@LouisvilleGun @AGJayJones I remember that one. Several of the students apparently WATCHED HIM RELOAD and did nothing to stop him.
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Scott Murphree-Rober
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Scott Murphree-Rober
@SMRdeka
Catholic husband, father, engineer.
Entrou em Mayıs 2012
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@AGJayJones Yeah we should legalize campus carry immediately because Virginia Tech was just another example how gun free zones don’t work
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Nineteen years ago, Virginia Tech experienced an unimaginable tragedy when 32 students and faculty were killed and 17 were injured during a mass shooting.
Virginia Tech@virginia_tech
Today, we’re remembering and honoring the lives of the 32 Hokies who were tragically taken from their loved ones and the Virginia Tech community on April 16, 2007. On this 2026 Day of Remembrance, we honor the potential they carried and the lasting impact they have. 🧡
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@BradRTorgersen @JWhitebread1 In my 1922 house, under some quarter round molding, I found a Boy Scout Shoes good luck medallion. It had a horse shoe, a 4-leaf clover, a swastika, and something else on it.
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@JWhitebread1 IIRC the swastika shows up in some indigenous American weaving and pottery as well.
*GASP*
"Anasazi was just short for NAZI!"
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Had a student ask about a pentagram in a Gothic cathedral and wondered what an 'occult' emblem was doing in a Christian cathedral. That led to a discussion of the pitfalls of "presentism" when analyzing symbols in the past out of context, which eventually led to Fritz Beckhardt, WW1 German Jewish Flying Ace, pictured here with his preferred good luck emblem emblazoned on his plane. The past is weirder than you can know.
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@BradRTorgersen @JWhitebread1 I was at some old hotel in South Dakota, I think, circa 2009, with a native American motif.
Had little swastikas all around the tops of the walls, worked into something like crown molding.
I was surprised they'd left it intact.
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@Grunt2A Not only do I think a national popular vote is a terrible idea, I want to do away with popular vote for US Senators and return to state legislatures appointing US Senators.
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Alow me to simplify why a national popular vote for the President is a bad idea and why the Electoral College is a feature, not a bug.
The Electoral College actively prevents us from being a true democracy because true democracies are really bad ideas and allow a low information electorate to simple take what it wants from anyone else. Property rights cease to exist in a true democracy. So do civil rights, minority rights, or any other rights that 50.1% of the people who show up to vote don't want you to have anymore.
The country would be run by New York, LA, Chicago, and Dallas. No one's opinions outside of those cities would matter.
By having the electoral system it forces Presidential candidates to cater to all 50 states, not just the most populated cities. This ensures that a farmer's rights in Bismark, North Dakota are as important as a homeless man's in New York City, thus making sure the entire nation is represented by the Executive Branch equally.
Remember in The Hunger Games where the people of the outlying cities existed only to feed and entertain the residents of the central city under threat of death?
That is what not having an electoral college would cause in the United States.
Additionally, removing it would require a Constitutional Amendment. And because it would require a Constitutional Amendment anything that attempts to change the process without an Amendment is an end run around the Constitution and is invalid on its face per Marbury v Madison.
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@Gormogons Agree on all points.
However, the word "convo" must be extirpated from use.
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CZ I normally don't like to repost clickbait crap, but this is intriguing.
A. Musk would appreciate a conversation w/anybody
B. Bezoz would lecture and try to dominate the convo
C. Good luck even with "hello." Immediately awkward
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Which of these three would you like to meet? A. Elon Musk B. Jeff Bezoz C. Mark Zuckerberg
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@travis4nh I feel like that graph should show a spike in 2001. We saw prices double after 9/11. But maybe the spike was so short it didn't get caught?
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@oeingoboeing I should be on a program. 😉
But I just happen to have True Lime, and my wife buys plain yogurt for the grandkids, so...
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@SMRdeka I'm "on a program" so I'm finding ways to try and enjoy things that I generally despise. Plain yogurt is one of those things, but this makes it pretty good. 1 packet of TrueLime and about half a packet of Splenda for a 3/4 portion of the goop works good for me.
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This stuff performs the miracle of making plain nonfat greek yogurt palatable.
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Never Trust the government!
Hillbilly@JamesHu27192912
Never forget that 33 years ago we learned the government will kill your dog, shoot your 14 year old son in the back and snipe your wife in the doorway while she holds your infant child. #RubyRidge Imagine being 14 years old, living off the grid in the Idaho woods in 1992. You’re walking your dog when suddenly he growls and *bang*, the dog is shot and killed. You look up and see a man in a Ghillie suit with a rifle pointed at you. Fear grips you. You pull your gun and fire. You’re just defending yourself. This is your home. You run back toward your parents, only to be shot in the back and killed before you can reach them. You never understand what went wrong or why. The next day, a sniper fires again. Your mother, standing in the doorway holding your baby sister, is hit in the head and killed instantly. All of this started because your father Randy Weaver, sold two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent and refused to become a government informant. They gave him a false court date and set up armed surveillance at your home, waiting for the moment they could escalate. Randy Weaver was a former U.S. Army Green Beret. He served in the military before moving off the grid with his family in northern Idaho. His military background added to the tension for federal authorities, because he was trained in weapons and survival, but it didn’t make him violent or a threat to anyone outside his property. After an 11 day stand off with Randy and the baby inside with two dead bodies, the government was ordered to pay millions in settlements to Randy. They were proven to be in the wrong for this deadly power trip. But that doesn’t bring back a 14 year old boy or his mother. Stay educated. Some of our history isnt taught in school for a reason. 💯
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@dantypo Met a young kid named Paden selling door to door.
He said, "You know - like Kevin Kline's character in Silverado!"
It wasn't until after he left that I remembered I should have asked, "Where's the dog?"
One of the biggest regrets of my life.
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So I’m on the phone with a vendor, a pretty young guy. After addressing my concerns, he says “I’ll get our quality manager, Sue, to give you a call.”
I said, “alright, I’ll expect her call… we are talking about a woman, yes?”
He says confusedly, “ummm yes?”
I said, “well as you know, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.”
He did not get it at all🥺
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@Gormogons @CyborgPeds That guy blocked me ages ago for not being sympathetic enough about his whining about hating his kids or something. 😁
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@CatholicAce @hecubian_devil I got detention from female teachers a lot for being a (correct) smartass.
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@hecubian_devil Yeah, nah, the female teachers I had hated me because I was too smart and would punish me for everything, doubly so for being smarter than them. My male teachers would actually be good role models and encourage my growth and help me.
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I think you were actually just dumb and ill-behaved, tbh. I don’t think actually-smart kids experienced this. They were generally liked and pampered by teachers.
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus
It’s true, every halfway intelligent right winger I know irl had a massive conflict with at least one elementary teacher over things like: reading ahead, reading too difficult books, not showing enough work, etc etc. it’s the first time we experience the uncaring tyranny of state bureaucracy and it sucks.
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@Schwalm5132 "sold a bill of goods by the Government"?!
How could this be?!
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I remember this incident well and how the narrative was constructed across the media. Randy was made out to be the bad guy, and we were all sold a bill of goods by the Government.
The Government is NOT your friend.
Either you control the government or it will control you.
Hillbilly@JamesHu27192912
Never forget that 33 years ago we learned the government will kill your dog, shoot your 14 year old son in the back and snipe your wife in the doorway while she holds your infant child. #RubyRidge Imagine being 14 years old, living off the grid in the Idaho woods in 1992. You’re walking your dog when suddenly he growls and *bang*, the dog is shot and killed. You look up and see a man in a Ghillie suit with a rifle pointed at you. Fear grips you. You pull your gun and fire. You’re just defending yourself. This is your home. You run back toward your parents, only to be shot in the back and killed before you can reach them. You never understand what went wrong or why. The next day, a sniper fires again. Your mother, standing in the doorway holding your baby sister, is hit in the head and killed instantly. All of this started because your father Randy Weaver, sold two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent and refused to become a government informant. They gave him a false court date and set up armed surveillance at your home, waiting for the moment they could escalate. Randy Weaver was a former U.S. Army Green Beret. He served in the military before moving off the grid with his family in northern Idaho. His military background added to the tension for federal authorities, because he was trained in weapons and survival, but it didn’t make him violent or a threat to anyone outside his property. After an 11 day stand off with Randy and the baby inside with two dead bodies, the government was ordered to pay millions in settlements to Randy. They were proven to be in the wrong for this deadly power trip. But that doesn’t bring back a 14 year old boy or his mother. Stay educated. Some of our history isnt taught in school for a reason. 💯
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@4nt1p4tt3rn I am the tertium quid: I get my refund and curse the government for taking it and myself for not getting withholdings correct.
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There are two types of people in the US:
a) Those that cheer when they get their tax refund checks
b) Those that write a check to the IRS
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@Awright874 @ShamashAran @SavvyTamz_57 Short answer: Taqiyya
Long answer: youtube.com/watch?v=8AD6Dk…
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@ShamashAran @SavvyTamz_57 As I recall, Muslims are allowed to lie to non believers for gain, correct?
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I get my knowledge about Islam from the book itself.
I get my knowledge by the excuses other Muslims make for the killers of nonbelievers in their name.
I get my knowledge by the celebration of Muslims at teh massacre of innocent Jews.
I get my knowledge from the abhorrent treatment of LGBT folks in sharia following countries.
KadyM@KadyMuhammad1
@ShamashAran @OhMyItsAlly Yea whatever. There are plenty of people who *don't* get their knowledge about Islam from the internet who are just fine with us. The haters will always be the minority.
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