@ShaunBMcGarry@RealJamesWoods You've got it the wrong way around: every human has the right to bear arms in their own defense and defense of others. The 2nd just promises that in the US the government won't infringe on that right.
Better to say that the UK should stop taking away their citizens' rights.
@muggsyj9999@Benleo@unJuxxxx Later, at the press conference: "The President and the Prime Minister engaged in a frank and open exchange of views." π
@racistbilbo Hardly. I want the people who are Americans at heart with the misfortune to have been born in other cultures, like @SarahAHoyt. I don't want infinity people from incompatible low-trust cultures who won't assimilate. I certainly don't want them coming here illegally.
@BloatMcQueen Yeah, I answered before reading the thread. I was thinking more about nepo kids in politics and business: the more pampered they are as kids, the less useful they generally are as adults.
The entire Japanese "strategy" was to shock and dismay the US by destroying the fleet at Pearl and then negotiate. Their previous "strategy" was to threaten the Philippines, assume that the USN would charge across the Pacific to defend, and then destroy it in a decisive Tsushima-style battle (this is why they put so much development into long-range torpedoes: to attrit the US fleet on the way). Neither plan assigned much agency to the US and only worked if everything fell out just so.
Not by itself, no, but that plus "no audit" laws, 100% Democrat ballot dumps, etc., etc., adds up to enough suspicion to delegitimize the entire election. Do you care at all that the losers don't think democracy is working, or do you rather just want to rub their noses in who has power and who doesn't?