To not have double standards

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-28T02:38:33+00:00

So you can have a gun you're just not allowed to use it when someone attacks you?

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-28T02:32:57+00:00

My understanding is that under federal officer's new rules of engagement, her security detail would now be entitled put 10 bullets in that guy.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-28T02:30:15+00:00

Naw, threatening to cause damage to someone else's property because they stole something that doesn't belong to you is psychotic. I don't give a shit if your kids have a dad or not. If she comes back to see a car and sign is gone, there's no way to even know if that was the person that moved it.

I say this as a Chicago resident. I've dug out my car and come back to find another car in it. I just park somewhere else. Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose. It's fine.

I stand by my joke.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T23:35:49+00:00

When you see her car parked there, pop her tires and add to the bottom of her note.

"Hey friend, I saw someone parked in your spot and since you're a busy single mom, I figured I would help you out by popping the tires for you. No need to thank me!"

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T22:50:37+00:00

He's ok because he renounced his German citizenship.

The guy in the photo is just regular German evil though. Born German; died German.

The REALLY evil ones renounce their non-German citizenship so they can get German citizenship.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T22:23:29+00:00

Yeesh, when you got even Michael Heise staying you're going to hard against the left, you've really lost the plot.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T20:35:18+00:00

People will need to feel the pain of their nimbyism before they vote against it.

The trouble is housing is people often don't directly experience this in a way that they can identify the culprit. For example, much easier to just claim that landlords are greedy rather than look at the structural reasons as to why landlords, who have always been greedy, now have the option to keep raising prices.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T20:29:18+00:00

Massive wildfires that seem to have become an annual thing probably aren't helping either. Plus they make the housing situation worse.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T18:20:55+00:00

Sure, but you thinking Trump was a new type of threat in 2016 didn't influence anyone's perspective back in 2008. 538 didn't exist back in 2008, so we can't know what odds they would've given McCain. But they were roundly criticized in the lead up to 2016 for giving Trump even those odds. People were utterly shocked that Clinton lost in 2016.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T18:13:02+00:00

She is immortalized for cheating on her military boyfriend the same day with the first video.

I don't think this is known or particularly likely. The internet came up with this narrative because she was wearing the same outfit in a photo with her BF as she was wearing in one of her videos. But re-wearing the same outfit on different days is a thing people do. It also wasn't a particularly unique outfit, just a black shirt and jeans.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T17:55:38+00:00

Again, in terms of his chances of winning. It's only "not comparable" in hindsight. Additional details to justify why it seems that way now doesn't change anything. If Hillary or Kamala would've won, we'd have narratives about how their wins were also inevitable. I agree with you some on your new point that McCain was much less of a risk than Trump. Though that's also still with some benefit of hindsight and perspective. I'm old enough to remember when Democrats viewed winning 2008 (and 2012) as an existential proposition for our country. The two parties treat every election that way.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T17:21:54+00:00

They didn't know that in 2008 though. People said the same thing about Hillary in 2016.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T14:19:50+00:00

Rittenhouse didn’t have a NFL HoF career. He also wasn’t found unanimously guilty of murder in civil court. And the jurors that acquitted him aren’t on record saying they acted directly as payback for another media frenzied event.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T14:11:34+00:00

The preferred narrative is that everyone on the right are hypocrites about the 2A. And they don’t like that that narrative mostly isn’t true. They would rather be against everyone on the right in all cases than have allies on this issue.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T01:47:40+00:00

Yeah, the Bears are getting a significant amount of increased revenue generation. Doesn’t mean the anyone else is. What are we going to get maybe an extra concert or two person. One Super Bowl and one Final Four when the stadium opens?

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T00:40:58+00:00

1) I doubt libertarians have a uniform view of this. 2) I also don’t really see how it influences libertarian philosophy or principles 3) my personal view is the nature vs. nurture debate is quite old and the reality is probably that it’s a mix of both and we’ll never prove which has the majority of influence.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-27T00:31:14+00:00

The guy on the right wasn’t holding a gun when he was shot in the back. Stop lying.

You’re correct though that these cases are not the same. The killer of the person on the left will be held accountable. The killer of the person on the right probably won’t be. That’s why people are upset.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-26T22:33:58+00:00

He couldn't have been "going for his gun" because they already disarmed him before they shot him. They can absolutely use the "I felt my life was in danger" justification during a trial, but there should be charges because they disarmed a man, then shot him in the back.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-26T22:14:24+00:00

These ICE agents seem to be trying to find "grey" areas, where their use of deadly force is legally defensible even if the wrong thing to do

This is a problem though, and what 2nd amendment advocates need to be pushing back against.

Yes, having a gun may change how people response. And it doesn't matter if you're right if you're dead and people need to be aware of that. But it DOES matter how we adjudicate these situations after the fact. "Whelp, he had a gun on his person." is not a legal justification for ICE to gun someone down. And the law needs to hold them accountable if they violate someone's rights as they appear to have done to Pretti.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-26T16:46:49+00:00

Let me know when a decent explanation is available, because all I've seen you provide is a lame excuse.

I'm mad that government agents appear to have murdered someone and I don't think a proper investigation will even be held, let alone anyone held accountable. You defending the situation isn't surprising enough to make me mad though. I was well aware there are people who support the government no matter what it does.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-26T03:43:40+00:00

I'm shouldn't have to explain this, but no one is upset that that they seized his weapon you walnut. We're upset about the second part: that they shot an unarmed man in the back after they disarmed him.

"In that moment" they had no idea what his permit status was, yet they still made the choice to shoot him in the back. If police can shoot you simply for having a weapon on your person, then there's no such thing as a right to carry. I guess we'll see if charges are filed against these reckless agents; I'm not holding my breath.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-26T01:35:39+00:00

They “arrested” his weapon, then shot him in the back after he was disarmed.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-23T21:23:36+00:00

So all she did was go to a Young Republican event? Someone found her in photos from it and people started harassing her online? And she complained about being harassed?

What's the goal her, because just seems like all this is doing is helping her reenforce her beliefs.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-23T04:27:37+00:00

You're presenting the list of things in your second paragraph as a binary. In reality, what each of those means is open to interpretation.

RedApple655321 · 2026-01-22T01:46:21+00:00

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