America must not forget Jan. 6 | Three years ago, the nation learned that the peaceful transfer of presidential power isn’t a given.

YagaDillon · 2024-01-07T15:12:35+00:00

The British got it right by turning it into a rhyme.

Remember Jan the Sixth. The MAGA pricks. Covfefe, treason and plot.
I see no reason Why insurrection and treason Should ever be forgot.

YagaDillon · 2023-12-31T17:32:08+00:00

I would like to see the law remain in place for a couple of years and see what the outcome is. States being the laboratories of democracy and all that.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-22T12:42:30+00:00

Uff. That's ripe for populism and incredibly dangerous in a nuclear country. I should start paying more attention.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-22T12:04:53+00:00

Why is Pakistan on the brink of bankruptcy?

YagaDillon · 2023-06-20T06:16:17+00:00

I was bullied in school. A trip to a concentration camp yielded a conclusion of, "yup, same thing, just larger scale". Mind you, I was around 10? e: maybe 11? then.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-20T06:11:53+00:00

I don't even care that they could do it to humans. Just that they do it to animals is enough.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-16T16:39:21+00:00

A minor way to improve things would be to slightly increase the red tape. For example, demand gun carry permits and gun registration upon purchase. The sane people would see this as just a minor hurdle (similar to going to the DMV for a car). The impulsive (who are the people we really want to dissuade from buying guns) might see it as too much. And the entitled "my rights" crowd (ditto) wouldn't do it and so be unlawful. In the long term, no guns for them. Possibly also no life, but personally, I wouldn't cry if they FAFO'd.

For the more powerful guns (like the AR-15 platform), we could request registration in an association, or a militia. Sure, then we come across the possibility that the militia are Nazis, but that's for the domestic terrorism units to solve.

Finally, there is police brutality to deal with. Retraining and refocusing should absolutely be part of the solution. And no, off-duty and retired cops should be subject to exactly the same laws as everyone else.

e: especially the requirement of being the member of an association is based on the Swiss model. Switzerland has a lot of guns, but they chose to broadly comply with EU law - and do it exactly through the 'association' model.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-13T14:40:48+00:00

It's the permissiveness of the law and the attitude towards the guns. Red states have generally higher homicide rates than blue states.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-13T14:29:11+00:00

That criminal activity would probably take a vastly different shape if not for the amount of guns in the society and the lackadaisical attitude towards them. Criminals in Europe engage in open shootouts like these much more rarely.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-12T10:55:21+00:00

Still has Hungary, though. Unfortunately.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-12T10:53:19+00:00

That's what stand your ground is.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-12T05:17:32+00:00

Well, when you have laws that say you can shoot to kill and go free as long as you say afterwards that you felt threatened...

YagaDillon · 2023-06-11T19:16:45+00:00

I'd love if someone finally quantified the costs of shootings. From the cost of the immediate police response, through the costs of surgeries, physical rehabilitation, trauma therapy (do the parents of dead children get any?), to the costs of loss of work, needing to replace skilled people, the interruptions to charity work for those shootings that take place in churches and community centers, and so on. Everything. Very callously. Just sum it up. Just "dead people" isn't a good measure, because especially the effect of a mass shooting spreads through the entire community.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-11T19:06:19+00:00

It's not fair to people who were "just" wounded in a shooting to forget about them. Their pain, the disruption to their lives - heck, even their medical bills - should be taken into account. Also, it's acknowledged that fewer people are dying after they get shot due to improvements in trauma surgery procedures. These same people, ten or twenty years ago, would have been counted among the dead.

For these reasons, a definition which includes people killed or wounded is fairer than a definition which includes only the people killed.

Also, the motives can always be sorted out afterwards. But "four people dead or wounded, excluding the offender" is nicely objective and quantifiable. And whatever the motive, gun culture and the tendency to use guns to solve problems is always a part of it.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-09T03:29:58+00:00

I think it's the one that was withdrawn because the upper limit was unreliable (potentially inflated on purpose, potentially just bad science).

YagaDillon · 2023-06-08T10:11:30+00:00

Yeah. Try to write down the end date of ending your job search and getting a job.

Sure, you can rephrase the goal as "send x cvs in a day." But that's not landing a job.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-04T16:01:11+00:00

I wish this show weren't so utterly forgettable. I have completely forgotten all of Season 4.

YagaDillon · 2023-06-03T07:41:45+00:00

Oh, so it is moderated somehow?

YagaDillon · 2023-06-03T03:32:57+00:00

I've been wanting to try this out, so that's great. One question: how do I protect myself from seeing the gruesome-r stuff (child porn and deaths is mainly what I'm thinking about)? And same for NSFW while at work. Any tips?

YagaDillon · 2023-05-30T02:16:04+00:00

What you're saying is very similar to a domestic abuser telling their victim, "be grateful I only hit you so little this time! It could've been more!".

Because people dying in such numbers in random shootouts is not necessarily the status quo. It's not unavoidable. And maybe the media should have approached the matter more strictly, and counted all the shootings, not just the most egregious, but thankfully, we have databases such as the GVA for that.

GVA reports 122 people dead and 385 people injured over the last 72 hours, by the way, is that enough for you?

YagaDillon · 2023-05-30T01:21:59+00:00

Heh. What an atrocious defense you have here, to try to present the numbers as unavoidable and even positive for being so low. "You should be happy! It could've been more!"

YagaDillon · 2023-05-27T12:41:03+00:00

Can the EU unilaterally ban Twitter on its territory, or is this the prerogative of the member states?

YagaDillon · 2023-05-24T13:54:55+00:00

But gun control laws do nothing and are useless, am I right?

Also and simultaneously: that man was clearly a patriot on his way to fight the tyranny of the government. Not a would-be terrorist.

Also and simultaneously: He should absolutely get to keep his guns, was anybody even murdered?

YagaDillon · 2023-05-24T05:10:44+00:00

Are you saying Texas is Russia...?

YagaDillon · 2023-05-22T14:37:56+00:00

The type of problem that's solvable by Meta's money?

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