Well there’s plenty more out there to be found if you’re looking for a new hobby

If the beliefs held up to scrutiny they wouldn’t be associated with the modern Republican party

I think the hard way sounds like a fun time

We can set our own precedents just like we had to with company towns in the 1800s. I heard about a man named Luigi who supposedly created a similar precedent in the modern era.

Yeah if reading something is too high of a bar for the average person to clear then I will happily admit that my expectations of humanity are too high.

Oh fuck that, quit letting idiots off the hook for being idiots. There was, and still is, an absurd amount of information readily available about how shitty Trump is. If the people you’re talking about cared at all they could have found it easily, but they didn’t. That’s not anyone else’s fault but theirs.

No single issue has had a more significant impact on my perception of humanity than the popularity of Donald Trump.

Horseshoes aren’t circles. The left and right sides are disconnected except for the one path between them, which to me would imply that one must abandon one side to reach the other. In other words, that theory sounds dumb, or alternatively, only sounds smart if you don’t think about it much.

Good, get the fuck out of government you ineffectual chodes

Yeah that’s what I meant by “people who use it more probably think it has a better layout”. I’ve tried to use it in the fashion it was designed on a couple of occasions but the version control / repository categorization functions didn’t make sense to me. I assume it would if I did those things more but I also think it’s laid out differently than I would like even for those purposes.

Hey now, logic has no place here. You’re also forgetting the foundational principle of our criminal justice system. It’s not illegal if you have money and your motivation was greed.

I enjoyed the show as well but like I said I like Seth Rogen and that’s the primary factor imo.

It depends on if you like Seth Rogen or not. He’s definitely got a style and if you enjoy it you will like the show but if you don’t then I don’t think there’s enough there to overcome that.

I’m with you on github for sure. I assume people who use it regularly think it has a decent layout but to me it seems so random and disjointed that I can’t imagine how that’s possible.

People have always been this dumb as a whole. We’re apes who decided talking shit to each other is better than throwing shit at each other. If a few dozen of us hadn’t gotten lucky enough to figure out some amazing things over the centuries we’d all still be praying to the god of the hunt to bring back the buffalo herd next season so we don’t starve to death.

I think the current moral question society is wrestling with is along those lines. Something to the effect of, how removed from the outcome of a decision does one need to be in order to absolve themselves of responsibility for that outcome? Essentially, why is it OK for a CEO or a President to cause thousands of deaths by signing a piece of paper but not OK for that same person to go out and shoot those thousand people one at a time? The outcome is the same there’s just more obfuscation along the way in the first case. The greed motivation seems to be the difference. The CEO isn’t usually killing people because he wants them dead, he’s doing it because he views them as acceptable casualties in his quest to make money.

Charlie Kirk is a great example of that phenomenon as well. He may not have directly shot anybody but he undoubtedly influenced people towards doing exactly that. To what degree should he bear the blame for their actions? He certainly didn’t do it in complete ignorance of the possibility that people could die but does the separation from the actual crime make his actions morally acceptable? Does it make any difference if his motivations were money and power as opposed to bigotry and hatred?

You don’t remember the United Healthcare shooter getting away? I think you’re just really overestimating how hard it is to kill someone and get away from the scene immediately afterwards. Now, not getting caught later is harder to do but it’s not like action movies where you have to fight your way past 100 guards to escape. You just run away from the location with everyone else who’s running from the gunshots.

I don’t know that I believe the whole thing was a conspiracy. It’s theoretically possible but so are a lot of really unlikely things. I just think the fact that the shooter got away doesn’t say as much as you think it does.

It’s only a matter of time until someone on the left does actually do something like this though. They will disingenuously seize on that opportunity to further their agenda as they always do. The kid who punches his bully gets suspended while the bully laughs and continues to terrorize others.

That being said, we already know that being in agreement with reality is not a requirement for Republicans to believe something. Facts don’t matter to them so don’t bother making factual appeals to them. Their goal is control and they will use any and all means at their disposal to achieve it, regardless of truth. Fight their control, not their arguments.

I mean, it’s pretty obviously political. We may not know the exact motives but the victim and timing make it clear that politics is involved in one way or another.

The 2A was quite literally written to be a failsafe against a federal government like we have now. Of course it comes with additional societal drawbacks that we’ve essentially focused exclusively on for decades, for mostly good reasons. However, you can be assured that they’ll think twice about oppressing minority groups if those people are armed and demonstrate a willingness to defend themselves. It’s not a magic bullet (lol) but at the end of the day I’d rather go out fighting the fascists than hoping to hide from them while they escalate their violence against my fellow citizens.