@Dianexis Grok thought you were talking about yourself when you said “her” because even it thinks you’re a smol latina.
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@BlowbackBuff
Car nerd, libertarian, 2A Absolutist, sabermetrics geek, diehard @Mets/@NYIslanders/@Giants/@F1 casual @NYKnicks fan•Navigating life with ADHD
Brooklyn, NY انضم Haziran 2018
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@MorosKostas While I appreciate the clarity, I feel like this question might confuse some people. At least with the old system you kinda knew for 99% of people who aren’t prohibited the first answer is yes and all the other ones are no.
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I really, really like how the form makes clear buying guns as a gift is totally fine. That's long been a point of confusion for both buyers and dealers.
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@EdDinIL @MorosKostas I haven’t read the opinion but I’m sure the wording of it on the ballot “to restore fairness” has to have also been a factor considering that Virginia law requires ballot measures to use politically neutral language.
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@MorosKostas The vote wasn't overturned because it was gerrymandering. It was overturned because of the way they went about rushing the vote. SCOVA described the pathway that needs to be taken to do it, and I hope like hell the people in Virginia stand up to block it when they try again.
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Gerrymandering a purple state is a fundamentally different beast.
Dems did gerrymander other states like CA just fine.
Jim Acosta@Acosta
Trump gets to redraw maps in his states but the Democrats cannot do the same? What is happening to our democracy?
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@chandler5554 @lyagonalcutters What makes this particularly infuriating is that if they got Javy out at any point before he touched first base, that run wouldn’t have counted. The first baseman’s worst fuckup was not chasing Javy, it was throwing the ball to the catcher.
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@lyagonalcutters this is what happens if you try to tag
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Chicago Cubs@Cubs
Javier Báez. El Mago. The Magician.
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TAG THE RUNNER??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!??!?!?!!??!!??!?!?!?!?!?!?
MLB@MLB
The @Marlins are walk-off winners!
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@crunkilton22 @KasperStats 4-8 PM Super Bowl should be illegal.
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@KasperStats Who’s complaining about morning baseball?!?! When sports start at 4pm out here, I feel like even that’s way too late lol
West coast best coast for sports.
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@KasperStats @cnkirch1215 Bro and the Super Bowl starting at 4:00 and being over at 8:00? That’s so weird.
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@cnkirch1215 That is kinda awesome! I don't think I could ever get used to Sunday Night Football starting at 5:15pm though, that's crazy early. Especially since if you live in LA, 4:30-8:30 are already blocked off on your evening calendar for spending-time-in-traffic...
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@mshizzle05 @stoolgambling @StoolBaseball @barstoolWSD Intentional Walk is a separate stat so that one I get. But a pitch clock violation would just result in a fourth ball and goes in the box score as just a normal walk.
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@stoolgambling @StoolBaseball @barstoolWSD Hmmm seems like he got them all. Intentional walk? Pitcher clock violation with 3 balls? I suppose those are both just walks?
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@jbraun00 @SpencerrGreene @stoolgambling @StoolBaseball @barstoolWSD Jean Segura is an MLB player. Jean Segura did this in an MLB game in 2013.
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@wizardofohio @stoolgambling @StoolBaseball @barstoolWSD That is a dropped third strike, which he said.
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@stoolgambling @StoolBaseball @barstoolWSD In the scenario where the catcher drops the third strike, the batter may attempt to run to first base. If they reach safely (first base empty, or two outs), they are safe. It goes in the books as a strikeout but the batter is safe at first.
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@joeroganhq The economic illiteracy is astounding. This is the type of person writing our laws.
It’s the most basic economics: Iran not exporting oil creates scarcity in the global market. There is increased demand for oil from the places we’re getting it, that’s what makes the price go up.
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Tim Burchett tells Joe Rogan: "We get zero oil from Iran. Zero. Yet the price is going through the roof... because it can... I just think it’s a racket. The oil companies, they’ll shake that money tree. They know how to do it on both sides of the aisle."
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@Sean1robertson @Heiwajima_Neroo @gregorykennedy @Scyon13 Not to mention both companies also make weapons
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@Heiwajima_Neroo @gregorykennedy @Scyon13 Ask Samsung, or Mitsubishi?
Samsung makes ships, screens, world’s tallest building (in Dubai) & laundry machines.
Mitsubishi makes refrigerators, pens, cars, AC & power plants.
If that were the case, There would be no Switch 2 because Nintendo would still be making playing cards.
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Dave: “Hello, caller, you are on the air.”
Caller: “I don’t think billionaires create value.”
Dave: “Okay. What do you mean by that?”
Caller: “Nobody can earn a billion dollars ethically.”
Dave: “Alright. What do you do for a living?”
Caller: “Well, before this, I was a bartender.”
Dave: “Nothing wrong with bartending. Honest work.”
Caller: “Right.”
Dave: “And now?”
Caller: “I work in government.”
Dave: “Okay. So let me get this straight. You're saying Elon Musk, who helped build PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink, has made innovations like online payments, electric cars, rockets, and satellite internet possible, didn't earn his way to being a billionaire?"
Caller: “None of that justifies being a billionaire.”
Dave: “Well, sure sounds like value got created somewhere along the line.”
Caller: “I disagree.”
Dave: “What exactly did you build?”
Caller: “I advocate for economic justice.”
Dave: “No ma’am, I mean actual products.”
Caller: “…”
Dave: “You’re telling me the guy catching rockets mid-air created less value than a person who used to serve mojitos and now votes on spending his tax dollars?”
Caller: “That’s unfair.”
Dave: “What’s unfair is pretending markets are imaginary while cashing a government paycheck funded by the businesses you claim don’t create value.”
Caller: “I’m actually a congresswoman.”
Dave: “Oh Lord. Of course!"
Breitbart News@BreitbartNews
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: You can't earn a billion dollars. Ilana Glazer: That's right. AOC: You just can't earn that. Glazer: That's exactly correct. AOC: You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. Glazer: Yup. AOC: You can pay people less than what they're worth. Glazer: Yup. AOC: But you can't earn that, right? Glazer: That's right. AOC: And so you have to create a myth that -- since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.
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@YouWontFeelThis @StephenMoore People aren’t moving to Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Delaware, New Hampshire and Maine because of weather.
They’re doing it because New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, California, Maryland, and Massachusetts have insane taxes and those are nearby alternatives with low taxes.
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The “people moved therefore blue states failed” framing is deeply misleading.
Retirees have been moving to warmer, lower-cost Sun Belt states for generations after accumulating wealth during their working years in places like California, New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois.
This chart ignores:
• age demographics
• retirees
• remote work
• housing costs
• climate
• federal spending dependence
• and where much of that wealth was actually created.
Florida didn’t invent most of that wealth. It imported it.
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The biggest wealth transfer in American history isn’t happening on Wall Street. It’s happening on U-Hauls.
Over $2 trillion in income fled high-tax blue states for low-tax red states in just 11 years.
And blue states’ solution? Raise taxes again.
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@StephenMoore @guypbenson The funny thing is, all those Harris-voting states gaining population are mostly doing it on the back of people fleeing nearby blue states (most notably New York, California, New Jersey and Massachusetts).
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@ishouldfeelbad @2Aupdates They actually recently amended that NJSP letter to remove the brand names (they also named CorBon Pow’RBall and I think one other in the original letter). It now just says any ammo with a polymer filling.
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@2Aupdates They are just sponsored by Hornady's FTX line. The NJ state police endorses it
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Anti-gun logic: We can ban hollow-point ammo because it's disproportionate for self-defense and the Second Amendment doesn't protect military arms, which is why only the police should have hollow-point ammo and everyone else should use the same type as the military
Firearms Policy Coalition@gunpolicy
Last month, New Jersey argued that hollow-point ammo isn't protected by the Second Amendment because it is "unusually dangerous," "so lethal that it has been banned under international laws of war," and "disproportionate and unnecessary for self-defense." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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@SadinNj @2Aupdates @MorosKostas They’re hoping for a panel of Krause and two other Obama/Biden/Clinton appointees.
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@2Aupdates @MorosKostas Wait, what?
I'm sure that logic will be fine with Judge O'Hearn (Biden appointee). But the 3rd Circuit is going to tear it up.
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@2Aupdates @MorosKostas The age-old gun grabber trick. The 2A doesn’t protect anything used by the military because it’s way too powerful for citizens, but also it doesn’t protect anything else because a militia wouldn’t use that!
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@HomelandDems Democrats trust USPS with our Democracy, but not your pistol.
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Republicans trust USPS to ship handguns, but not your ballot.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
USPS May Soon Allow People To Ship Handguns Through The Mail For The First Time In Nearly 100 Years
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@n_zappala4 @nathanbrand It’s not better than the alternative.
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@nathanbrand Did you read the piece? He starts it by saying he’s not saying this should happen but could happen…
Their stance on a lot of these type of figures is “anti anti” I believe they coined the term with Zohran. As in thy don’t like their policies but it’s better than the alternative
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the evolution of the Bulwark summarized:
>we're the real conservatives
>we don't like trump
>he is a threat to democracy
>trump is a nazi
>all republicans are nazi sympathizers
>support democrats
>endorse nazi tattoo democrat for senate
>nazi tattoo guy should be the president
Tim Miller@Timodc
JVL gives Platner somewhere between a 5 and 33% chance of being the Dem nominee in 2028. And I don't think that's crazy at all. Floated similar on a pod last fall. Before you scoff - read the case! thebulwark.com/p/platner-2028
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@2aHistory @hannahhill_sc In NYC this also results in a back door waiting period, because NYPD usually takes over a month to process these “requests” and you have to wait until they send you a new copy of your permit in the mail with that new serial # on the back of it.
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@2aHistory @hannahhill_sc For NY on top of the license to purchase/possess, your local PD needs to individually approve each pistol purchse and if they refuse to add that firearm to your permit for whatever reason, you can’t possess it in the state. This also results in a backdoor ban of certain platforms
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Very good answer to everyone wanting DOJ to sue their state next. The DOJ’s responsibility is to think strategically and bring winnable lawsuits that create good 2A precedents. Sadly, that doesn’t make sense in every state.
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas
Seeing a lot of "why hasn't DOJ sued my state which has an AWB/mag ban!?". Because it would probably be pointless as there is already controlling caselaw in that circuit. There's two reasons a lawsuit of that kind makes sense: 1. There is no controlling AWB precedent in that circuit, or no case way ahead of it on the same issue that awaits a ruling. The Denver lawsuit falls into this category, as the 10th Circuit has yet to definitively rule on the issue post-Bruen. 2. There is controlling precedent, but no case is pending at SCOTUS right now from that circuit. Virginia in the 4th Circuit would fit this category. After Snope was denied last year, there is no 4th Circuit case waiting on a cert decision that I am aware of, so DOJ could quickly lose its way up to SCOTUS without getting stayed to await some other case. If DOJ filed a lawsuit against, e.g., the Washington State assault weapons ban, it would get immediately stayed pending Miller (which is awaiting a ruling in the Ninth Circuit) or pending a cert decision in Duncan. It would be pointless. Hope that helps.
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