MacN'Cheezus @ MacNCheezus @lemmy.today

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I still don’t see how that makes them more dangerous to Americans than violent foreign gangs. MS-13 are known to chop people up with machetes, the US government generally is not, no matter who’s president. Sure, they certainly have the means to be a massive pain in the butt, but unless you’re convicted first degree murder or threaten the police with a deadly weapon, they’ll generally leave you alive and with all your limbs intact.

Jesus advocated something more radical : if you have something that you don't need, it's not yours anymore, it's something you have to give to people who need what you have.

You got any Bible verses to back that up? Because all I’ve seen is him reminding people that it would be beneficial for them to do so, but he never forced anyone’s hand.

For instance, Matthew 19:21 (also Mark 10:21 more or less the same):

“If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven”

Interestingly, in Luke 19:1-10 there is a story of a rich tax collector whom Jesus pays a visit, which ends with him pledging half of his wealth to the poor (and restoring fourfold any ill-gotten gains), to which Jesus replies “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

This certainly does not sound like abolishing private property to me, more like responsible ownership and generous charitable giving.

What I think you might be referring to is a passage that I believe is somewhere in the epistles, which describes a certain church whose members voluntarily gave up all private ownership for the benefit of the community, unfortunately I cannot find it right now.

“Thank you for calling Paws ‘R Us, how may be of sfurvice today?”

Thanks, I will. 🙏🏻

Dude, it's like you're worried about dying of cancer while swimming in a lake full of alligators.

Also, if you're that worried about a depression making crime worse, wouldn't it be better if we deported all the foreign gang members first? Seems like that would at least slightly improve the odds of surviving.

They're already here. They're called the police, and they'll generally leave you alone unless you're committing crimes. They also aren't known for chopping people up with machetes.

Depressions are survivable. Being chopped up with a machete is not.

Look, you asked which of these threats Americans should be more worried about, and I'd be more worried about armed criminal gang members than some spooks in Washington, because the former could pose a direct and immediate threat to my life.

Even if you're an illegal and worried about ICE, the worst they'll do is deport you and send you to an El Salvadorean prison, but at least you'll still get there in one piece. MS-13 will chop you up with a machete if you cross them.

Yes, for making false statements and obstructing the investigation.

That may be the case, but what immediate danger does that pose to me? I'd be more worried about armed gangs in my neighborhood than spooks in Washington, because the former would likely pose a more immediate threat to my life than the latter.

TBF, the report DID find some evidence of these things, just not enough to be meaningfully prosecutable.

Okay. I'll check back in when the Russians are at my door.

I haven't heard of any armed, violent Russian criminal gangs operating on US territory in recent years, so yeah, I'm less worried about them than the ones that are known to operate here.

Ultimately, the investigation did not establish that the Campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities. (p. 181)

Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. (p. 214)

This is literally the definition of "inconclusive evidence".

Hard evidence, preferably. I'm not interested in hearsay or conspiracy theories. There's enough of that out there already.

Do you have any evidence for that belief?

I wouldn't say none whatsoever, but comparatively little. They're already engaged in a fairly high stakes military operation costing them massive amounts of resources and manpower every year and constantly teetering on the edge of triggering a NATO involvement. Yeah they have nukes, but if they really wanted an all-out war, don't you think they would have dropped one already?

I'd say chances are very low. First of all, the US likely has a capable early warning system and the ability to intercept a nuclear warhead in-flight, and second, the potential retaliation would likely be horrifying and not worth the risk. Worrying about armed criminal gang members who are already in the country seems to be a lot more sensible to me because they pose a more immediate threat.

One of them is a heavily armed criminal gang which operates locally and engages in violent crime, murder, and human trafficking, the other is somewhere on the other side of the world and currently fairly busy expending massive amounts of military resources trying to occupy a few provinces of a neighboring country.

This feels like asking if you should be more worried about domestic rattlesnakes or lions in Africa.

Just pulled up the repo and it turns out it’s the same guy who made Fooocus, which is still the best Stable Diffusion setup I’ve ever seen, because it works right out-of-the-box with minimal configuration.

Incredible.

IDK, he didn’t call for a violent revolution to overthrow the rule of the Pharisees or the Romans, nor did he tell people to eat the rich or that they’d stolen their wealth. He didn’t even advocate for free healthcare or government welfare programs because he could supply these things by magic, and he was a staunch believer in taking personal responsibility.

I’d say he was a moderate leftist at best. Maybe even a centrist.