https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei%C3%B0r They're only incompatible under certain conceptions of fate, omniscience, and free will. In a fixed-past, and definable present causing collapse of branching futures metaphysics, omniscience is just knowing all the possible futures and their likelihoods. Fate there is like a whirlpool ahead on the river. Most of the many different paths lead to the same place, but it's not impossible to avoid it, and the paths aren't isomorphic even if they end the same.
They understand the metaphor. They're saying it's a shit metaphor for our situation. This ends whichever the military breaks. Everything hinges on making the other side's escalations seem illegitimate to the warfighters. Yes, he's going to escalate anyway, and that's the fucking point.
I'll say it for the hundredth fucking time: this ends whichever way the military breaks, and that depends entirely on how legitimate Trump's declaration of martial law seems to the warfighters. It is imperative that you foreign agitating psyop fuckwits don't get your way. This is a game of chicken to make the other side escalate too far too fast.
Raw fatality rate isn't the relevant metric. You want fatality per incidence, which as you note is hard to track. I'll note though that 5 people from basically 1-2 days per year in a single state meets my criteria for "regularly" since most people aren't stupid and/or thoughtless enough to do it in the first place.
“I view myself as a transition candidate,” Mr. Biden said during an online fund-raiser last week, likening his would-be presidential appointments to an athletic team stocking its roster with promising talent: “You got to get more people on the bench that are ready to go in — ‘Put me in coach, I’m ready to play.’ Well, there’s a lot of people that are ready to play, women and men.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire
Lmgtfy
People are regularly killed by the bullets coming back down.
Trump isn't a puppet. He's a landslide that they try to nudge at targets the want along his path, but none of the replacements have his inertia with their base.
This is going to end whichever way the military breaks. Everything, and I mean absolutely everything, hinges on whether the warfighters see Trumps eventual declaration of martial law as legitimate. If we start burning down the country like so many (likely foreign psyops agitators imo) are calling for, we lose. Point blank. That's the point of peaceful protests which *are* going on.
They absolutely still need him. Without him, it all falls apart into factional infighting.
No, mother fucker needed to honor his earlier commitment to being a one term president early enough to hold actual primaries. His ego got us here.
Ackchyually it wasn't just snowballs
The conservatives coopted earnestness in music post-9/11 (think Proud To Be An American), and as a result counterculture took the opposite route, leading to the irony poisoned music scenes of the aughts/2010s.
I mean, we had fascism a hundred years ago without these things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei%C3%B0r
They're only incompatible under certain conceptions of fate, omniscience, and free will. In a fixed-past, and definable present causing collapse of branching futures metaphysics, omniscience is just knowing all the possible futures and their likelihoods. Fate there is like a whirlpool ahead on the river. Most of the many different paths lead to the same place, but it's not impossible to avoid it, and the paths aren't isomorphic even if they end the same.
I'm typing this from a pocket sized device that lets me access the entire sum of human knowledge and art at the touch of a button. Don't discount the digital revolution. He doesn't get any credit for any of his points.
At minimum, just skip the tour and tea. It's not a legal requirement, it's a nicety. It legitimizes him when there is no need. It's the same weak willed bullshit we get with Schumer because you are letting the means justify the ends. Slavish adherence to the not actually "high road" isn't a virtue.
Motherfucker, that's the whole god damn point. You should not be polite to the people trying to dissolve democracy because of fucking protocol. I can't believe this has to be spelled out. If you truly believe they represent an existential threat, as Joe fucking Biden explicitly stated, you do not act like this is any other normal transfer of power.
You're missing the whole game. *He* can escalate, but it's ultimately the troops themselves who have to obey his orders. It is absolutely critical that we make them as uncomfortable as possible carrying them out. That means not looking like it's legitimate to do what he says.
America is a duality. It's a promise and a reality. When half the country says something is un-American, they mean it fails to fulfill that promise, while the other half mean it would change the reality. We're not a monolith.
Is a starch.
You can't cover everyone if PECs can be excluded. That's my point. Sure there are more conservative approaches to healthcare, but they don't accomplish that goal. Their constituents like the ACA and what it does, even though they don't know it's Obamacare.
The problem is that the ACA *is* their plan. There's literally no more conservative way to ensure coverage for everyone. Romney implemented it in MA as governor. Newt was hocking it in the 90s.
Graves can be pissed on.
Humans and elephants are both vindictive and retaliate against that sort of thing too.
I must be pedantic and point out that it's pronounced closer to fuh than fo.
It's basically the mixings that you will add to ground beef to make a meal-adjacent creation. Brown the beef, pour in the helper, stir, et voila.
Because that is what they want. Make no mistake that everything is a battle for the hearts and minds of the members of the military that Trump wants to ultimately deploy against US citizens. He wants his opposition to look like the insurgency that the military is so used to seeing and fighting for the last 25 years. He wants the military to see us as the enemy. That's why Frog Force 5 is such an effective protest strategy. It highlights the absurdity for those warfighters.
Defenestrate.
JFC, I have to imagine you're arguing in bad faith here, because I can't believe you're actually this dense. We had just fought a war of independence. Ethics of them aside, there were frequent conflicts with the indigenous populations. The Spanish still had continental colonies. There were numerous potential threats that the founders would have been weighing when establishing the states' rights to form militias.
I've got some bad news for you about state and local police...