perlhaqr
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8 years ago @ Filibuster Cartoons - Playing with free speech · 0 replies · +1 points
Exercise my First--and then Second--Amendment rights as necessary.
10 years ago @ Center for a Stateless... - Miley Cyrus and the Li... · 0 replies · 0 points
I'm willing to take them seriously, but nearly every 'leftist' I've ever spoken with about such issues has been totally unwilling to even consider options for dealing with it that don't involve governmental intervention.
Political institutions give the military a bully pulpit, but no one is being forced into military service.
This seems like a remarkably tone-deaf statement when there are still living Vietnam vets who were conscripted into service, and when every 18+ year old male is still required to register for the draft.
It was already accepted by the dominate culture that women needed to be treated in such a way and so it manifested itself into law.
"dominant".
10 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Socially Awkward Isn't... · 2 replies · +6 points
"If you don't know what you're doing behind the wheel of the car, perhaps trying to go 200 mph on your first time out isn't the best idea" is not rocket science.
10 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Socially Awkward Isn't... · 3 replies · +2 points
Oh, I think there's something to this.
A second chance is reasonable.
A two-thousandth chance is not. Nerds are supposed to be smart. That pretty much requires the demonstration of learning behaviour.
10 years ago @ KCPQ-TV - Soldier returns from w... · 0 replies · +5 points
Because it would be really embarrassing, take a really long time, and really hurt.
And then it could go on his tombstone. "I was a jerk who gave away a deployed soldier's dog, and then I was eaten by ladybugs".
Like, what is next on this person's agenda? Knocking over a nun in a wheelchair? Mocking people with Down's Syndrome? Stealing candy from children?
When they finally get run over by karma, it'll actually need to be bus-ma to have adequate amplitude.