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I don't expect the non-Americans to understand this. I don't expect the non-MAGA to accept this. We are entitled to complain about our government. We are rightful to speak  and act against thee will of our elected representatives. I can't hurt you, but I can call you all kinds of names and refuse to do anything other than what is required by law. We all have rights that supersede the government or we are all slaves to the whims of government. Choose.

Some Clarks should now be allowed, dangerous. -most admins

" Our professional federal officers worked with Alex Pretti, a professional local street thug and idiot, to save him and the tax paying general public from a slow, expensive, and unevenly accessible criminal trial, which would most likely have resulted in a slow and expensive prison sentence."

@kbd512, you are a dirtbag of the first order. The willingness you demonstrate to rationalize state sanctioned murder based on political belief is appalling and damming of every single person that aligns with you. A goddamn ICU nurse for the VA, shot unarmed, by poorly trained federal agents, is somehow his fault? You've shown a glimmer of being rationale in the past, talking about your immigrant wife, and being texan in texas. You've been pro gun on numerous occasions and here we have  a card carrying gun holder shot by the government, but because he disagrees with your politics, well, sh*t, gunning him down was his fault. Seriously. You're an embarrassment as an American.

I went looking for Saturn’s rings
for scaffolds made of light
and found a stranger shoreline there
a place with no ground in sight

Because surface can be a rumor
in a planet built of air
a height where pressure loosens up
where buoyancy is fair
Not rock not sand not continent
just layered breathing haze
a calm between the crushing deep
and cold electric blaze

So picture this a bubble home
a cityseed a sphere
its skin a thin resisting grace
that holds a human year
It floats where winds are honey gold
in bands that never cease
a lantern in the upper sky
a drifting piece of peace

Below the storm’s cathedral chants
in thunder without shore
above the ring road glitters bright
a frozen ancient store
A million million ice bright stones
each shard a building clue
beams and blocks and pressure locks
from water’s broken blue

You want to build the rings oblige
raw matter laid in spin
You want the fire that powers dreams
the giant’s breath is in
the hydrogen and helium
close by immense unspent
a fuel sweet sea for fusion hearts
and engines confident

So let the archive keep this thought
this science fiction rune
not every habitat needs soil
or mountain or a moon
Sometimes a world is all around
a sky you learn to ride
and home becomes a floating word
in Saturn’s amber tide

Your “thesis” is basically a mood board of grievances dressed up as sociology: you start by claiming you want structures and evidence, then immediately switch to vibes, labels, and conspiracy-shaped shortcuts.

You say you don’t want a “crying towel,” but the entire piece is a self-soothing story where every complicated outcome has one convenient villain: “matriarchs,” “hive minds,” “lefties,” “Europe,” “third world men,” take your pick. It’s not analysis, it’s a blame buffet.

The logic is also impressively self-sealing: when men suffer, it proves men are oppressed; when men succeed, it proves men are exploited; when someone disagrees, it proves “blood lust.” That’s not a theory—it's a horoscope with bayonets.

And the “evidence” is a YouTube title plus a sketchy website plus “I was told,” stapled to cherry-picked history you didn’t even get straight (WW2 and WWII... probably a typo, but hey, you don't have time for details, right?)—then you leap to modern claims about immigrants being imported as murder tools. That’s not “exploring truth.” That’s paranoia doing improv.

If you actually want structures that lead to social actions, try starting with things that are measurable: incentives, institutions, economic pressures, demographics, policy; rather than Jung quotes you half-remember and a fantasy matriarchy running Europe like a coven of HR managers.

Right now, your thesis doesn’t “go bump in the night.” It just rattles around because you’ve built it out of assumptions instead of facts.

you have kids because you want kids, and maybe it is a biological imperative that any conscious logical counter thought gets overridden, but the social and psychological reinforcements post birth result in a counter argument being moot. The impetus to reproduce will always exceed the impetus to not; darwin outlined this basic math.

Then for the rest of humanity not enamored with being enabled, your wife is a data discrepancy. And you know it. Your talk big talk about freedom and being self-sufficient, and here you have your wife, "save me". She may not be the only women with that attitude, but it doesn't prove much of your point. Breed them victims. Genetics determines outcomes. I hope you see where this logic takes us all. Because if you don't, then research WW2 Germany or any period between, before or after the American civil war. 

As for caring about the "2nd amendment" why don't your performative friends figure out how you support free rights to military grade automatic rifles while children die in elementary school.  I mean, thanks for preventing, something, while 5 year old's don't come home from school. I appreciate your priorities. It's almost like we lost a "right" but thanks to the vigilance of those like you, a few dead kids means we get to keep that bump stock.

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Stop being obtuse. Or do you really think your one personal data point somehow translates to the lived reality for the majority of women? Are you not paying attention or do you actively ignore anything that violates your world view?

Talk to some women. Actually listen. Do you walk out to your car at night with your keys held as a weapon? They do. Do you consider the real scenerio that your drink will be spiked if you don't keep eyes on it? They do. Do you consider if people can hear you scream for help if you find yourself alone in a room with someone else? They do.

And no, as a man, you don't worry about these things. I don't because I don't have to. We don't because even though there are people stronger and faster than us, we are not targets. Women are.

"Part of being an adult". What a sad statement from you. You are better than that. Be a grown up.

So here we have Calliban, girls need to keep their legs closed. Look, tiny little man, women can hump whomever they want. Your diminutive world view is sad.  If people want to have sex, your religion is not a reason that should presume how they behave afterwards. You want religious reasons to dictate behavior then you invite all religions. Don't be stupid. you have some weird fetish, but you dont need to push it here.

Hey Calliban, you will be hard pressed to find anyone, especially women, zealous for "abortion". One of my previous jobs, ages ago, was helping to evaluate women who needed to seek an abortion. I was an 18 yr male,  centuries ago, asking about their last period, using a little wheel chart to calculate gestational age,  asking about number of pregnancies, number of prior abortions, and then handing out paper on their medical options. I encountered women, my age, younger, and often times older with several kids in tow. All of them, every single one, was dealing with a huge emotional burden. None of them viewed what they were doing as some kind of flippant birth control. All of them were embarrassed and dealing with something that was challenging.

Unless you've dealt with this choice personally, you really don't understand what goes into it. Unless you've faced people who have had to make this kind of choice, your ivory tower opinions are out of touch and condescending.

No one is "pro abortion". That's a stupid marketing gimmick and shame on anyone that feeds it. Everyone should be pro-women and pro-freedom. Women are not chattel.  Their bodies are their own, their choices their own, and the weight of the decisions they sometimes have to make, solely their own. You and I have no right or place to impinge on their choices for their own body.

Save any moral equivocating. It's not your body, you don't get a say.

I expect, at a minimum, that the person responsible for speaking to our allies and adversaries has studied the cliff notes handed to them in the morning briefing sessions, and at least "knows" what the CIA has put in front of them, so that "The Leader of the Free World" doesn't look like a total moron in public.

HAHAHA. You mean the guy that says " info brief? fuck that. or you mean the guy that looked at the sun during the eclipse? oh, they guy that drew the weather impact on the map not grounded in reality?

Are you so broken you dont see?

My reply is to kbd512; cool, you are disillusioned with both parties. I am there with you. You want to throw in with Trump and watch it all burn down? I understand. The adult in me says it probably isn't great for my kids. Take your gamble.