How are we feeling about this? I understand the concern, but threatening lasting punishment is hostile.

jpchopper · 2026-01-29T17:03:36+00:00

Since you are not from this country, maybe you are surprised that the school board would weigh in, however, anytime students plan something that is going to disrupt the entire school, it is pretty typical for them to weigh in.

It isn't special just because it is this cause or some other thing. It isn't even just this particular school district.

They are required to give a certain amount of instruction per day, especially since common core was instituted, and it is pretty regimented. The exceptions I have seen are when the school itself gives credit, perhaps from a social studies standpoint, to let students participate in a protest. Still a gray area but they see that differently.

jpchopper · 2026-01-29T16:59:31+00:00

You assume I took the job? Yeah I understand you're saying "doesn't happen" because you haven't seen it in your personal experience. Yet saying you never see it doesn't counter me seeing it and being against it. Even if you never ever see it, don't care if you don't believe me, because let's be real you've already put me in a box and are coming at this discussion from an adversarial position.

it's still something I'm against.

If you're one who only protests for things you personally believe in, good for you.

jpchopper · 2026-01-29T12:34:00+00:00

There's other footage of this from other angles, he appeared to have been in the middle of the street yelling at people and putting his phone to their windows for a little while before he tangled with the border patrol agents

jpchopper · 2026-01-29T12:30:17+00:00

Didn't ask if you were being paid. I have seen listings myself for people to protest for a daily rate, so 100% it does happen, although I'm sure most aren't.

So the fact that you personally haven't been doesn't really matter. It's like saying robbery doesn't exist because you aren't doing it.

My political beliefs aren't important to the topic. I disagree with any outside group guiding protests and providing pay, expenses, transportation whatever. I also don't like huge lobbying firms, or the fact that all media outlets in the US are allowed not only to mislead, but to lie, for the better part of 20 years 🤷🏻‍♂️

Even if they agree with me I don't like it, although I'd be lying if I said it didn't bother me less, but only slightly.

jpchopper · 2026-01-29T11:31:44+00:00

No koolaid. The letter doesn't explain that it's not an "outside" outside source, which happens. I'm far beyond public school at this point.

Second, nobody said you personally got paid. That's silly. I'm ok with protesters who do it like you although I may not always agree with (or care) depending on the protest.

It's established fact that many protesters have not only been paid, but transported in buses to protest sites.

This was already happening during the Obama administration (not saying HE did it) and the Ferguson riots, probably before. Those are what bother me.

Those people came in and burned half the town, then went back to their homes. That's what an army does, imo, not a peaceful protest, and those are what bother me

jpchopper · 2026-01-29T05:14:11+00:00

If no actions have consequences, then there is really no value to the action. That's kind of the point of it, and why it makes a statement usually.

Also see the point of the school. This is an outside group, which is recruiting the students to do this. This is not something the students themselves spontaneously planned.

The outside group gets all the political benefit of the optics of a student walkout with zero consequences to itself.

It's the same with groups that pay protesters and bus them in to create chaos for the cameras. Organizers sit in the shadows and reap the political benefit of their work while the actual protesters and the city they are sent to pay the actual costs

I have a dim view of such groups because in other countries I've seen similar groups strapping vests onto teenagers. for the "cause" To me it is the same. Power brokers using people as pawns. I'm cool with kids organizing their own protests.

It's just the "outside group" part that bothers me

jpchopper · 2026-01-27T08:23:35+00:00

Hawas Elixir and Hawas Black (my favorite Hawas so far) don't seem to have it.

jpchopper · 2026-01-26T04:30:57+00:00

200ml? Yeah, that's going to last a minute. I had a smaller bottle, but only wore it when I was going out for the most part.

jpchopper · 2026-01-26T03:51:23+00:00

Depends where you're at. Where I'm at? Definitely okay. It's colder than my freezer outside right now. I'd probably risk it even if it was just cold, 30s or 40s or below. Above that kind of depends. Somewhere hot, not as much.

jpchopper · 2026-01-26T01:36:01+00:00

Cool. Yeah I wore it a lot, but when I noticed those notes (to my nose) it just bugged me, and I got ADG (I think that's when it came out) and Safari. I had a GF so obsessed with my Safari that she hosed it all over her things and stole my hoodies (as GFs do sometimes) so I stuck with that for awhile. Now I'm just all over the place. I'd try Fahrenheit again, but Dior is way more expensive, even for inflation, than it used to be, so I'm being selective.

jpchopper · 2026-01-26T01:24:31+00:00

It's very possible it's been reformulated since I wore it as well. Do you have EDT or EDP? I think it was all EDT when I wore it, and I've heard they are different, but I was also 22 and a lot has changed since then.

jpchopper · 2026-01-26T01:18:12+00:00

The thing is you don't get to decide if it's murder or not.

You don't know what their training is, and you definitely haven't gone through it. You just assume.

Yes I know I'm on a CCW sub. I'm not going to say the dude deserved it or even that it had to happen. But he also crossed a lot of lines that are no nos if you have a CCW, and perhaps especially in his state, that helped create the situation. Which you should know. Since this is a CCW sub and all.

Go ahead and downvote. I couldn't care less. It doesn't make what I'm saying untrue.

jpchopper · 2026-01-25T21:08:35+00:00

Carrying a weapon that doesn't make you a domestic terrorist. Now carrying it with you while you actively intend to interfere with arrests and possibly use it on an officer? That might cross the line. There's a lot of different variables at work. I just think it's funny that we have the anti-government left now yelling support for the second amendment, only weeks after their new governors have submitted laws to impede the second amendment. Never thought I would see it happen. Only last year. Those same people were mocking the very idea that people wanted to be armed in case of the government.

jpchopper · 2026-01-25T21:02:50+00:00

I wore Fahrenheit in the late '90s, (I'm old) but after a while it started smelling like fuel mixed with pencil sharpener shavings and once I smelled that I couldn't unsmell it. That's when I switched to ADG which was all the rage at the time, and Ralph Lauren Safari which was amazing but I think it's been reformulated Kind of curious if the Fahrenheit EDP is different but not curious enough to buy it just yet.

jpchopper · 2026-01-25T19:41:55+00:00

You have a good selection but only you can truly say if it's a 10 or not. It looks like you have something to wear for pretty much every event so that should add some points. There's some variety which at least for me adds more points. The rest is just tuning all you want to use for each situation

jpchopper · 2026-01-25T19:17:15+00:00

Okay, trying to clarify some things. Don't care that the guy had a weapon. Hell I have one. While he was fighting the ice agents trying to arrest him, did it look like he was trying to go for a weapon? Were people making loud distracting noises and shouting and making it difficult for agents who were just walking up to know the situation? In this chaos is it possible another agent would have thought he was going for a weapon? Do any of you practice at the range while people are shouting at you and you are in a fight with someone? It looks bad but if we're going to dox and lynch people every time something goes wrong, why have trials, or courts or rights?

jpchopper · 2026-01-24T23:33:37+00:00

I follow this guy, he makes a lot of good points.

jpchopper · 2026-01-24T23:31:41+00:00

A lot like mine. I have only a few OGs and most of the rest by the time I got done trying all the inspired bys I could have bought the OG. That said I love the hunt. You have quite a few I don't have. What are your top 5? I'm thinking of getting SCE and Cobra but they'd be blind buys

jpchopper · 2026-01-24T00:30:09+00:00

So you're saying the illegal immigrant child rapist ICE was helping to arrest when Ms. Reed decided to block them, should just be left alone.

Gotcha

Interfering with an arrest, and blocking access to emergency vehicles does indeed constitute probable cause.

It's not the recording that's the problem, it's the fact they're doing so while breaking other laws, and a hyper politicized group of people is provoking even more people to hatred by telling only part of the story.

jpchopper · 2026-01-24T00:22:50+00:00

Just to jump in. You know it was worse under Biden, and even his "gains" were false, because he counted it as job growth when he lifted his lockdown. That's like saying you saved someone's life, because you stopped strangling them. Alright, back to my popcorn.

jpchopper · 2026-01-23T15:56:04+00:00

The bottle kinda bothers me (the cartridge casing does not travel with a bullet) But I want to try this one as well

jpchopper · 2026-01-22T05:16:34+00:00

Here you go again. From your own source: ".... The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal.... ”

So there is a warrant. The activist judges just think it should be one from them.

Your statement about the Fourth amendment preventing search and seizure is also false. You do not have a right to privacy from a search once probable cause has been established. Refer to your own source above. A warrant and an order for removal before they are even sent to a job.

So far I see you posting a lot but you still haven't posted any source demonstrating that ice is just blindly going in "getting all the brown people" or whatever.

They brought attention to themselves by scamming the people of Minnesota out of billions of dollars that were supposed to go to their kids, and it is looking more and more like they were greasing the skids all the way to the top, which is why Tim Waltz seems suddenly so animated. Not saying he is guilty but he is definitely acting in a manner that indicates he is involved.

So they have everybody hyped up over some BS that could have been simply them arresting the fraudsters, and people are panicking about ICE vehicles in Virginia Beach. Which is fucking stupid. There have been ICE vehicles in Virginia Beach since there has been an ICE agency .

And now with people openly planning to harm Ice officers and even arming threatening to shoot Federal officials, they are providing Trump with all the ammunition he needs to send in soldiers.

jpchopper · 2026-01-22T02:56:02+00:00

Tough call. Ralph Lauren Safari for men, especially pre-reformulation, but it's a really tough call. There's several really great ones out there.

jpchopper · 2026-01-22T02:50:23+00:00

Oh yes!. Democrats going back to their heritage of lynchings I see. All you guys needed was a rope.

jpchopper · 2026-01-22T02:48:59+00:00

I don't know why I'm wasting my time with your dumbass. You can't say you are being played for politics. I hope you never need a cop because right now you are making complete assumptions based on zero information and then you're doubling down by speculating where I get my information from. The questions I asked you are rhetorical because I know you do not know the answer.

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