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slickgoat ,

What I find fascinating is the total number of numbskulls and cartoon villains, all collected under the Trump banner, and that lunatic mob may very well take government.

What’s the hell wrong with American voters?

slickgoat ,

The Republicans get away with so much despicable action and each time the Dems get pants by the audacity of the attempt. That’s how we are here now.

The conservatives will try absolutely anything, up to and including armed insurrection. Now with AR15s, and probably with bumpstocks fitted.

Don’t think that it could never happen. The MAGA element love being underestimated.

slickgoat ,

I guess my point is not that they’ll necessarily be successful, it’s more that a great many good people won’t go home to their families that night.

They weren’t successful last time and the Republican Congress welcomed the traitor-in-chief back to DC last week as a hero.

slickgoat ,

I’m not calling the insurrectionists good people, I’m calling the defenders of the constitution who might catch an AR 15 round good people.

slickgoat , (edited )

I actually looked up the legalisation one time. Congress described a machine gun and gave all the definitions that were forbidden to alter it to make it automatic fire. It was pretty comprehensive, particularly given that it was written in the 80s. However this supreme court said that the magic words ‘bump stock’ wasn’t in the legalisation. Words that didn’t even exist until 2003, or thereabouts. The court ignored the legislative text completely.

And I don’t believe that you are a gun nut at all. You seem perfectly reasonable and make a good point.

slickgoat ,

I disagree with the accuracy of what you just said, but 100% agree with your sentiments.

slickgoat ,

That excellent quote of the text you provided spells out that any modifications to a gun that allows any more than a single shot is to be prohibited. A court that is very big on textual meaning, as it purports to be, would readily agree, unless bias is in the driver’s seat.

This conservative supreme court despised regulatory agencies . For decades the US government has relied upon such agencies as subject experts and has allowed them to regulate their areas. This court just wants to reverse this common sense and established way of doing things. I might remind you that the bump stock thing wasn’t a democrat initiative, but a bipartisan Trump one.

slickgoat ,

So much twaddle and dancing around definitions. You could definitely qualify for a spot on Trump’s Supreme Court.

All they are a modification to turn a semiautomatic gun into a full automatic weapon. That’s it. All the intricate dribble into the contrary doesn’t change that. Water is wet, sky blue, and modifications allowing automatic fire are machine guns.

slickgoat ,

You went into a ton of detail, thank you. But it is meaningless under the original definition of the act.

“The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun, and any combination of parts from which a machinegun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.”

A bump stock modifies the frame of the gun which converts it into a fully automatic weapon. Don’t just get stuck on the trigger part of the action. The act covers everything, you just can’t cherry pick a single clause and ignore everything else. Otherwise they just might make you into one of Trump’s Supreme Court justices.

slickgoat ,

*Land of the free!

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slickgoat ,

Only in the US. The rest of the world buys them. It still is a major market lose, but China still makes Huawei phones.

slickgoat ,

Welcome to Marx 101.

“Property is theft”

slickgoat ,

The country that makes ALL your shit has nothing to fear in a trade war. Unless you want to forgo ALL your shit?

Who would have thought that sending all those jobs overseas to increase company profits and depress wages would have a downside?

slickgoat ,

I have to inform you that that US has some of the best spy satellite networks on the planet.

People shocked that other countries play the spook game too is amazing.

slickgoat ,

Want to bond with your kid, take them to the park, not some corporate hellscape.

slickgoat ,

With respect, and I mean it. There is a world of difference between a kid brushing a horse and a training camp for a fast food joint. I mean, really?

slickgoat ,

Perhaps just let kids play and forget all about training to be “future workers”.

Is this what we’ve become? Jesus!

slickgoat ,

I guess that we shall have to agree to disagree.

Kids should have nothing to do with the corporate world until they are old enough to deal with it rationally. Whatever the rationale is for doing so, fast food joints want to materially exploit people and having kids as young as 5 play as burger slingers is beyond creepy. Feel free to have alternative views about it.

slickgoat ,

That’s an artefact of the “now”.

In Australia we once had the imperial system and about a year after the big switch (14 Feb 1966) we became all metric like a mofo. Now 35c feels hot and 15c feels cold. Plus units of ten is so much easier than factions.

Ask the US military about the metric system, they’ve been using it since at least Vietnam, if not earlier.

slickgoat ,

Not American either, but the situation looking from the outside is pretty horrendous. The solution is not to vote for him, or to turn out in such numbers that it would be impossible for him to get in.

Here’s the rub, about fifty percent of your voters either want him, or don’t care enough either way.

So many millions of your people are toying with the idea of soaking yourselves in fuel and flicking a match.

You actually have the solution - get out and vote and get your families and friends out too, or suffer the consequences.

slickgoat ,

That is the problem - his real vote is less than a winning vote, but he still may win. Not enough people care to stop him, including the voters (and non-voters) who don’t want him.

It is a problem easily fixed and most Americans act like helpless spectators.

That’s ok, join the rest of the world as we jointly watch it all unfold.

slickgoat ,

That is an interesting suggestion, and has been made many times before. Australia (for instance) is pretty much handcuffed to the US. Ever since WW2 we have been in lockstep with you guys. Every damn war and conflict. It would be nice to have a small say in who drags is into war that we never ask for.

But still, we do it to ourselves. Other countries don’t.

slickgoat ,

Not defending Roberts, but he hasn’t the power to do shit about any other Supreme. It’s not like he’s the boss of the others.

slickgoat ,

Oh Nos! Anyway…

slickgoat ,

Only if you are insanely literal. You are most definitely the product.

slickgoat ,

How many minutes would the Saudis remain an alli if they suddenly ran out of oil?

Five? Ten minutes?

slickgoat ,

She’s a future Supreme if ever there was one. One bendy MAGA idiot to add to the growing collection.

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slickgoat ,

I’ve been watching the big powers veto sensible UN measures for decades. The US does it, Russia and China does it, it’s a game to them. Waste of time finger-pointing, veto power is bullshit. It sez the rules don’t apply to anyone in the nuke club.

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slickgoat ,

To me, making political appointments for the judiciary always made this a possibility. It happened in the old days, and it might happen again. And it did.

slickgoat ,

If Biden doesn’t win, we will probably get a bystander idea of what the Book of Revelations looks like. I mean, if you can blatantly commit crimes, including insurrection, when Trump is sidelined, imagine what is possible when he’s back in charge?

I’m not even American but this will even impact upon me. Indirectly, what you guys do over there follows us home in lots of ways.

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slickgoat ,

I suffer from cognitive dissonance myself when viewing what happened from afar and knowing that Americans might elect this stupid man for a second time instead of taking the Mussolini option.

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slickgoat ,

The comments couldn’t get more American if it was a competition on making American commentary.

I understand both side of the argument, but at the same time I get neither. American cultural identity in relation to firearms is unique in the Western world. Guns have transcended rights and wrongs. People hunt. People use guns recreationally. People cosplay warriors. Some people use guns for bad reasons. Most people never cause the slightest harm. But in any event, culturally, guns occupy a political position not usually seen in the first world.

I’m not even sure what I am trying to say? I do know this, the debate will never end because the two different positions are completely contradictory and all compromise is effectively lost. I’d be interested in hearing a solution that both sides could live with. It would be a doozy.

slickgoat ,

I’ve been following this trial very closely. Trump is the problem. He demands that his lawyers challenge everything very aggressively. He is enraged if his counsel accepts even trivial facts that make no difference either way. The bigger question is why they put up with his tantrums.

Money, probably…

slickgoat ,

Don’t forget he stiffed Michael Cohen out of some of those hush money payments. It was probably a reflective move from a lifetime of dumping on friends.

slickgoat ,

I was there at the birth of the interwebs, also a very early adopter. Still, I never considered it to be a force multiplier for stupidity in the way things worked out. I went the other way, believing that it would harness humanity’s genius.

I tend to be wrong a lot.

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