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    Another ICE shooting in MN.

    What work would you suggest is more honorable than the work that ICE is doing ? If you don't like immigration law, then lobby to fix it, or sue to overturn it. Demanding that they just stop enforcing it is a ridiculous position. Next you claim ICE is infamous for harassment and assault...
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    Another ICE shooting in MN.

    I hear that "untrained officers" line all the time, but it doesn't really seem relevant to these shootings. The guy that shot Renee Goode had been a federal agent since the Obama administration. If he wasn't trained or shouldn't have been hired, you can't blame Trump.
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    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Trump won the popular vote. This guy keeps using the word "democracy", I don't think it means what he thinks it means.
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    Another ICE shooting in MN.

    Don't fall for the trap. He wasn't killed because he was carrying. He wasn't killed as punishment for anything. Whether or not he "deserved" to die is irrelevant. Even if he was the biggest scumbag to ever visit epstein island and he really *did* deserve to die, that's not why ICE shot him...
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    MULTIPLE ICE and FBI vehicles have been DESTROYED and LOOTED by rioters in Minneapolis

    He's shifting the goalposts. Nobody is calling for deporting all non-citizens. Just the illegals. Lots of legal permanent residents, they are welcome to stay.
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    Ice agents shoot a women trying to run them over in Minneapolis

    They're just using the Hamas model. They're one step shy of strapping toddlers to rockets and then blaming Isreal for not catching them safely over there. And the useful idiots over here are directly responsible for that.
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    Another ICE shooting in MN.

    Carrying to a protest, I agree with. But if you're going to do that, then don't involve yourself with any shenanigans. If you intend to do anything more than protest, and less than a full send violent resistance, then leave the gun at home. Basically, as soon as you have a gun, then violence...
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    A new Mega-Reservoir in California ?

    Build the plant big enough, and you can just call the pacific ocean your reservoir. But, to keep it from being a boondoggle, the right way to do this is for the government to just guarantee to buy a volume of fresh water over a long period of time, say x million gallons a day for the next 15...
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    Another ICE shooting in MN.

    What they need to do is switch the focus away from just deportation and onto the people interfering. The directive should be to prioritize the arrest of the people interfering over the deportation. Then use the deportations as bait to put the miscreants away. If they really wanted to, they...
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    Another ICE shooting in MN.

    You're not wrong about the standard, but I'm not so sure you're right that it wouldn't be met in those circumstances. What would it take in your opinion for a reasonable officer to fear serious injury in those circumstances ? IMHO, just that the guy fighting on the bottom of the dog pile...
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    Another ICE shooting in MN.

    I've seen lots of people *say* that, but I haven't seen any actual proof. They show a grainy video of an agent with a gun, but I have not seen anything that proves that was the gun that Pretti had. On top of that, the standard for self defense (as we all know) doesn't require him to have been...
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    Another ICE shooting in MN.

    The problem with people on the left is that they think this is a game. It's not. You cooperate right up until it's time to resist. But if you decide it's time to resist, then you'd better be planning to kill every single one of them, because that's what it's going to take. You do *not*...
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    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    There are no blue states. Just tiny blue cities in a massive sea of red countryside. How much of that fresh water is *in* a city LOL.
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    The time has come for me to start taking prepping as serious as I once did.

    I can't imagine the infrastructure costs more than mine does. there are 3 pumping stations (and 1000' of elevation) in the mile between me and the main road just to get it up the mountain.
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    The time has come for me to start taking prepping as serious as I once did.

    It seems very strange that water in the literal desert is cheaper than it is in TN. Now, I have septic, and always have, so that's a water only rate, but still.
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    The time has come for me to start taking prepping as serious as I once did.

    Damn, that's a lot, my commercial water out here in the desert isn't that expensive. We have the well now, so I don't use much from the commercial, but I do have a little bit of irrigation hooked up just to keep thinks moving So I know it's a viable backup. If my well pump dies or something...
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    The time has come for me to start taking prepping as serious as I once did.

    The trick is that *everyone* is trying to hedge their risk against the dollar, because of the $38T debt. Washington is incapable of fixing that debt, or even talking about what it takes to fix it. Musk proved that. Once the first of the big players think they have insulated themselves enough...
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    Michelle Obama Complains People Only Know Her For Being Married To Barack

    Even the most iconic first ladies. Nancy Reagan, Jackie O, etc... But, to be fair, if you are a famous woman, it's likely your husband might just be known as "Cindy Crawford's husband", even if you're worth $400M on your own.
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    Apparently it is now legal for anyone to mail handguns

    Happens fairy often out here. Things are often delivered to the wrong mailbox, and most people will drop it back in the outgoing when they see they got the wrong package or letter. So you'll get a delivery notification, but the box is empty, then it shows up a day or two later. I have been...
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    MULTIPLE ICE and FBI vehicles have been DESTROYED and LOOTED by rioters in Minneapolis

    That elevates these crimes to conspiracy charges. It also means you can charge their co-conspirators as well. Wonder how many people they can charge with conspiracy to commit attempted vehicular manslaughter for the recent incident... Just saying....
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    Apparently it is now legal for anyone to mail handguns

    Better than 90% of our Amazon orders are delivered by USPS out here. Of the remaining 10%, probably 8% are UPS and the other 2 split evenly between Fedex and Amazon's own delivery drivers. And thanks to Mrs Spat's habits, we have a fairly large sample set to look at there.
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    Chuck Schumer Says Democrats Will Reverse Most of DOGE Cuts

    You're not wrong, but it's pretty bold of them to openly campaign on "we're bringing back the fraud"
  23. spat

    Apparently it is now legal for anyone to mail handguns

    That would still be illegal for many reasons. Why should mailing someone a handgun be any different than handing it to them in person ?
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    MULTIPLE ICE and FBI vehicles have been DESTROYED and LOOTED by rioters in Minneapolis

    I agree with most of that, but... What makes you think anything we do now will change how they will behave when they regain power ?
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    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    The dysfunction in DC is so entrenched that it will take something the scale of the French revolution to dislodge it. Musk shitcanned 80% of the Twitter employees in a few months and the company runs better than ever. He is probably the world's foremost expert on trimming the fat from an...
  26. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Yep. I think Vance might do a decent job, but we really need the bull in a china shop energy that is Trump. Nobody else is going to have that.
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    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    I don't think much will change honestly, other a guaranteed BS impeachment. It's not like the Republicans have actually been *doing* anything, and it's not like having one branch will be enough for the Democrats to do anything either. So, we'll go from a lot of noise but no real action to a...
  28. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Republicans hold all 3 branches. Actual Conservatives ? Not so much.
  29. spat

    Here's Why Asian Americans Shifted Right

    The right has actually shifted quite a bit left since the 90s. Half of the policies that Trump holds and gets demonized for were mainstream democrat policies just a few years ago. Look at Clinton on immigration, or the LGB stuff for instance.
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    Europe in Chaos

    Required to carry a weapon at all times. Because they are required to defend the innocent. Typically that amounts to a small ceremonial dagger called a Kirpan. What is the Kirpan? - World Sikh Organization of Canada What is the Kirpan? As a religion, the Sikhs are very commendable, and...
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    Recycling is a Hoax - but you knew that - California Fail

    The whole point of a free market is to determine the proper value of things. That's why socialism always fails, without a free market the central planners can never appropriately price things. When you attempt to price things based on feelings you will inevitably screw them up. So, recycling...
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    NFA registrations through the roof

    GOA has a lawsuit pending to eliminate that. The entire NFA is predicated on being a tax. If it's not a tax, then there is no legal justification for the registration. Can you have a $0 tax ?
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    MULTIPLE ICE and FBI vehicles have been DESTROYED and LOOTED by rioters in Minneapolis

    Ice should plan an operation in that Judges neighborhood. See if he changes his mind when the protestors bring their circus there.
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    Apparently it is now legal for anyone to mail handguns

    Yea, but now it's legal ;)
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    MULTIPLE ICE and FBI vehicles have been DESTROYED and LOOTED by rioters in Minneapolis

    Yea, I never agreed with the idea of using irritants to disburse a violent crowd. You need to arrest, charge, and jail the violent ones. If you've still got them locked up from the last time, you don't have to worry about them coming back tomorrow. Otherwise you just encourage the "it's all a...
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    Apparently it is now legal for anyone to mail handguns

    Or want to take one on vacation, but don't want to deal with the TSA, you can just mail it to yourself at your destination.
  37. spat

    MULTIPLE ICE and FBI vehicles have been DESTROYED and LOOTED by rioters in Minneapolis

    You dont have a general legal right to resist violently. You do have a right to have the means to resist. If we ever got to the point of actual violence, then you'd better be prepared to kill everyone the government sends against you, because they will surely kill you if they can. This is...
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    MULTIPLE ICE and FBI vehicles have been DESTROYED and LOOTED by rioters in Minneapolis

    They're not committing crimes for illegals. They're using the illegals as the excuse to commit crimes. It's just like the leaders in a theocracy. They aren't tyrannical because of the religion, they're religious because it can be used to justify the tyranny.
  39. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    When people stop believing they can get justice within the system, you can't blame them for seeking it outside the system.
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    Protests in Iran evolving into an insurrection

    That's only useful if they can see the aircraft that are attacking them. We've already proven that they can't. Honestly, in a conflict with us they're probably better off if they could crowd their airspace with civilian aircraft to be in our way.
  41. spat

    The Adventures of NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani

    "Not so much *be* happy as *act* happy. Anyone who doesn't cheer enthusiastically enough will br made an example of".
  42. spat

    The Adventures of NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani

    Europe is the warning. If you can't see the disaster that is London, NYC won't make it any clearer.
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    NY Attorney General Letitia James charging Florida man with 71 gun crimes

    The gold and cash is to try and prevent him from paying for a lawyer.
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    Ice agents shoot a women trying to run them over in Minneapolis

    If a Democrat was in power the protests would have stayed home.
  45. spat

    Protests in Iran evolving into an insurrection

    And it needs to happen very soon. The outcome will be decided by next week, if not sooner. If Trump doesn't do something before the weekend, it will be too late no matter what it is.
  46. spat

    Ice agents shoot a women trying to run them over in Minneapolis

    The same way they would know she was a vegan or a crossfitter. They'll fucking tell you. There are lots of homosexual people who don't make it their entire personality, there are lots of people who do crossfit just for the exercise. And I assume there are at least a few vegans who really do...
  47. spat

    The deliberately hidden history of slavery in Central and South America,

    Slavery is like cocaine. You think it's letting you get a lot more work done, but what it's really doing is locking your society onto a dead end path to ruin.
  48. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Actually, I believe the appropriate term is complicit.
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    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Jesse Ventura might be a douche, but at least he knows which bathroom gets the tampons. Maybe they should bring him back.
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