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“Cars, law, and politics” redux.
J.D., automobile enthusiast, ex Fed, Deadhead, Swiftie.
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There should be exactly no Jews on the green side of that repugnant chart.
If only because
Trains ——> Camps
is pretty much the same thing.
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One single thing.
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I’m not justifying police shootings, or suggesting that agents should jump out of cars with guns and masks. They should not.
But your suggesting that they be shot on site is -literally- advocacy of murder.
If you are a lawyer, or were, you should know better.
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Thanks, but you didn’t say “brandish,” which might or might not be legal justification for shooting “on sight.”
You said, “if armed,” which alone is not justification for use of deadly force in any US jurisdiction I know.
These are always fact-specific inquiries.
Words matter, counselor.
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The NYT is lost. Pro-regime, corporate tools.
I recommend cancelling one’s subscription.
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Um, no.
I’m not sure what the law is in New Mexico, but that would be murder in many jurisdictions.
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In principle, this is a great initiative, and it should be enacted federally.
As you probably know, no state can dictate requirements to federal agencies. But it would be great if California enacted this for its own LE.
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You’re rearing them right!
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I think that’s the defining difference between the Trump Right and the rest of us.
It’s all about empathy.
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Yes, sometimes they do, although in the case of the No Kings / Pride events, the article says that the numbers were provided by the event organizers. Nothing is mentioned about the methodology.
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More guns = more gun violence, to be sure.
But I don’t see gun regulation as our pressing issue today.
If anything, liberals should be buying guns, not trying to regulate them. The fascists are.
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Interesting. I remain skeptical. I doubt we’ve ever had a million people gather in Boston. Not even for the Red Sox in 2004.
I think organizers want to have big numbers, and I know media like to report big numbers.
I’m glad there were lots of people, however many.
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@maddow.msnbc.com,
Why repost unverified data like this? WCVB says the 1M number is “according to” march organizers. Your repost makes that guesswork seem more credible than it deserves.
Our city isn’t that big, by geography or population.
You’re a Big Deal. Maybe get an actual crowd count.
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I’d be interested to hear how those crowd sizes were calculated. I’ve lived in Boston for decades, and I can’t imagine a million people. That’s 4x the March on Washington, and at least 25% more than the Million Man March was.
We just don’t have the population or the space for those numbers.
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It’s intentional collaboration with the authoritarian state.
Cancel your subscriptions.
The NYT is a tool of the regime.
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Also, the NYT are collaborators.
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I don’t believe it.
100,000? Sure.
250,000? Maybe.
1,000,000? No way.
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You’re Seattle, but that’s New Rochelle?
Very confused by everything here.
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And the major corporate media are all covering the parade far harder than they are covering the protest.
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Look, I was out of town, but I don’t buy this.
I live there, and there’s no way 1 million people fit on Boston Common. The whole city doesn’t have 1 million people. This has got to be exaggerated.
Got to see some evidence.
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One single thing
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Also, he’s a draft-dodger.
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Most of the time, my parents didn’t even know where I was.
(This is not a criticism. My elderly parents are both alive today. They have been excellent parents.)
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Of what, Ayn Rand?
I did not know that about Thiel. I think that makes him worse.
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Neatly accomplishing what that psychopath sent out to do.
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It’s fascinating. I wonder if their STEM focus elided the humanities to the point they don’t have any larger sense of their place in human history.
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As a bearded, white, straight, 4x4-driving gun owner I often make an impression entirely at odds with my actual ethos.
Lesson: don’t fucking judge people by their appearance.
It’s a lesson I have to re-learn every day.
Corollary: implicit bias is a real thing.
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I mean, those things are pretty cool. Imagine the centuries of science research that made those possible. Fun date!
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Every bit of the anti-abortion position/organization/ethos/lobbying/jurisprudence is about controlling women. That’s it. There’s nothing else.
It’s just misogyny.