Your arguments are so informative and full of insight, you should publish to a journal.
AndyLikesCandy
joined 2 years ago
You clearly grew up more privileged than me, and lived a more sheltered experience, if you truly don't know that criminals work in groups.
Bored teens with no futures do exceptionally dumb shit, like attack people for fun. They pick the weakest person they see, and in NYC every year there are at least one or two stories where the attacks turn into homicides.
I mean you lack the legal option of having a means to defend yourself.
I don't dispute that.
Only question is: what is your plan for when 3 dudes surround you and the first one who is much larger than you makes every signal that he's about to dominate you?
I have no macho fantasies. More randos could beat me to death with their hands than the ones who cannot. You may have a bit of martial arts training and fantasies of obliterating some muggers with your hands but I have no such illusions. I've been the victim of crimes like this and consider myself lucky as I was utterly helpless at the time and survived. So fuck off with that "just run away or fight" nonsense you believe from watching too many movies where good guys always take damage differently from bad guys.
He's still going to prison for discharging a firearm apparently.
Not QUITE how Twitter works, Democrats can pay for ads and run all the psyops they want with fake accounts too.
Question is whether any Chinese or Russian intelligence teams decide targeting messages at lefties is going to contribute towards their goals as a whole.
"caving" is a stretch, one results in much more money in their pocket including funding for their reelection campaigns
Your government has guts. It's just a government representing corporations and not people.
Both sides paint the other as the enemy of democracy and freedom.
That's just what happens when you have two authoritarian parties. They just lob Accusation-In-a-Mirror attacks at each other.