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PM me if you have questions. Idk what "DC area" means but depending on your jurisdiction the laws are going to restrict what you can buy. Unless you plan on obtaining one illegally it'll take you 6+ months to get a stamp for a short barrel shotgun. Unless you don't mean a literal short barrel shotgun and just mean a shotgun with a 18" barrel or something, in which case sky (or budget) is the limit.

No, I mean that I reject the ideas that ugly people come up with out of hand. Edit to say: beauty is in no way relative. It is encoded into the universe. There is math and physics to account for it. Saying that beauty is relative or fictional is a gnostic cope.

Every picture of Sartre I see just reinforces the notion that physiognomy is real. I reject the ideas of ugly people as a rule.

"Want" is the wrong word. But I do recognize that it's probably the only option left if American nationalism has a chance. I don't think it would be "war" in the 1861 sense, though.

The winners write history and, sorry to say, it doesn't look like the right will be writing the history books.

Yeah, the guy complaining about less policing and more criminals on the streets is an anarchist. Moron We need Bannon back.

Glad we agree.

I don't believe there is a political solution left to Americans at this point. 2A traitor, capitulating to the mob about "police brutality," for a start.

He was on Inside the Actors Studio a while back (2006 maybe?) - check it out if you can, he talks briefly about this and it gives you some clues as to what made him disappear. There's no smoking gun but I don't think it was just fame. Hollywood is ***** up.

So, Trump voters/prospective Trump voters - tell me which of these things you signed up for: Activist judges (bu-bu-but we have to vote Republican 4 da courtz!") "Opportunity zones" Half a wall Violent felons released from prison (while shouting that "Biden sent them there!!!") Burned churches Less policing Cities wrecked Kardashian admin ??? The dude has been handed two absolutely crushing, golden opportunities in the last four months and did ***** nothing with them. Absolute flops. Not only did he have four years to fulfill his promises on the borders but g-d set a pandemic from China at the last minute on a ***** tee and he completely whiffed. Then g-d tosses up a hanging curveball of riots and we could have had law and order and victory parades and he ***** bunts it right back to the pitcher and ***** his pants on the way to first. Everyone I talk to who was excited about Trump 2-3 years ago is demoralized now. Not a great line to take - to dump all the excitement your prospective voters have to go to the polls. I don't care if you think they're a "silent majority." Pandering to 12% of the population trying to get maybe a few thousand of them to find their "natural conservative" burning inside of them isn't a winning strategy. Trump said he'd drain the swamp but the swamp drained him. ****heads like Kushner, Dan Crenshaw, Greg Abbott, and their ilk should have been run out of the RNC/GOP/offices on rails years ago. Instead we get HW Bush but with more rallies. You can't change my mind.

“Struggling with the police” aka assaulting a peace officer.

This is only a "racist cops" problem if race was actually the cause of this. But there's a compelling reason to believe it isn't. Rob briefly referenced this but there's good reason to believe that differences in police use of force by race is better explained by differences in crime rate by race. See table 12 (PDF warning!) https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv18.pdf The NCVS excludes homicide since you can't exactly survey homicide victims. But the Justice Department's 2011 report is striking. See table 1 (PDF warning, again) https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf Not to mention that 38% of police officers that are feloniously killed are killed by black people. https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2018/tables/table-42.xls If you accept the very reasonable premise that deadly force is most likely to be used by police when an officer either responds to a call involving violent crime or is, him/herself, the victim of a violent crime, then this becomes a very different discussion.

The one with Jake Gyllenhaal was better and got a nod from J. Cole.

When you have an actual high motor

Indeed. Like Christianity, critical height theory proposes that we are all born with original sin - the sin of heightism. Unlike Christianity, critical height theory offers no forgiveness for this sin.

Good afternoon. I read your post. I'm 6'4".

Chappelle the undisputed GOAT. "I dare you to say me" He's right though. Dave Chappelle might be the only person I've listened to who never lied to me.

Cops can look forward to guarding church parking lots for 8-12 hours, only responding to dispatches, never going above the speed limit even to a hot call. Policing basically disappears in rural areas this way. Literally no reason to run code at all with the way things are trending. Warrant with a guy's name and address on it? Not hitting the house, name might be wrong, address might be wrong. Traffic stop, guy comes back with a warrant. Not making that arrest. That warrant might have been served already, and there's no sense in waiting for ORI to confirm because if for some reason it's been served and they forgot to clear it then suddenly it's an unreasonable amount of time because hey, no warrant. No foot chases, no car chases; can't take that risk. And that's for the probably ~50% of cops that'll actually stay on after you open them up individually to lawsuits.

I don't get it either. If he was that good would have been him and not Teddy B playing those five or six games last year.

Gotta have some hot takes thrown in there to get the hate (clicks).

Donations to BLM go straight to ActBlue - a Democrat PAC. So, yeah, same people. Also explains why the managing director of blacklivesmatter.com answered exactly zero questions in her AmA about the funds they receive. I didn't mention other things - baking cakes, for example - because they aren't as recent but yeah.

So we should bypass the standards of government that are long-held and -established in our nation's heritage because some people are mad that - checks notes - someone got killed? Well, that's what the criminal justice system is for. Justice is this country works a certain way; when the people who are supposed to be agents of that justice do something wrong, they are then subject to the same system they were charged to uphold. The system worked. An accused murderer will get his day in court. I will concede nothing regarding any perceived "problem" in this nation with regard to the way our criminal justice system operates. Here's a doc from one FOP in a particularly awful county - what seems to be a bigger problem here? http://foplodge4.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Presidents-Statement-on-Professionalism.pdf

Freddie Mercury - "ten years ago I knew about three chords on the guitar. And now in 1982 I know three chords on the guitar."

Some law requires law enforcement agencies to report such instances to the justice department. The law escapes me at the moment but the departments’ federal bux are tied to it. What the justice department does with that data...? Last I checked the CDC isn’t a private organization. I brought that up here because if “facts and info” were actually welcomed in this discussion (in general) differential outcomes in crime rates wouldn’t be either A: dismissed out of hand as irrelevant to the point of use of force incidents or B: dismissed as prima facie evidence that the police are racist. Because when you control for violent crime arrests white people (4 in 10,000) are killed more often by police than black people (3 in 10,000). Disproportionate use of force is predicted by disproportionate crime. Full stop. What causes disproportionate crime? A bunch of things that need a lot of work but as law enforcement officers cops are literally just there to enforce laws. Many departments also try to reduce crimes before they happen but strictly speaking that isn’t their responsibility. Law enforcement is reactive by definition. But if someone is going to tell me that racist policies are the cause of disproportionate crimes then you also have to tell me which policies cause 6.5% of the population to be responsible for 38% of murdered cops because I would be extremely interested in dismantling those policies. Literally benefits everyone. So let’s out with it already.

Holy ***** I've been reading it wrong this whole time. I thought it said "Of" a police officer and not "by," because that was my original point @Hapless Bills Fan Anyway several organizations have dedicated resources to collecting that data. The Washington Post actually does a pretty good job of it, then there's the NVSS, the Cato Institute, CDC, etc.