Hegar @ Hegar @kbin.social

Mostly kind chonky weirdo. Gentle nerd freak of the pacific north west. All

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Turns out when your main business is crime and you commit dozens of obvious crimes in public and you leave plenty of evidence of your crimes and you piss off the people you asked to cover up your crimes, you may eventually have a hard time proving you didn't commit crimes.

He's not clever though.

He's brazenly stupid. He never thinks things through and is incredibly easy to read and manipulate. He has almost no self control.

He's dangerous, but not because of anything that could be confused for cleverness.

That would be the structural issue. The candidate who won the election by a light but comfortable margin (48 v 46) didn't win power.

Yeah, I'm guessing it was that, which won an IgNobel prize like a decade ago.

If you've ever worked in a call center, this kind of thing happens from time to time. After a couple times you learn to ignore it and push through.

Possibly timing played a role, sure. But both those candidates are men, so it could just be more proof of her point.

35000+ tragic mistakes and counting.

It looks like it's supposed to be more greek, since the romans weren't known for fighting naked, whereas we think 'greek' and we think shirtless. Also romans weren't involved in egypt in any serious way till much later. Whereas the 'sea peoples' seem to come from roughly the sphere of mycenean influence, even if they don't all seem 'greek'.

Not in the late bronze age.

The Mycenian Greeks probably wrestled control of Crete from the Minoans 300 before the late bronze age collapse of greek and hittite power structures.

Cultural elements and settlements of these "Eteocretans" remained, but I don't think the Minoans were in any place to halt anything at that point. During the period we call collapse they seem to have been doing a lot of fleeing into the mountains.

That's not true at all though. Plenty of lefties talk about the left. Like all the time.

Is there a trolling angle I'm missing or something?

I don't think he upset dick cheney.

The d&d game summoning the devil was always my favorite. Always love a d&d episode.

Also any one where the pope is shown in league with someone unlikely - communists, jews, muslims, etc.

Curl up in a ball and weep a salty creek.

Reading beyond the headline, I kind of agree that she faced a sexist double standard where she suffered electorally for things that wouldn't have impacted a male candidate as strongly.

Being a slimy, self-entitled political creature is pretty acceptable for a male politician.

Then again she did win the election by 2 percentage points. So as much as I dislike her, it's probably more of a structural issue than either sexism or candidate quality.

I always took them all whenever I found them - horrible things, I love them covers it perfectly.

But also, I wouldn't just leave a kitchen knife lying in public. Most people can be trusted to safely avoid the danger. But what if a child, or someone intent on harm found it?

The responsible thing to do is to remove the threat from the environment.

how easy it is to procure

For sure. I grew up in australia. If I could snap my fingers and ban all guns I would in a heartbeat. But I live here and I know that's not possible.

The most feasible way to reduce the ease of getting guns is to hit the pocketbook of those who profit from how easy guns are to get. Our country is too corrupt for legislation to work. We have to sue companies and hope we like the changes they suggest.

Holding companies responsible for how their products are used is the closest thing we have to fixing the issue.

Being able to sue both the makers and marketers of guns designed for massacres creates pressure for a solution to be found because now someone who matters is losing money.

Focusing on AR-15 is ridiculous. They’ll use what ever the best thing is they have access to.

No, because an AR-15 was used in this specific case, and these specific companies were involved in making and aggressively marketing this specific gun to the specific person who used it to kill these people.

This isn't a "Marilyn Manson/video games/anything-but-guns is the real reason" type argument.

These specific companies' obviously dangerous practice of marketing guns to teenaged boys contributed to the events at Uvalde, or so the suit alleges.

It's an argument worth hearing the details of before judging.

Gun manufacturers specifically market guns and lobby for laws that make it easier for children to access guns.
Activision does not.
Meta does not.

Activision and Meta are vital parts of how gun makers market guns to children, this suit alleges.

If they are (which is definitely within the capabilities and inclinations of both those companies), then they should be held liable for their role in contributing to the epidemic of children killing people with guns.

Are people not familiar with Chick Tracts? These comics are the product of the prodigous paranoid right wing evangelical conspiracy theorist Jack Chick (1924-2016).

I think these comics are best understood as the work of an outsider artist, like Henry Darger or a painting elephant. His work allows you to glimpse a mind outside the normal human experience.

His work focuses on who is going to hell - everyone who's not a right wing american protestant, and many who are. It shows a strong pornographic influence - many end in a blissful face dowsed in a baptismal money-shot.

It's meant to be used as a legitimate tool to evangelize. The worst christian lunatics leave these things in public, earnestly believing that after reading you'll realize the divinely ordained truth that freemasons will all burn in hell along with blood-drinking rothschilds and D&D players.