“Oh, come on, Mandy. What’s wrong with California?”
“Really? REALLY??? Okay, poorly-aimed gunfights viewed as urban recreation, taxes through the roof on everything, bums everywhere, open-air drug markets operating in broad daylight, halfwits who try to outrun the cops in their 200,000-mile bone-stock shitboxes, hobos using public spaces as open-air toilets, the most basic house costs a million bucks, normal people have to live two hours from work, state & local governments have declared war on the common man, glass-egoed ethnic gangbangers who take eye contact as a mortal threat, illegal aliens that walk in daylight, homosexuals that walk in daylight, everything gives you cancer, sexual predators who ply their trade as if God Himself gave them permission, real-life Bond Villains trying to conquer the world by trapping everyone in a Brave New Worldwide Electronic Feudalism, everyone’s flaky as hell, auto theft & narcotics trafficking so common as to be openly viewed as legitimate sectors of the economy, environmental laws that favor plants & animals over people, far & away the most totalitarian car inspection regime in America, Rice Boys, Lower Case G’s, criminal gangs from every country on the planet, serial killers with refrigerators full of human heads, celebutante fame whores that refuse to just fucking evaporate already, smoking’s illegal but marijuana’s encouraged, government regulations that’re chasing all the non-criminal businesses out of the state, burglars who have more rights than the homeowners who shoot them, public employee unions powerful enough to bankrupt whatever legitimate government they have left out there, roads & bridges disintegrating because the government uses their funding to hire diversity zampolits, militarized police with itchy trigger fingers & a Judge Dredd mentality who’ll arrest white men for speeding while black thugs burn down a liquor store a hundred feet away, pornographers who operate under the impression that the First Amendment applies to THEM and really, how far could I go on this tangent without using the word ‘cannibal?’
I’ll just say it - it’s an evil place where only monsters can thrive. And the ones who aren’t stealing BMWs, burning down entire cities in the name of "racial justice," murdering each other over facial expressions, manufacturing entire libraries of smut or writing as many noxious laws as fast as they FUCKING can are either stoned out of their minds on pretty much any chemical substance they can get their filthy little hippie hands on, or shouting from the mountaintops that all of this absurd horror is what Paradise looks like.
I mean, have you ever noticed that every single social pathology currently tearing this country to shreds got started in either Los Angeles or Frisco?”
Ice, that was epic. Is this your original bile or a copy-pasta from a movie/book I’m not familiar with? Either way, many thanks. I’m old and grumpy but at least I’m not alone in screaming at the chaos enveloping our republic.
No dog whistle... "they" just means people, as in, "you know what they say..."
...in all fairness, that's exactly what a lot of people are doing. So many people are leaving California that it has an outsized effect on the economies, home prices, and politics of the places they're fleeing to. Examples like Idaho, Texas, Utah, Colorado...
Well “who” would be your friends and family, but I think you meant “what”. The what would be anything that I mentioned. I’m far from an apologist for the state, but it has had the 7th largest economy in the world for a long while, and it is very easy to find good employment here. The no se hablan that does odd jobs for has been here 10-15 years and makes 25/hr. My children’s Caucasian citizen nanny is making 30/hr cash. The geography is spectacular, if one can open their eyes to see it. The hunting is still quite good here, once you submit to the myriad, ever-changing and arbitrary gun laws. The skiing is great, we have world class surf, all the sports teams, the desert racing, good racetracks. Excellent food, world class wine, all the stuff man. But really it’s all about community. If you have it, you’ll stay for it, if you don’t, all the money in the world won’t keep you.
There’s plenty wrong with the state, yes. If we could break the back the public employees unions, I think that would go a really long way. Do I have hope for it to happen? Hardly. I’m here till I feel called to go somewhere else. But then, that’s most places, yes?
Ha... this would be comedy, if it wasn't for the fact that the paralyzing delusion you're now displaying pretty well represents what's wrong with California...
...I suppose, in your delusion, it seems like that only the people you consider "bad" are the ones fleeing, and the people you consider "good" are the ones staying. But since I'm honest AND actually living in the real world, let me just say this: normal people understand that California is a modern dystopia, a case study of potential and opportunity squandered and wasted by a political environment of lunacy and a culture of stupidity and depravity. That's why they're leaving. You have been programmed with delusions of racism, sexism, and injustice by a failed California political class that is literally incapable of doing anything right, thus it must distract sheep like yourself, lest they actually return to reality and start asking basic questions...
I’ve lived here for 29 of my 40 years and I still think CA is a good place to live. I also think that just about everything he said is true. My friend walked up on an anal train during pride week. The child of a friend of a friend encountered fentanyl on Chrissy field and almost died. If you make $200k, income tax + sales tax + property tax is like $35k(1.2 house, 50k spent) which leaves you with $99k after the fed is done with you. Oh and you have zero rights regarding what is injected into your kids, and if you don’t spring for private education, you have zero say in what they teach them either. Oh and gas is $2 more than the rest of the country. Oh and they can impound your car if they don’t like your stand alone.
There’s a ton of good people here and the geography is amazing and there’s a ton of money to be made, but...
I wrote what I did out of a profound sense of pain and anger.
California used to be the America of America, truly the apex of human civilization and a place I might have very well loved to live in, until a coalition of narcissistic, sociopathic, morally-bankrupt orcs turned it into an civilizational abattoir - and for no higher reason than that they wish to rule their fellow man unchallenged, but they can't do THAT in daylight, so they enveloped the realm and its good people in darkness.
At the very least we're carrying the water for all those low tax red states .
The instant you leave the three big cities here it becomes very Conservative indeed .
I came here first time in the summer of 1969 and yes, _all_ of California was *very* different and dirt cheap even in the big cites to live, rent or buy .
Are you saying that Assemblyman Scott Weiner is the best America has to offer?
You cool with children being chemically and surgically sterilized against their parents' wishes?
Democrats say the protect democracy, but when they have enough power, like in California and as are trying in Michigan, they set up what are essentially one party states that shut out any effective opposition. How is it really a choice if you get to choose between two Democrats for the U.S. Senate? They hold elections in North Korea too.
I heard a leftist professor at NYU (who wants to believe she's part of the "resistance", hah!) say that Republicans can't win presidential elections if they don't cheat. If you have to cheat to have a chance to win, is the game actually fair?
Most of the big box chains will fire you for apprehending a shoplifter or fighting with a customer if you are not a member of loss prevention or management. Flood the streets with illegals, encourage shoplifting and rioting...trying to turn this country into a shit hole.
Who ripped up the Fairness Doctrine?? Who says Corporations are people and have more rights then you? Who said that Money(campaign Money) is a form of speech. Why is the USA lagging behind the rest of the first world countries?
It's maddening, and there's not really anything the common man can do to stop it. Voting doesn't work. I'm sick of looking at a sea of third worlders when I should be looking at my countrymen.
As I noted elsewhere, the population has more than doubled since 1960, yet like most "first world" countries the native population reproduces at less than replacement rate.
All we Canadians (and Americans too) are mongrels and immigrants, and are better for it. My forebears came here in the 1890's but that in no way makes me superior to my neighbour who arrived 10 years ago. Ask the First Nations (aka Native Americans) what they think of "illegal immigrants".
Ah yes, immigration is our strength. No proof is ever offered for this. The Indians should've executed every last one of us. Why should we repeat their mistake?
I consider myself an immigrant on stolen land. my ancestors had to deal with European immigrants trying to steal their land too. And their ancestors stole land from the native people living in that area
I’ve said it before. The Thanksgiving celebration was the Native Americans who were here at the time way of giving a going away party. No one ever leaves.
Don't bother denigrating us by referring to us as mongrels. We are a fine people and the European settlers that crossed the ocean created two of the greatest countries on the face of the earth. Yes, there is absolutely a differnece betweeen the people that came here 150 years ago to a barren landscape compared to the immigrants that cross the border for free shit. Our people and out culture created this land.
And I don't care what the natives think, they lost.
"And I don't care what the natives think, they lost."
People groups have been doing their best to wipe other people groups off the face of earth since there have been more than one group of people on the earth. Why is it that the "native american" group are suddenly heroes? And how do we know they were here first anyway? Maybe they were mean to someone else before we were mean to them, in which case we're forgiven ... ? What a mess.
I wear the mongrel badge proudly, even though I am, to use antiquated taxonomy, a Boomer WASP (English, Scottish, AND German). May I suggest an alternative: hybrid? My neighbour is your worst nightmare: visible minority Muslim, with 5 young children, but he is a fine fellow and calls me "brother". I thank gods I live in the most culturally diverse country that has ever existed. Half of humanity's problems would be solved if we were all beige. I am enriched by the cornucopia of cultures I see on the TTC.
Throughout US history, I can't speak for Canadia as I don't even know what street it's on, there have been extended periods of time where all immigration has been restricted. The recent influx and by recent I mean the last half century with no end in sight, is unprecedented both in absolute terms AND PROPORTIONALLY!!! Short of going from 0 > 1 when the first European set foot in the New World there has never been a larger proportion of immigrant and first generation/pregnant on the plane relative to the number of people whose parents were born in this country.
The last few years in Canada have seen immigration like never thought possible. 900k international students alone in the last year and about 560k regular immigrants. It's mindblowing. Also, a great deal of them are Indian and Chinese. Indians in Ontario and Chinese in British Colombia. The Chinese tend to use Canadian housing markets to launder money too.
First Nations? You mean Siberian-Americans? The ones that were waging wars of slavery and conquest, practicing human sacrifice and cannibalism long before Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Earlier immigrants to Canada more or less embraced the cultures that were established by the Scots and French.
Also, what's the deal with Montreal smoked meat? It's just a form of pastrami. Like fish & chips, another national food introduced by Jewish immigrants.
Here's the problem. The approximate supply of people who would readily move to North America stands at perhaps 3 billion. How do you determine who comes and who doesn't?
Immigration is like pouring salt into water. There is a saturation point. We've hit it. Probably hit it 20 years ago. Since we've had 50 years of absolutely unrestricted immigration, let's try 20 or 30 years without it then evalute.
Ah yes, the typical 2023 Redditor response: "Well White people's ancestors murdered all the Natives, so the current unlimited migration into the west is just righteous retribution for the past"
Yeah no. We created something great here and we are entitled to preserve it.
I was in Hamtramck yesterday picking up a transformer for the *furnace and the only poles I saw were holding up lights and wires.
*So the furnace control board was acting like it had no power but there was 110 between the switch and ground and 110 on the board going to the transformer. Replaced the board and transformer with new ones, still wouldn't work. What do you think the problem was?
He's the victim of a lifetime of media that shows black men, no matter how obese, sloppy, and untrained, as hyper-alphas whose word may not be contested, nor actions challenged.
I watched a dude who felt that way get a porcelain sink to the head a while back, courtesy of some "retard" white boy.
You may draw your own conclusions about where on the Kardashev Scale lives the culture that celebrates perpetual aggression, obesity and sexual promiscuity.
Mormons wear funny underwear, Jews wear tiny beanies and strings off their clothes. Sikhs carry a bladed weapon as a religious obligation. You do the math.
CT resident here. Seems about right. Over the last several years there's been a surge in car thefts. The reduction in juvenile prosecution under the current (and former) governors has essentially created a "catch and release" system for property theft.
However, steal from the town / PD and all of a sudden, it's an entirely different set of rules. A car stolen in town rammed a police cruiser - the full force of the PD continues to hunt for the "teen". I'm sure when / if they find them, somehow that won't be a "catch and release".
On an F1 side note - ya'll hear about Charles taking the approach to intervene and get his watch back after being mugged?
There is a school of thought that says the main purpose of government controlled law enforcement is to remove the death penalty as punishment for most crimes. As the legal system becomes less effective in controlling crime, it will result in more severe punishment outside the legal system.
That's my understanding too - that "an eye for an eye" was a limiting principle and was designed to prevent bloody revenge & reprisals to friends, family, etc.
“Oh, come on, Mandy. What’s wrong with California?”
“Really? REALLY??? Okay, poorly-aimed gunfights viewed as urban recreation, taxes through the roof on everything, bums everywhere, open-air drug markets operating in broad daylight, halfwits who try to outrun the cops in their 200,000-mile bone-stock shitboxes, hobos using public spaces as open-air toilets, the most basic house costs a million bucks, normal people have to live two hours from work, state & local governments have declared war on the common man, glass-egoed ethnic gangbangers who take eye contact as a mortal threat, illegal aliens that walk in daylight, homosexuals that walk in daylight, everything gives you cancer, sexual predators who ply their trade as if God Himself gave them permission, real-life Bond Villains trying to conquer the world by trapping everyone in a Brave New Worldwide Electronic Feudalism, everyone’s flaky as hell, auto theft & narcotics trafficking so common as to be openly viewed as legitimate sectors of the economy, environmental laws that favor plants & animals over people, far & away the most totalitarian car inspection regime in America, Rice Boys, Lower Case G’s, criminal gangs from every country on the planet, serial killers with refrigerators full of human heads, celebutante fame whores that refuse to just fucking evaporate already, smoking’s illegal but marijuana’s encouraged, government regulations that’re chasing all the non-criminal businesses out of the state, burglars who have more rights than the homeowners who shoot them, public employee unions powerful enough to bankrupt whatever legitimate government they have left out there, roads & bridges disintegrating because the government uses their funding to hire diversity zampolits, militarized police with itchy trigger fingers & a Judge Dredd mentality who’ll arrest white men for speeding while black thugs burn down a liquor store a hundred feet away, pornographers who operate under the impression that the First Amendment applies to THEM and really, how far could I go on this tangent without using the word ‘cannibal?’
I’ll just say it - it’s an evil place where only monsters can thrive. And the ones who aren’t stealing BMWs, burning down entire cities in the name of "racial justice," murdering each other over facial expressions, manufacturing entire libraries of smut or writing as many noxious laws as fast as they FUCKING can are either stoned out of their minds on pretty much any chemical substance they can get their filthy little hippie hands on, or shouting from the mountaintops that all of this absurd horror is what Paradise looks like.
I mean, have you ever noticed that every single social pathology currently tearing this country to shreds got started in either Los Angeles or Frisco?”
"Well, yeah, but besides all that?"
PREACH
Amen brother
Ice, that was epic. Is this your original bile or a copy-pasta from a movie/book I’m not familiar with? Either way, many thanks. I’m old and grumpy but at least I’m not alone in screaming at the chaos enveloping our republic.
That was all me, man.
And I'm glad you enjoyed it.
That was all you?
GET THIS MAN A GUEST POST
Thank you.
...as "they" say... I feel dat, bruh..
Apart from the homophobic ranting part, I also don't like the dog whistles here .
If you're so afraid of Commie Kalifornia, feel free to leave ~ you won't be missed .
-Nate
No dog whistle... "they" just means people, as in, "you know what they say..."
...in all fairness, that's exactly what a lot of people are doing. So many people are leaving California that it has an outsized effect on the economies, home prices, and politics of the places they're fleeing to. Examples like Idaho, Texas, Utah, Colorado...
You're lying plain and simple .
If you're a racist, homophobic or anti semetic that's fine, in America you're allowed to do that .
Be ready for honest folks to push back .
People are leaving Commifornia yes, not the ones who make it a good place to live .
-Nate
Who does make it a good place to live? I'm not on the up and up but I don't recall seeing a lot of migration to California, but plenty out.
Well “who” would be your friends and family, but I think you meant “what”. The what would be anything that I mentioned. I’m far from an apologist for the state, but it has had the 7th largest economy in the world for a long while, and it is very easy to find good employment here. The no se hablan that does odd jobs for has been here 10-15 years and makes 25/hr. My children’s Caucasian citizen nanny is making 30/hr cash. The geography is spectacular, if one can open their eyes to see it. The hunting is still quite good here, once you submit to the myriad, ever-changing and arbitrary gun laws. The skiing is great, we have world class surf, all the sports teams, the desert racing, good racetracks. Excellent food, world class wine, all the stuff man. But really it’s all about community. If you have it, you’ll stay for it, if you don’t, all the money in the world won’t keep you.
There’s plenty wrong with the state, yes. If we could break the back the public employees unions, I think that would go a really long way. Do I have hope for it to happen? Hardly. I’m here till I feel called to go somewhere else. But then, that’s most places, yes?
Ha... this would be comedy, if it wasn't for the fact that the paralyzing delusion you're now displaying pretty well represents what's wrong with California...
...I suppose, in your delusion, it seems like that only the people you consider "bad" are the ones fleeing, and the people you consider "good" are the ones staying. But since I'm honest AND actually living in the real world, let me just say this: normal people understand that California is a modern dystopia, a case study of potential and opportunity squandered and wasted by a political environment of lunacy and a culture of stupidity and depravity. That's why they're leaving. You have been programmed with delusions of racism, sexism, and injustice by a failed California political class that is literally incapable of doing anything right, thus it must distract sheep like yourself, lest they actually return to reality and start asking basic questions...
I’ve lived here for 29 of my 40 years and I still think CA is a good place to live. I also think that just about everything he said is true. My friend walked up on an anal train during pride week. The child of a friend of a friend encountered fentanyl on Chrissy field and almost died. If you make $200k, income tax + sales tax + property tax is like $35k(1.2 house, 50k spent) which leaves you with $99k after the fed is done with you. Oh and you have zero rights regarding what is injected into your kids, and if you don’t spring for private education, you have zero say in what they teach them either. Oh and gas is $2 more than the rest of the country. Oh and they can impound your car if they don’t like your stand alone.
There’s a ton of good people here and the geography is amazing and there’s a ton of money to be made, but...
I wrote what I did out of a profound sense of pain and anger.
California used to be the America of America, truly the apex of human civilization and a place I might have very well loved to live in, until a coalition of narcissistic, sociopathic, morally-bankrupt orcs turned it into an civilizational abattoir - and for no higher reason than that they wish to rule their fellow man unchallenged, but they can't do THAT in daylight, so they enveloped the realm and its good people in darkness.
"Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier someplace else"
- Jack Napier, "Batman"
Well ;
At the very least we're carrying the water for all those low tax red states .
The instant you leave the three big cities here it becomes very Conservative indeed .
I came here first time in the summer of 1969 and yes, _all_ of California was *very* different and dirt cheap even in the big cites to live, rent or buy .
-Nate
Are you saying that Assemblyman Scott Weiner is the best America has to offer?
You cool with children being chemically and surgically sterilized against their parents' wishes?
Democrats say the protect democracy, but when they have enough power, like in California and as are trying in Michigan, they set up what are essentially one party states that shut out any effective opposition. How is it really a choice if you get to choose between two Democrats for the U.S. Senate? They hold elections in North Korea too.
I heard a leftist professor at NYU (who wants to believe she's part of the "resistance", hah!) say that Republicans can't win presidential elections if they don't cheat. If you have to cheat to have a chance to win, is the game actually fair?
As a critic of nerd culture, a nerd himself, once said, "We think we're the Rebellion, but we're actually the Empire."
ronnie's paranoia, self pity and endless alt-right bullshit is very annoying .
-Nate
"Call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye"
Now Nashville, Austin, Tampa, . . . look like paradise.
Most of the big box chains will fire you for apprehending a shoplifter or fighting with a customer if you are not a member of loss prevention or management. Flood the streets with illegals, encourage shoplifting and rioting...trying to turn this country into a shit hole.
Who ripped up the Fairness Doctrine?? Who says Corporations are people and have more rights then you? Who said that Money(campaign Money) is a form of speech. Why is the USA lagging behind the rest of the first world countries?
a) the Fairness Doctrine was a gross violation of the 1st amendment.
2) I will believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
iii) money doesn't talk, it swears.
lagging behind in what?
1987 FCC, 1906 Supreme Court 2010 Supreme Court, and how are we lagging? Too free for you?
Who are we lagging behind? The UK? Germany? France? Sweden? Italy? Spain?
No, we’re all circling the same drain.
You're assuming America should emulate other countries.
Warts and all, that'd generally be a regression.
"Who said that Money(campaign Money) is a form of speech"
Who said that making a documentary critical of Hillary Clinton isn't a form of speech?
The state how somehow decided that the solution to crimes committed by illegals or even regular immigrants is simply more immigrants.
As Mickey Kaus notes, the only solution offered by The Powers That Be to EVERY problem this country faces is: more immigration, and faster.
It's maddening, and there's not really anything the common man can do to stop it. Voting doesn't work. I'm sick of looking at a sea of third worlders when I should be looking at my countrymen.
And all this happened in less than a lifetime.
As I noted elsewhere, the population has more than doubled since 1960, yet like most "first world" countries the native population reproduces at less than replacement rate.
All we Canadians (and Americans too) are mongrels and immigrants, and are better for it. My forebears came here in the 1890's but that in no way makes me superior to my neighbour who arrived 10 years ago. Ask the First Nations (aka Native Americans) what they think of "illegal immigrants".
Ah yes, immigration is our strength. No proof is ever offered for this. The Indians should've executed every last one of us. Why should we repeat their mistake?
Well, we had to start with _some_ immigration at _some_ point. Where to stop or slow it has been the question since.
I consider myself an immigrant on stolen land. my ancestors had to deal with European immigrants trying to steal their land too. And their ancestors stole land from the native people living in that area
I’ve said it before. The Thanksgiving celebration was the Native Americans who were here at the time way of giving a going away party. No one ever leaves.
Don't bother denigrating us by referring to us as mongrels. We are a fine people and the European settlers that crossed the ocean created two of the greatest countries on the face of the earth. Yes, there is absolutely a differnece betweeen the people that came here 150 years ago to a barren landscape compared to the immigrants that cross the border for free shit. Our people and out culture created this land.
And I don't care what the natives think, they lost.
"And I don't care what the natives think, they lost."
People groups have been doing their best to wipe other people groups off the face of earth since there have been more than one group of people on the earth. Why is it that the "native american" group are suddenly heroes? And how do we know they were here first anyway? Maybe they were mean to someone else before we were mean to them, in which case we're forgiven ... ? What a mess.
I wear the mongrel badge proudly, even though I am, to use antiquated taxonomy, a Boomer WASP (English, Scottish, AND German). May I suggest an alternative: hybrid? My neighbour is your worst nightmare: visible minority Muslim, with 5 young children, but he is a fine fellow and calls me "brother". I thank gods I live in the most culturally diverse country that has ever existed. Half of humanity's problems would be solved if we were all beige. I am enriched by the cornucopia of cultures I see on the TTC.
Correct. Any group that exists today is here because they conquered other groups.
If you look hard enough at the history of any group squawking about their rights to land, you’ll find that they took that land from someone else.
Throughout US history, I can't speak for Canadia as I don't even know what street it's on, there have been extended periods of time where all immigration has been restricted. The recent influx and by recent I mean the last half century with no end in sight, is unprecedented both in absolute terms AND PROPORTIONALLY!!! Short of going from 0 > 1 when the first European set foot in the New World there has never been a larger proportion of immigrant and first generation/pregnant on the plane relative to the number of people whose parents were born in this country.
The last few years in Canada have seen immigration like never thought possible. 900k international students alone in the last year and about 560k regular immigrants. It's mindblowing. Also, a great deal of them are Indian and Chinese. Indians in Ontario and Chinese in British Colombia. The Chinese tend to use Canadian housing markets to launder money too.
First Nations? You mean Siberian-Americans? The ones that were waging wars of slavery and conquest, practicing human sacrifice and cannibalism long before Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Earlier immigrants to Canada more or less embraced the cultures that were established by the Scots and French.
Also, what's the deal with Montreal smoked meat? It's just a form of pastrami. Like fish & chips, another national food introduced by Jewish immigrants.
It's kinda like Quebec cheese curds I think. Not a new concept, but a particular style of it.
Speak for yourself.
I was born in New Jersey to American citizens. That makes me a native American.
I was born in Illinois. That makes me Canadian. Seriously though, the A in Scott A is a very Quebecian name.
Here's the problem. The approximate supply of people who would readily move to North America stands at perhaps 3 billion. How do you determine who comes and who doesn't?
Immigration is like pouring salt into water. There is a saturation point. We've hit it. Probably hit it 20 years ago. Since we've had 50 years of absolutely unrestricted immigration, let's try 20 or 30 years without it then evalute.
Ah yes, the typical 2023 Redditor response: "Well White people's ancestors murdered all the Natives, so the current unlimited migration into the west is just righteous retribution for the past"
Yeah no. We created something great here and we are entitled to preserve it.
I was in Hamtramck yesterday picking up a transformer for the *furnace and the only poles I saw were holding up lights and wires.
*So the furnace control board was acting like it had no power but there was 110 between the switch and ground and 110 on the board going to the transformer. Replaced the board and transformer with new ones, still wouldn't work. What do you think the problem was?
The flux capacitor?
No. I'll just say that Alternating Current is weird.
I replaced a furnace blower control board and that fixed it for me. Happily, did not need to go further than that.
Mickey seems to have fallen off the face of the earth.
Mickey who? Oh, Kaus.
Wonderful commenting system, Substack. Great job. /s
Speaking of Mickey Kaus, he wrote this in 1999 about Daniel Patrick Moynihan
https://www.kausfiles.com/archive/index.09.23.99.html
Which adds to the argument that Moynihan was Deep Throat.
They don’t want what those Sikh 7-11 owners did to that shoplifter in Stockton to happen again:
https://youtu.be/wjqeIkbtnlI?si=8SeWWilXLJNv3gOT
Did he LOOK like a student of history?
Well, he DID get schooled...
They let that clown off easy. Should have been multiple "Your mother!!!!" into the nads.
They DID keep the shirt.
Yeah, he's Mr. Tough Guy till Ghandi starts going all Braveheart on him with a broom handle.
"YOU MAY TAKE OUR LIVES, BUT YOU'LL NEVER TAKE OUR MARLBOROS!!!"
He's the victim of a lifetime of media that shows black men, no matter how obese, sloppy, and untrained, as hyper-alphas whose word may not be contested, nor actions challenged.
I watched a dude who felt that way get a porcelain sink to the head a while back, courtesy of some "retard" white boy.
You may draw your own conclusions about where on the Kardashev Scale lives the culture that celebrates perpetual aggression, obesity and sexual promiscuity.
Everybody has a plan until they get hit in the face.
you dont mess with sikh people
they're usually a lot more violent if you mess with them
Always cracks me up when I hear a Texas Sikh talk. They have the beard, the turban, sometimes the knife and they sound like a good ole boy.
Mormons wear funny underwear, Jews wear tiny beanies and strings off their clothes. Sikhs carry a bladed weapon as a religious obligation. You do the math.
CT resident here. Seems about right. Over the last several years there's been a surge in car thefts. The reduction in juvenile prosecution under the current (and former) governors has essentially created a "catch and release" system for property theft.
However, steal from the town / PD and all of a sudden, it's an entirely different set of rules. A car stolen in town rammed a police cruiser - the full force of the PD continues to hunt for the "teen". I'm sure when / if they find them, somehow that won't be a "catch and release".
On an F1 side note - ya'll hear about Charles taking the approach to intervene and get his watch back after being mugged?
This has happened to BOTH Ferrari drivers now!
In the United States, one or both of them would be dead.
We hanged horse theives, and that was for boosting just ONE horse.
What about for 500?
We're gonna need a shitload of trees.
It's America. We've got 'em.
Got a thousand or so right here at my place, in fact.
Oh, AT LEAST, I would think.
Thank you for offering to host the hangings,
I will bring an insufficient amount of Canadian rye and whiskey.
There is a school of thought that says the main purpose of government controlled law enforcement is to remove the death penalty as punishment for most crimes. As the legal system becomes less effective in controlling crime, it will result in more severe punishment outside the legal system.
"Any you boys seen Car Thief Eddie?"
"No sir, Sheriff. Heard he went back to LA."
That's my understanding too - that "an eye for an eye" was a limiting principle and was designed to prevent bloody revenge & reprisals to friends, family, etc.
Lando was also relieved of HIS Richard Mille timepiece after a concert, outside Wembley relatively recently.
All great PR for … RM.
How do you fence a Richard Mille?
Seriously
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/whats-behind-the-continued-rise-in-watch-theft
Relevant
At this point I believe these aren't actually robberies... staged actors playing a role in gaining Richard Mille more attention.
I don’t think it’s that … but I can see why you are skeptical.
It was Carlos, but yeah, not in the US.