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@Horace said in ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis:

Well, you categorize people in very simple terms, and have missed, willingly or otherwise, my negative commentary on Tucker. You probably more listen to Phibes' characterization of my attitude towards Tucker than you do me. I know how easy it is to judge people based on who they have ever claimed to listen to or even partially resonate with. It's why people like you and Phibes never admit to respecting any public personality. It's the safe choice, especially for those who most freely use that cudgel of categorizing people and permanently attaching them to anybody they have said positive things about.

Hey, no need to bring me into your weird little ongoing marital spat.

And the fact that I prefer to spend my free time listening to light history podcasts rather than to these "personalities" you listen to doesn't mean I don't respect public personalities. I just don't happen to respect the ones you listen to.

Melvin Bragg, for example - he's fucking great. Admittedly, nobody over here has probably heard of him, but that's hardly my fault. Adam Maness is somebody else I really like - he's a jazz pianist and commentator. Sorry, not everything is politics.

Do the racists make it February because it's the shortest month?

@LuFins-Dad said in ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis:

How many people here have been to actual NRA sanctioned Open Carry and Concealed Carry classes? I have been… Even though I don’t own a firearm, I’ve always thought it was good to know a little about them and occasionally go to a range and rent some…

A few of the things that both sessions teach right off of the bat:

1. A right to carry is not absolute, there are some places and situations where you are not legally allowed to be in possession of a firearm.

2. Even in a place/time where you are legally allowed to carry, it is incumbent on the gun owner to exercise appropriate judgment of whether carrying the gun is beneficial, neutral, or dangerous. It’s the responsibility of the gun owner to exercise sound decision making and judgement on where and when they carry a weapon.

I fail to see a disconnect or hypocrisy on this particular issue.

Presumably you feel that Kristi Noem would have supported shooting these people like dogs?

@jodi said in Trauma at Big Bear Lake:

One of the things they are saying is that the birds may have known the eggs were unviable, and that’s why they left them alone. Not sure is that is accurate, but it’s possible.

She's back on the remaining egg now, but who knows?

I blame the lesbians. God fucking hates ‘em. You’d think he’d have more important stuff to think about, but no. It’s lesbians all day long. That’s why he watches all those movies presumably.

@jodi said in Trauma at Big Bear Lake:

Oh no!! I just started watching again, but saw that the nest was unguarded for quite awhile this afternoon.

I'm not convinced that Jackie is quite as fantastic a parent as her followers on Facebook think she is. As they were posting about how humans could learn a thing or two about parental responsibility and the beauty of nature, a raven had its beak right in one of her eggs. It was enormously upsetting, but to be honest she doesn't seem to care that much.

“This is a very serious felony,” a federal prosecutor said in court, adding Lemon “knowingly joined a mob to storm into a church.”

Tourism, surely? Did he steal any of the religious stuff? Was he seen sitting in Christ's chair? Did he dress up like a fucking buffalo? Probably not.

@kluurs said in Trauma at Big Bear Lake:

The remnants of the Raven's body to be shown later.

The eagles are killing machines - when the chicks are hatched they bring up 2-3 fish a day, and quite a few coots.

The raven couldn't believe it's luck - she'd left the nest for a couple of hours for some reason, but it was still very cautious.

I've been watching the feed of the bald eagles since Jodie posted it last year, when we got two more eagles successfully fledge.

Two eggs laid so far this year - a raven just ate one of them

Odd - I was just listening to a cover of 'For What It's Worth' by Buffalo Springfield yesterday and thinking how it was so relevant at the moment. Horace is right though, it doesn't bang you over the head like Springsteen's effort

A like this version of it....

@Horace said in ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis:

Yes, the dumbest thing anybody has said that I'm aware of, came from the director of the FBI. That sucks. But in terms of culture wars, I'm not aware that it's a tribal thing. An administration thing potentially, and definitely a Kash thing, at least in that moment.

Well, the Secretary of Homeland Security called the victim a domestic terrorist, which is essentially the same. That creepy bloke Stephen Miller said the same thing.

This isn't just one guy. When Donald Trump appears to be the calming voice of reason you've got to suspect you have a problem.

@Horace said in ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis:

Other than Kash Patel, can you name someone who's said something like this? Of course you can't.

Right, so you honestly believe that nobody feels this way other than the Director of the FBI. And that's supposed to make me feel better somehow?

@Renauda said in ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis:

The fact remains that Pretti never used his firearm against ICE troopers in the two documented incidents.

Either there is a right to bear arms that applies to all, or there isn't. We can't have one that just applies to the people we agree with or who don't look a bit shifty.

And the argument that 'Sure, you've got a right to carry, but don't complain or be surprised if it gets you killed' is intellectually bankrupt.

Nobody here has claimed he's a saint, and pretty much everybody has said he behaved like an idiot. That isn't the point.

I'm guessing they were both into pi.

@taiwan_girl said in The Never-ending Grift:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/28/melania-trump-documentary-amazon-release

Re: Melania documentary

But no one paid $40m to acquire Am I Racist? – or an additional $35m to market it. That’s how much Amazon has poured into Melania – remarkably, the most the deep-pocketed company has ever paid to secure distribution of a single film. This is seemingly the result of a post-election bidding war when corporate panic over matching a seeming rightward turn in the populace was at its peak.

Technically, paying the president-elect’s wife this much money – Melania reportedly pocketed nearly $30m of Amazon’s initial $40m outlay – was legal, because the first lady isn’t part of the government. She’s just a private citizen who happens to be married to the president and happened to receive a multimillion-dollar check from a company with many government contracts through its web services and other divisions.

Apparently Melania has been nominated for a FIFA film award.

Forgive my spitballing here, but Kash and Kristi don't really sound that pro-life, either!

They're FUCKING LIBERALS!!!

@Horace said in ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis:

One of the most ridiculous things anybody said was Kash Patel saying he had no right to be armed. Of course he had a right to be armed. But that choice sure did have consequences.

He chose to bring a gun into an intentionally tense situation, where using the gun would be certain suicide. Gun advocates who happen to be sane can judge the situation without being called hypocrites.

They didn't even wait to pry it from his cold, dead hands.

We've had to listen to decades of extreme rhetoric from the right about the God-given right to carry guns, and suddenly we need to temper this with a bit of common sense?

@jon-nyc said in The Womanosphere Movement:

@Axtremus said in The Womanosphere Movement:

“Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin...

And yet...

To be fair, they are pretty thin when compared to their lord and saviour.