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I predict a massive increase in the number of "non profits" that will rent these out to other companies (with coincidentally very similar senior leadership) at cost. Sort of like how many businesses became "women owned" overnight when they pushed that BS.

That's terrible, think of the pavement.

He deserves real prison time, but probably not a lot. Maybe a year or two IMHO.

That's one thing I am very happy about with my backyard range. To call my backstop "adequate" is pretty funny LOL.

Honestly, bonds that are too high are a problem too. The only relevant questions when setting bond are "how likely is he to behave while waiting trial" and "how likely is he to show up". For a first offender, the "behave" question is likely to be simple. He's behaved for 30 years with one...

He screwed up, and should absolutely pay for it. But when people *intentionally* rape and murder and get far lesser punishments, it is an indictment of our entire justice system. And criticism of the bond amount is absolutely justified. The purpose of a bond is *only* to ensure you show back...

Not charging the felonies *is* the bad press. It's going take a lot of bad cops going to prison for a long time before they will regain the public trust. Trying to pretend the problems aren't as bad as they are fools nobody, and people just see it as evidence of further corruption. What we...

If you know any dairy farmers, you might hear them talk about bringing a bull in to service the cows. It's like that.

Worse than "exigent circumstances" abuse. They straight up violate the law, and just don't tell anyone about it. They have a concept called "parallel construction", where they will use illegal wiretapping to find out something, then they'll send a detective to find *admissible* evidence of...

The difference is Carter was a good man who didn't have what it takes to run a country. He was basically in over his head. Biden is a corrupt POS who's incompetence probably *saved* us from a far worse disaster.

Maybe ? Who knows these days.

I would not want to live in a country that hitched it's economy to China if the US decides to shut down their trade.

DC is a special case with SCOTUS. Everywhere else you have to work your way up through the circuits, but DC is the only place where SCOTUS has "original jurisdiction". Technically SCOTUS *could* hear any case between the federal government and a state government directly, in practice they...

Well, *everyone* has most of these "potential IED ingredients", or decent substitutes. I can guarantee someone could build a decent pipe bomb from stuff you have at home right now. So, law enforcement saying that makes him dangerous is a clown show. That's them openly admitting they have no...

As disappointing as all of that is, imagine what 2025 would have looked like under Harris.

The guy with the order of protection and the arrest warrant was not the guy with the permit. There were two people with guns involved besides the police. Only one was a bad guy.

Not ships in general. Battleships in particular. List of battleships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia List of battleships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia "Except for Kearsarge, named by an act of Congress, all U.S. Navy battleships have been named for states, and each of the 48...

The thing I find interesting here is that they're calling it "Trump class". That's not how that works. The class is usually named for the first ship. These would be Defiant class. OfC, they're also breaking the tradition where US battleships are named after states.

Generally you're correct. The problem with railguns has always been the wear. They work fine, but you end up having to replace the rails so often they're just not useful. Imagine if the barrel life on an Iowa's 16 inch gun was measured in a few dozen shots before replacement. I think the...

What do you think is the difference between a drone and a cruise missile ? Autonomous anti-ship drones have been a thing since the '80s. Our ships are well practiced in handling them. The standard vision of surface warfare in the 80s was 2 ships full of guided missiles launching hundreds at...

These are supposed to have a ton more electrical power available so they can run very hungry weapons systems, like actual, honest to God, laser turrets. Which are ideal for taking out drone swarms. Infinite, practically free ammo, instant targeting, zero time of flight, super high precision...

We all saw the videos from Oct 7th. The one where they were parading the raped and beaten bodies of the hostages they took through the streets lined with people cheering then on. So don't give me this bullshit that the Palestinians are all innocent except for a few thousand Hamas members...

No, I think the vast majority of people think that freedom and prosperity are two completely different things. You can be free and still be dirt poor. And you can be reasonably well off and still live under a totalitarian boot. I don't think there's many cases where foreigners hate us for...

It's a scammer either way. Just because you're scamming for NYS doesn't make you not a scammer.

You are seriously siding with the Palestinians here ? Unbelievable. As for the lies, here you go. Teaching Hate in Palestinian Schools | Council on Foreign Relations Teaching Hate in Palestinian Schools

Nice straw man. I said our prosperity, and you just attempted to turn it into "our freedoms". It's extremely common rhetoric to try and convince the less well off to hate the more well off. It's common because it works very well to manipulate the less well off. I also didn't say that was the...

I think the Palestinians are a very small subset of all antisemitism. I am sure ignorance factors highly in theirs as well though. How many lies are Palestinian children taught about a jews while they are growing up ? Probably more than even the Nazi's propagated. Bottom line, nearly...

When a building is damaged too severely it cannot be repaired. It must be demolished and rebuilt from the foundation up.

It's sitting on the editor's desk as we speak.

You have some good points, but I think they apply more to *any* military base, than American one in particular. Some of that is inevitable when you get a large population of young men in one location. I don't believe American soldiers are generally any less well behaved than other nations...

It almost seems like a phase an adolescent religion goes through. Christianity out grew that centuries ago, but Islam is relatively young by comparison.

There are a lot of people who complain about a US base nearby, but there are a lot more who would complain about us leaving. The economic activity a US base generates is all that's supporting some nearby towns. "Americans are rude" is not enough to offset "if they leave, they'll take all the...

We can have 2 things we need to do to defend ourselves at the same time.

Then they should go to federal prison for a long time. There is no exception in the law to allow cops to destroy evidence, much as some of them seem to think so.

What do you think we would do if Mexico pulled an Oct 7th, then continued to lob missiles into the US ? B52s would be involved. Every generation or two you need to remind people not to fuck with you.

What makes a nation "fake" ? All nations are political boundaries invented by people. Is the US "fake" too ? What countries aren't "fake" ?

I've gone down the rabbit hole on your other favorite conspiracy theory, I have no desire to add another. I am sure there are Jews working against our interests in government. Schumer is practically a walking stereotype himself. But I don't think it's any more prevalent among them than it is...

Oh, wait, that was a residential district in Tokyo in 1945. And all over a couple boats, what an over reaction. No, that was the FO phase of suckerpunching a much stronger opponent. Gaza has gotten off *way* easy on their FO compared to their FA. They could have avoided most of it by just...

If you could get *all* people to act like decent human beings, a lot of problems would go away, and we would have the greatest golden age in history. But, human nature gets in the way, and even if you *could* fix that, I seriously doubt any of us would like the fix.

72% of Palestinians supported the Oct 7th attack. It's not a small minority. If it *was* a small minority oppressing the majority, they should welcome the IDF deposing their oppressors. Poll shows Palestinians back Oct. 7 attack on Israel, support for Hamas rises | Reuters...

Most antisemitism is rooted in ignorance. Not sure why those spoiled brats should get a pass for theirs.

The problem is that you staying in your place doesn't mean they will stay in theirs. We are the most prosperous and powerful nation. Lots of people will hate us for that alone. It's the global version of the "eat the rich" slogan. It's also basic human nature. Envy is a powerful amd...

Guess again. Child soldier recruits double in one year in Middle East and North Africa | Child soldiers | The Guardian Child soldier recruits double in one year in Middle East and North Africa The Unaddressed Threat of Female Suicide Bombers - Center for American Progress The Unaddressed...

If you're chanting "from the river to the sea", or "globalize the infatada", you're explicitly calling for a genocide or the jews. Doesn't get much more anti-semetic than that. Those are both pretty popular slogans among the college crowd.

The most recent iteration of the war started in 2023, but the Palestinians have been yelling "genocide" for a lot longer. I would be really interested to see where the stat on the percentage of civilians is. How do you tell a Hamas fighter from a civilian ? And 25k Hamas according to who ...

Ahh yes. In 1970 there were 340,000 Palestinians living in Gaza, and due to the Genocide, today there are only 2,000,000 of them left. Worst Genocide ever.

Not all liberals hate jews, obviously. Not all liberals hate guns either. There are liberal gun owners. But if you pick an antisemite or a gun hater at random the odds are going to be very high that they are a liberal. I have seen some polls where it's as high as 30% of young democrats side...

The real reason Musk wants to get to Mars. He'll make a fortune in the detent pin mines.

If the US government ran it, they'd need a subsidy even though it was built on a naval base.

They had to pick from the one real Democracy in the entire middle east, and their racist desire to excuse any behavior from someone with a dark enough tan because "they can't help it/ it's just their culture". Their utter contempt for western culture won out.