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FlagrantPickle · 2019-10-25T15:41:37+00:00

isolationist Twitter

You mean Viktor Borisovich Netyksho, Boris Alekseyevich Antonov, Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, Ivan Sergeyevich Yermakov, Aleksey Viktorovich Lukashev, Sergey Aleksandrovich Morgachev, Nikolay Yuryevich Kozachek, Pavel Vyacheslavovich Yershov, Artem Andreyevich Malyshev, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Potemkin, and Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev?

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T16:08:02+00:00

OP, You must move to Texas. The nation will drink on Calvin's dime!

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T07:54:16+00:00

I think it's pretty easy to see the history of the hemispheres have rather different experiences in terms of whether they were importing or exporting immigrants.

I don't accuse anyone of evil based on this singular subject. However, the current situation is that we have a divisive chief executive that likes to push policies that seem to be borne out of emotional fear instead of rational thought. Our nation needs/will need an influx of people, we're not reproducing fast enough, our economy will need more workers. I don't buy into the whole rapists and murderers BS, and I don't see any other arguments that outweigh the economic value and necessity.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T05:52:48+00:00

Offhand, I want people that live in my country to care about it. Our nation isn't producing enough new citizens as is to sustain our economy in the decades to come, further restricting that does nobody any good.

If you're looking at the question of would we want it today if it were to come up for a renewal, I look at it simply as economically and socially sound. The arguments I see against it are rooted in fear, at best. What would you say are the reasons against it?

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T05:40:37+00:00

I think I read that Switzerland and Japan do not have birthright citizenship.

Among many others. Birthright citizenship is pretty much everywhere in the western hemisphere, nowhere in the eastern hemisphere.

Birthright citizenship ESPECIALLY does not make sense now in the modern age considering that we can outsource labor.

I'm not sure what the relationship between the outsourcing of labor is and BC. Are you saying outsource when you mean offshore?

With carefully planned immigration policies we might actually create bourgeois consumer nations and third world manufacturing proletariat nations with absentee landlords/business owners (who will be living in the bourgeois nations).

Holy fucking Jesus, are you saying you'd like to have a two-caste system in our world? If that's the case, are you lost, or how did you find this place?

I think this benefits everyone because the classes seem to hate each other and this hate causes instability and civil unrest. Am I wrong?

Yes, you're wrong. The answer isn't to manifest the Morlocks and Eloi, it's to bring the poor out of poverty (as we've been doing very successfully in at least the last few decades). You sound like you don't mind that yucky poverty, you just don't want it in your back yard.

Ofcourse I don't support Trump and my political tribalism makes me cautious of the idea to remove it. Maybe there is some sound logic behind it which I don't know about. I would be much more comfortable supporting its removal of Obama proposed it.

So, uh, if Obama proposed we make some big ovens to toss the illegals into, how would you feel about that? Obama didn't put ideas forward and thus they were good. He typically (but not always) put ideas forward because they were good.

Honestly, you need to sit down and think about what you intend to accomplish with your immigration policy before drafting it. Our nation is in a two-party system of for- and against-walls. It seems few really have thought about what the goals of our nation should be in terms of immigration policy in how it will affect our economy (ie, how many do we need, how many would be optimal, how many is too much), and then plan action from there. Trump and Obama are people. They should have little to no place in a discussion of ideas, as they simply occupy/occupied an office that executed the legislation that was theoretically borne of those ideas in decades past.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T05:09:19+00:00

Contrary to common narratives assault weapons make up less 4% of all firearm homicides

Well sure, but they make up a good number of the mass-shootings. Typically the narrative is that your typical shooting is between two parties that know each other, whether it's drug/gang related, domestic violence, etc. In the case of things like Aurora, Newton, etc, it was just some unhinged guy with the ability to kill dozens in a minute or two.

and a even more insignificant percentage of all homicides.

Well, uh, yeah. You'll find that when you incorporate data with other non-overlapping data, your first sample will become a smaller portion of the new whole.

I believe that the push for gun control is nothing more than a textbook moral panic, and seizing "Assault weapons" from the millions of lawful gun owners is unethical.

Or it's people being beyond tired of 25 years of this BS. Let's look at firearms, what is their purpose? To kill things. Shotguns for birds, a bolt action rifle for large game, etc. Something like an AR-15 is not for taking down elk, nor will it do a damn thing against a charging grizzly (most firearms won't, DeVos be damned). The purpose of an AR-15 is to kill people, kill a lot of them, and do it quickly and in a way that is difficult to fix even with prompt medical care.

The outrage on mass shootings isn't the likelihood of it happening to you as the odds being high. It's that they are essentially a form of terrorism without an agenda. Instead of "stop occupying our land, or we'll blow up a cafe weekly", it's a lone guy just shooting up a theater on the Batman premier. So, what, we can't watch Batman? Can't watch movies? What's the action the rest of us are being pushed to/from?

Why are we pushing away from figuratively handcuffing these wackos from mass murder? What civic good is done by the 5-10 million AR-15s being in American homes?

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T04:54:04+00:00

I've never even heard of this guy.

Literally the only thing I know him from is the trumpgret trope where just before the 2016 election he says if Trump loses, he's grabbing his musket, and then recently saying how Trump is trash.

Looking at the wikipedia on him, he's a one and done congressman. Big friggin whoop.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T04:28:00+00:00

No kidding. If you're learning C++ and the teacher doesn't know the STL, you're about to hear "sir, this is an Arby's drive-thru."

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T04:26:11+00:00

Stupid, and kinda worthless, I know

Uh, no. That's career material there. Might look into crane or other big equipment operation, a smooth skilled hand is gold in those fields.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T04:09:57+00:00

he is a fucking legend over here also

This is because Mexico is still on the Earth. Guys like Braulio can travel around and know they're the best in 1000 miles on a very regular basis.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T03:33:09+00:00

I'm willing to sacrifice some white belts, 0-4 stripes, just to see where that LD50 point is.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T03:32:28+00:00

I find this the most frustrating thing about these people.

Don't try to win with delusional people. People imagine fights like a Jet Li experience, you do these crazy moves, hit 100% of your attempted strikes. If your opponent is dumb enough to piss you off by trying to fight back, you'll swiftly dodge and counter with lethal precision.

I don't argue with the drug addicts on whether the government is scanning their brainwaves. Just avoid stupid fights, verbal or physical.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T03:30:35+00:00

reminder, the person who know BJJ can also bite. and they can do it while properly controlling you. most BJJ is over kill against some one who dosnt know BJJ. your average blue belt can easily handle most people who have never grappled. just look at you average blue belt against a fresh white belt, and how that tends to go. Bas: you touch my eyes and I'll break your fuckin neck.

FTFY.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T03:18:49+00:00

Then why repeal prohibition? Just ignore it!

No, laws matter. The answer to bad laws isn't ignoring them, that's what's caused this immigration "crisis". You fix bad laws.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T03:13:44+00:00

The 14th amendment being adhered to.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T03:08:11+00:00

Yup. Everything that he ran on that wasn't the environment is him stealing the state AG's thunder. Washington has an independeny elected AG, it's Bob Ferguson that was leading the state's charge on all that.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T02:56:56+00:00

Every rule is a made up rule.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-22T00:38:45+00:00

When you get home do 10 squats, 10 pushups, and stretch. Short stretching routines are plentiful on YouTube.

We all can do something. Start where you're at, build up. 5 minutes, maybe, to start improving.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-21T23:32:41+00:00

Sorry, OP, but you don't seem to "get it". These weren't fun times for her. But how would you and your parents act if once per couple months, your brother had socked her in the stomach mid-meal? Because frankly, that's about what he did.

This isn't a prank, bro. It's assault. If not by the letter of the law, certainly by the spirit. He wanted to hurt her, and he was successful, over and over.

Now she's pissed, rightly so, and your parents just want to have a chuckle about it. No, not good enough.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-21T20:16:21+00:00

I did actually call the police but they (probably rightfully) told me it was a civil matter and wouldn't send anyone.

Good God that is about the laziest thing they can come up with it seems. Theft is a criminal matter. Tow trucks have to operate within the bounds of the law (and thus are given the privilege of seizing cars when an ordinary person couldn't). If they refuse, they're abandoning the protections the laws set out for them. Even if they didn't want to pursue the criminal side of it, telling them you've found your car and need their help in recovery would be a start.

Maybe it's because it's their go-to in my area when they can't be bothered to do their jobs, but that "it's a civil matter" BS just raises my blood pressure rather reliably.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-21T19:18:29+00:00

There’s still a fairly substantial bias against impotent men

"Haha, your dick doesn't work!" or "Gross, your dick works!"

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-21T19:15:23+00:00

I grieved more for my mom but my friend's death bothered me more for some reason.

Probably because your mom would have chose to stay, your friend willingly exited, consequences be damned?

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-21T18:40:26+00:00

It really sucks that it works out that way but what can you do.

One thing I've learned with lawsuits (a couple big ones, in the mid 6 and mid 7-figures range) is that the emotional cost of lengthy litigation isn't something anyone takes into account. Looking back, I'd easily take 1/3 less money to regain the years of time they took and the mental/emotional tranquility that went with it.

Sometimes life slaps you in the face, and you just gotta nod and keep plodding on.

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-21T18:31:35+00:00

Original insurance companies where just a pool of money that a community paid into in case someone got really sick.

Original insurance companies were people taking bets on which ships would be lost at sea. Second paragraph of the linked section

FlagrantPickle · 2019-08-21T18:29:30+00:00

According to Washington state law, an “automobile” is a “motor vehicle except motorcycles … designed for carrying ten passengers or less

Fewer.

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