Triumph

I like data.

I’d position myself further left than “progressive”, closer to “leftist”, but not of that brand that thinks that anyone who isn’t doing exactly what I want is the enemy.

“I don’t even wait. I just grab them by the Nazi.”

You just have to laugh when a network security company has malicious actors in their systems, undetected for probably years.

.ml is the instance run by the developers of the Lemmy fediiverse software, and they themselves are tankies. Do with that information what you will.

I’ve seen a lot of hard exclusionary leftists making noise outside of the triad.

Would have been a lot easier to print off a nazi flag and put that over something, or just somewhere on the pinboard than modifying an existing flag like that, as vandalism.

Ha, like I’d buy fruit in the first place.

Ah, just like the good old days.

[Dave] Taylor [(R-Ohio)] believes it is the result of “foul play or vandalism,” the spokesperson said.

Looks like it’s purposefully arranged on the pinboard along with the other baubles, so if it was “foul play or vandalism”, they’d have to have arranged the entire board.

The article only alludes to answering the question “Who is engineering this?”

It’s the ad platforms. They’re doing it. They’re selling ads, then they’re also using bots to pump up the impression numbers, so that they get paid more.

This is fraud.

Marketing doesn’t work nearly as well as marketers would like you to believe, so much so that they have to fake their effectiveness.

Never forget that even convicted felons have rights that deserve defending.

I’m sure it required a massive amount of pressure.

Buttholes out against bastards.

Yes this is true. It also adds an extra layer of “are you making the right decision”, so take extra care.

“I won’t negotiate with you until you give up on all of the things you want.”

This translates to “I won’t negotiate with you.” Because the “until” phrase would be the elimination of anything to be negotiated.

They’re just insolent children stamping their feet.

That is the answer, and I don’t think confusion would play any part here.

If the kidnapping victim in this scenario somehow survives, they’ll surely be held in custody pending trial. When it comes to legal firearm use, they would need to make the case that A) they reasonably felt in imminent danger for their lives, and B) that they acted to eliminate the threat. Even in an ideal world where a jury acquits them, they still get to live with “I killed someone”.

If you’re carrying, you have to have already been doing everything right before any incident where you are forced to eliminate a threat to your person. If you did anything provocative, you’re fucked. After the threat is eliminated, you need to stop shooting, because if you take any harmful action after threats have been eliminated, you’re fucked.

But the fact is that if you’re in that situation, where you have to draw and fire, there’s going to be multiple people (threats) on you. The odds that you are able to eliminate all of those threats before being killed yourself are low.

“Driving without license plates” is unusual.

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And they’re doing it on the basis of how brown the driver is, and the browner you are, the more likely that you’ve been swept up by a biased system before, which means you’re more likely to have things like warrants.

The “us” and “them” they’re trying to push is white people and everyone else. Steady yourself against that, and don’t let it work.

This will take conscious effort, kind of all the time.