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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

Is Inhumans fiction? I've read maybe one good fiction book by political types, so I'm I wouldn't expect much from that if it is.

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8BitArchitect 7 points ago +7 / -0

Autoerotic asphyxiation seems to be the preferred method of strangulation for males, based on all the stories of male rock stars found hanging in their closets with their dicks out. But even then, it's not exactly common.

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8BitArchitect 8 points ago +9 / -1

Ah, yes, this comic is a totally accurate picture of how Austin Metcalf's father looks and behaves.

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8BitArchitect 12 points ago +12 / -0

Gender-critical

I see Oceania continues to coin Newspeak so the language will be double-plus good!

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

The fat waitress comes close, but most of the female characters barely have that much screen time. It's great.

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

We've been replacing parts of our brains with technology to expand our intellectual capacity since we invented the alphabet (if not earlier.) That's perfectly fine. What isn't is outsourcing our reasoning to technology, which is something that we've done in some respects at least since the earliest forms of mass media, but 'AI' has propelled this to previously unimagiably stupid frontiers.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

So you admit it is about race then? Or are you just looking for a cheap own with your magic words?

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8BitArchitect 11 points ago +11 / -0

I'm glad Paul Prediger (formerly Gaige Grosskreutz) survives, so we could have a living example of the type of shit bags that were rioting that night. I'm particularly happy that Rosenbaum didn't survive the altercation, because in a just world he'd have been dead years ago for raping little boys, but Grosskreutz telling his story on the stand and getting eviscerated as badly on cross as his bicep was by Kyle was schadenfreude of the highest quality.

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8BitArchitect 35 points ago +35 / -0

There is always a political solution. "War is a continuation of politics by different means," after all.

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +6 / -0

Isn't there a way to ban someone from posting threads without deleting their threads/preventing them from commenting?

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

You really ought to start using block-quotes for these, and adding some of your own commentary at the end.

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8BitArchitect 4 points ago +4 / -0

She's a woman. Of course she's outsourcing her protection; that's just how society has operated for thousands of years. But you're right, she's outsourced her protection to an entity that has no concerns for her well-being, and she's paying the price for it.

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8BitArchitect 6 points ago +7 / -1

Reality: A confidential informant said he was an MS-13 gang member.

Fixed that. Confidential informants are criminals who are being granted some form of clemency in exchange for providing information on other criminals. You can judge for yourself how credible they are.

Now, he was here illegally, so I don't have any problem with his removal. But we shouldn't be overselling the situation based on the word of a CI.

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

It just left a bad taste in my mouth to tell legal non-citizens who hold the same values as us that they should keep it to themselves. [...] I kept thinking about what I'd say to a legal resident of Canada who drove a truck. [...]

When the government is tyrannical you only have three options: comply, resist, or leave. If you're going to choose resistance as a non-citizen, you'd better be assimilated well enough that people are willing to back you up when the government inevitably comes for you.

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8BitArchitect 8 points ago +8 / -0

You're replying to an argument I didn't make, but it's worth addressing.

The right loses because they refuse to use their political power to defeat their enemies out of some combination of a sense of 'fairness' and fear of reprisal (and because an overwhelming majority of those in positions of power/influence are controlled opposition/uniparty establishment.) I don't give a damn about what the left might hypothetically do with this precedent, because the left does what they fucking want, regardless of precedent.

Additionally, Trump's EO on this specifies foreign terrorists/organizations. You can migrate to the US and join the KKK and you'll probably run into feds from every three-letter agency except ICE.

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8BitArchitect 12 points ago +12 / -0

I don't think you're being disingenuous here, but I think you're missing the point

However, lets not pretend that everyone trump is deporting are criminals. [...] We ok with deporting immigrant protestors simply for advocating for Palestinian rights?

I don't care. If you're not a citizen, you should be trying to assimilate into American culture, or at least keeping your head down. "When in Rome" and all that.

Due to his criminal convictions and absence of legal status [...]

This is the most important part of the above paragraph. I'm going to assume you missed it. The article doesn't specify his crimes, but those are irrelevant. What is a government supposed to do with a criminal who is unable to establish a legal right to be present in their or any other country? Let him roam free because he happened to make it inside their borders?

You don't have a right to residence in a foreign country. In modern times we've invented a 'right' for 'refugees' to seek asylum within a nearby country, but this has been so thoroughly abused that, frankly, I don't think it's worth considering whether a migrant is a 'refugee' or not. If they aren't integrating and they aren't contributing to the wellbeing of society, they can leave or they can rot.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

When's the last time you had Whataburger? They dropped off a cliff after they got bought out by an investment firm in Chicago (several years ago at this point.)

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8BitArchitect 5 points ago +5 / -0

Judicial precedent says it doesn't, but there's no mention of obscenity in the text of the amendment.

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8BitArchitect 36 points ago +36 / -0

It's a shitty meme from /r/PoliticalCompasMemes, that's why.

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +2 / -1

"The only absolute evil is the belief in absolutes."

George Lucas (paraphrased)

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8BitArchitect 7 points ago +7 / -0

The rights of criminals who (in addition to their other crimes) entered or remained in this country illegally to continue to remain in this country illegally?

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8BitArchitect 13 points ago +14 / -1

Massie voted against the continuing resolution on the budget, allowing the government to continue operating at existing funding levels, rather than shut down. He was also, to my knowledge, the only representative to do so. Publicly, this is the reason Trump is upset with him, but, as you recognized, there are other areas that they don't align and this could just be cover.

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8BitArchitect 0 points ago +1 / -1

Was he rummaging through your old posts, or did he remember an old post of yours and simply go find the link?

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