Because they're the only liberal democracy in a war-torn portion of the world that, if they got half a chance, would murder us all. Israel is our best bet for civilizing the Middle-East, and that is something we should be invested in because they will burn the whole world down if we don't.
That doesn't mean we can't reduce our involvement, or that we can't stop cucking so hard to Israel, but there is a legitimate, America First argument to be made for why we're doing what we're doing over there.
'Condone, rather than condemn.' He literally told people to be peaceful, and go home. And just what 'actions' are we talking about here? That building belongs to the public, and the worst things that happened there, were a stolen podium and a cop getting pepper-sprayed in the face. . . at least, that was the worst thing that happened to the police and the building. They shot a 16 year-old girl dead who had her hands up and actually wasn't doing anything. But she's white, so fuck her I guess.
Can I get a concise, fact-based (with sources) rundown for how many of Trump's lawsuits were dismissed on procedural grounds? I seriously need that and I can't find anything on his court cases at all that don't use vague language like 'shot down.' Where would I go to get this information?
Well, si vis pacem, parabellum, as they say. It's precisely because I love peace that I'd rather people not want to fight me both because they like me, and I have such overwhelming force that everyone knows it would be futile.
Once we start though, we have to be deaf to their cries, even the 'okay okay you were right we totally cheated look we will show you everything.' When the time for talk has passed, the time for talk has passed.
You mean you haven't tried nonviolent means of protest. A lot of us have. Some of us have been shot at with pepper balls and impact munitions, despite wearing Thin Blue Line shirts, for our trouble. In the state of Washington our aspirational fief lord, Jay Inslee, is fining business who have to choose between staying open despite his unconstitutional edicts and getting fined over $60,000, or closing their doors permanently. So far, the only thing that has worked, was pointing guns at the L&I guys who game to enforce a fine, and then following one of them back to his house and saying certain things to him about not every showing his face in that town again.
I remember the first time I was told someone may one day try to take my father's firearms; I was like, 'Yeah okay dad, but how are they going to take our guns when we can use those guns to shoot them?' To this day, I'm still kind of shocked and amazed at the idea that people would really be willing to die and watch their friends die, just to disarm someone who would otherwise have no beef with them. I mean, it's kind of stupid. I takes zero effort to not do something, so it's like they're actively trying to get themselves killed. Only morons put themselves in dangerous situations when they don't have to.
Still am, technically; at this point, I don't see a reason to do anything with my party registration one way or the other, unless my state changes their primary rules.
Actually, strike that; just in case they change their primary rules, I'm changing my party registration.
There clearly is not a single good cop in Portland or Salem, Oregon, nor is there a single good cop in Seattle. There may be cops out there that are good people, and indeed, the police in my own area have been pretty stand-up about not enforcing unconstitutional edicts from governors who think of themselves as fief lords, but that could change in an instant, because so far, they haven't been truly tested. I suppose we will see how all of this plays out.
I like where your head is at, but I think that's a little too light of a touch; grab their families first, quietly. Grab their friends too, even the ones not in a position of government employment. And then grab their friends too; 4 hops, just like how they operate. Don't leave any stone unturned, or any possibility of an unchecked breach; find all of the collaborators and conspirators, and absolutely use every dirty trick in the book to make them talk, the kind of over-the-top shit they have big bad villains do in movies to show how big and bad they are.
Well, the cops around Oak Harbor, and in other similar areas of the state of Washington, all seem like pretty good people; it's once you get into the larger cities that they become shitheads.
Of course, even the worst cops will be your best fucking friend just to get close to you in case they ever get the order to take you down, and there have been enough oathbreakers that it's hard to know who is actually genuine and who is a scumbag. The way I do things, I show appreciation for my local police department when they get it right, which is most of the time, but I don't ever take my eyes off them or let my guard around down them, and I never give them any sensitive information.
Seriously, why not? if by some miracle I somehow ever became president, that would be literally the first thing I would do. After that, I'd have the entirety of the ATF executed, fire the FBI, fire the DEA, fire the TSA, fire the NSA, and heavily restructure DHS and the CIA so they will do the jobs they're actually supposed to do.
That's a real shame because American Beauty really is the ultimate antifeminist film.