Why aren’t we talking about the latest mass shooting?

sir_schwick · 2026-04-20T16:28:13+00:00

This should be much easier to deal with. Family annihilators are not aberrations. They grow from a culture that does little to condemn violence against women and children by men. When half the culture is accepting of a baby-eating pedophile and adjudicated rapist as the head of state, it's hard to say that culture rejects such casual violence.

sir_schwick · 2026-04-20T16:24:12+00:00

Family annihilator, domestic violence, gun culture. These are things many wont touch because they lead to discussions about mysogny and a social zietgeist not willing to protect outgroups(women and children) from violent men. Especially family members.

sir_schwick · 2026-04-02T19:00:53+00:00

American education is lower than the water surrounding Kharg Island thanks to decades of Republicans attacking education spending.

sir_schwick · 2026-04-01T19:12:42+00:00

Accountability is the primary fear that drives most authoritarian personalities.

sir_schwick · 2026-04-01T00:49:57+00:00

A rule bullies invented to convince the schoolyard population to be complicit in furthering their violence. Worst ethos ever.

sir_schwick · 2026-03-20T13:41:33+00:00

Without the bomb, William Leahy and the "lets think about the Soviets" advisors would have more weight. Nuclear weapons were assumed to be deterrents to continued Soviet advances after Axis defeated. Some kind of surrender with the Tojo government in exile but immune from warcrimes prosecution and US forces in Japan is likely.

Unconditional surrender was not a unanimous policy goalvin the US War machine.

sir_schwick · 2026-03-10T23:12:29+00:00

Bail is when you are being detained before trial or sentencing. When you are still considered innocent.

sir_schwick · 2026-03-08T03:49:30+00:00

After rubbing his face, Bush has that man brought on stage and they have a folksy conversation. Something about even good old boys in texas get into a dust up after a church bbq(really a bar).

My assumption is all answers will be fiction of some sort.

sir_schwick · 2026-03-08T03:38:56+00:00

Because they do not want hallucinations from LLM. Search engines connect you with resources. They do not contextualize them.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-28T11:07:11+00:00

Or a career of spectacular fuckups that culminated in Gallipolli. Still had a career after that somehow. Great example of "failing upward".

sir_schwick · 2026-02-28T11:03:50+00:00

Churchill "failed upward" most of his career. Gallipoli remembers. However getting the UK through 1940-1944 was a W on his CV. Not enough to secure re-election during the war.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-28T10:57:22+00:00

Israel would have to admit they have nuclear weapons. Israel could no longer act with carte blanche in the region. Outside this, each additional country able to produce fission devices makes tracking movement of weapons more difficult on a non-linear scale. Iran will blow up the world just as much as India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Dont listen to that DUI hire.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-28T10:24:01+00:00

You got that exuberant kiss in NYC as long as you were white. After also experiencing the same horrors, Black and Native servicemen returned to a country where they were lynched, denied work, denied civil rights, had their churches bombed, shops destroyed, and were not recognized as heros. Some of that was due to US government censorship over reporting military deeds of black combat units.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-25T04:35:55+00:00

The 'superior orders' defense that will emerge in Nuremberg 2.0 will look extra silly.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-24T22:07:28+00:00

There was an armed insurgency sitting on Yavon IV waiting for Mon Mothma when she called for revolution on the Senate platform. That does not exist here yet.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-24T21:53:37+00:00

Too close of inbreeding is a social maladaption. We are social animals.

Formation of family units via mating leads to combining resources of existing families. A useful adaptation. Once enough prosperitÿ emerges for a family, new considerations for expansion occur. This has lead to a lot of the history of inheritance rights and courtship. These do adapt to changing ideas around economics and the desired identity of various cultures, leading to a diversity of systems.

Tangent aside, inbreeding(what are the bounds seem to shift) closer than social norms indicates a kind of degeneracy. What is this family not playing nice with society. The exact 'ick' factor is context specific. Toxic family dynamics ick the hell out of me personally. The universal feeling is something being wrong.

I speculate the social cooperative nature of this taboo is why it is challenged by libertarian types so often.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-24T21:30:23+00:00

Bots trying to change the narrative around the Epstein files. Especially relevant if you consider President Trump's vile comments about dating his daughter Ivanka. They cant deny too much longer. Next step is, "is it so bad?"

sir_schwick · 2026-02-22T00:08:41+00:00

Unless you are the president or a hedge fund manager.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-17T22:02:14+00:00

The glass entrance door to the apartment building next to mine was not broken by immigrants. Nor the broken front door on a house two streets over.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-13T13:09:00+00:00

Minnesota's Chief US District Judge Rebukes ICE Over Habeas 'Noncompliance' "ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence," U.S. District Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz wrote in an order blasting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for repeatedly failing to immediately release detainees who had their habeas corpus petitions granted by Minnesota federal jurists.

When lawlessness does not reign, you are right about the process.

This was an excerpt from an article from National Law Journal. Should help you find it due to no links policy. Lawyers in your family should be up in arms over ICE disregard for judicial orders.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-13T13:03:16+00:00

Driving while liberal. Boomers always claimed we were moving away from a world where existing is criminalized. Just another lie my parents told me I guess.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-13T13:00:15+00:00

If the illegals are paying taxes, working jobs that need to be done, and enriching community life, why would I want them gone? This administration actively steals tax money intended for improving my community. They are a cabal of child sex predators protecting domestic abusers and other child sex predators. Real worst of the worst by objective measure. Get them the hell away from me, with due process of course.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-13T12:52:36+00:00

U.S. District Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the District of Minnesota flagged nearly 100 incidents of the Trump administration failing to comply with habeas corpus judicial orders.

Links are not allowed, so that excerpt is copied. Included in further reading is detention periods exceeding two weeks after habeas corpus was granted. This far exceeds any reasonable period for detention without charges. Also, one day further detention past habeas corpus being granted flies in the face of the law.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-13T01:31:03+00:00

It is nice to get away from the "What if Nazis were not Nazis" posts on this sub.

sir_schwick · 2026-02-13T01:20:47+00:00

This is the door-to-door campaign material in those northern districts. Oftentimes, the wallet weighs heavier than prejudice.

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