Rittenhouse or Andrew Coffee IV?

https://reason.com/2021/11/22/man-faces-30-year-sentence-self-defense-andrew-coffee-iv-rittenhouse/

I realized it had been a while since I read about it so I did a little trip down memory lane and can correct a few points: he got 10 years, but had faced 30. Also the circumstances of the firearm possession were more different than I recalled: Coffee wasn’t allowed to have one and Rittenhouse just smuggled one.

The American Libertarian sects tend to loosely regard themselves as anarchist, which is frustrating as all hell.

Anarcho-capitalism is opportunistic enough to co-opt anything.

She was trying to follow eight years of Obama that had primed an electorate for a radical change candidate. She was not going to be that and in fact personified that her Party would unfortunately not be the one to change.

The MOVE bombings are a good example of how deep the cowardice of racism is.

Hell the KKK largely formed in response to Americans getting military training in World War 1.

One the same day Rittenhouse got off, a guy who defended himself against this exact thing was acquitted. But since the weapon he used wasn’t properly registered to him (a charge which the judge for Rittenhouse shrugged off and tossed on a whim) that guy got 30 years in spite.

They’ll find the loopholes to achieve the desired outcome.

I got married while standing in a river and I incorporated a pagan ritual in front of a select few of unsuspecting parents and their spouses.

Worth.

A month and a half later we held a fancy reception dinner and served pancakes.

Also worth.

Bill Watterson was my childhood philosopher.

I had a friend who went through a whole arc of wanting to be a cop. She had pretty much an identical experience I had to squint at the name and photo to be sure this wasn’t a post she had made.

Being a woman was a huge setback from the get-go anyway, casual police brutality training notwithstanding.

She never quite got my criticism of wanting to be a cop (She wanted to fix policing by example) nor my lack of surprise when she spent a year wasting her time being tested and strung along by cops who were never going to hire her. (You have a master’s degree FFS! You’re not what they’re looking for!)

One that doesn’t take corporate donations would be start.

Another method is 3rd parties forming locally as grassroots organizations and then forming a coalition party to back 3rd party candidates on the national level.

Sort of how you have a few caucuses in the Democratic Party like the Farm-Labor Part in Minnesota, or Independents who caucus with the Democrats like Bernie who could be peeled off to back a 3rd party of even just flatly Independent candidates.

It’s on brand for people who unironically refer to Russian conscripts as ‘Orks’ without any sense of irony.

The proper response to being offered something to read, indeed.

Although it does appear that living in them was better than living in a tent and perhaps led to living in a better housing situation? Unless the place was demolished after you moved out, it would be better than a tent for someone else.

Bad housing is better than no housing, largely in part that it helps people get out of the inertia and deathspiral of homelessness.

There’s a minimum a society should provide, and public housing at least can satisfy that.

What is obscured in the strict ‘line up’ and ‘line down’ interpretations of the market is a tremendous amount of money churning through different hands. It invariably transfers to the wealthiest hands who are most capable of absorbing losses and taking risks. The vast body of wealth that is lost in high market volatility is… retirement and pension funds.

The Dow Jones could stay flat and billions of dollars could still be transferred into the hands of a dozen people.

As a sweatshop, where civilized at all.

And that mostly went for Asia as a whole in the average American portrayal.

There are two kinds of meetings: decision meetings and update meetings. Update meetings are bullshit time sinks designed to validate the complete chain of command. Decision meetings are where something tangible is determined.

The former is the vast bulk of meetings. The latter is a rarity, and sometimes only possible after fully satiating the beast that is the former.

Your brain on Nick Fuentes.

Doesn’t bother me at least. Online assholes are the default state, which means I just get to be happy when I interact with civil people.

Is Gadsden representing Libertarians or Conservatives here? But still why would they be separate from Nazis who would be screaming socialist as well? The Nazis and the bedrock of their support was in their anti-communism.

A lot of people got trolled by hexbear users when they migrated here from Reddit by posting pictures of pigshit and calling anyone mad about it a shitlib.

Some are still angry, two years on.

Rainwater with pure grain alcohol, of course.