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by kcplate 9mo ago
Just because people are demanding outrage doesn’t mean I have to shut off my brain and go along with it. Perhaps that is the way you want to operate, and good for you—you do you—but I don’t let my emotions overwhelm me about things like thi
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by kcplate 9mo ago
> Then surely you can agree that labeling this regime as unrepentant murderers of American mothers is a good way of building broad opposition from people who might otherwise think it doesn't concern them, yes? No. In fact I think j
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by kcplate 9mo ago
Here is the reality, The actions Trump is taking regarding immigration enforcement are definitely consistent with the platform he ran on. None of this should be a shock to anyone. It’s not like Trump was an “unknown quantity”. Trump was s
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by kcplate 9mo ago
> will not actually be criminally charged and convicted of any types of legally-defined murder. Yes, that is my point. What you consider a corrupt legal system, I call one that tries to protect people who are accused of a crime until th
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by kcplate 9mo ago
Again, “murder” is charge that requires conviction. People keep using it here when its not appropriate to do so. I realize they are caught up in the emotion and not viewing things pragmatically. I am trying to provide a window to let peo
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by kcplate 9mo ago
Everyone also saw a car move forward directly towards a person before his weapon was even drawn. If he did not follow procedure that will be accounted for in the investigation. I am sure that question will hinge on whether or not from all
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by kcplate 9mo ago
Who made that claim? Not I.
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by kcplate 9mo ago
> Bro, you aren't anti qualified immunity, you are totally cool with it. > You are cool with this mother being murdered, and her daughter left an orphan tonight, Nope, quite the opposite, I’m just not caught up in the heat of the
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by kcplate 9mo ago
> Can you point to me the part where she was interfering with their enforcement and duties? So is it perfectly normal for a civilian vehicle to just be blocking a street at a 90 degree angle during an active ICE operation where there are
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by kcplate 9mo ago
Here is the slowed down and zoomed video. https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2008976092326203562 Here is what I see in this video… - Officer at driver side window, reaches into vehicle while simultaneously trying t
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by kcplate 9mo ago
> It sounds like he is calling on the National Guard to protect against ICE? Is this the first time a state has done this? I personally think it’s the right move but this is a serious matter to have one law enforcement agency called out
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by kcplate 9mo ago
Are you really suggesting that an armed federal law enforcement officer doesn’t have the ability to detain someone that they suspect is interfering with one of their operations? You might want to cite some case law here supporting that asse
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by kcplate 9mo ago
There is a zoomed in and slowed down video circulating that shows after the driver was told to exit the vehicle that they reversed the vehicle first and then placed the car into drive (when the LEO was directly in front of her car). The dr
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by kcplate 9mo ago
You certainly repeated it and didn’t dispute it. I ask again—What is horribly wrong where you agree enough to repeat the claim?
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by kcplate 9mo ago
Alrighty then, in a few years you can test your model’s accuracy against my prediction based on history and an understanding of how our laws and civics actually work.
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by kcplate 9mo ago
My preference is reality.
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by kcplate 9mo ago
I’m sorry…did I miss martial law being declared in 2021? Did I miss Trump being president from 2021 through 2024?
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by kcplate 9mo ago
I can’t speak to windows since it’s been at least a decade since I have had to use it, but I really don’t understand the hate on the new Apple OSs. I haven’t found them to be a measurably different user experience than their respective pri
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by kcplate 9mo ago
> I'm not sure money and time are cleanly separable metrics for this in that changing one changes the other, which is why it's not as simple as looking at the toll roads' dynamics in isolation Sure they are, tolls regulate
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by kcplate 9mo ago
Seems to me you are focused on money rather than time here. However, people using these road are not in alignment with that metric. What’s important is not the cost, but the value. Why choose a toll road over a public path from A to B? It
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by kcplate 9mo ago
This is a strange argument that leaves out some important considerations. You could easily say that because the rich don’t need to use public transit the fares charged for riding public transit are a regressive tax on the working class tha
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by kcplate 9mo ago
> For the poor they are yet another obstacle to trying to make ends meet Only if there is no other way for them to get from point A to point B. If there is, it’s a time vs $ value question to the driver and not regressive, nor an “obsta
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by kcplate 9mo ago
> The poor bear the brunt of them But consciously, at least where I live. There are definitely optional non-toll routes around me. Toll roads come at a financial cost to offset a time cost. Non-toll roads come at a greater time cost v
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by kcplate 10mo ago
I can’t really get you specifics. Three years ago when my wife and I were chair shopping after an office deco/design change, I came across a number of highly adjustable chairs in the “less than $600” price point that we were shopping
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by kcplate 10mo ago
So are a lot of chairs at a fifth of the price. I gave them a quality evaluation and have had occasion to sit in them for long periods at client sites. I am all for spending for quality and generally am a BIFL type consumer, but these chair
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by kcplate 10mo ago
I never understood the appeal of these. Last time I went chair shopping I sat in a ton of different chairs including these and they were middle of the road in comfort and at the top end in price.
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by kcplate 10mo ago
Why? I didn’t vote for Trump, but 4 out of the 5 years he was in office my investments grew pretty substantially in a way that they didn’t under Obama and Biden, I can’t really count 2020 since there was somewhat of an external factor that
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by kcplate 10mo ago
Likely these are not “lose your army level” lessons. I’ve let idiots touch a hot pan if they’ve insisted to do it. I would not let someone pour gasoline on themselves and strike a match
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by kcplate 10mo ago
Ok, sure… but my guess is that ACA costs aren’t your only political decision maker if you are financially independent. Other things, like market performance under one party over the other probably hold a greater weight on your political con
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by kcplate 10mo ago
I think you probably need to consider how many and who is affected and where their voting affiliations already lie if they even vote at all . My guess is this doesn’t help or hurt either party at the voting booth. If you are ACA aligned o

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