SwingingTheLamp

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think that that was the claim. We have car terrorism now, and since the 1980's according to the Wikipedia list of incidents, and bollards can help protect potential victims. It's not a new technology, they knew about them in 1931, so what's our excuse for not installing them?

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It feels like 5 years ago, but it was only back in January that a man used a truck to kill 14 people in a ramming attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA. The city had been warned, and knew of the need to have bollards installed, but cheaped out on temporary bollards, which were apparently malfunctioning at the time of the attack. There had been a vehicle-ramming attack at the Christmas market in Magdeburg in December, and an attack in Munich following in February.

I'd say that the title is right on. Car terrorism is a thing.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It that's true, and we're afraid Iran might use them, then it seems like a bad idea to attack it.

You mean we're not going to get a literal dome over the whole United States?! Like the literal dome made of ferrous metal over Israel?

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That announcement that the majority of Americans can't read above a 6th grade level makes so much sense. They're all so fucking dumb and illiterate that they can't follow an argument. TACO bellowed a bunch of insane gobbledegook and was emotionally unregulated at the debate, while Biden got words mixed up and a bit lost while at least pursuing a line of thought to a logical conclusion. But even so, his arguments were still too intellectually taxing for an audience of howler monkeys who decided, "LOUD VOICE WIN!"

It's even sillier when you realize (hah!) that -or came from Latin, and -our came from Old French, and both had been used interchangeably in English for at least a century when Samuel Johnson decided to use -our in his dictionary, and Noah Webster decided to use -or. So Britons and Yankees are equally (in)correct.

Personally, I'd go with the idea that the Democrats are the ones who fight for brightly-colored warning signs, guardrails, and PPE for the operators of the orphan crushing machine.

Cynical? Maybe, but that phrase is taken directly from Israel.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: I believe in due process, so any Republican making a lot of noise about protecting children should in, a just world, at least be probable cause for a search warrant.

It's the New York Post, though. 100% intentional.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A rainbow appearing in the sky over Dublin on the day that Ireland voted to legalize same-sex marriage? A tornado destroying the house of Rep. Joe Harding, who authored the infamous "Don't Say Gay" bill in Florida?

I don't know how much clearer He can get!

Brilliant! Just put your pillow in the wash on spin cycle while cooking your risotto to save a lot of effort.

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