Jump to content

TwiceHorn

Full Members
  • Posts

    41772
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    3

Everything posted by TwiceHorn

  1. What better way to support hideously retrograde positions than to cite to a 2000 year-old book?
  2. Yeah, not faulting the Guardian or reporter much there. Hey, at least they corrected. Things were flying fast and furious, someone got to a high-school friend and reported. The mistake has been taking any of it as gospel truth. We're still in the danger zone in that department, but various sources seem to be converging on fairly accurate information. The inscriptions on the casings seem fairly accurate at this point. Although I'm curious about "Catch this fascist" or "Catch this, fascist."
  3. Goddamn. As a hair-impaired person who shaves, I'm grateful for my long oval head and that I have resisted growing any sort of beard over the years. I'm more of an index finger than a thumb.
  4. To be fair, though, he did, in proper Surly fashion, include the glass of whisky in his pic. For accuracy probably needed 2-3 dead soldiers, too. Left off the gun, but I guess that's understandable at the airport.
  5. Knew of Guardian's "bent." Did not realize they were counterfactual. Losing some respect there. Also, in case anyone wasn't aware, although it is the "Manchester Guardian," most of their US reporting comes from US reporters, so it doesn't always or even usually offer the "foreign" perspective that some non-US sources offer. For example, the hashed-over piece here is by American Anna Betts, recently of the NYT.
  6. It has been reported, and not contradicted, that it was a "Mauser" bolt action. That would tend to mean a Mauser Gewehr 98, the standard issue German Nazi rifle of WWII, one of these: Like it probably looks, that sonofabitch is nearly four feet long and chambered for an obsolete and nigh-impossible to find cartridge. So it probably wasn't one of those. BUT, after the war, the "actions," the bolt, receiver and magazine, were often rebarrelled (you almost literally unscrew the barrel and fit another one) into standard cartridges like .30-06 etc. and restocked into more conventional hunting rifles. Those are not terribly uncommon and, if well done, prized by collectors and shooters alike. The Mauser 98 "action" is the design foundation of the modern bolt action rifle. In one sense, you could argue that just about any bolt-action rifle he used was a "Mauser action," but that's not the way that would be reported by LE or journalists today. But, are pretty uncommon in the hands of 20-somethings unless inherited or possibly purchased at a gun show. It's not something you can pick up at Academy, or Dick's or Scheels or whatever the fuck they have in Utah. So, yeah, it's pretty highly likely "Dad's gun," or one that Dad had a significant hand in acquiring for ol Tyler.
  7. Agreed, hence when trying to demonstrate Kirk's use of propaganda, lies, and confusing misdirection, I cited only source material, I.e. the man himself. And it is currently difficult to drill down on Kirk source material because of death-related search results.
  8. Let's update this a little bit. I graduated high school in 1984, so yeah I'm an old but not that old. In 1983. Year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty three, one of, if not the first integrated classes in the state of Mississippi graduated. So, in case anybody missed it, hard core, absolutely undeniable institutional racism was occurring in the US in the 1980s and being forcibly remediated by law. While Texas and Chris Curry were playing for a National Championship. If that's abstract to anyone any longer, hopefully this makes it more concrete. It did for me.
  9. Interesting sidenote. Because she's older than your usual influencer type, I went digging around on her. She was/is married to a prominent Oklahoma lawyer who was a drunk that was seriously straining their marriage. At one point, he was involved in a witness tampering incident that led to his disbarment. He got sober, did what he needed to, and was re-admitted to the bar all in a public fashion. It wasn't clear to me whether they actually divorced, but it appears that she stood by him and either they didn't or remarried. And it all went down in a way that it seemed she was an Al Anon type (hardcore on accountability) rather than a complete hostage. I found the whole thing to be a pretty compelling story.
  10. But that's one for the ages. That's not how a Christian eulogizes her husband. Full. Stop. I didn't watch because I have sympathy for his family and loved ones and also for the shooter's family and most similarly situated. But I also quickly suspected it violated the words and spirit of Rom. 12:19. Which is a common human reaction, but not something any Christian should do gratuitously.
  11. He did say strive, not legislate. One way to view it is violence is never acceptable in response to speech, but that doesn't give us carte blanche to say whatever comes to mind.
  12. Because surly, I always thought it interesting that the Helldiver was a replacement for the Dauntless. It looks like it should be the other way round.
  13. Ackshually, you should accept the bet, but make him define antifa first. And that controls the bet.
  14. For the record, here I'm not posting for the "content" of his argument so much as the "rhetorical style" in the face of allegations that he was a good and good faith debater that just expressed opinions many see as outrageous and despicable. And specifically that he didn't spout propaganda, lies, or attempt to confuse and mislead. In the Newsom dialog, where I think he was on his best behavior, he was mostly a good and good faith "debater." But his mask slipped a few times. In his more "monologic" rants, the mask falls off.
  15. Here's a good one: Strictly speaking, it's true. But who has the burden of proof when you make outrageous allegations and then report them as true? An attempt to confuse the issue. That one was a load of shit, too, as you'd expect from Cocaine Donny.
  16. This really isn't anything related to climate change, this is undoing decades of environmental regulation that has done observable good for the environment.
  17. A criminal conspiracy requires an agreement to commit a criminal act, doesn't have to be in writing, but a meeting of the minds, which mostly requires two-way communication in some form, and an affirmative step by some party to the agreement to commit the act. RICO was developed because of the difficulty of proving the agreement between the boss and the underlings, when they never communicated directly and there were many "cut outs" between them.
  18. She's sassy as fuck and a really good speaker for an interior designer. She does sometimes rather uncritically accept biased narratives.
  19. For whatever reason (upbringing mostly I guess my Dad read the DMN and DTH front to back every day), I am severely biased against TV/video news. If I'm hunting for a story/facts and I get video, I usually curse and hit "back" as many times as I need to. QED, I haven't watched TV news of any kind in more than a decade.
  20. "If you're reading this, you're gay, LOL" is so Groyper/4chan and not anything I can imagine a liberal "committed enough" to commit a murder would leave behind.
  21. It is true that a lot of the above is just opinion. Horrible opinion, but opinion nonetheless. Still, he's barfed out a considerable amount of propaganda, and that bit about trans and machines is weird, very weird, and confusing and also a lie.
  22. Does chemical castration have a meaning? Has a minor ever been chemically castrated under the guise of trans treatment? Was the 2020 election stolen?
  23. OwO. Did I do that right?
  24. Then you are poorly informed about right wing politics. He's a fringey dude, but if you are not aware of fringey people, then you're not adequately aware of what's going on in the GOP and behind the scenes.
×
×
  • Create New...