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2日前the difference is that the united states ONLY takes from the poor
Buelldozer
The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.
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31·6日前They are the “Jack Booted Government Thugs” that the NRA was yelling about 30 years ago. Literally, it was May of 1995. They were reacting to the spate of violent government actions against people of their community. Since then the NRA has been corrupted, gutted, and finally crushed by the very Government it used to rail against.
Democrats cheered it on while they worked overtime to leave half the country powerless to actually resist the Tyranny they claim to fear. I say claim because they’re still at it right now, today, which is something that no one who was truly fearful would do.
The situation we are in is a reminder of why American’s traditionally didn’t trust Government and most especially overly power Federal Government.
It may read like it but this is not directed at you personally. It’s directed at the wider universe of anti-gun liberals who’ve started crawling out of the woodwork to ask the same question you did and my reply is a snapshot of the overwhelming aggravation that many 2A people feel when hearing it.
Where the gun people?
It’s California, there aren’t that many “Gun People” around. California has doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down to make sure that their populace is absolutely as disarmed as possible. In fact nearly every god damned city that is having these kinds of ICE Raids is located in a State that’s done the same thing. New York City, Chicago, Portland, and Denver are just a few examples.
Add onto that these kinds of immigrants can’t legally purchase firearms so they’re unable to do it themselves or even create Community / Mutual Aid situations and to make it worse they are living in ethnic enclaves so there’s no regular citizens around to help.
The next question is likely to be “Okay, so where’s all the 2A freaks from everywhere else?” and the answer to that is…how the fuck are they supposed to know when ICE is going to raid a place? Especially if that place is in another Town, County, or even State?
After that its usually something like “Well these Gun Nuts should just start countering ICE wherever they find them and not wait for a specific situation.”.
The Anti-Government 2A people you are asking about tried 5 years ago and the same people who are today asking “Where the gun people?” wanted absolutely fucking nothing to do with them.
It happened back in 2020 and no one wanted to help. (Those guys received massive prison sentences by the way.) The Boogaloo Boys in general, and those two specifically, were then widely criticized for their actions even in minority and immigrant communities.
Hell the NRA is still being mocked for its Anti-Government / Pro 2A stance from thirty years ago!
Short sighted idiots cheer while Government disarms its citizens and they strongly back any law or movement intended to disarm them more and faster. Then when some people who are still armed go after Government Thugs they make it a point to shit on them while wishing them a quick journey to hell.
Then these same idiots have the absolute audacity to ask “Where are they?”. It’s the wrong people asking the wrong question.
The correct questions are “Where the fuck has everyone else been for the last 30 years?” followed by “Why the fuck should we help you now?” and the correct questioners the Anti-Government Gun Owners.
For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)
I maintain several multi-wan commercial setups and they don’t have this problem. I obviously don’t know what your setup is but I’d guess something is wrong with how its handling flows / connections. Once a connection is established between your edge and an internet resource that flow should remain “stuck” to whatever wan port it started with and it sounds like that isn’t happening.
This article has nothing to do with the United States and did not need a US centric comment.
My ISP certainly doesn’t have my Social Security number. Why on earth would I give it to them? Why would they even ask for it?
Your analogy makes no sense. This woman came here in 1978 and the Shah was booted in 1979. It is entirely believable that she would have faced reprisals in Iran during the massacres of 1981.
I don’t know why this woman was denied asylum but her request was well justified by events.
The EV1 was a wildly impractical vehicle with < 100 miles of range that cost $100,000 in 1996 money (over $200,000 today). It was never ever going to be any kind of mass produced consumer vehicle. Without GM subsidizing the ever loving shit out of them the only people who could have afforded them were the ultra wealthy.
Regardless, the only thing political was California’s insanely premature ZEV mandate set to take effect in 1998. That was political but not the EV1 itself.
BTW GM never really gave up on ZEV / PZEV even though most people think they did. I had a most excellent Hybrid Tahoe in the late 2000s but at 55k-ish new in 2009 ($82,000 today) it was simply too damn expensive to be a mass market vehicle. Just like the EV1.
I don’t remember anything about all their designs being open source but they DID open source(*) the Roadster.
They also open sourced(*) their charging connector which has now become an increasingly used standard called NACS.
I’m putting that asterisks by open source because that’s only sorta-kinda what they did. More precisely they made the Roadster and TCC royalty free to use and released all of the engineering documents necessary to use & recreate them.
What you’re probably remembering is their Patent Pledge from 2014. At this point Tesla holds nearly 1,200 patents worldwide so that Patent Pledge isn’t a small thing. They’re surely not going to make all of their vehicle designs open source but they do seem to be holding to their Patent Pledge and its underlying “Open Innovation Framework”.
This doesn’t mean Musk or his companies are good, it’s just a review of the facts.
I’ll never understand how the EV thing became a political issue.
I think at first it was viewed as a threat by both the Domestic Auto Industry including the UAW. Tesla was selling an increasing number of vehicles, which is what the Big 3 cared about, and they weren’t a Union Shop, which is what the UAW cared about. So they fought the rise of EVs out of self-protection.
It’s really the oil industry fighting it now because it’s an existential threat. The United States generates almost zero electricity from oil, to them it’s all about fuel. Coal has been in steep decline for two decades and as an industry its nearly done. They were replaced by the Natural Gas folks for electricity generation and you won’t find many NG folks who are actually against EVs. When you do it’s because their parent company is an Oil Company.
Toss in the rise of China as the current best source for EV batteries and the threat that Chinese companies like BYD present to the Big 3 and its easy to see why things are still all knotted up.
The current Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, was appointed by Harry Reid in 2012. The previous Parliamentarian, Alan Frumin, retired after having held the position twice (once appointed by Democrats and the second time by Republicans).
The last Parliamentarian who was “fired” was Robert Dove and like Alan Frumin he held the position twice. He was fired by Democrats in 1987, then brought back by Republicans in 95 then fired by Republicans in 2001.
Senate Parliamentarians don’t get “fired” very often, both parties seem to do it at about the same rate, and even when they are “fired” (demoted really) they tend to boomerang back into the position after a few years. There’s only been 6 of them since the role was established in 1935.
China imports 1.3 to 1.8 million barrels of oil per day from Iran, roughly 16% of its total. It’s not just oil either, China is a heavy importer of other Iranian petrochemicals.
China’s EVs give them very little leverage at this point.
Reading these comments seriously makes me wonder how many of y’all read the article. The US doesn’t need Iranian oil but China DOES.
A dwindling supply of oil through the Strait and rising oil prices damages China and buoys the United States. If China doesn’t want to put any effort into keeping the Strait open it’s going to hurt them far more than it will hurt anyone else.
Trump doesn’t need to be brought up in every fucking comment section. This is literally about rice in Japan so stop with American politics.
The same tailscale that announced last week that they are going to start charging?
Start shit, get hit.
It also has no basis in reality.
The Israeli Government used AIPAC to capture the American Political class. That is the reality.
Every US President and major political figure since the Clinton Administration has spoken at their annual Convention. US Politicians regularly travel to Israel.
I could keep going but you’d probably accuse me of Gish-Galloping.
None of this is conspiracy, it’s well documented and out in the open for everyone to see.
If US withdraws their support…
AIPAC has made it so that cannot happen and they do it intentionally.
I don’t agree with the Republican immigration bullshit but I’ve argued for over 30 years that if any of these blowhards were actually serious about immigration enforcement that they’d go after the employers. The I.R.S. has known for years which employers are hinky, they can see it with SSN re-use during employment verification.
SSN 506-03-2379 cannot possibly be working full time as a construction worker in Florida, a meat packer in Iowa, picking crops in California, ditch digging in Texas, and running Door Dash in 57 other cities…ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Find the employers involved in this and fine the ever loving shit out of them. They can employee people and pay them real wages instead of building their business on the back of underpaid immigrants.
Alabama has …?
A little thing called the Marshall Space Flight Center. Perhaps you’ve heard of it?
I think you’ve forgotten that the means of production is supposed to be seized by the proletariat, not by the bourgeoisie using their illegitimate government.