Chucktshoes

Playing the law letter game is playing with fire.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/north-carolina-and-north-dakota-police-chiefs-and-federal-firearms-licensees-indicted Well, guess we have the story now behind why Larry surrendered his FFL license and a bunch of machine guns to the ATF.

I am not a fan. I think this is already been done, and done better.

Right?!

Thirded.

That was around the time that we killed the political forum last time, wasn’t it?

That’s right. It wasn’t him that got to boot, but his good buddy. He drifted off not too long after that.

If it’s who, I’m thinking of, I don’t think he’s around anymore for reasons.

Merged related thread.

I think the issue is that we were attempting to keep the thread narrowly tailored to prevent it from blowing up into a wildly out of control thread. I am not sure we really succeeded, but we try. The tension between the general tamping down on politics with the occasional big topic having space made for it leads to an imperfect and uneven balancing act. I would like to speak for myself alone for a moment. I really appreciate the input from all of y’all regarding your thoughts and criticisms on how the moderation is handled with regards to politics. It’s taken seriously and informs the decisions made here.

Mannnnnnn…. I loved it too. Then I didn’t. Weirdly enough I think that transition happened around the time I become a moderator.

It’s good for frying with its high smoke point and neutral flavor. But you’re right about it not seasoning cast-iron well. That’s why I just use lard like God and grandma intended.

I don’t know anything about the purple dye, but don’t get me started on micro plastics and seed oils.

Fair enough.

While it was not me, I would like to offer a few words of general advice to everyone. Reread the post above from Macgyver above pay special attention to the end of his post and reconsider things that you might have posted and what your planned next posts may be. Let’s just say that Enfield was very close to being called out of retirement. *edited to add* This is truly meant as a general and not specifically directed post. To those I quoted, please don’t feel singled out.

Same.

Even the Israeli army can’t/won’t confirm the event took place. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-says-it-does-not-have-confirmation-about-allegations-that-hamas-beheaded-babies-/3014787 Nobody ever looked like a fool for waiting for the actual truth to shake out. It’s wise to always take enough time to make sure of the facts, especially when the story lines up a little too perfectly with the narrative you’ve already built in your head. No I don’t believe that the PEOPLE of NYC deserved what befell them. That doesn’t change the fact that I also still have strong suspicions that our government doesn’t have entirely clean hands on the matter. I made the distinction between who’s responsible/culpable and who usually pays the price more than once in this thread.

You do understand that Hamas and Gaza are not the same thing, right? One is a political and militant organization and the other is a geographic location that’s home to 2.2 million people. Half of them are children. The Israeli government absolutely had a hand in bringing this tragedy on its people by propping up and finding Hamas. The innocent people who died at their hands paid the price for their leader’s misdeeds. As is almost always the case. Why’d you cut off the second half of that sentence? “…loss of innocent life.” That part is important. Is the acknowledgement that there are innocents amongst the Palestinians inconvenient?

My purpose in drawing attention to who is involved is that it is wise to know the real score to protect oneself from being manipulated into actions that are ultimately not in one’s own interests. Who’s really benefitting and who is really paying the cost in blood, treasure, and their souls. On that note, with respect to the reports of the beheaded babies that have struck so hard because it is absolutely horrific if true. I would like to remind you of the stories from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait about Iraqi soldiers pulling babies from incubators and dashing them against the wall. Those stories weren’t true just like the stories of Snake Island and the Ghost of Kyiv more recently. In the early days of any conflict there is often the craziest and/or most horrific propaganda that gets spread. I don’t know if these reports are true or false and they could certainly be either. I’m just advocating caution in believing anything that isn’t independently multi-sourced verified and rushing to judgements on that information. Maybe just to the villains in our government responsible. My non-interventionist positions have been pretty stable for all of the nearly 15 years I’ve been around here. I’d like to stop financing all of it and focus on fixing our own crap instead of stirring it up elsewhere. I kinda have a bit. I have no issue with targeting and striking those responsible. I do have issue with not doing everything possible to minimize the loss of innocent life of those not actively involved. Gaza has been essentially an open air prison for the last 16 years. Get the women, elderly and kids out and flatten it. But one must come before the other.

What about those that financed them? https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

There’s a difference between using metaphors to dance around the subject to say something without actually saying it, and openly advocating for the murder of children because of who their parents are or where they were born. This was the whole point of this line of questioning that I was posing. When we talk about things like “leveling the place“ “wiping them all out” and such, we are speaking in terms of genocide. Killing not just people who do evil but everyone around them, including, innocents, women and children. I choose to believe that many of us here engage in this kind of language, without fully walking it out completely in our minds, and understanding what we are really saying. I have to. I want people to think about what the concrete actions and consequences of those actions are that they advocate for. Those who are comfortable advocating for actual genocide, there is nothing further for me to engage with them at that point. They are as inhuman to me as the Hamas terrorists, who slaughtered women and children this weekend. One cannot decry the calls for the death of the Jews by Muslims, and in the next breath advocate for the genocide of Palestinians and maintain any semblance of a moral consistency.

I appreciate you taking the mask off.