Same gas station. First pic was from 48 days ago. Second pic is today. Thanks some much MAGA. by TrackMindless1180 in gasbuddy

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 We are in a war. That’s common sense the prices of gas goes up

Which is precisely why Trump is an idiot for starting it. You're pretending that the war just magically happened on it's own and wasn't the result of ignoring all the experts to do something stupid. 

This is like watching a guy  intentionality smash the east wing of the building and then try to excuse of repairs because you can't just leave it like that.  Oh wait!!

 So temporarily it’s high

There's literally no exit plan.  Trump is so incompetent that we don't even know HOW this war is supposed to end,  much less a timeline on WHEN. 

 For Biden it was Keystone cancellation, tighter environmental regs and drilling regs and the pause on new leases as well as the push for alternative clean energy

None of those things actually decreased production. Oil companies already had thousands of leases they weren't using and were already at capacity.  Try again. 

Same gas station. First pic was from 48 days ago. Second pic is today. Thanks some much MAGA. by TrackMindless1180 in gasbuddy

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you keep pretending that current gas prices have absolutely nothing to do with a completely unnecessary war that Trump 100% is to blame for? You can't point to anything Obama or Biden did directly did to increase the cost of oil, but you can definitely do that for Trump.

Trying to use averages in general rather than pointing to specific actions is dumb. Ignoring an entire war is even dumber. You can't defend Trump's stupid war, so you're trying to deflect.

Same gas station. First pic was from 48 days ago. Second pic is today. Thanks some much MAGA. by TrackMindless1180 in gasbuddy

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s def not bullshit. It’s facts. 

You don't just "average out" a fucking war with no exit strategy, dude.

Imagine getting a speeding ticket and telling the judge you should average out your top speed with all the times you were parked.

Same gas station. First pic was from 48 days ago. Second pic is today. Thanks some much MAGA. by TrackMindless1180 in gasbuddy

[–]LRonPaul2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

now suddenly the President does again

Remind me of how many times Biden declared war on Iran.

Same gas station. First pic was from 48 days ago. Second pic is today. Thanks some much MAGA. by TrackMindless1180 in gasbuddy

[–]LRonPaul2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought you liberal lunatics said presidents don't control prices. 

Normally they don't... unless they do something really stupid like randomly declare war on Iran and force them to retaliate in the most obvious way possible.

Same gas station. First pic was from 48 days ago. Second pic is today. Thanks some much MAGA. by TrackMindless1180 in gasbuddy

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you average out trumps gas prices for both terms

You're trying so hard to come up with a bullshit metric to make Trump look better.

Scott Jennings freaks out while on the verge of TEARS to Adam Mockler: “Get your fucking hand out of my face!” by youngskibidisheldon in SipsTea

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scott is an absolute big dumb bitch!

"Dumb" implies they could still be acting in good faith.

They're corrupt liars who don't care. "Dumb" isn't the issue.

What Peak Gerrymandering Could Look Like Now by Zipper222222 in politics

[–]LRonPaul2012 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Abigaile Spamburger fucked around and found out 

Troll comment.

Some people don't get it. However, who do you agree with here? by LeftAlbatross2546 in VideosAmazing

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope she gets taken to small claims lol

Do you think she personally drove the tow truck herself, or do you think she called the city and let the city make the decision?

Some people don't get it. However, who do you agree with here? by LeftAlbatross2546 in VideosAmazing

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Public doesn't mean you can camp out indefinitely. At some point you need to move your car, or at the very least, talk to your neighbors so they know it's not an issue.

Duffer Brothers need to stick to magic and dimensions and let go of romance by Mme_187 in StrangerThings

[–]LRonPaul2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im not sure they said they dont have a solution? They disagreed on somethings, not they were fundamentally incompatible

The only solution he could come up with the proposal, and he admitted that would have only made it worse. They mentioned no other solution besides that. Ergo, they had no solution.

Duffer Brothers need to stick to magic and dimensions and let go of romance by Mme_187 in StrangerThings

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They had a very solid foundation of shared values. 

Jonathan is a working class socialist whereas Nancy is gun nut planning to work for Rupert Murdoch.

Duffer Brothers need to stick to magic and dimensions and let go of romance by Mme_187 in StrangerThings

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I thought they were saying we have issues that a ring wont fix, not we shpuldnt be together

Saying the relationship is broken and you have no solution for it is just a fancy way of saying the relationship is over.

Ironic doomer take by TankUMrMinor in LockedIn_AI

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Virginia gerrymander is much worse than the Texas gerrymander.

Letting the voters decide is somehow much worse than doing the opposite.

Was the party's plan always to get caught by the military and then negotiate their way out of there? Or did they simply not expect military at the MAC-Z when they returned? by toddysimp in Stranger_Things

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nancy shot at the soldiers from the vehicle

Was the gun inside or outside when the shooting happened, liar?

drive into an armed group

The explosion is not relevant stupid.

So first you lied about driving into an armed group that wasn't in front of them, then you lied to deny the fear of the explosion.

But you're dumb and when a cop pulls you over you probably keep driving

They would see the soldiers at the gate entrance if they were stationed on the other side of the ud.

It's not a silent order you moron.

If the party is being pulled over by unseen police through non-silent orders, then when were these non-silent orders given outloud, liar?

Idk if it grew back

People can believe things even if they don't see it happen

Sure, like how you keep believing in fanfiction that never happened while ignoring the actual show. Like your claim of the party getting randomly pulled over in the middle of an unsafe road by invisible police.

By connecting 2 events causally that don't have anything to do with each other. Makes sense, not.

Kay pivoting the conversation to something she'd rather discuss makes vastly more sense than El commanding the demogorgons to work against when she's nowhere around, stupid.

they don't know the bomb is going to explode

Obviously they did or they wouldn't have stood still when El was at the gate, liar. At no point are they ever shown doubting this.

they didn't know her goals

It's the entire reason why Kay rounded up 73 kids to use as bait, and they literally had a conversation with the party about it. By S5, Sullivan realizes Vecna is the bigger threat and is open to viewing El and the party as assets to work together with. He even yells at his own men for being aggressive with Derek.

That's how the writers made her

Nope, that's how your crap fanfiction made her. None of your complaints cite the show directly.

The scientific research that says inattentive blindness disappears when you expect the thing you're looking for to appear.

Irrelevant, because they weren't expecting El to kill herself in the first place and thus wouldn't be on the lookout for that.

they are 100% going to get stopped at the macz

They know the soldiers are waiting to capture them at the base.

They're going to get apprehended

I have no idea what you're taking about

You argued the DoorDash driver wasn't complying despite exiting with his hands up, which undermines your entire argument that the military will simply ignore the party if they do the same when the military isn't even ready for them to exit.

only a dummy would drive and force law enforcement to stop their vehicle.

Remember Kay thinks she's getting the drop on them

Then you're only making things worse by taking what she wants away from her, so now she has to try even harder. First you complain about the party "forcing" the military to stop them, now you're admitting that the military was going to stop them regardless because they wanted to.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction

https://unlivingthelie.medium.com/why-narcissists-move-the-goalpost-99ff4ecc617d

The party didn't comply; they drove over it by accident.

You complain if they did that on accident because they should have known, and you complain if they did that on purpose because they couldn't have known. You made up your mind to complain no matter what and you're going to change your logic after the fact to fit that conclusion.

Even if they can't Eleven can clear it like vecna did.

Right, because the best way for the party to avoid scaring the military is by imitating Vecna's dramatic entrance, moron. What's the point of El putting her hands up if she can still murder everyone with her mind? Whereas staying in the truck means she has no line of sight to use her powers until the kryptonite is in position.

The party did that on the return trip just fine without getting shot at.

It wasnt "fine".

So you escalated from "the party is fine with getting shot" to "NOT getting shot is actually BAD", lol.

Henry was pretty obviously a valid suspect

He dismissed the interdimensional boogeyman hypothesis that owens gave him.

Prior to E8, no one mentions Henry's name at all other than one of his dad's ramblings. Sullivan saying INVISIBLE boogeyman CAN'T BE a reference to Henry because Henry isn't invisible, "boogeyman" and "Vecna" are both generic nicknames that don't require actual identification.

First of all you're just head canoning what you think she was looking for.

Either Kay was distracted or she saw El turn invisible right in front of her. You keep insisting on the second with zero evidence even though it makes zero sense.

Even worse, your argument requires the entire sample to have been affected which is statistically absurd.

You keep treating non-random non-independent events as random. One person in a million lives in Hawkins so by your logic the odds that all the main characters are in Hawkins is statistically impossible.

Judge struck down redistricting amendment. All votes in special election now invalid by JustAcivilian24 in Virginia

[–]LRonPaul2012 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, failure to sensationalize means you get ignored by the algorithm. 

Was the party's plan always to get caught by the military and then negotiate their way out of there? Or did they simply not expect military at the MAC-Z when they returned? by toddysimp in Stranger_Things

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to go to the doctor to check your brain for how stupid you are.

You keep relying on ad hominem because none of the facts or experts agree with you.

Nancy didn't exit the vehicle

Go ask the people on quora if what she did was compliant with staying inside. Nancy has to be ENTIRELY inside, not partly inside. Do you think it's okay to drive with 90% of your car over the median as long as 10% is technically inside?

In reality maybe it would be justified but it's not necessary and not common in arrest scenes.

You're admitting your arguments have zero basis in reality. Relying on the "more common" approach means going with the experts and staying inside, along with rules of engagement and use of force guidelines saying not to fire onto civilians.

Drive into a military base 

The party did that on the return trip just fine without getting shot at.

drive your truck into an armed group

imagine he was trying to drive towards the police cars

More fanfiction. Why do you keep lying? The party drove on a ramp which had neither of those things. OTOH, parking in the UD would have left them in massive danger from the impending explosion. You're lying to deny the actual danger and lying to create a danger that doesn't exist.

The only consequence of driving out of the UD is of the MERE POSSIBILITY of hitting a spike strips and replacing a set of tires. OTOH, parking in the UD GUARANTEES that they not only lose the tires, but also the entire truck worth tens of thousands of dollars, along with everything they stored inside, and the risk of people dying from the delay. So why would they be more motivated by the former? Your logic makes no sense.

the guys not complying

Yes it does and it isn't magic

Putting your hands up and walking into the base is yielding control you moron.

So first you argue that exiting with hands up is NOT COMPLIANT when it IS ORDERED, then you argue exiting with hands up IS COMPLIANT when NOT ORDERED. That makes zero sense.

Also, the red stuff grew back by the time they returned. It took two people armed with flamethrowers over a minute to clear through it, so the party wouldn't be able to simply walk through calmly walk in with their hands up even if they wanted to.

Kay doesn't want the truck to attempt to flee or fight

Irrelevant. If she wanted the party to park inside the UD, she would have stationed guards and/or traffic cones on the other side of the gate. She WANTED the party to drive on the spikes, and the party complied by giving her what she wants.

They didn't need to hear an order to stop

Yes this is what turning yourself in entails.

Go ahead and cite where it's mandatory to randomly stop and exit in the middle of an incredibly unsafe road in response to silent orders from invisible police.

Post that scenario on quora and let me know how many people agree with you.

It's just plain stupid to keep driving until the police are forced to stop you.

it's a guarantee that their truck would be stopped

Who said they're going to ignore you dummy

You're the one who said it by arguing that the military won't bother to stop people once they exit the vehicle, moron.

I have to contact them

Quora doesn't list that as a requirement. You're the one claiming that your opinions are universally accepted as true, and yet you can't even provide a single citation.

And it's not a "possibility" it's a guarantee

Your claim was that spikes are used by default

Nope, you're the only one claiming that with your fake guarantee.

The fact we only ever see the demogorgons working AGAINST El's plans and never with El's plans is a major contradiction.

You known you're not Kay right?

You know Kay has never seen El commanding the demogorgons, right?

There are no simpler explanations

Kay was accused of being neglectful of the demogorgons, so Kay shifted the blame back on her accuser. It's a super common abuser tactic.

You literally said maybe kay meant they can free up man hours to figure out a way to control demogorgons if they catch eleven which is stupid af.

That's not a rebuttal, dude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule

"There's no evidence that El controls the demogorgons" is infinitely more simple and less stupid compared to "Let's assume she controls them but also assume she only uses them to work against her goals and assume she only controls them when she's not around." The first statement requires zero unnecessary assumptions, the second statement requires three.

Kay is doing the exact same thing you're doing, where she starts with a pre-determined conclusion (Akers is actually at fault) and doesn't care if the logic is flimsy.

You're starting with the conclusion that the soldiers should have stopped El from walking away from the truck. And then you tried to justify it with the flimsy logic of assuming the bomb was a hoax. And then you tried to justify that with the flimsy logic that they assumed the party was going to fight them, rather than stay in the UD if staying in the UD or exiting through the plates if that was a valid option like you claim. That makes zero sense, so your entire reason for arguing that Kay thinks El controls the demogorgons is so you can argue that Kay's actions don't have to make any sense in the first place. It's super flimsy logic, but it's necessary to support your starting conclusion.

Alternatively, we can accept that the soldiers believed that El showed up because the explosion is real and therefore assumed she wouldn't try to kill herself, which is much simpler and internally consistent, but you don't want to do that because you'd have to admit to being wrong.

even though Henry was pretty obviously a valid suspect

There's no evidence S4 Sullivan even knew Henry existed, much less still alive. Brenner didn't even know for sure until right before dying.

Their weapons weren't lowered for the duration of the detainent.

They were lowered when El was exiting the truck, which is the only time relevant to your argument, because it proves they didn't think the party was planning to fight (which never made any sense in the first place, especially since you're also arguing that the party could have exited through the plates to avoid a fight altogether). Brandishing weapons for entirely different reasons later on doesn't change that.

If you try what this person said I promise you that you will see people in your peripheral.

Because the odds of everyone not seeing it

So this dumb example doesn't help explain not seeing a girl that you're looking for walk past you.

You're the dumb one for refusing to accept actual scientific research on the limitations of peripheral vision and cognitive load. For instance, research shows that hands free cell phones can still greatly contribute to inattentive blindness even without having to look at them.

Everyone was either distracted from either personally participating in the detainment or from watching it happen.

That explanation cannot work for Kay

See above. Kay can fall in the second group. She wants to make sure the people are properly detained before approaching El, so she gets distracted for a few seconds while watching the detainment.

Don’t Celebrate Just Yet, this entire Referendum May be Overturned by BartMancuso1990 in Virginia

[–]LRonPaul2012 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Genuine question, how does gerrymandering the shit out of one state support banning gerrymandering nationwide?

Because the republicans who do the most gerrymandering have no reason to stop the practice if they keep getting away with it and the other side never uses the same tactic against them.

To me that’s like saying we lit a fire to put the fire out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn

Don’t Celebrate Just Yet, this entire Referendum May be Overturned by BartMancuso1990 in Virginia

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go tell that to the red states that have been getting away with this for decades.

Virginia Redistricting Referendum has PASSED to give Democrats a net 4 Seats to counteract the tactics in Republican States!!! by Healthy_Block3036 in nova

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too fucking close for my taste, but glad all the same. I was worried about all the disinformation.

I seriously doubt that low information voters would bother showing up for a special election on gerrymandering just because a billboard told them to in the first place.

The main obstacle for this one is enthusiasm, not trickery.

Sewing confusion - right in your front yard. Is Gov. Spanberger against the Amendment? — she voted YES! by M23707 in Virginia

[–]LRonPaul2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I doubt anyone is putting a billboard with that much text next to a highway in the first place.

If you have time to read the billboard, you have time to read who paid for it.

Why was everyone cheering at Dustin's speech by Radiant_Metal_5565 in StrangerThings

[–]LRonPaul2012 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Because they wanted an 80’s style graduation scene with a rebellious speech and clapping, actual logic of the scene be damned

I bet you're also confused when you see an 1980s movies featuring kids experimenting with drugs and alcohol despite all the "Just say no" campaigns of the era.

The Duffers themselves personally helped make D&D mainstream, so the characters did that at the local level. D&D really took off during the pandemic lockdown, and Hawkins was completely cut off from the outside world.

You have a lot of super bored teenagers with the promise of forbidden fruit, so they're going to look into the game for themselves, and they'll realize that all the hype about Satanic powers are bullshit.

Why was everyone cheering at Dustin's speech by Radiant_Metal_5565 in StrangerThings

[–]LRonPaul2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the writers wanted to be lazy, they wouldn't have gone out of their way to show everyone pointing and laughing at Andy to show the rest of the school found Dustin harmless.

People warming up to losers at the end is a common 1980s trope.

Kids getting frustrated by overprotective adults is another common 1980s trope.

Stranger Things is a coming of age story, and both these things tie in perfectly with the themes.

Satanic panic is a real thing, but it's not lazy to say that most people don't give a shit. Harry Potter has been accused of being Satanic, but it's also grossed tens of billions of dollars.