Rusty Shackleford

Both threads of reasoning can be true simultaneously; the veracity of one doesn’t negate the veracity of the other.

I thank god everyday that I was made to be an atheist.

My conflict internally is between “Il faut cultivere notre jardins.” and “If you don’t turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.”

“Alarmed”

I had hoped that we millennials would have “killed the pedigreed breeding industry” by now.

JINKS JINX

Physical self-defense from an existential and immediate threat implies interceptive and reciprocative violence from the defender.

Violence in such situations is not only justified, but is required.

In simple terms, one isn’t justified to start the fight, but one is morally obligated to end it, if they have the power to do so.

First of all, fuck NZXT. Don’t give them a fucking dime.

Fractal Design and Lian Li FTW.

They’re both losers.

Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone.

In the United States, President Eisenhower was a Republican and he used social programs to build the US interstate highway system and the infrastructure necessary for the predecessor to our modern airport infrastructure and space program.

The highest top marginal tax rate during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency (1953-1961) was 91%, which applied to the highest income bracket. (Note: In 1952 and 1953, the top rate was 92%, dropping to 91% for 1954–1963.)

Much to today’s conservative’s dismay, President Eisenhower, being the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, was, dare I say, an axiomatic anti-fascist.

He also warned against the “the disastrous consequences” (his words) of the entrenchment of the military industrial complex.

Some of the greatest Americans of all time were anti-fascists.

“Fun” little tidbit, the Mexican cartels call the guy who reduces bodies to a slurry “un pozolero” (a soup-maker) when they need to get rid of a body. Actual Pozole is quite delicious though.

I will hunt you for sport.

I should clarify.

I’m an American not of European descent. I’m not “white”. I’m perfectly aware that I live in a country (one of several) that enslaved my people during the colonial era of western Europe.

When I was growing up in the eighties and nineties, my impression was that Europe’s lower and middle classes had largely evolved past the marriage of conservative economics, might-makes-right, and “fuck-the-brown-people-if-they-get-too-much-money” thinking behind. I’m certainly aware that “god, glory, and gold” did not start in the United States.

When I moved to the EU, in the Netherlands, I was right about my estimation but I was taken aback by some people’s parroting the conservative religious nationalist talking points that’s destroying the US currently. It’s just that it was much more than I expected.

It never stops.

Once the “others” outside of the tribe have been eradicated, the various sub-groups within the tribe will take the place of the “other”, and so on, and so forth.

Conservatism is a cancer.

Daaaaaaaaryl

And then China, Western Europe, and Russia invade the United States after it initiates massive, aggressive wars to bolster its flailing economy?

And then both sides launch nuclear weapons to end it all?

Is this the accelerationist argument?

Fortunately, the law doesn’t operate on what’s in your mind.

Murder implies premeditation. The prosecutor and judge didn’t see evidence of premeditation.