Good point, but also bear in mind that Antifa's best successes, historically, have been against opposition unaware of the threat they pose. Antifa relies on that ... be on your guard around these people, because even if the guy you're talking to isn't planning to hit you from behind, his friends probably are.
Well, yeah. Feminists have accrued a substantial amount of power by now and so are subject to the wrong side of Alinsky's rules. That's one of the reasons feminists are so intent on playing the victim, but by this point it's kinda wearing threadbare, when offending a feminist means that you can no longer work anywhere with an HR department.
I'm fairly sure the dude with the black kid is one of the teachers, isn't he? That would explain why he's considerably less comfortable throwing the kid around. Re the Asian kid ... as others have said, it looks like the actual security guy was just separating the two just about as fast as he could. Even though the Asian kid didn't start it - not something he had any way of knowing - people get pissed off and decide they want some payback sometimes. Better all around to get as much distance between the two as possible and sort out the mess later on, no?
It's not about bearing a grudge. It's about holding people meant to serve the public to account.
Some of these people undoubtedly advocated for things that they either must have or should have known would not work for the sole purpose of eroding civil rights. I would dearly like to know who those people were, as this is not something a democratic society can allow to stand, and such people should be prosecuted to the fullest extent the law allows.
You know, I might - might - consider forgiving these people.
After we've had a public enquiry to establish beyond a shadow of a doubt who took part in what fuckery and has let everybody know about it.
Then, and only then, will I consider it.
Yup, without wanting to belabour things, the guy's correct, in the specific example of towed artillery ... even their self-propelled stuff is considerably newer.
While I'm sure there are newer, better towed guns out there, I'm unsure what makes a piece with decades of real-life reliability testing a bad gun?
Might also be worth noting with regard to the 240mm howitzer M1 that nobody makes howitzers that big any more. Most nations top out at 155mm these days - that packs plenty of punch and is considerably more mobile than the monster WWII howitzers, the WWII-era 155mm howitzer being just under half the weight of the 240mm. It's just that Taiwan, with purpose-built bunkers for those M1s, simply doesn't need that mobility.
... but there's hard determinate science backing up the periodic table. I can predict what two chemicals are going to do when I throw them in a vial and go check it.
Modern gender religion ... the entire point of it is to debase the scientific method - see "There's no such thing as biological sex" - the only principle it seeks to uphold is that it's adherents are special and should not be beholden to the law.
In the specific example of towed artillery, you're absolutely correct, a lot of the Finnish towed artillery is based off the 1960s Soviet D-30 piece. The one that's still in service with 30% of the world's countries. The rest of it isn't as modern as the US, for instance, but it's not that old, and they've got quite a stockpile of non-Soviet stuff.
You're protesting just a little too hard, I think...
... being a devil's advocate here, could it be as simple as Owens being photographed at that same event - in the same shirt, iirc - as Kanye himself?
Not exactly what you'd call any kind of objective reporting, really, is it?
Not exactly a full list there, though, is it?
- Made the bloody stuff in the first place
- Covered it up
- Let their citizens travel the world - but not inside China, presumably to limit the spread in the glorious communist paradise and do their level best to cripple the outsiders and permit the CCP an easier time catching them up afterwards
- Gleefully accepting donations of supplies to mitigate a problem they caused, while at the same time buying up every bit of PPE they could find ... despite telling the rest of the world it wasn't such a significant problem.
- Supplying (of course) substandard PPE of their own on contracts from the outside.
This is a country that views international trade as a weapon. One that we are arming for them.
True, but, honestly, that's part and parcel of being a publisher. That's why they're held legally accountable for the things said with their voice - not something that applies to the Sec230 publishers that tech companies are, devoid of any requirement to act responsibly or ethically because they're not held to account no matter what they get up to.
Ultimately he's not technically wrong. What Twitter and so many others want to sell is a publishing service where they have editorial control over their own content, to make it appealing to advertisers.
They just don't want the potentially crippling costs that come with being held responsible for their actions.
Honestly, I have a pretty severe case of lack of sympathy for that position. If I'm held accountable for my actions, Twitter can be held accountable for theirs.
Literally the only debate strategy these people have is special pleading.
Later edit: Heh, if you look at the wiki entry on special pleading, one of the bullet point entries as examples is:
- "You aren't like me, so you do not even have a right to think about or hold opinions on my plight."
... I wonder how long that will last once the "lived experience" folks get a look at it...
Prepares properly insincere accent
"Oh, no. And on to the next segment..."