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17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
TwiceHorn replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Among all the other ASSuming people are doing is ASSuming that I am interested in the backstory because it will vindicate the perp. It might, it probably won't. But answers to the questions like why in the name of God was this kid bringing a knife to a track meet? And why was he in an opponents tent remain unanswered. Also, it sounds like there was a single stab to the victim that punctured his heart. That was either a skilled or very unlucky stab. -
17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
TwiceHorn replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Broadly speaking, seeing a doctor, which could be ER, like for stitches or more interventional treatment, or later, like concussion or bruising. -
17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
TwiceHorn replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Generally means requires medical treatment or potentially does. It's murder, most likely, even given the unknown facts. Whether "affirmative defenses" or "justifications" like self-defense could come into play is what we don't know at this point. -
Haha no! I did look at her Twitter and she has a number of posts about lawyers. though. But I know she wasn't talking about me because one of them referenced billing in quarter hours and I bill in tenths. 😬
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Haha, she's actually one of my clients. Good for her.
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As Clausewitz observed, war is the ultimate expression of politics. It's vital that senior military leadership consider the role of the military in government and politics and its relationship to the civil government and leadership. The notion that our officer corps should be axe-murderers is stupid as fuck. That's what private soldiers are for.
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A great irony of this is that it has happened, I believe, exactly one time. And that one time, it was ordered by a federal court after finding it was medically necessary and that to deny such care is cruel and unusual punishment. It's never been a position affirmatively advocated by Democrats. The closest Democrats have come to advocating for transsexuals is the position that the sex discrimination statutes, as written, prohibit discrimination against transexuals.
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Great point about full employment. We do need better jobs, though, and higher wages in the jobs we do have and any we "bring back." Wages are really a separate issue from onshoring manufacturing. As has been pointed out, there are a lot of offshored jobs we really don't want back, because they're inherently low-wage and/or hazardous to workers or to society at large. But, a combination of bringing back, or at least to non-hostile neighbors like Canada and Mexico, manufacturing and industry that implicates national security and potentially provides higher-wage jobs is a reasonable goal. But this assuredly is not the way to accomplish it.
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The number they used may be roughly 4x the tariff, but the calculation has nothing whatsoever to do with tariffs actually imposed by anyone. The tariff rate doesn't even figure into their little equation.
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Also, the bad math is a post-hoc justification for this shit.
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As far as I can tell, taking back tariff power is just another bill. So, initially, a majority in each house. But if Trump vetos, then they'll need to override, so 2/3. As mentioned elsewhere, in some of the delegation of tariff power bills, they tried to reserve a "legislative veto," where they could undo individual tariff actions by majority vote. However, legislative veto was ruled unconstitutional and they never fixed it.
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17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
TwiceHorn replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
I'm not empathizing with the suspect, nor morally equivocating. Our justice system generally is over-punitive, especially for minorities and poors and this kid just thrust himself into the system. When we have a loss of life, we quite reflexively revert to "someone must pay" and that frequently leads to a rush to judgment. And that judgment often leads to an incredibly harsh sentence. All crimes, at their basic level, are bad decisions. Some of those bad decisions are made by those with a long history of bad decisions from the trivial to the grave, in terms of morality and in terms of consequences. They're schizophrenic, psychotic, or psychopaths, or otherwise deeply damaged human beings. Others aren't, but due to certain circumstances of a possibly temporary origin, make these horrible decisions. We know as a matter of first principles that those under 25 are prone to bad decisions, maybe not this bad, but bad nonetheless and frequently of a criminal dimension. That's why we have a juvenile justice system, in the first place. Juvenile justice is often equated with a lack of consequences, but I don' think that's the general case. We tend only to hear about juvenile cases when the juvenile in question goes on to commit adult crimes, that is, they prove to be the "psycho" type prone to continued "epically" bad decisions. One of the problems, to my mind, with juvenile justice is that it ends too early. Meaning two things: those with adolescent minds lose eligibility at 16; and possibly worse, the ability of the juvenile justice system to deal with juveniles ends at about that age, meaning it can't incarcerate or otherwise treat them beyond majority, regardless of when they committed their crime. There are a ton of unanswered questions in this case that bear on what kind of bad decision-maker this kid was. They may have less bearing in adult criminal court, but could still be relevant to sentencing. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Notably here, perhaps, Robert Lighthizer, who was his first-term USTR. Although pro-tariff/protectionism, he seemed one of the more qualified appointments. And is nowhere to be found now. -
Giving steroids to children!!!
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I think messaging was poor on immigration. And, also, I think immigration would have increased under anyone not named Trump, so it really wasn't "Biden policy" that increased immigration, but reversal of Trump's unamerican policies. But I guess that's a policy too. Nonetheless, it would have been hard to message the foregoing and an immigration bill that didn't pass and people are incapable of understanding in the first place.
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Deficit or surplus? Because he uses both. Guy doesn't know shit from shinola and thinks any "deficit" is bad.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Good points. I'd submit that moreso than "heavy manufacturing," it's electronics manufacturing, because that's where they steal consequential IP, although they steal IP anytime they manufacture goods according to Western design. But my point wasn't in any way to defend Trump tariffs, just question why he got such a hardon for them between 2021 and 2024 or so. -
We don't like to be told what to do, so we vote for an authoritarian dictator. Aside from the parallels to Nazi Germany, the morons also fail history as regards to dictators and authoritarians more broadly, like George III, or Napoleon, or Tsar Nicholas. One of the huge ironies of Cubans and others that fled communist dictators and now fear "socialism." is that the problem with communism is actually its quick slide into authoritarianism, and the fact that communism was usually bookended or preceded with dictatorships. Even Curtis fucking Yarvin acknowledges that a "benign dictator," for whom he so yearns, may not stay benign long.
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Well voting for her because Trump would be terrible is the right answer, however you come to it. Would that fewer than 52% of US voters came to the same conclusion.
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17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
TwiceHorn replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
In Texas, the fact that he used a deadly weapon in an act that would surely cause bodily injury probably makes it murder. Other factors could make it 2nd degree. -
17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
TwiceHorn replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Oh ok, well he's hearing stuff. Great. I concede that the part about FISD tent practices at track meets provides some useful context, but the rest is hearsay and speculation. And you're hearing stuff. Great. Neither of you know the facts. Neither do I and I'm not pretending that I do. And a lot of people are assuming things. Like you. And those who think an arrest affidavit tells the entire story. So, no, you shut the fuck up. -
Yeah, they were falsely painted as too liberal for positions they had not advocated during the campaign, or even during Biden's administration. Except the immigration thing. That one hurt them.
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17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
TwiceHorn replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
I'm actually not asserting anything as fact. There's a bunch of shit flying around, some speculation, some educated speculation, and an arrest affidavit, that I'm going to assume is factual (not always a good assumption). No one knows shit about fuck. -
Elsewhere, I looked up the line of succession. Christ on a crutch. Number Office[3] Name Party 1 Vice President JD Vance Republican 2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson Republican 3 President pro tempore of the Senate Chuck Grassley Republican 4 Secretary of State Marco Rubio Republican 5 Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent Republican 6 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Republican 7 Attorney General Pam Bondi Republican 8 Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum Republican 9 Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins Republican 10 Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick Republican 11 Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer Republican 12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Independent 13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner Republican 14 Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy Republican 15 Secretary of Energy Chris Wright Republican 16 Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Republican 17 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins Republican 18 Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem Republican
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17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
TwiceHorn replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
You are aware, I hope, that people are not tried and convicted on the basis of an arrest affidavit. There could easily be, and usually is, a lot more to the story.
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