FirefighterDad

Since WA allegedly knows what's best for kids, overriding parental rights, what happens if a straight kid rejects a parent's attempts to gaslight them into identifying as trans? Will the State step in, take custody, and prevent parental interference?

Asking for a friend.

Who said this:

"If you're a criminal, you'll be deported. If you plan to enter the US illegally, your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up."
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Barack Obama, November 20, 2014

Trump is just ensuring Obama's work continues. What's the big deal?

It's time for match control. Purchase permit, 15 day waiting period. Certification and licensing for lighters, assuming you can pass FBI/ATF background checks. Must store in a secure container or be held liable if stolen and used in a crime. Ban blowtorches, no one needs a tool of mass destruction.

You'd think we'd be pushing to find and arrest the arsonists, but very reliable and intellectually superior folk are telling me the real problem is actually the matches. We need more match control, I guess.

IT'S THE MATCHES
IT'S THE MATCHES
IT'S THE MATCHES
IT'S THE MATCHES

Wait until you hear what names and labels you've been freely allowed to aim at men for the last 15 years!

I'd call this move a good one towards gender equity.

The Biggest Peacetime Crime—and Cover-up—in British History The serial rape of thousands of English girls went on for many years. Few in power cared. Then Elon Musk started tweeting.

www.thefp.com/p/muslim-gro...

Seems like this might not have been so likely to occur in the UK if the populace had not willingly disarmed and surrendered to the State with the expectation of adequate protection.

Link in comments.

I still listen to NPR sometimes.

Faced with the cognitive dissonance of Jimmy Carter being a devout outspoken Evangelical while simultaneously a Democrat, they concluded that the church obviously must have changed a lot in the past 50 years. Breathtakingly delusional.

Trigger discipline..... 💀

"HAHAHAHA the right is collapsing"

LOL, nope. This is what democracy is actually meant to look like. You fight, discuss, have dialogue, debate, figure things out.

The left basically didn't even have a legit primary. The people in power just said how it was going to be, with dissent ignored.

A lot of those food dates are, strictly speaking, "best before" dates to force obsolescence, they can be rather arbitrary. It's not as if, two years after purchase, the food is OK on June 12 and spoiled June 13.

Not saying keep it all, but dates alone are not disqualifiers. Years are sometimes OK.

As a former driver of the bone box, can confirm.

FBI ‘found evidence Covid was lab leak but was not allowed to brief president’ ‘I find it surprising White House didn’t ask,’ says doctor of microbiology Jason Bannan, who was ‘snubbed’ from Biden intelligence summit

www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024...

Conspiracy theorists on the right have a commanding lead of something like 53-0 by now, I believe.

Article link in comments.

If Gaetz did it, whatever, let the chips of consequences fall.

The real question is how did we get this info so effing fast, but still NOTHING on Epstein's list after YEARS?

This country is blatantly controlled by blackmailed pedophiles.

Someone who wants to do a bad thing is going to do a bad thing with whatever is available to them to do it. If you take one thing away, they will use something else. Bad people do not throw up their hands and say 'aw shucks the weapon I wanted is banned here so I guess I'll go home'.

So is it time to ban cars in Germany?

Bad people will do bad things using whatever means available.

You can't regulate away the consequences of actions by the mentally ill or the evil.

It's the person.
It's the person.
It's the person.

(Am I doing that right?)

You'll note the source on the graph data is the Pew Research Center. Are you questioning that organization's credibility?

I'm at work. Probably 85% of my coworkers carry something like at all times, as ubiquitous as their wallets. Obviously they're all planning murders today. Thanks for the warning.

Oh whoops, me too.

🤡🤡🤡

King County Metro bus driver fatally stabbed in Seattle’s U District A King County Metro bus driver, 59, got into an altercation with an adult male passenger in Seattle's University District, according to Seattle police.

So this just happened. My oldest daughter lives in downtown Seattle with my 9 year old grandson. They both ride the bus regularly. Seattle crime is crazy.

Bad people will do bad things, whether they have a gun or not.

I'm glad she carries, just in case.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Different regs, yes, but also topography (UK and AUS are islands, for example). And law enforcement, prosecutions. US is terribly soft on crime and mental holds. People in cities are often left to fend for themselves.

Case in point, Daniel Penny.

I choose to not be defenseless in my reality. 🤷‍♂️

I don't know if that is really a fair apples to apples comparison, but my reasoning works something like that.

Fire departments are very low utilization per household, but high criticality, and very high penalty for not having when needed. That's similar to my frame of reference on the topic.

People are killed in fire response accidents all the time, but we would never abolish the fire service over it.

The chat has made me consider things that are perceived as essential or not depending on situation and perspective.

Also, my apologies that I lack the gift of brevity.

This discussion does have my wheels still turning.

Indeed. 👍

In the entirety of history of countries being invaded, things have been fine right up until they aren't.

In the entirety of history, people who are prepared for things have fared better than those who have not.

Recentism is nearly always the cause of apathy and loss of vigilance, to bad outcomes.

Even with those arguments, what about logistics? US borders are so porous right now, there's no way to collect them all without more coming in, and then only the bad guys have them.

I'll take my freedom with grains or risk over being defenseless and secure under authoritarianism, all day every day.

I'm willing to bet that firearms injuries and deaths amongst the German Jewish population was basically nonexistent in the early 1930s.

Keeping our guns is for our personal self defense, and for our collective self defense.