I agree - trying to show that other people may have discovered things that we believe we did exclusively is abhorrent and those people deserve all the sanctions that we can impose on them.

Which people do you think "hate you in particular"? Why do they hate you - what have you done to them?

The majority of MAGA don't care about the environment (especially wrt climate change), and in fact probably no longer believe that pollution is harmful.

I would not be surprised if smoking also makes a comeback as MAGA types continue down the anti-science crusade and pour scorn on the link between smoking and lung cancer and other types of health outcomes.

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2 articles in 20 years definitely proves your point.

I picked articles far apart in time to make the point that it hasn't changed.

I didn't spend much time on it. Let them stew in their manhate.

I mean, if the cartel with their automatic weapons come at you, do you really think your stash is going to protect you?

Also, lack of police services is probably commensurate with the low levels of taxation that so many Americans desperately want and vote for.

I'll be super real. The numbers from 2021 say the average American household owns 5 guns. This isn't because the average American really has a gun, but because of the people with 100 guns skewing the numbers. Those people are real, exist, and will give the cartel, and the local police, and a swat team a run for their money, if invaded. The real average American doesn't have an armory that can protect them from the cartel, but if you're the cartel, you now have to spend additional time and money doing research on if hitting some random house in San Antonio, Tx is going to result in a shootout that's going to get a bunch of your cartel members killed.

Can you point to any actual real-world cases where something like this has happened? It sounds like a movie concept; we're letting real-world policy be determined by a fantasy people have about a lone gun enthusiast killing a bunch of drug cartel members?

Warsaw ghetto uprising bought some people a few extra days (and a couple women their lives spared), which is better than nothing.

I really hope your example remains a straw man argument, and not something that Americans are going to have to face up to in the next few years.

Nope! I agree it's something out of a movie, but real world people do actually have such arsenals. I'm not embedded enough in gun culture to have any personal stories/know of any news reports, but not everything makes the news. I'm not making a comment on policy, just that such individuals exist.

Well they are outnumbered. So if one of their guys get killed one of 10 times they fuck with the locals, that is enough to persuade them not to do it. Of course they could eliminate me, but can they do it without one of theirs getting hurt? Probably, but not probably enough to make it worth their time.

> godless people did to it what the Pharisees did to the other system.

Oops, sorry about that.

Exactly this. I don't remember European, Canadian and Australian governments trying to extort the US after 9/11 when those countries spent billions fighting alongside the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I understand the subscription model, but the cost doesn't sit right for me.

My all products JetBrains subscription is £137 a year, for every single product they create (and perpetual fallback licences). This is £91 a year, which is about 66% of the cost of my JB sub and if I stop paying, I assume PolyPane stops working.

Or they could compare it to an asteroid hitting the UK and wiping all all life within a 200 mile radius.