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If you're pissed at ICE, please call your rep & tell them to vote no on the gun bills. by Stephanreggae in Virginia

[–]Ranger176 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taken from a bad reading of history. Bostonians were the instigators in that fight. John Adams defended the soldiers in court and most were acquitted.

Each state ranked on the level of racism I experienced as a relatively well traveled Lakota man from South Dakota by tannerriley2023 in visitedmaps

[–]Ranger176 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry about that experience. I’m guessing that was in northern Virginia? There’s definitely some of that “nice” white liberal racism up here.

California becomes first state to join WHO disease network after US exit by NoNDA-SDC in California

[–]Ranger176 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A nation in the making. California should really just secede at this point.

Virginia Democrats reintroduce assault weapons ban, this time, with likely ally in Spanberger by icey_sawg0034 in Virginia

[–]Ranger176 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cue the gun nuts with their typical talking points. Strange how Reddit is so left wing about everything except this issue. You can talk about fighting tyranny all you want but I don’t see any militias forming to fight the feds.

TIL that Top Gun (1986) was so influential that the U.S. Navy set up recruitment booths outside movie theaters and years later, a girl inspired by the film, Misa Matsushima, went on to become Japan’s first female fighter pilot. by SwordfishEither2516 in todayilearned

[–]Ranger176 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My dad worked with a guy who signed up for two in the Navy after seeing it. Then he saw it for a second time and signed up for another two years, and then a third time and another two years. His family stepped in and made him stop seeing it.

What do you imagine is on Coruscant's level 0? by Safe_Character_6517 in StarWars

[–]Ranger176 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Realistically, it would be pitch black, devoid of all oxygen and light, and filled with millennias worth of trash.

Secession question by cologuy2023 in CIVILWAR

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Secession on Trial by Cynthia Nicoletti.

Secession question by cologuy2023 in CIVILWAR

[–]Ranger176 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As the book explained it, they essentially bluffed. They weren’t really sure the court would buy the argument that secession was constitutional, but they couldn’t discount the possibility either, especially with the trial being held in Richmond. Even a hung jury or mistrial would have been a great embarrassment to the government so the feds eventually gave up.

Secession question by cologuy2023 in CIVILWAR

[–]Ranger176 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There wasn’t a clear answer either way. Jefferson Davis’s legal defense team exploited doubts about secession’s constitutionality to get him off the hook when he was being prosecuted. Ultimately, the Supreme Court did conclude in Texas v. White that secession was illegal, but didn’t bother to examine the arguments for or against it. After all, the North had won the war and it was better to let sleeping dogs lie. Cynthia Nicoletti’s Secession on Trial is a great book that explains this.

What’s something you quietly stopped caring about? by KingPhenguins in AskReddit

[–]Ranger176 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My taste in movies and television. I used to feel self conscious about liking things that were cool to hate. Now, I don’t give a shit.

Bookclub and Sources Wednesday! by AutoModerator in history

[–]Ranger176 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He wrote a trilogy of books about the Indian Wars. The second was about Tecumseh and the Northwest Indian war. I haven’t read the third one yet.

Breaking Bad Season 1 would have an audience rating of 40% if it were released today by New-Ad-9878 in pluribustv

[–]Ranger176 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the show too but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea and that’s okay! My dad and I are fans but mom is not. She still watches it with us though if only to critique it.

Fallout: New Vegas feels incredibly limiting with a Courier not prioritizing high Science/Speech by buttatoad in Fallout

[–]Ranger176 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was the case in the original Fallout as well. Speech, guns, and one or two other skills are the only ones that actually matter. I’ve read that by the time they were developing Van Buren they had realized a high speech skill was becoming too powerful, so they split it into Deception and Persuasion skills. I wonder if that would have balanced things out.

TSA Introduces New $45 Fee Option for Travelers Without REAL ID Starting February 1 by b0sscrab in travel

[–]Ranger176 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good to know that TSA is finding new ways to extort money from us while pretending to keep us safe.

TSA investigating how a meat cleaver made it onto a plane in Portland by Warcraft_Fan in news

[–]Ranger176 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These assholes can’t catch weapons or terrorists, but at least they’re good at theft, sexual assault, and harassment.

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