a permit in Clifton and getting a permit in Paterson. Certain municipalities have a tendency to sit on applications for months and then claim they lost the paperwork or something wasn’t right and you have to start from 0 after you raise a stink. It may be racially motivated, it may be anti-gun motivated, maybe a bit of both. Straightening them out usually requires suing them.

Building a paramilitary beholden to Party-aligned officials as a stopgap until the Party seizes total control of the actual military is boilerplate fascism.

EDIT: And when they do seize control the military, it usually doesn’t end well for the paramilitary.

Racists tend to be very unkind to race-mixers and mixed people. They’ll come back later for him and his kids.

I mean this in the most endearing way I can, without a shred of malice.

This is the most autistic thing I’ve read in a hot minute. I can’t help but laugh thinking about the train of thought that led you to post this. Based scalie enjoyer, I guess.

Someone else got it right before me: he doesn’t like the standard “stately” pose in the first one. It makes him look too friendly and weak.

He likes the forward hunch and disdainful glare. It’s sinister. He likes being perceived that way. Many egomaniacal dictators liked being perceived that way.