I thought this was good and practical, four laws that would help, via a former commenter, at the other place.
Evil as the NRA and its works are, that still feels complicit in the ongoing project of defining terrorism down. Should its leaders and main funders be arrested and tried? If not, then what is the meaning?
I found the idea of stochastic terrorism pretty convincing. They're stoking fears and mental illnesses.
I totally support stricter gun control laws, but I wonder if there aren't cultural problems that ought to be addressed too. I was just reading about the gun laws in the New England states. Massachusetts has some of the strictest (4th?) in the nation, and our rates of gun violence are quite low. Vermont, NH, and Maine are pretty lax...Vermont especially, but it's hardly a hotbed of gun violence.
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I thought this was good and practical
What does "practical" mean in this sentence? All those laws have been proposed (repeatedly) and shot down (repeatedly) by the gun lobby.
8: practical in terms of being informed as to what is the effective legislation to aim for, I suppose.
9. Seconded. It should be common knowledge that "nothing to be done, second amendment" is wrong.
I would add draconian gun owner liability insurance as a practical step, which would affect the stock of guns in the US-- having a huge collection of firearms whether as an individual or a gun show type should have high costs associated with it. I don't know much about practical proposals to do this. One description
I like permits-to-purchase (and own!) because background checks are basically a large chunk of the work needed to issue a permit, without actually keeping a record of that work afterwards (right now as I understand the LEAs involved are required by law to discard records of checks after completion).
Also on the question of whether or not they count as terrorists: once the Russian government is funding you, you're either a terrorist or a dumb puppet. Or both!
It's lucky that student evaluations aren't scantron anymore.
13: His defense is that he plagiarized it!
Booth didn't write "Sic semper tyrannis", but he still got in trouble.
15: Yes, but he didn't get in trouble for merely repeating that phrase.
Advocating states' rights is always difficult.
I thought this made some interesting points about school shootings. https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse-be04d9e55235
You might have a cultural problem if you have a school shooting most of the days of the year.
If you have an industry with pervasive advertising based on the premises that violence can solve social, sexual, and political problems and that purchasing its products will let you be better at violence that people who train for it as a profession, you might have a cultural problem.
How come the first place I see it mentioned that the shooter was a member of a white supremacist group is The Cut?
20: Because that's the first place you looked at, I imagine. That news is everywhere - Daily Beast, Think Progress, ABC News, NPR. Originally coming from the Anti-Defamation League, I guess.
It wasn't at the Washington Post or the Atlantic.
Meanwhile, Remington is going bankrupt because people are no longer afraid the government is going to come take all their guns. It was a nice grift while it lasted, I guess.
My own hobby horse is reminding people that America's overall murder rate is really high for a developed country. Lots of mass shootings and individual hand-crafted artisan shootings.
22: Guess that means one should look first at other news sources, if one wants breaking news, or news that's a bit out of the ordinary.
This is a topic I'd like to raise at another time.
Tuesday, let's see: will we still be having the snow and ice situation then? Probably over by then, so okay.
The post runs runs this
might have been associated with a Florida-based white supremacist group. But agents were still trying to determine the extent of his involvement with the group, if any, according to a law enforcement official who asked not to be identified discussing an ongoing investigation.
and then mentions the ADL report with "can't confirm."
28: I did see where the SPLC was cautioning that the White Supremacist leader in question has had a penchant for attention-seeking beyond the actual facts at times.
Meanwhile, Remington is going bankrupt because people are no longer afraid the government is going to come take all their guns. It was a nice grift while it lasted, I guess.
The NRA seems to be preparing for that, now that it's a Republican administration, by abandoning anything gun-related or rights-related in their message and just turning into The Blaze.
There's no reason for them to go broke. It's not like everything suddenly became safe from the government. If they weren't so fixated on their white supremacy, they could probably have steady growth by selling guns to not-white people threatened by Trump and Trump supporters.
31: And the #MeToo movement is a great opportunity to sell guns to women.
Has there been any news about how he got the gun?
I could have looked there, thanks. Maybe reading too closely, but I read legal purchase by someone whose identity is not yet known, maybe Cruz. "Precisely how Mr. Cruz came to possess the gun is not clear. But the authorities said the AR-15 rifle that Mr. Cruz used in the attack was purchased legally. "
I don't know why "how did he get the gun" is a question that always gets asked. Why would anyone think it wasn't purchased legally? What would stand in the way of this guy, or any guy without a felony on his record, buying an AR-15? I guess as a high schooler maybe he couldn't afford it.
If an intermediary sold it to him, like the one in 28, then they share some responsibility and definitely knew him. You're right that there's no particular reason to expect that.
Possibly noteworthy is that thanks to NRA blocks against sane recordkeeping, working out who bought the thing is going to take some time.
36.last: Maybe they figure spree killers with limited incomes know where the good prices are.
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Quick advice? My department pooled $500 for our secretary who lost everything. Initially I said I'd use the money to get her a Target gift certificate. Is a $500 target card unhelpful? Does cash seem too charity-like and not gift-like? Should I split it between Target and a grocery store? I'm worried about hidden fees on a visa gift card. What's best?
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Cash - screw politesse, she needs max value and flexibility.
More seriously, cash does seem too charity-like and a Target card says "we're your friends helping you in a way not too far removed from a house warming gift." A grocery card says, "We're worried you won't have enough food to eat" or "We want you to get drunk," depending on whether or not they sell cheap gin in grocery stores in your state.
Anyway, I think your initial instinct was good.
Agree w/42, unless you think that charity-like is fine, in which case give cash.
It sounds like it's actually charity, and she's probably smart enough to notice this, so why insult her intelligence?
There's nothing wrong with pooling resources to take care of a community member in need.
Yeah I'm like wayyyyy politesse friendly but come on!
Given that it's for someone who lost everything, what's wrong with being charity-like?
A gift certificate is a relatively thoughtless gift as gifts go (although, personally, I've asked for them after one too many pairs of socks, or books that weren't up my alley). But this isn't a gift for the sake of a holiday where it's socially required, or part of a romantic ritual, this is for someone who lost everything. Cash is an easier and more efficient way to help than a new sweater or a gift certificate to their favorite restaurant.
Nobody setting up a new household isn't going to drop $500 at Target.
Cash is respectful. It says "we know you know best what you need and where to get it". If that's true (and I'm assuming from your description that it is), then cash is the right thing.
Here at Target. They are assuring me that the target visa gift cards function just like cash, and I can just cover the initial surcharge. So maybe that's best.
I always thought that offering cash implied an unequal relationship, regardless of whether it said you trust them or not.
If you do use cash, you have to get larger denomination bills. That much money in singles and fives looks too much like you went stripping to raise the money.
49: Get some Tide Pods. I'm hearing good things.
I sort of feel 50 too. Also she's already our department secretary, so there's an active status differential - not that anyone's rude but I don't want to make her feel like the object of pity?
Omg there's a $500 daily cap on gift cards at target and I have $550 to spend. I'm going to have to stop somewhere else for this >:(
$500 gift card, $50 in bottles of cheap gin.
Nothing says "I care" like a $50 Edible Arrangement.
One time, I was volunteering at the food bank. Most of the fruit was either pretty close to spoiling or discarded by Edible Arrangements. They're picky.
Whereas gin will keep indefinitely.
I only have the vermouth that turns bourbon or rye in a Manhattan.
Turning Bourbon is actually much less fun than it sounds like.
You should buy her like a pool table or something.
I am v sympathetic to concerns re power differential & you know this woman & social context BUT personally would take the risk of treating her as a social equal, sitting down together in private & explaining where the $$$ came from & that was handing over cash to maximize her value & autonomy. She may prefer to pick up a minimal kitchen équipe at the goodwill & buy better quality replacement clothes online than she can pick up at target.
We should send this in to Dear Prudence, but also change the details to preserve anonymity and also ask if it is O.K. to steal a dog to keep her company if we promise to only steal from somebody who is abusing the dog.
She can use the visa gift cards at goodwill!
Anyway, I'm all for helping people but I have very mixed feelings about open and honest communication.
She can use cash anywhere! Even if she flees to Mexico!
Gold sovereigns work even in the most isolated villages of central Europe.
What's happening in Earthsea, btw?
I haven't started the third book. I liked the second better than the first because I'm a feminist and because it wasn't entirely 3rd person narration.
I thought the end was really clever, sort of like "Gift of the Magi" except with "unspeakable evils from beyond time" instead of a "watch chain" and "holding off an earth quake" instead of "selling hair".
I'm hoping that'll make sense if I re-read the book.
You're nothing if not considerate.
Well, I'd never trap a wizard in a labyrinth without bringing him some water.
What if the wizard was a turtle?
I'm pretty sure turtles need water too, but I'm not a botanist.
I remember that on the beaches of Hilton Head they marked sea turtle tests with stakes and you were subject to some huge fine if you pissed there while there was a much smaller fine if you pissed on the beach in other places and no fine at all if you pissed in the ocean as long as you were in deep enough water.
On topic:
Is it just me or does the shooter's head look too small in a I-can't-believe-it's-not-microcephaly kind of way.
65: See also Jenny Crusie's _Fast Women_.
I'm not supposed to see fast women.
It's immoral to watch fast women coming towards you. Hence the term "blue movie".
That's something else, but "red shift" refers to how you are safe looking if her dress is red.
"Red light district" refers to the dangerous attractiveness of such an area, by using the metaphor of an object with high gravity. A white light on the surface of such an object would appear red. (Gravitational shift or Einstein shift.)
"red shift" refers to how you are safe looking if her dress is red.
Ah yes red, the color noted for not inflaming the passions.
It's O.K. to inflame passions, as long as you are moving away at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light.
And the concept of the Roche limit should remind us that if we get too close to an extremely attractive person, we are likely to be torn apart.
I like my women like I like my distant galaxies, emitting radiation and accelerating away from me.
I like my black holes the way I like my women: with no hair.
I told someone the "cold, pretentious, and in glasses" joke, and they laughed so quickly that it was clear they didn't get it. Like, a quick happy laugh right as I was still delivering it. Come on! This is a joke to process!
I like my women like I like my extrasolar planetary systems: in ever increasing numbers and exhibiting perceptible wobble.
I like 'em just like stars. Gaseous and combustible.
So as this is the top thread with over 40 comments on it, I'll ask here - anyone seen the news about Mueller's indictments yet? 13 Russians who work/worked in the troll farms. It's not Trump, Pence, Ryan, or McConnell, but it's not nothing, and in some ways it's actually better than someone on the Trump campaign.
97: I hadn't seen that. I'm still trying to guess how much money Trump is paying women to deny having slept with him and whether he is being blackmailed by anybody beyond the women he slept with.
You'd think getting someone to deny having slept with Trump would be pretty cheap.
Anybody who would deny sleeping with Trump for cheap wouldn't sleep with him.
Anyway, I think the greatest hypocrisy in modern American is the juxtaposition within the Republican Party of people introducing pure poison into the political discourse as a means to achieve power and of people who have been loudly touting the notion that traditional values and ideas are essential for society to function.
The whole president-Pee Tape issue is a sideshow in the greater travesty, but sometimes it is the illustrative example that matters most.
97.
Individuals involved in the conspiracy traveled to and around the United States, visiting at least eight states, court papers show, and worked with an unidentified American. That person advised them to focus their efforts on what they viewed as "purple" election battleground states, including Colorado, Virginia and Florida, the indictment said.
104: It's all kind of odd. These are activities which would be legal if performed by U.S. citizens, right? And there's no reason to think that Russians would be better at it than Americans -- in fact, you would think it would be the opposite. And, I would guess it wouldn't have been hard to find U.S. citizen Trumpkins eager to do this kind of work. Am I missing something?
105. From our side: Foreigners cannot donate to US campaigns. Legal paid ads are associated either with a campaign or a PAC.
From theirs: the point wasn't necessarily to actually install DJT, but to weaken social structures here. There's a long history of the Soviets covertly supporting violent extremists in the US, just to keep the pot stirring.
Possibly the indictment is just what can be proven today-- recall the hacked DNC server.
And there's no reason to think that Russians would be better at it than Americans
It's like you don't even remember who wrote Protocols. It's their national genius, divisive lies for short-term goals leading long-term tragedy.
Lawfare on the Russian indictments:
The indictment doesn't shed light on why the Internet Research Agency might have chosen to meddle in the 2016 election in 2014--long before either Clinton or Trump announced their intent to run. But notably, the dates in the indictment coincide with the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of early 2014. Amid unrest against Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-aligned politician who was president of Ukraine at the time, Russian officials accused the United States of covertly supporting Ukrainian protesters and seeking to undermine the Kremlin's influence in the region. So a reasonable person might wonder, reading the indictment, whether the beginning of the operation was a retaliation for perceived U.S. meddling in Ukraine.
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