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It's disappointingly easy to change one's lifestyle. One would hope for difficult projects.

I would only say this in my defense, in case I have used the word libtard. I would be able to describe such a person in a way that you’d probably leave your kids with them.

@jon-nyc said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

Not just Larry.

Ok.

@jon-nyc said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

Both have been used here quite regularly.

You got Larry in the brain.

@jon-nyc said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

How different is it from Demonrat or libtard? I don’t recall you taking exception to those.

I judge public pundits by a different bar than personal acquaintances. But even in the public pundit sphere, the use of libtard as a non ironic word would be a non starter. You may be stuck in Rush Limbaugh territory.

@jon-nyc said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

If you have a point to make, just make it.

Just that your glee at using dehumanizing terms betrays a sadism and a lack of humanism. But you’re too stupor to get it. And some here still respect your opinions.

@jon-nyc said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

Of course.

Describe them. Don’t feel the need to use names. Use all your literary skills.

@jon-nyc said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

It wouldn’t really surprise me if there wasn’t any vetting that was going to filter this guy. And he wasn’t just a random translator, he worked in one of the CIA’s ‘zero units’. Offering asylum to a guy like this had decent bipartisan support ever since Bush started the program during the war.

I only find it sweet to note the date since magats didn’t even wait for the blood to be cleaned off the sidewalk before blaming Biden.

Do you personally know a “Magat”?

It's an exploration of being new to the world. I enjoyed it and it has a good heart. Low key post-apocalyptic novel.

and this

I pre ordered this book because Louis is just some one I resonate with. He only ever wanted to be a writer. I thought this was ok. By the way, read the book. I think I will

@Axtremus said in Ah the beautiful words from our President:

@Mik said in Ah the beautiful words from our President:

But I do not find his statements more offensive that the feelgood, ignore reality fucking lies the other side tries to pawn off.

Happy Thanksgiving! Would like to see you quote specific example(s) of "the feelgood, ignore reality fucking lies the other side tries to pawn off" so I can compare which is more offensive. Thank you!

Simply because you don't care (it doesn't trip your trigger), when various woke nonsense crosses your plate, does not obligate the world to rub your nose in nonsense at every turn. I think we can all stipulate that the level of triggering you receive when confronted with arbitrary woke nonsense, does not rise to any level at which you'd post negatively about it. But you're about the most reserved long term poster here, the most protective of all personal things, and obviously there's nothing much interesting there to protect, but you just want to turtle your personal things, because you're afraid not to. You met so many people. You know the impression I got when I met you? That you were still reserved and private. It's interesting when you brag about meeting so many people. You're perfectly content to just stay entirely reserved in any face to face interaction. It's not an uncommon social skill, in fact it runs in my family. But it does calibrate the meaning of face to face interactions.

All messaging is a marketing stunt. What did left-leaning messaging have to do with the assassination of Charlie Kirk? Or the assassination of these natl'l guard troops? Of course it was integral. At least the presence of Natl Guard troops can be interpreted as peaceful, and in fact is peaceful in intent, if any of the guardsmen were spoken to, including the ones killed. The messaging about fascism and hate hate hate that permeates how the left speaks of their opposition, on the other hand, was anything but peaceful. No peaceful intent no matter how you view it.

Successful dishes tonight. The vegetables were a hit and the ribs were good. Veggies were Brussels sprouts fresh cut off the stalk with Italian balsamic from our recent trip. And salt and pepper and olive oil. Baked for a while until slightly browned on top.

@LuFins-Dad said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

@Horace said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

@89th said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

@LuFins-Dad said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

I would say that this - https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/352511 broadly paints it as a logical result of the stationing of National Guard in DC, and kinda implies that sending 500 more troops actually worsens the situation…

But it’s easy to read things into written words that aren’t meant by the poster.

It does worsen the situation. Just like adding troops for no reason resulted in this unnecessary risk. Same with the ICE raids on civilians and illegal immigrants without any local crimes.

Of course we can never prove a hypothetical but would those guardsmen be alive and without injury had they not been brought to DC for a marketing stunt?

One can make the reasonable case for that. And that case is fine. But to imply the case, and then be too lazy or cowardly to personally back the case up, is where it gets gross.

I don’t find that case one that can be reasonably made at all. Let me make this counter: A federal push to restore safety and prevent violent crime in the federal city was successful, and even acknowledged as such by the mayor. Despite all of the screaming opposition, there were no rights trampled, and no disruption to the running of the city. Now, in the middle of the drawdown of NG troops, an Afghani from Washington travels all the way to DC to attack NG troops? I would argue forcefully that the cause was not the 2500 troops that were pretty innocuous, but were instead people like @89th arguing online that this was a travesty and an infringement on the freedom of Americans, unrivaled since forever and this was worse than Hitler! Kristalnacht is next!

So some dude from a country where armed insurrection and murder is the political coin, naturally responds to the instigation of 89th saying “She shouldn’t have worn the red lipstick, then this wouldn’t have happened!”

I think that’s a far more more reasonable argument, but still wrong, since the blame lies solely on the guy that pulled the trigger.

That seems reasonable as well.

I thought it already had been done with the "shameful ice raids", except the crazy anti-American person in that case, accidentally killed a couple of detainees rather than ICE agents. The anecdotes are actually piling up for crazy anti-America violence. they don't get a lot of play here, because jon's counterpart does not exist here to remind the world of every single anecdote that crosses their Twitter feed, which satisfies their biases.

@89th said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

@LuFins-Dad said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

I would say that this - https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/352511 broadly paints it as a logical result of the stationing of National Guard in DC, and kinda implies that sending 500 more troops actually worsens the situation…

But it’s easy to read things into written words that aren’t meant by the poster.

It does worsen the situation. Just like adding troops for no reason resulted in this unnecessary risk. Same with the ICE raids on civilians and illegal immigrants without any local crimes.

Of course we can never prove a hypothetical but would those guardsmen be alive and without injury had they not been brought to DC for a marketing stunt?

One can make the reasonable case for that. And that case is fine. But to imply the case, and then be too lazy or cowardly to personally back the case up, is where it gets gross.

An interrogation of the passive voice in writing:

Does Russia have any hope against NATO? I get the concern over nuclear war, but assuming Russia is not suicidal, what is the real risk here?