gowlerk

I am in the process of replacing a young pilot who I like very much. But she won’t get vaccinated so she won’t get the hours she needs to move on in the world. The thing is she is not stupid, she is from a culture and a family that doesn’t want her to get vaccinated.

He is not actually easily led. He has already determined the path he wants to follow and he is looking for traces to go down.

An old question. Punishment, deterrence, or both? The safest answer is a swift execution, but that is more than a little problematic. Keith wants the US to be more like China I guess. With the State holding a strong hand and enforcing compliance. Who knew justice was so complicated?

Liberals hate having their daughters bent over and ass raped at gun point just as much as conservatives do. No one is calling for shorter sentences for this sort of crime. Both liberals and conservatives have now recognized that the size of the US prison population is much too large and that one of the main reasons for that is mandatory sentencing laws, especially for non-violent drug crimes. The sentencing aspect of your judicial system is indeed screwed up. White college aged upper class rapists get probation while small time drug dealers from inner cities get 10 years. Idiot white lawyers who wave weapons in the faces of protesters get pardons while right winger young men go hunting down and killing other protesters and make bail by getting support from those who wish their were even more of that sort of victim. Shooting people is just okey-dokey if they are the sort of people who support the BLM movement apparently. Conservatives have done a fine job of screwing up the sentencing aspect of the judicial system without a thought to rehabilitation bullshit at all.

Can you not just picture him scouring the usual sites for blurbs he can post here and rubbing his hands in glee as the reactions come pouring in? Seriously, it's getting a little hard not to pity him.

Yes, after suicides domestic violence is the most common murder scenario. And men killing women they are angry at over personal conflict is the usual. WTF does any of that have to do with the daughter being bent over and ass raped at gun point thing that you posted?

I mostly just have a problem with over dramatic daughter ass raping scenario being used as an example. As if that is the average gun crime instead of the reality that most of the violence is just idiots losing their temper and reaching for their sidearm when someone cuts them of on the road.

How is using a gun instead of a knife or brute force going to make your daughter feel worse? That would be a brutal crime with a lengthy sentence, the gun is rather irrelevant.

Why should they worry? God gave them power and God chooses who will die.

When he posts, all I see is a notification that he has posted and that I have chosen to ignore him. Pissing people off is his goal and your reply to him is exactly what he is seeking. It takes two to tango.

Kay Ivey, R Governor of Alabama making sense.... “Folks supposed to have common sense, but it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.” https://us.cnn.com/2021/08/05/opinions/how-to-move-people-from-hesitant-to-vaccinated-bregman-jacobson/index.html

Well then, there is the source of your disconnect from reality right there with this completely false premise.

Just like robbing banks is a good way to make money. But we have rules against that. Being an efficient way of making money does not justify morally corrupt actions.

That's the chiropractic practice building model.

Rationalization is a powerful tool for some who choose to misuse it. You can justify a lot of things with it. Maybe there could be a committee to decide which of the people who could no longer keep breathing died of covid and which ones were just taking up space waiting to die anyway.

And nearly 50,000 refugees as well. About the equivalent of 500,000 for America. Immigrants drive real growth in both countries. And both are largely empty at this point. But with only 10 million people in Norway most come from counties the the "leader" of the GOP considers to be shitholes. The GOP has almost nothing right. The GOP immigration policy is driven by Stephen Miller type thinking. The GOP invented "chain immigration" long ago because it was thought to encourage white immigration. Now they can't muster the votes to stop it.

I'm pretty sure the lesson he is referring is to do a better job at suppressing voters.

Yes, that's it exactly. What side of the bed are you on?

Maybe it's time to grow the nation through immigration. There are lots of people in shithole countries waiting for their chance. Many of them non Christians who could help remove the stain of that religion from your society!

If a Canadian were to try that sort of thing south bound I don't know what the fine would be. But for sure it would come with at least a five year ban on entry.

While we are at it, how about leveling that big hill to eliminate the need for the Eisenhower tunnel. Then move the fill created to Lake Michigan to create a causeway between WI and MI so I no longer have to drive across Chicagoland?

I am actively pursuing this strategy at the DZ.

I want to see the contract for the tunnel under those mountain ranges. Not even Bezos and Musk combined......

I thought it was about who could keep a straight face and who cracked a smile? Does size really matter????

This is the power that being the world's reserve currency brings. Are you imagining Rubles, Yuan, or perhaps the return of Sterling? Maybe bitcoin? The US does not actually have a great need to buy things from overseas anyway. Rest assured, your society will find a way to stiff it's lenders if need be. Spend on and keep living the dream.