Search results

Hey, why not? It’s a dumb gambit by celebrities - who almost by definition shouldn’t matter in politics - but hey, why not take your clothes off?

Hispanics, like anyone, aren’t a monolith. If I take her family as an example, even the apolitical folks feel obligated to vote, and do so against Trump, rather than for Biden. There’s always going to be those who say otherwise. My Ma is among them. All I’m saying is that the messaging is...

If they’re leaving a socialist hellhole, they probably aren’t finna recreate it. Also, while our culture is basically all Western, it’s still a smorgasbord of different parts of that. Just because Europe looks pretty homogenous to us today, doesn’t mean it was always so. Italians, Jews, and...

Yeah, but what I’m talking about is the tone and timbre of that. No matter what was said, he came off in a bad way. I’m probably coloured in a lot of ways. I grew up in a suburb where Asians were a 3:1 majority, split among mostly Chinese, then Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Japanese...

Hey I mean, since I get negged for not overlooking a few things the Republicans do...why this? In all honesty, I’m so disconnected from the pulse of politics now that it’s so damn toxic, that I don’t even know if BLM is a libertarian thing. I hope not.

Well here’s the thing that the right here doesn’t grasp: they have sounded xenophobic for a long time, arguing about how our culture will change, or most pointedly how our President campaigned on what kind of dregs we’re importing. If that’s not what Republicans mean to say, then they need to...

Yup, and I don’t have a problem with that. Where I do have a problem is in the assumption that immigrants are troublemakers. I’m not sure how to explain where I am, but I am perfectly OK with border controls, just not if they are enforced with the basic mindset that immigrants = bad.

No, I wouldn’t say that. I think it’s a goal to aspire to, but the human condition right now won’t allow that. Open borders is either 100 generations away, or will need some aliens to land before it’s any kind of a workable or practical thought. I’m absolutely for border controls and a good...

I guess I vaguely knew that? I don’t know squat about Hasidic Jews, aside from pictures like those, least of all how they behave/vote. I guess I hung out with secular Jews, and I still don’t know what that means. One of my friends in high school was red headed and liked his Jewfro? This must be...

Now that I think about it: here’s an oldie but goodie:

While I have a lot of problems with Trump’s personality and character, swearing isn’t one of them. I personally couldn’t give less of a flying fuck :D Fun story (I’ll leave it up to you whether they’re telling the truth): according to my parents, my first words were “dumb bitch” as I crashed...

Heck I just learned a lot about Jews here. We actually had a few where I went to high school, enough that we got the Jewish holidays off in addition to the regular ones, but none seemed to be religious, and elsewhere out west there really weren’t many at all. High school is the only place I ever...

Eh, I can see why you’d be frustrated if someone is hogging a charger space...but I don’t think the law should be there to protect anyone from low-level assholism. Of the few public chargers I’ve seen, they generally aren’t in prime princess parking spots anyway, so unless you have a pretty car...

From their perspective, certainly not. I forget if it’s Radiolab or Freakonomics (I believe it’s the latter) which had an interesting episode. They essentially saw the parties as monopolizing the market of politics from an applied economics point of view. I liked their analysis, though they...

The problem is, how does one balance things like abortion and immigration (where I can get pretty lefty) vs. having a short-term handy tool against woke assholes? There’s no balance there in any mainstream party, no nuance or acknowledgement that 330+mn people come in 330+mn shades and perhaps a...

That’s where I agree with you. Gary Johnson looked fantastic until....he didn’t. The LP’s biggest enemy is it’s own libertarians. Cantankerous and too often a bit Aspy. I’m basically where the LP is on almost all of their platform issues, and probably even more lefty socially in some ways. But...

The DNC and RNC are perfectly happy to have that point of view perpetuated.

It’s a shame she’s kinda hot.

I watched a multipart doc last year on the history of China (I believe it was hosted by Michael Palin. He raised an interesting point: in terms of the relationship between the Chinese people and their rulers, the biggest change in the last millennium or two is the name change to Communism...

Wondering if I want to wade into these waters again. Lol

Yeah I grew up in California. Same game out there.

Sounds like a real guy who’s frustrated for reasons unknown. We were slated to have moved to Monroe county a couple of months ago but for Rona. I’m a spoiled boy here in Texas where it’s a Shall Issue thing; but hearing that a May Issue NY top cop said that...gives me a bit of hope. Y’all up...

That alone was enough to turn me off to Biden, let alone when he brought Harris on board. Any true believer in criminal justice reform wants to run, not walk, away from that ticket.

Rolex Presidential 4 prez 2020

A bit of a different path than I take, but essentially true. Can we please get better people up on the presidential stage? Please? Pretty please?

True, I’d pick an enbloc over a stripper any day. Only on a gun forum does something marginal get picked over a stripper!

That’s kind of what I’ve been saying. I feel politically homeless partly because of my own doing, but more because both parties are getting more polarized and discourse has followed suit. I can’t go anywhere without seeing crap saying that conservatives are racist or that liberals are...

Oh I agree that the asshole isn’t excused for committing more than one crime. Most of the onus for that is on them. But still...leaving stuff in your car is a good analogy. Parking garages will have signs telling you to not leave any visible valuables. If you do something you know will tempt...

Eh I mean, flags? That’s a piece of cloth. I pledge my allegiance to the stuff it represents, not a cloth pattern. Bea Arthur naked is probably fap material for somebody.

IDK man. I can’t get that involved unless the candidate’s friend/family, or I’m getting a check. I wouldn’t put up a sign or bumper sticker anyway, and I don’t think I’d be capable of being pissed if I hypothetically put up a sign and it got stolen. I’m kind of asking for it, in a way. That’s...

Why would you claymore someone over a sign?

Not quite comparable, but this is why I don’t do political bumper stickers (except for one that you’d really have to be whipsmart to recognize, and I’m not even with them 100%). I don’t want to worry about vandals and a-holes, it’s not worth it unless I’m on a campaign payroll. BTW, there’s a...

Makes sense. My loads have shifted away from industrial inputs to consumer goods going to stores, and moving a lot of freight from big consumer goods producers you’ve heard of. I went from about 50/50 to about 75/25. Hell, I’ll take the work in whatever form it comes.

And for some reason, found another round of .38 Spl today. EDIT: and it’s +P too!

Interesting. I like the option of some cocktails in my .410, I can’t imagine .45 Colt being a hot item. .38/.357 is less surprising, even some of the most semi-auto-focused folks seem to keep a wheelgun around in those chamberings.

True. Probably plenty of .410, .45 Colt, .3030 and .38spl out there.

Eh, there’s a lot of tension. While I am usually highly dismissive of insurrection/civil war sensational nonsense, this is easily the closest I’ve ever felt in my life to having such a thing come down the pike. My deficiency is mainly not having anything with common enough ammo to rely on field...

Ooh I have always liked P7s

In the middle of downsizing our stuff, I found another dozen rounds of .30-30. Looks like I’ll *have* to fire them before I send my Marlin out to some new owner. As hard as that thing kicks for a mild round, if I ever get another lever action, it will 100% be in a pistol chambering. I’ve...

He went a little over the top sometimes, but I agree from pure entertainment value, he was about is good as it gets. RGB was next in line for some good SCOTUS action. The other justices are boring. I hope there’s another firebrand next! Again, just from a selfish entertainment perspective...

I gotta say, in listening to SCOTUS oral arguments, she was one of my favs. Arguments are going to be less entertaining now.

Pretty much, or other regalia directly related to the job, such as achievement pins. I would consider myself to the left of here, certainly, and of the general population, most likely on LGBT stuff, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that neither your thoughts on the subject nor mine...

Not any Latinos I know but for two or maybe three out of maybe 50 in-laws. The previously apolitical ones are kind of feeling obligated to actually start voting now, and to vote blue. That’s across 7 different states of various political stripes.

ComBloc is kinda funny here...it predates the revolution, they just kinda built a lot of them

Hey, like I said. It’s ok to buy something just because you want it. Not everything has to be perfectly rooted in logic. I’m a fan of quirky things (which often means flawed), and sometimes it’s that hitch in the gitup which makes something kinda special. To be fair, I would almost dismiss at...

Kinda where I’m at. I actually kinda like Mosins, and while I always thought “Garbage Rod” was a bit too harsh, it’s hard to deny that when you have Enfields, Springfields, Mausers and Carcanos our there, it starts to get harder and harder to justify a Mosin. Having said that, owning a vintage...

Wonder if they’d shout if I’m out with my brown wife. Sad that that matters more to them than it did to me in selecting my mate. Maybe it’s fortuitous that our move got delayed. Ironic that an interracial couple feels safer in the South than the North.