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Isn't That a Daisy?

@themodernmaccabee

Mid twenties. I am Captain Blackbeard. Basically John Paul Jones incarnate. Anti-authoritarian, (libertarian, I guess), Space enthusiast, and historian. 155,000 years to find. (((we))) just want to be left alone
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i know everyone on here is so obsessed with the moon, but have you ever thought about the earth and its beautiful colors shining so bright in an otherwise so deep darkness?

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I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me the radio reminds me of my home far away driving down the road i get a feeling that I should’ve been home yesterday… YESTERDAY…

children outside screaming: annoying but ultimately for the greater good. children need Going Outside and Screaming Time for proper emotional development. an auditory burden I am willing to bear

neighbor with his car he made louder on purpose: jail for neighbor. jail for ten thousand years

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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

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It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

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If you own a pistol with a slide, you own a Browning design.

If you own a pistol with a tilting barrel you own a Browning design.

A true U.S. genius!

Oh, you know that charging handle on your auto rifle or shotgun?

That’s Browning too!

Sam Colt, John Browning, Mikhael Kalishnikov, Eugene Stoner, and Gaston Glock. There’s your Mount Rushmore of firearms design.

On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, I think it’s legitimately a bad sign that I’ve never seen a convincing answer to questions like “If we’re supposed to ‘abolish the police,’ what’s your plan for protecting me from being casually robbed, abused, or murdered on my way home from the grocery store?” and “If we’re supposed to ‘abolish prisons,’ what are we going to do with unrepentant rapists and murderers?” and “If we’re supposed to ‘give the land back,’ what are your plans for the hundreds of millions of people who are already here and aren’t descended from people who were here in 1491?”

I don’t expect you to have it all planned out like Hari Seldon, but I do want assurances that your plan amounts to more than factional allegiance signaling or “destroy an important load-bearing feature of society without creating any viable substitute and let the chips fall where they may” or “we actually do want what you’d see as a dystopia, but we know we’d never get popular if we explicitly stated our goals, so we won’t do that.”

The seventeenth to nineteenth century liberal revolutionaries certainly didn’t have our society all planned out, but they did have plans about how to run a country without a king that amounted to more than “we’ll get rid of the king and then, uh, I dunno.”

Honest to fuck, if you’re asked a question and you don’t know the answer to how you’d resolve that problem? Your response should be ‘that’s a good point, let’s figure that out now before we start’ not ‘How DARE you, I shouldn’t have to figure that out now! We can just deal with that disaster when it happens!’

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If you can’t answer basic questions about how your proposal shakes out, and you get mad at anyone who asks and strawmen them wildly, that will convince very few people you are right.

And it’s especially silly coming from an OP who is regularly, blatantly wrong about reality NOW, much less complex hypotheticals.

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If you offer to burn down the slum I live in to make my life better but then get pissy when I ask you where I’m supposed to go afterwards, I’m gonna think maybe you don’t actually have my best interests at heart–you just want to burn things.