For those of us at home, Project 2025 describes invoking the Insurrection Act to deputize the National Guard of red states and using them to enforce immigration law in blue states.
Soldiers, kicking in doors looking for illegal immigrants, in a dire conflict of Federal vs State authority that hasnt been seen since desegregation. I wish Harris brought this up.
A prior lawsuit filed over the “Trump Train” alleged the San Marcos Police Department violated the Ku Klux Klan Act by failing to send a police report after multiple 911 calls were made and a bus rider said his life was threatened. It accused officers of privately laughing and joking about the emergency calls. San Marcos settled the lawsuit in 2023 for $175,000 and a requirement that law enforcement get training on responding to political violence.
In case you were still wondering what side the police are on, and whether you could count on their help if these people came after you.
I know you mean well, but really you have an unorthodox opinion that the vast majority of users, civilian, professional, even at the organizational level, disagree with.
If you're relying on a mechanical safety on the firearm itself to prevent tragedy, you're already screwed. Kids can bypass that stuff with enough fiddling. They just make the firearm more complicated to use, which can paradoxically create more mistakes in some instances, especially under pressure. Nothing replaces responsible handling.
I predominantly shoot Beretta 92 pistols. Traditional double action, comes with a manual safety/decocker from the factory. On the one I shoot the most, I purchased a kit from Beretta that disables the safety to make it only a decocker. It doesn't make the pistol less safe, it is a dangerous weapon either way. It just simplifies it.
Starting your own business should not be the best or only vehicle to prosperity. You should be able to make a comfortable living working a normal job that doesn't break you.
Failure rate of small business is high, and you can't blame all of that on lack of startup capital. Bad concept, bad execution, bad location, etc. could all play into it. The taxpayer should not be obliged to keep a "quirky" store running if it doesn't bring in customers. Throwing good money after bad isn't going to bring prosperity to anyone in the end.
Not to mention that they compete with each other, not just the megacorps. I'm pretty sure there are half a dozen hair salons on our main street alone, and most of them sit empty at any given time, endlessly changing hands. Incentivizing startups will only make competition more fierce, so a few more winners but much more losers.
We don't need more restaurants giving the community more below minimum wage jobs that can't be filled. We need that money helping everyone, with rent or groceries or something, so that they can actually have money to spend at the small businesses that exist.
My [likely ignorant] take is that we need better incentives for workers, renters, and first-time homeowners, not MBA shysters "entrepreneurs" creating "new businesses" dropshipping imported garbage and other ventures that add little value to society.
The US being the bad guys in the Korean conflict is an interesting take that I wouldn't expect anyone outside of lemmygrad to espouse, care to elaborate?
I think with these kinds of suits the core conceit is that gun manufacturing/sales is a sordid, immoral business along the lines of cigarettes, and that the very existence of a consumer market for their product implies their misuse and negative impact on society. Therefore, they should bear more responsibility for that impact.
They were emboldened by the suit against Bushmaster/Remington that succeeded and ultimately bankrupted Freedom Group.
One, it does give some room to dismiss accusations, even if just rhetorically.
Two, when you are able to coerce your subjects to say the sky is green, the sun sets in the East, and Dear Leader won the election, its an exercise of power over them. It feeds the ego and it becomes a litmus test for the disloyal.
Ignoring that sexist trash in the beginning, AIPAC doesn't just reward compliant behavior from politicians, they also use the same vast resources to relentlessly punish dissent on their pet issues. Being an anti-Israel candidate is suicide with them around. They are a hundred pound weight on the scales of our political machine.
It probably was fake. I'd imagine the people who are selected for these assignments are borderline or complete sociopaths who don't have problems putting their mission above their entanglements.
If these kids are old enough to have any sense they aught to flee the first chance they get.
Conservatives believe that childless people, but childless women in particular, are shirking their moral duties as good citizens and good children of God. They are therefore of lesser value in the social hierarchy.
Factories need their servants, armies need their fodder. And don't forget about reversing the Great Replacement...
These days, look for any family in America with 5 or more minor children and find a "devout Christian" as the patriarch.
Mormons are famous for this, and they support their breeder mentality by tapping into the same government resources they say they despise, sometimes venturing into fraud.
For those of us at home, Project 2025 describes invoking the Insurrection Act to deputize the National Guard of red states and using them to enforce immigration law in blue states.
Soldiers, kicking in doors looking for illegal immigrants, in a dire conflict of Federal vs State authority that hasnt been seen since desegregation. I wish Harris brought this up.