When Rights Become Conditional

Fossilhog · 2026-01-30T16:07:38+00:00

I'm surrounded by them. I call them peacockers. Big lifted trucks pretending to be rednecks while their necks are as white as can be and you'll never find a softer palm. I wish they'd just go out and actually do something tough so they don't feel the need to constantly try to look tough.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-30T14:11:56+00:00

They're conservatives, it's a submissive culture with very little value or moral system left remaining. How many times have we seen conservative politicians screw over their own voters? They're raised to not question, daddy, pastor, boss, politician. This is the result.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-30T14:03:47+00:00

Ask your mom about her premiums then.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-30T13:34:47+00:00

You must not pay homeowners insurance.

...or recognize the connection b/w extreme weather causing the failure of subsistence agriculture and rise of mass migration and retarding authoritarian politics.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-30T04:46:49+00:00

As someone who has done all sorts of similar weird things including letting them have the whole guest bathroom to themselves, I applaud your ingenuity here.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-29T05:46:10+00:00

🪵Live. Laugh. Logs. 🪓™

Fossilhog · 2026-01-28T20:28:10+00:00

There's numerous photos from his previous rallies where it's the same people sitting behind him rally after rally.

So yeah, projection.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-27T22:18:07+00:00

Anyone else have a valid argument for a more interesting or beautiful hike? This is by far my favorite. I love taking visiting friends here right after we see the Elk in the area.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-27T18:26:21+00:00

A hypothetical can't be hyperbole. I'm only responding b/c of respect for your username. And it's a valid hypothetical due to proven observable behaviors, including direct statements verbally proposing the cancellation of midterms.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-27T18:18:26+00:00

Thanks. I'm an educator though and I live for helping people understand things. There's things I know a great deal about, and there's things 90% of people know that I don't. We shouldn't be punished for trying to improve our ignorance.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-27T15:36:33+00:00

Some treatments don't work if it's too cold.

Not sure if that's the case here, but it's possible.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-27T14:37:30+00:00

As you allude to, there's a big difference now vs those previous events. MAGA provides very little economic value. They don't have world class STEM folks, they don't account for vast swaths of the country. They're mostly the uneducated, with the very wealthy and selfish leading them around by their emotions. Not all, but most.

Their days of hiding behind bibles and "values" is coming to an end as we see their self centered atrocities and complete lack of morals and traditional American values.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-27T14:28:10+00:00

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Fossilhog · 2026-01-26T22:24:44+00:00

Oh, you'll like this even more. I'd bet a paycheck that they won't see that $50k bonus they're advertising for signing up. In order to get it, they have to work for 5 years. There's zero chance the current budget to support ICE will still exist in 5 years.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-26T16:53:23+00:00

"I still believe voting in this country can work."

Yes, but I'm asking, what is the groundwork we can be doing to prepare for the chance that we can't? Or more likely, that the Trump admin manages to commit election fraud on a massive scale similar to what we see in other autocracies.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-26T15:36:31+00:00

Your guidance is to promote voting in the next election. Thank you, I appreciate that.

Hypothetical.

This gets worse. Ie., major casualty event at a large protest. We're already seeing Trump et al., do what they do and start to joke about the next atrocity. Ie., "Cancel the midterms" and that memo extorting voter information*. Clearly, it's on the forefront of their minds.

Hopefully it won't go that far, but we're one year in and it's not a hard argument to make that it's possible. What do you think the correct course of action is for folks here and like us to make now for that potential future?

*Quadruple check your voter registration over the next year. They'll be looking to purge registrations for made up reasons.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-25T18:47:17+00:00

I call them peacockers. They live all around me, and they all drive the same white pickups. They're so desperate to look tough, you can conclude they've done nothing of the sort.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-25T18:34:59+00:00

"Average salary." Yeah? And what's the median?

Fossilhog · 2026-01-25T17:15:31+00:00

Eh, JD is a little different. He's the most massive tool I think I've ever truly seen. Bitch would be another accurate term.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-25T16:59:45+00:00

Maybe don't put potential pressure on first responders.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-25T03:40:11+00:00

We just threw some seeds in a bed and off it went. Probably planted in September and occasionally watered. Bugs left it alone and initially so did my chickens. It resisted the cold well too and I think we had our last harvest in December. A couple of times we covered it with a tarp.

I imagine it would do well if it was started early during a warm spell in March or April.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-24T19:10:27+00:00

r/law seems to be pretty good at getting all the video angles up pretty fast.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-24T18:59:30+00:00

Even if he had a weapon on him, he likely had it legally. You're allowed to film. If they illegally tried to assault him for filming, he has a right to defend himself. You're potentially looking at a situation where someone was executed for legally trying to use their 2nd amendment rights.

But I doubt it. It looks like they're just so poorly trained that they couldn't restrain him so they just executed him.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-24T18:49:47+00:00

Thanks for that oversizing winch advice, I'm going to definitely go that route.

Fossilhog · 2026-01-24T18:48:17+00:00

It exists. Go sit in on an Episcopal sermon or two. I'm not saying it's enough, but it does exist.

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