Yeah, reading Dr. Pierce's works from decades ago give you a good sense of how little the overall political dynamics in play have changed. Ever since ~1970, things have been steadily moving along the same trajectory. LBJ was the final nail in America's coffin.
They're spoiled pampered fucks nowhere near brutal and cunning enough to maintain control during the upheaval and it's gonna crash and burn bad. Being concerned America will balkanize isn't schizo posting at this point. These arrogant fools are playing with fire and it will inevitably hurt them just as bad as it hurts us plebs.
Shamash/Utu was a god of justice because he was the ultimate spectator, observing everything that happened under the sun. You might not have your namesake's supernatural powers, but it's still important to bear witness. That prepares you for when you do have an opportunity to help.
I usually lurk for posts like @Activelo 's which are genuinely informative, or people posting stuff in general I might have missed. Not everyone is able to sit on the farms all day, people that had stuff to do might want to get their own thoughts out or try to catch up on stuff they missed.
Assault weapons hold 30 bullets to a clip unless they're assault shotguns those hold 12 nobody's proven me wrong.
None of that is actually leftism. Leftism is an ideal, a belief set. You're describing things done in the name of leftism to achieve authoritarianism, but those actions are not themselves inherently leftist. Leftism itself needs to be divorced from the authoritarianism to describe and analyze, the same as the right. As I said, in 00s the right believed that the government literally couldn't be wrong, and that torture and indefinite imprisonment of Muslims fit the good, American conservative views, You cannot then say 'actually, it's entirely a leftist view to torture and indefinitely imprison Muslims' just because a communist government does it now. The belief that Xi is pushing 'extreme atheism' is also incorrect, because the reality of religion in China right now is that he is rewriting all of it to worship the CCP and its presidents - including hanging up a picture of himself over altars in churches. China does not, in fact, want atheism as leftists want, they want the ruling president and his party of the time to be considered God Emperor again as they once were (and as all monarchs tend to).
What is this, amateur hour? I've had low expectations for the entire trial, but did the prosecution really think they could get away with this?
Based off of everything we've seen of them? They absolutely did.
Didn't the Paris Commune try to turn Notre Dame into some Church of Rationality and had someone go on the balcony to give sermons everyday? I remember there was what I would call a journalist who went everyday to write down whatever he could. Guy wasn't a progressive from what I remember, but a staunch Catholic who would note shit down for how retarded it was and basically accounted a lot of the women were just huge sluts who wanted daycare so they could be whores. The chicks back then weren't any different from todays Antifa whores and leftist wine aunts.
If I were the judge then yeah I would be doing what my namesake is known for. Give me a crown and scepter and I would make all things right and new.
My guess is that if there is a hung jury, the judge won't dismiss the charges with prejudice and the DA will personally retry the case and make things as expensive for Kyle as humanly possible by tacking on a litany of bullshit charges in the hopes of making him accept a plea deal.
FYI...if their was a federal criminal case, Kyle would be tried in the 7th Federal Circuit not D.C. unless their was a motion for change of venue. This fucker is playing with fire with this type of prosecution as if the Republicans get in power they can just do the reverse and transfer leftist protestors the the 5th Circuit.
I don't see how they can acquit of the major charges but be hung on something minor. There are no more minor charges. Any of the charges still on the table mean a minimum of a decade in prison for Kyle. Provocation, even, is part of the homicides. If Kyle provoked the attacks, he loses self defense. If he never provoked, he retains self defense.
That's because assault shotguns hold 14, but you always have to fire the first two into the air.
My kingdom for an autistic sticker.
Given how shot their cover up was? Absolutely yes. Hell, given the way lunchbox blurted out the punchline in front of everyone, it may not even have crossed his mind that what he'd done was wrong.
The problem is that people blurred the line between 'it is okay to shoot enemies on the battlefield' and 'if we say someone is the enemy we automatically treat them as if we are on the battlefield, no matter the actual circumstances'. Conservatives were happy to suspend habeas corpus for their enemies and only got upset when they found themselves in the crosshairs instead. 'Who cares if the NSA is spying on you unless you're doing something wrong? we have terrorists to fight!' was the response of the conservatives to the PATRIOT act until they realized it was only getting used on citizens and didn't go away when Muslims didn't continue to explode national monuments.
The fact that they're too stupid to succeed and may actually have it explode in their face instead doesn't change that's what they're trying to do, though. And the fact that they'll hopefully fail to get there doesn't change that leftist are following the pied piper to a cliff thinking that it's a throne.
