DukePaulAtreides

145806 pts · May 20, 2013


Just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe. Apparently I'm an adult. Odd, because I have yet to receive my official "So You're an Adult, Here's What to Do" handbook.

Update: went back, found it. There's a big amount of context, this is functionally from part 2 of a trilogy. Ending still wasn't great though, imo, so your mileage may vary.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow, I gotta be honest, I have no memory of any of this at ALL, and that's...unusual for me haha. So, no idea, sorry!

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

866-OUR-VOTE is the nationwide hotline for the Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law election protection! Established and reliable.

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

(Melania is also a garbage person and willing participant/beneficiary of the worst of it all, not a hostage. Just so we're all clear.)

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Given that the original post here is entirely re: the "M1895" gun with the variant named "M1900" I think it's pretty obvious which one lolol

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gonna go with "the turn of the century appropriate to the post" lmao

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What's the turn of the century equivalent of "the VA has determined your absolutely fucked eardrums are not service related"?

4 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

“See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind."

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They're also REALLY hard to kill. Just, y'know, for folks out there with bad luck.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

(Don't mean that as hostile towards you, I just hate the implication that humanity overall agreed on this instead of a bunch of rich aholes)

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean considering the US is responsible for (both historically and currently) a FUCKTON of the world's carbon emissions...

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What's this 'we' shit, kemosabe; most of us won't see shit and don't want to. The corporate class is fucking the rest of us over eternally.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

> worth their salt would lead the questions like that while trying to get details, that's just putting together something from nothing.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

> the person talking to the source plants the some of the story in the conversation themselves, leading said source to agree. No reporter>

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

> are anonymous, heavily redacted, and without any sort of attributable detail or anything. Nothing lends any credibility to it at all, and>

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can say "that person's claim that Senator X hunts orphans on Mars is bunk because no proof", I don't need proof that he DOESN'T do that.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Pointing out "there is no proof this claim is true" is not something that...requires proof itself. Burden of proof is on side making claim.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

> her 1/6 foreknowledge and potential connections as well as her very real misuse of campaign funds for personal uses. Evidence exists there

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Idk, I think we need at least a SCINTILLA of evidence before launching investigations, otherwise it just undercuts everything. Investigate >

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

>but in terms of "making them unwelcome in any public sphere via yelling, etc." is a viable if uncomfortable option

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

> consequences NEVER exist. The deck is stacked but there used to be a tipping point; massive public pressure, beyond just calling Senators>

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also until VERY RECENTLY criminal scandals have taken down even speakers of the House (Tom DeLay, etc.); it's only a revisionist line that>

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That kind of defeatism is self-fulfilling, though. Public pressure on DoJ and other officials to Do Their Goddamn Jobs is the only shot.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

>but either way the case is made therefore to focus on things that make her potentially criminally/civilly liable that we have evidence for.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Both seemingly true (though look at how fast Cawthorn got GOT by his voters once the GOP establishment figured he was toxic to their brand)>

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

>stopped any number of folks from going "I hate her ergo it must be true", that shit just damages credibility and trust with no good outcome

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah it just doesn't add up to even a reasonable suspicion, honestly, much less preponderance of the evidence. V. annoying how that hasn't>

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Respectfully that's...not at all how anything works. "There's no bigfoot" and "there's definitely bigfoot" are not the same level of truth.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3