Yeah it’s bizarre, I’m not sure if that’s the correct verbage for it but the situation is effectively leasing. He does not own the store despite being the name and face on the sign saying ‘store owner’.
He’s got connections, cops love him. My friend has video of him kicking the ever loving shit out of a homeless guy a few years ago. He also helped him delete it. I’ve told him to turn him in but he’s afraid that something will go wrong and it’ll turn back around on him.
I’m talking about my cousin. He runs a grocery store (he claims he owns it, but really he leases it through Grocery Outlet).
I know some of the things he’s done. I know many of the things he’s said. They are terrifying.
I don’t disagree with you, but at that same note - you should have enough information to know what human beings have done with unchecked freedom.
Ultimately we are all free. We are free to make whatever choices we want, and free to accept the consequences (whether we accept them at the time of the choice or not). Unchecked freedom in the hands of human beings (we have fused atoms) would rip through reality like a fresh razor through paper.
I’m sorry, I must be living in a schziophrenic delusion and the U.S. federal govt hasn’t been slip and sliding into the deep end of the fascism pool and definitely hasn’t been dumping resources and manpower (MAGA, let’s be honest with each other - ICE is MAGA) into ICE. Thank God, that would be horrifying!
Nice talk, they have armored vehicles and hate in their hearts.
No, mainly just curious - like I’ve said, I haven’t dealt with aggression in dogs.
In 2022 every ideologically driven mass killing in the U.S. was carried out by the far right with an overwhelming number being carried out by white supremacists. In 2025 to date, every ideologically driven mass killing has been from the far right (this is no different than 2024, I have not looked at 2023 but I’m willing to bet the answer is the same). School shooters are overwhelmingly conservative.
You’re right about them being cowards, you’re wrong about them being unwilling to use them. You’re right that there won’t be revolutions, there will be massacres. They are waiting for the green light from their overlords that allows them to, legally, kill you.
Exception, not the rule - and the people downvoting me prove it. No one likes to be told their worldview is wrong.
Edit: look into ideologically driven murders in the U.S., then look at ICE getting 20k more troops and natl guard deployed to LA. Look at the toys they have and tell me your hunting rifle is going to do anything when they have fucking tanks and riot armor.
Maga likes guns. Maga will not disarm. Maga hates liberals. Liberals dislike guns. Liberals are disarming.
God forbid I pay attention to what’s going on in the U.S.
Jesus christ, how many times does this need to be spelled out?
There are people who agree that guns are bad and they are disarming themselves. There are people who disagree and are arming themselves. It just so happens they also support the current govt.
If you could go back 40 years ago and change so many things, sure taking guns away seems like a good call. It is not to anyone that actually understands reality.
It’s an answer for anyone that’s unwilling to accept reality as it is, but sure.
I don’t think the threat is coming from the military in this case, it’s coming from MAGA.
Sorry, I was very tired - however, having taken ibuprofen for years - 2 pills will not give me the same pain relief as it did 10 years ago. I have to up it to 3, or 4. I’m not sure if this is tolerance or an increase in inflammation resulting in a need for a higher dose (hoping not).
Oh, no need to wonder - liberals have successfully convinced themselves that disarming themselves is the answer.
There’s so much we still don’t understand about prions, I have a horrible feeling that it should be phrased 'it’s not transmissible to humans yet '.
do whatever as long as it doesn’t affect others
This statement is very frequently used as justification for self-destructive tendencies without coming to the conclusion naturally (i.e. having someone tell you that you can do anything as long as you don’t affect others vs figuring it out on your own). It can also lead to belligerence from stupid individuals (eh, we’re surrounded by fields - who cares if I shoot my gun in the air?).
I don’t disagree with anything else you’ve said.
You should look at the fields in Ukraine strewn with the fiber optic cables of 100’s of kamikaze drones.
Ahhh, I had no idea the connection between farmed deer and CWD.
So, I’m assuming that CWD in deers is caused in the same way that BSE is in cows? It’s miraculous there aren’t any hicks that have contracted the CJD equivalent from CWD deers.
Drones, everyone should be looking at fiber optic drones. If for no other reason than you can put one in the sky with a thermal camera above your home.
Hell it doesn’t even need to have a fiber optic cable, having that information is very valuable.
I have considered it, and I’ve asked my friend for a copy of the recording. He refuses to send it to me, for the reasons I’ve listed. I’m also concerned that some of other things I’m aware of would destroy other members of our family (Not MAGA, he ends up being the only MAGAt in the family. Oddly as well - his mother ended up living with an immigrant from Mexico.).
I would be suspicious that the video ever existed, if it weren’t for my cousin bragging about defending his house by firing off rounds at a moving car he deemed ‘filled with gang bangers’. Fortunately he didn’t harm anyone, he just put a few holes in his neighbors car and broke their window. No punishment, as you can probably guess.
My family is also entirely convinced that he’s a great man. None of them seem to recognize what he actually is, and this seems pretty consistent across all the people I’ve met who know him (yes he had me convinced as well).
Genuinely - simply talking about it makes me sick. I am conflicted, at my core. I understand that guns simply make the world a more dangerous place, especially assault weapons. I am under no illusion that ‘good guy with gun stop bad guy with gun’. If that were the true, either I or someone else would have shot my cousin by now.
I’m sorry if I was hostile towards you, or really anyone else in this thread. I understand that their responses are filtered through the immediate assumption that I must be a fascist ‘dunking on the libs’, because I’ve chosen a topic that MAGA have ingrained into their ideology. I don’t hate them, or you, for it — believe it or not, I am genuinely afraid for each and every one of you.