The truth of the matter is you're a disgusting human. You carry so much water for the guys doing drugs, smoking, and harassing people on transit that you would never carry for the exhausted single mom who wants to take the train home after a long shift without being harassed.
@caydenyaps@AYSSPORTS Abuse of discretion is an incredibly high bar. Basically, if there’s any way you can squint at a fact and think “ehh maybe the district judge is on to something,” then the appellate court isn’t going to find abuse
A few months ago, we sat in that recruiting section for the A&M game. We watched the ones who left. We remember who stayed.
I promise ya’ll gonna feel us!
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They have subways in places like Seoul that are clean and sparkling and safe, and those transit systems cost a fraction of what NYC’s subways cost to maintain.
The NYC subway has stations that are visibly rotting despite the MTA’s enormous budget because of corrupt public sector unions and a wasteful municipal government.
Everyone who rides the NYC subway tolerates an occasional frightening, dangerous or offensive encounter. Maybe you have to flee a car because someone is screaming or is defacating on the floor. Maybe you get groped or masturbated on. Maybe an aggressive panhandler wanders through getting in people’s faces.
It’s all fine because you didn’t get murdered and murders on the train are statistically rare, right?
This is the richest and most expensive city in the world. We shouldn’t have to live like this.
Every concealed carry course teaches you that when you are carrying, any conflict you become involved in is a conflict that has a gun in it, and that isn’t a fact that always makes you safer.
Because anybody who knows you have it and has a good reason to think you’re about to use it is allowed to use theirs first. Especially cops. Having a gun never makes you safer in an interaction with a cop, and if you find yourself in a situation where you are interacting with a cop while legally carrying, you want that gun to cease to be an element of the encounter.
Concealed carry courses teach you how to interact with cops when you are carrying. You display your empty hands — you put them on your steering wheel or in the air, you inform the cop that you are a permit holder, you tell him where the gun is, and then you wait for instructions on what to do next. If the cop feels that he is not safe, you are not safe.
Because if he gets the idea you’re reaching for that weapon, he may kill you and your permit or your right to carry has absolutely no bearing on his justification to do so.
If a cop reasonably thinks you pose a danger to him, he can justifiably shoot you. If you have a gun and you can get hold of it, then you reasonably pose a danger to the cop. The Second Amendment, your concealed carry permit or open carry laws in your state are not part of this analysis. They do not matter in any way.
Taking your weapon to a violent demonstration where you will be among protesters who are clashing with cops is a wildly irresponsible thing to do, because the presence of a gun changes the way the cops are going to deal with you and everyone you are with.
The Second Amendment and concealed carry permits and open carry laws in no way lessen the criminal implications of having a gun while committing a crime. The presence of the gun escalates the seriousness of the crime dramatically over what it would have been if you had committed the crime without a weapon, and it makes no difference whether you have a permit or whether you got the gun from a guy in an alley.
Direct action — impeding federal law enforcement officers in the course of their duty, helping migrants to escape from law enforcement, assaulting an officer — these are all crimes, and every one of these crimes becomes much more severe if you’re armed while you’re doing it.
Having a permit doesn’t mean it was legal for him to be carrying at the demonstration, because it is never legal to be armed while doing a crime.
I’m not celebrating this, because the fact that he had to come out and say this was pretty pathetic.
There’s a reason those stories were leaked. People feel so scorned that they just want to desperately make LSU look like they are losing or make things that more difficult. Cool 🐯
I’m kind of bleeding heart type who thinks it’s good to help the poor, but Mamdani-style rhetoric about how the entire purpose of government is to fight for such people radicalizes me away from wanting to help at all. Why not make government work primarily for the productive? The responsible? How about just making government for the vast majority of ordinary people in the middle?
If you looked inside these buildings you’d find disproportionately high levels of drug abuse, of divorce, of degeneracy, of STDs, of criminality. (Safe-edgy jokes about “America B“ elide at all costs the existence of this America F.)
It’s one thing to say that you want to help the conscientious single mother or the elderly windower trapped in these conditions, but quite another to say that the entire purpose of government is to serve the typical degenerates living there.
There really is an implicit threat of violence that allows one person in a subway car to subjugate dozens of fellow riders to the loud noise from their phones.
That's why it's not just an annoyance but a form of public disorder normal folks are understandably uncomfortable with.
Even if the Somalian daycare centers are legit, can someone explain to me why the government is giving hundreds of millions of dollars to immigrants for free daycare when middle-class families get absolutely zero childcare help?
One massive reason to be skeptical of mass immigration to the United States is that we’re actually not at all a racist country or people and it makes us deeply uncomfortable when we uncover differences in criminal offending, to the point where we very clearly just won’t address it if the gaps are too big.
We see this with a lot of urban crime where we are just very obviously unable to apply equal standards of fairness, to pursue criminal charges at commensurate rates, to police all people of all backgrounds in an even and undifferentiated way.
If there are gaps in offending, we just can’t handle it. We will lose our minds over it. We’ll accept any explanation for those gaps other than that they really exist and that all criminality should be punished equally.
Whatever you think of this, I think the mature, logical minimum is the recognition that this is an actual feature of our society. We are not equipped to deal with these kinds of differences. If we import a bunch of new people to this country and it turns out that there are more cases of these kinds of differences, we are going to be very bad at handling that in a fair way.
Again, you don’t have to think anything else about this topic in order to recognize this very basic and fundamental point about the reality of race relations in the United States.
You can oppose mass immigration on the grounds that we are so completely not racist, that if it turns out any specific minority group involves themselves in any area of crime in a disproportionate way, we can be totally sure that we will be slow to address it, that millions of Americans will prefer to ignore it , and that our approach to fixing the problem will be clunky and suboptimal.
I had an outstanding balance of $271k owed to the IRS for a previous tax year. I paid it at the start of December. A few weeks later we got an IRS Letter via certified mail, addressed to my wife, with a Notice of Intent to Seize Property because, I guess, there was some interest between when it was due and when we paid it.
So of course upon getting this letter I paid the outstanding interest immediately and hopefully the issue is closed (payment was still pending last time I checked on the IRS website)...
But I'm not going to lie, gettin crap like this from the IRS while simultaneously seeing the rampant levels of fraud in Minnesota (and probably everywhere else) does leave a really bad taste in my mouth. The IRS quickly threatens to seize my property and bank accounts over less than $3k in interest payments that they didn't even make clear we owed...and after paying $271k to them...
But meanwhile in states like Minnesota you've got literally billions of dollars of tax payer funded fraud and all of the elected leaders there are like "bringing this up is white supremacy."
I get it, there's a difference between Federal Taxes and State Taxes...
But right now the whole system feels deeply broken...
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We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.