Not long after our revolution, we made that offer to lots of slaves; the US will pay for land in Africa, and it will be for slaves who are no longer slaves, but are instead masters of their own future. Most decided they preferred slavery in the west to whatever opportunity they could find in Africa. I can't remember where exactly they got sent but wherever it was, corruption of the worst kind took hold almost immediately.
EDIT: It was Sierra Leone
Which is to be responded to in kind.
Oh god, please get a GEOTUS re-tweet. I'd be so happy.
I disagree on both counts.
Seemed like the police were several hundred yards away watching Kyle Rittenhouse attempt to do the job they, and fire departments, receive tax dollars to do.
What if his mistake involves burning down innocent peoples homes and businesses? What if I mean to defend property as the police refuse to and my life is threatened? Should I allow myself to be killed such that my enemy may continue 'disgracing themselves'?
Advocating the allowance of violence is as foolish as advocating retribution killings.
Got his bung hymen back.
The votes are not free. They've cost uncountable sums of money and a growing list of lives. Whether we think the cost worthy warrants discussion, but let's not call them free lets we fall into a trap similar to that which has consumed leftists.
Look, I'm totally fair. Good Trump, bad Trump. I'm more than happy to let you know when he does something with which I disagree, and I'm begrudgingly obliged to sometimes admit when, after lots of mental gymnastics, I cannot find a criticism of a particular action.
My wife is a doctor and I play violin. I would know.
Her father does.
Better to let the commies kill you if you attempt to defend property. I promise, we'll plant the most splendid elephant flag on your grave.
Honestly it's getting hard to be the inexhaustible defender of police. I grow weary of defending a group of people who allow a 17 year old to do their job for them. I tire of seeing them watch thugs deface monuments then arrest people removing or covering BLM graffiti in the street. If you want to convince me your job in the police is more than a paycheck, you need to do so with actions. Plenty of Americans are suffering right now, you would be a beacon of hope by risking suffering along with them by defying unconstitutional directives.
fOrMeR TrUmP vOTeR hErE, iM sO aShAmEd.
Edit: tHaNkS fOr ThE gOlD.
eDiT 2: Oh My GoSh, pLaT! FuCk DrUmPf! XDXD
The government at all levels no longer serves to benefit it's constituents. They exist to line their coffers, and flex their power with impunity. Government finds special joy in contemptuously lecturing those who think to prove a point in questioning that power.
Trump is an aberration in government. There is a very small group of people in authority who have American's liberty and opportunity in mind. Of most in government, if a policy doesn't line their pocketbook it exists only to be flaunted for the purpose of getting votes.
Absolutely needs to happen. At this point, someone has their thumb on the scales of justice. It's the duty of Americans to remove it.
We should have long ago stopped using paintball guns. Once the protests became riots and death was present, overwhelming force should have come out.
AHL is cheaper. If they're cucked, the NAHL is free. If they're cucked, I'll watch local leagues full of dads play at the YMCA.
I guess reading comprehension is a skill we all don't yet have. What can we do but lament continuing evidence of our failing public education institutions?
My wife's a doctor. I'm totally fair about Trump. I'll excitedly tell you when he's wrong, and morosely admit to you when he is right.
My line is in the sand like everyone else's.
You want the answer where my personal un-crossable, no bullshit line is? When the violence is at my door. Be it Antifa, be it police, be it military. The days of God, country, family are gone. It is now God, family, country. Until someone is at my door to harm me or mine, I'll be mad about it on the internet like everyone else.
Infringe my 1st? Fine, I can't stop that myself without causing irreparable damage to the people I love. Infringe my 2nd by infringing my 4th? Fine, I lost all my revolutionary equipment in a boating accident, take what remains, my small collection of hi-points, my 19x, and an PSA economy build.
Kyle is 17, he is young enough that he likely doesn't have much to lose in this deal. His wife and kid won't get dragged through it because they do not yet exist, or now may never exist. He likely doesn't have a mortgage that will not get paid while he's not working and in custody, however long that takes. He likely isn't in a career that will terminate him regardless of a verdict at trial. Obviously, it's not a knock against him, it's a matter of age. He may as we speak, wish he would have stayed home and let Antifa terrorize a neighborhood that was not his own. He may already, understandably, regret his sacrifice. He has right-wing fame on the internet, but that's about it. He probably has the gratitude of those whose homes or businesses he saved, but gratitude doesn't take care of your family. We've seen fundraising efforts already squashed. Death threats against his family have already begun.
Really, don't get me wrong, he sacrificed plenty and I hope he is the catalyst needed for those on the right to stand and fight. I also hope it's the catalyst for people in the center to realize they need to shit or get off the pot. But my hopes don't align at all with my expectations. 2 commies dead, 1 injured. Good. Justice has been served. In a month, Kyle Rittenhouse will be another memory and his life will likely be in shambles with no political or cultural ground gained from it. The socialist, divisive, takeover will likely be further along. Celebrities, academia, and the media will continue to gaslight huge swathes of the public and we will continue to be anonymously outraged. I fear Trump may find all his efforts unable to solve the problem people continue to vote into existence with their wallets.
So there's my long answer to your question. If my previous posts have sounded self-righteous and judgemental of the selfishness of others, I apologize. I may be casting judgement, but I cast it also upon myself. I am as guilty of the self-righteous attitude I speak so contemptuously of. I'm as selfish and cowardly as all the others whose line is in the sand. The good thing about it being in the sand, however, is if I see enough brave people carve their hypothetical line in the hypothetical stone far enough in front of me, I can erase my temporary line and move it up, out and away rather than pulling it closer to my feet, thereby helping those already sacrificing to reclaim personal liberty. Reclaim the American dream and the values of this country. I can walk next to those braver than myself, such as Kyle, and make their line longer, and deeper, and wider until none that mean us harm may cross it.
Pardon the tone of this. I've been reading shit loads of addresses by Lincoln, Franklin, and Washington, as well as the Federalist papers. After writing this and lightly proofreading it, I appear to have tried my futile attempt at imitation.
What was it Dante said about the centrist?
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality"
Everyone keeps talking about their line in the sand as to where they stand up to tyranny. Troublesome thing about sand is the smallest of waves or faintest of breezes can remove the declarations written on it. People need to start carving their line into stone.
He put himself, at 17, free of charge, at great risk to his safety and his freedom, in the role meant for men several years his senior who would be backed by a union, lawyers, and the protections thereof.
He did this because the aforementioned men who take our tax dollars to be in that aforementioned role allowed the city they're sworn to protect to go up in flames, and allowed the citizenry to live in fear. They watched from a few football fields away as a 17 year old doing their job for them may just as easily have died at the hands of a violent mob of terrorists instead of taking 2 lives himself. Then they watched him run to them with his back to said violent mob of terrorists try to turn himself in.
I generally support the badge, but it's getting tiresome being in the sole group standing in defense of police that is also the only group being abandoned, or worse, harassed by them.
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I wouldn't be so quick to discount the bravery of this young man. Anyone who valued their lives would have been at home in sweats watching a livestream as I, and millions of others did.
I'm tired of the words "scientific consensus" or any semblance of that idea.
Science is not dictated by consensus; It never has been and never will be. In fact, when true scientific principles are applied, the voice contrary to the consensus is frequently proven correct.
Basic Economics should be required reading.