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The problem with the sequel trilogy isn't so much the protagonist (though Finn is the more natural protagonist than Rey) or even ruining Luke's character but the laziness that led to both of those decisions. Oh, Anakin wasn't the chosen one after all. Oh, look, Palpatine is actually not dead. Oh, the Empire wasn't actually defeated. Oh, Leia never went on to be a great stateswoman. Oh, no, Luke never really made it as a Jedi Master. Han is never redeemed from his criminal past. Let's just reset all of that so we can just hit rewind and run the same story as the original trilogy all over again. Junk collector (moisture farmer) from backwater planet Jakku (Tatooine) encounters a BB-8 (R2 unit) who reveals information that represents the New Republic's (Rebel Alliance's) only hope to destroy the First Order (Empire). Press play, #######s.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/st-louis-man-gets-life-for-fatal-car-crash-some-say-race-played-a-factor-39834514 An exemplar of why you should ignore any arguments from progressives on reducing criminal penalties that reference "deterrence." Once convicted of a crime involving egregiously gross disregard for human life and the commission of multiple felonies, surely you, the normal person, would be contrite and understand that you had deeply violated the social contract, no? If he can't even wrap his head around a basic understanding of what he's done, what "deterrent" do you think will work on him?

Sorry I don't identify as a Trump fan and have been very publicly critical here of both him and China.

If you want to split out firearms codes you'll have to drop the ranking and do a "group by" "cause of death" and then you can order the resulting table from most to fewest deaths, or you can switch to the ICD-10 113 cause list and select all the firearms groups manually so you eliminate salmonella and ***** from your table. The firearms splits aren't "rankable" like homicide or suicide generally are.

CDC WONDER data. Underlying cause of death, single race, 2018-2021. https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html

Care to take a look and give us a quick analysis? The top dataset is white non-hispanic aged 0-17, inclusive. The bottom is black of any ethnicity aged 0-17, inclusive. Causes of death for all firearm codes 2018-2021.

Well if anyone was curious, when you run the data in an honest way, and you start sorting by *REDACTED*, you get results that look like this: Even including suicide this dataset has less than half the firearm death rate of the US at large over the same amount of time. Meanwhile this next dataset, well: The rate here is is about 2/3rds HIGHER than the overall national rate.

Wow I wonder what happened in 2020 that could have pushed firearm deaths higher

Now and then I call your name And suddenly your face appears But it's just a crazy game When it ends, it ends in tears Pretty little darling, have a heart don't let one mistake keep us apart I'm not meant to live alone turn this house into a home When I climb the stair and turn the key Oh, please be there sayin' that you're still in love with me

Oh, he knows. They all know that it’s graphic, sexual content marketed to children that’s the main target of this. They just think that 2nd graders should see depictions of blowjobs in their school libraries.

And classical liberalism got us where we are today. It’s incredibly easy to subvert as has been shown in stunning fashion several times in the 20th century. To paraphrase Chigurh: if the constitution brought you to this, of what use was the constitution? GOP and libertarian nonsense about small government only works in the pre-1960s America. Even voting now as compared to then is not a genuine method of distilling the will of the people, but rather an acceptance of a marketing strategy from two parties who practically make out in the middle of the horseshoe. Oh and as for King, he would be tap dancing over the current state of the races in America. Another person that the GOP insists on embarrassing themselves over every year, tripping over themselves to pay obeisance to one of the gods of the modern left.

Thanks for proving my point.

“Banned books are the best books” so true!

Reminder

The messaging from the left after Nashville was a barely-concealed green light for more of the same. And it worked.

That he even needs a pardon should be a gigantic wake-up call to mainstream “conservatives.” The view that Daniel Perry and others are guilty of murder for defending themselves against BLM, antifa, and other leftist terrorists is organically popular and widespread among the general public. It’s the very definition of anarcho-tyranny: state, public, and media top cover when the criminals are left wing, balls to the wall prosecution to turn right wing victims of leftist terrorism into “criminals.” See also: Rittenhouse, Kyle. If Abbott did his homework it should be very low. I believe they are appointed by the governor.

I might consider that an insult if you knew what communist meant. Or irony.

If the “free market” means rich people force you to acknowledge untruth as truth and steal your stuff for themselves, then what’s communism?

If leftists are going to lie about you anyway, you might as well have the balls to fight back.

You’re talking about a guy who thinks that there should be $0 in public money going toward the new stadium. Not on principle, that I would get. But because it’s in orchard park.

I mean people native to the United States. Not the people who had no part in its building and to this day maintain sovereign nation claims.

Yeah, and as a result the US introduced strict quotas and caps in the 1920s. To, you know, keep the nation an actual nation rather than an economic zone. Meanwhile the share of foreign born population in the US in the last thirty years has nearly doubled. Oh, and most of those in the 1880s-1920 couldn’t vote. So they’re irrelevant to my point. But it’s a good try. Tenement housing does not a nation build.

At this point it has to be to make fun of women. Doesn’t he claim to have been on hormones for like a year? He should be growing some breast tissue or showing some signs of becoming less masculine as a result, right?

A valid concern, leaving aside the question of whether representative government as the US has conducted it historically is actually a good form of government. When is the last time you felt like you actually had representation in government? The Dems are what they are and the GOPe is simply Dems driving the speed limit. Case in point: the GOP currently has the House and voter ID is an issue important to most conservatives. Since voter ID falls under “manner” of elections which is in Congress’s constitutionally-bestowed powers, a national voter ID requirement is within their power to prescribe. And yet we don’t even have a national voter ID proposal from the speaker. What gives? Well the USA is functionally a one party state, and the absolutely rabid responses from both parties to Trump’s rise really exposed this fact. Add this to the fact that the bulk of policy is actually made by unelected bureaucrats that answer to nobody and we get zero representation for anybody who has something resembling conservative values. The reasons for this are many but for the most part it boils down to the fact that the left has opened the floodgates to hordes of foreigners who are guaranteed to vote for more leftists, thus disenfranchising and eliminating the representation of the native population. The USA, prior to 1965, was not a nation of immigrants. Now it certainly is, and the permanent neoliberal and leftist nonsense that is installed in DC is the fruit of that. The more different the population becomes, the more authoritarian the state must be, and leftists have guaranteed through unlimited immigration that this population will continue to grow apart in blood, values, and customs. The question then left to the few real conservatives with actual power is how to utilize the power to benefit those who share your values. And it’s not voting harder.

Fascism is a natural, inevitable, and necessary reaction to leftist overreach. This is the same kind of organization that severed a father’s custody after a maternal kidnapping to effectuate transing her boy. It’s good, actually, to turn these institutions against your enemies once your enemies have laid out the rules of engagement. I will listen to no leftist weeping about the weaponization of child protective services.