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  1. On 6/28/2025 at 11:24 AM, jimmyjazz said:

    You don't get to make that argument and lump the Bill of Rights in with the original Constitution.Β  It's either the original document with no amendments or it's everything.Β  The year an amendment is enacted should not matter --it's an amendment.

    Not that the MAGAts get the subtlety, but for fuck's sake let's at least TRY to be intellectually consistent.

    I mean, I don't disagree with the sentiment, but maybe you should go back and read the comment he was responding to a little more closely.Β 

  2. 9 hours ago, Drew said:

    Filoni has always been a storyteller more than anything...it's why he's the spiritual successor to Lucas. Lucas basically handed it to him in Clone Wars and that's why certain characters get better treatment than others. And I'm glad he did.

    But he does need a Director to focus things...that's clear.

    Exactly.Β  Andor is great. But I can see some thinking it's a little too much of one thing when star wars isn't quite always that(and I wish it were a bit more like that honestly)

    Yep, Filoni can craft great stories. Clone Wars and Rebels have poor animation and worse dialog, but are almost universally loved by the folks who spend the time to watch them because the stories they weave are done so well.Β 

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  3. 6 hours ago, Captainant said:

    holy shit can we put some bollards around brian and rex goddamn

    I think we've established in a previous thread that bollards are effective at preventing things from being run over. Do we really want that?

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  4. I haven't seen it mentioned, butΒ Northrop GrummanΒ says the B-2 has a capacity of >40,000lbs. Apparently six of them dropped 12 30,000lb bombs. I guess the >40,000lbs is accurate, but now our adversaries are probably wondering about the true capabilities of all our other assets.Β 

  5. 23 hours ago, horn4life said:

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    Of course if you get a slew of low ball offers because the market is slow... that might drive me a little nutso. Along with the seller.Β  But hell.Β  I think I should be able to shoot the tires out of any 18 wheeler that drives more than a mile in the passing lane on the freeway.Β  So my nutso level is maybe a tad higher than some.Β 

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    There's nothing unreasonable about this at all.Β 

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  6. 6 hours ago, Hate said:

    I just watched the first episode of Clone Wars and I just don’t think I can do it. That was awful.

    That happened to me the first time I tried to start it. It is a bit of an adjustment, but it does get better, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people recommending it.Β 

  7. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Putin's play in all of this will simply be "which angle of chaos is most likely to benefit Russia?"Β  That's the one he'll choose.Β  And he WILL choose such an angle, for sure.

    Putin doesn't care about what's good for Russia. Putin cares about what's good for Putin.Β 

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  8. With all this drone stuff, I would think it wise to develope something like the SR-71 but for bombs. And stealthier, and with enough range to get halfway around the world. Keep them in the continental United States out in the desert where they are isolated. Then again, that would require something massive just to have the fuel, and it wouldn't do anything an ICBM wouldn't.Β 

    With all this drone stuff, I would think it wise to develope something like the SR-71 but for bombs. And stealthier, and with enough range to get halfway around the world. Keep them in the continental United States out in the desert where they are isolated. Then again, that would require something massive just to have the fuel, and it wouldn't do anything an ICBM wouldn't.Β 

  9. Rebels and several arcs of Clone Wars for sure. Those last few episodes of Clone Wars in particular. Of course you have to have been invested in the characters already for the full impact.Β 

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  10. 14 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    At 8 I walked to the grocery store in the hoodish part of Amarillo to buy my Grandma a carton of cigarettes. My payment was a 12 oz can of coke and a candy bar of my choice.Β 

    At 20 I purchased a beer from about a 9 year old running a liquor store, while he watched Three's Company translated to Greek on Corfu. I went out after and drank it as I rode around on a scooter looking for a beach.Β 

    But I never got run over so nobody had to get arrested.

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    Paying an 8 year old with drugs and candy really isn't the precedent we want to set here.Β 

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  11. Basically the bill zeros out the transfer and making taxes for suppressors as well as removing them from the definition of a firearm under the NFA, which is part of the tax code. The GCA of 1968 still lists suppressors and suppressor parts in its definition of firearms, which is in a different section of the Code of Federal Regulations. So suppressors and suppressor parts would still require a 4473.Β 

    But since this is a reconciliation bill, Senators can challenge provisions that they don't think are related to the revenue under the Byrd Rule. If the Senate Parliamentarian determines they don't qualify, it takes 60 votes to overrule. Lowering the tax to zero should qualify, but removing them from the definition of a firearm in the NFA may not survive. It does have a chance, however, since the NFA registry is the mechanism for collecting the tax, and the methods by which taxes are collected can be modified within running afoul of the Byrd Rule.Β 

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