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And spent 14 million painting a pool blue?

Maybe we just ought not to freak out about somebody carrying mankind’s oldest tool like a bunch of sissy babies, hmm?

We could try a pretzel. It almost worked on Bush the 2nd.

I know: Zeppelins.

This is one of the single most accurate and succinct analogies of a tech space I have ever read, save possibly for the one that Neal Stephenson wrote about operating systems being car dealerships.

This is just, like, the Counterstrike loadout store but in real life.

When I’m king, my army is going to work on Gun Game rules. Whenever our guys cap someone on the other side, their gun randomly changes.

Could constitute war crimes

Blowing up a school and murdering 168 schoolchildren is absolutely a war crime. Journalists need to grow a spine and stop trying to spread uncertainty by soft-pedaling this shit.

Starting a war of aggression is already a war crime, which means Trump was guilty before we even set foot in (or flew over) Iran. Trying to use Betteridge’s Law Of Headlines to spread doubt about it is not going to be enough, here.

And then 168-some-odd schoolchildren were murdered on Trump’s orders. For this act alone he should be in irons already.

Wow, weird, if only you guys were in a position to pass laws to make things illegal, and enforce said laws by directing men with guns to show up and force people to stop doing whatever it was.

Oh well, what are you gonna do, right?

I’m positive that’s verboten as well. The constitution is quite clear that this requires the approval of Congress.

Too bad, Lincoln’s post-Civil-War supreme court preemptively torpedoed this one. It’s been ruled that you need permission from the rest of the union to secede and can’t do it unilaterally, even through the union was formed in the first place via unilaterally seceding from the British empire.

…Because that makes sense.

Anyhoo, even if these dingbats succeed according to their own metrics the federal government won’t let them go. So have fun with that. Not that I trust any of said dingbats to have actually studied any history on the matter whatsoever, or on any other matter while we’re at it.

While the Nazis did push programs like the VW Beetle

Another point of order about that in particular, zero regular citizens who paid into the Beetle scheme with their little KdF-Wagen Sparkarte stamps actually received one. All of the Beetles produced went to Nazi party leaders, and then Germany went to war. Hitler may have successfully sold people on the dream of an affordable personal car but he literally used it as a mechanism to embezzle money from his own citizens which he stole and used for war production.

5 Mark die Woche musst du sparen wills Du im eignen wagen fahren, my webbed foot.

A danger that he totally incited in the first place by being a bloodthirty moron.

It’s on the tip of my tongue. Starts with an M?

In very select circumstances, possibly. I got a refund check from DHS/CBP/whoever a while back for some random thing I imported (which turned out to come from Germany, which I only discovered after I bought it…) for which I got tariffed personally. I presume after that particular tariff was retracted and/or struck down.

For the vast majority of consumers buying stuff off the shelf from retailers and vendors who jacked their prices up to compensate for said tariffs, no. Absolutely not. I predict said prices will remain jacked up for the foreseeable future as well, since retailer pricing policies are completely opaque to the consumer, and also notoriously ratchet-like — they tend to only move in one direction.

And not to mention those goddamned Anglo-Saxons.

If you register independent that prevents you from participating in the large party primaries in many (most/all?) states. You can only vote in the primary for your registered party. So that also locks you out of at least attempting to prevent the Democrats from incessantly fielding dumbass GOP-lite candidates like they’ve been doing.

Theoretically if you register as Republican that also allows you to surreptitiously torpedo their worst candidates in their primaries, but it’s unlikely we’ll get enough trolls on board to swing the needle meaningfully with that strategy.

He also imposed an import tax on motorcycles because Harley Davidson was deathly afraid that riders would rush out to purchase a Japanese bike that didn’t drip oil everywhere and reliably starts when you press the button.

Based on what little I know of this, myself only being versed in Bird Law, doesn’t the IRS enjoy sovereign immunity as a governmental entity? They can just declare that they do not agree to being sued.

You must not live in an area where dumbasses paying tons of money to ruin their cars with crackle “tunes” is popular yet, then.

There’s one asshat with a Mustang around here that he’s got deliberately set to backfire about twenty times every time he takes is foot off the gas, and he goes ripping up and down the main drag all night. I’ve timed him and you can quite literally hear him coming from about two miles away.

I’m a pretty live-and-let-live sort of bird, but damn, bro. Give it a rest after midnight, will you?