Brace yourself…450 feet, not yards. It’s a reasonable distance for anyone with a good rifle, scope and experience.
Apparently the shooter was rejected from his school rifle club and asked not to come back.
Brace yourself…450 feet, not yards. It’s a reasonable distance for anyone with a good rifle, scope and experience.
Apparently the shooter was rejected from his school rifle club and asked not to come back.
Yeah that’s weird but CNN reporting this too:
Federal Election Commission records show that a donor listed as Thomas Crooks with the same address gave $15 to a Democratic-aligned political action committee called the Progressive Turnout Project in January 2021.
They do and I believe presidential candidates since RFK’s assassination.
Never knew such a version existed!?! That’s… Mental.
I’m fairness, Master Blaster does run the town.
I’d be swapping MM2 and 3’s position in that list myself. Curious to hear others takes (will be watching Furiosa tonight).
I’ve no sympathy for them but I feel very sorry for their kids. :(
Kinda surprised tbh. We had one of the highest COVID vaccination rates in Europe and I’ve personally never met or even heard of an anti vaxxer. I’m clearly living in a bubble because 68 cases in the republic in such a short timespan is a whole load.
Also fuck those people.
The segfault at the end was perfection.
71 seats with only 2 left to declare.
Oh it’s on my to-do list. I’m just an ocean away. Closest I’ve gotten so far is Southern California but I’ll make it!
My wife and I currently have two plans for when we retire:
Texas with fireworks and alcohol definitely part of #1.
Happy independence day!
You make me want to visit Texas. They should sign you up for the tourist board.
the bad eye could see clear underwater he’d say.
Well that’s fuckin’ fascinating! I want an amphibious uncle.
My fear now is that if military leadership falls into the wrong hands
Rome intensifies
Me either! It’s on Netflix and scores well on IMDB.
I’m not sure your side of the conversation is being had in good faith at this point.
I can’t speak for the French. You’d have to ask them. I know there have been integration issues there. The very fast swing towards the hard right is one sign to me that integration has failed badly though. We had no such swing to the right in last month’s elections here thankfully though there is a definite increase in the number of vocal hard right lunatics here unfortunately.
I think a fair question is - are some cultures less open to integrating when they move to a new country? Another fair question is - are the people in the country where folks are immigrating to less open to integrating with the new arrivals?
If the answer to either is “yes” then the societal cost of that lack of integration (or ways to mitigate it) has to be looked at lest we end up in a very undesirable situation that we are rapidly moving towards.
You missed my point entirely which was about integration. I’m not afraid of different people - quite the opposite. I believe experiencing other cultures is essential. I’m very well traveled and really enjoy embracing other cultures.
Last year I went to the wedding of the daughter of Sri Lankan friends who have integrated incredibly well. It was a really cool day out, largely because it was different. I loved seeing the differences - the clothes, the intricate henna paintings on hands, the food etc. About 20% of the wedding attendees were Irish born and I felt lucky to be one of them.
I’m friends with a Palestinian lad nearly 20 years now (to be fair, he only moved here about 7 years ago but we had worked together in the middle east a good bit before that). He’s a gem. I was so happy when he finally got citizenship. He had never owned a passport in his life and had to get company sponsored “travel documents” from Egypt (iirc) if he wanted to go anywhere outside the UAE where he was living statelessly.
The folks I’m talking about there enhance our country. They’re very, very welcome. The issue is integration. Bring your different culture with you. Share it! I’ll share mine too. Let’s change each other a little through our different perspectives.
Of course there is going to be a preference for those that will integrate easily. Why wouldn’t there be?
The Irish didn’t go over there and “civilise” anyone so that argument doesn’t apply.
Poles, Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians and other Europeans have come here in numbers and they’ve been welcomed because they integrated. Many folks from African nations too.
Syrians… Not so much integrating.
Edit: To be clear I’m not in the anti immigration camp. I just think a preference for those of similar culture or who will integrate is natural.
Funnily enough, I don’t think I ever believed in Santa either, so I guess your barometer checks out :)
Yeah, fair enough. I suppose that’s unusual in the West if that’s where you’re from.
I mean it depends on your background a bit. I don’t think kids who grow up on a farm have any doubt.
Fully agree though as a broad rule but there’s an age of innocence that needs respecting IMO. I got told by an older boy I knew when I was just 8 and honestly that was not great. My own barometer is that if you still believe in Santa we’ll have the talk later.
Funny story - Our eldest had some broad strokes when we sat him down but thought from the playground stories that you used a condom if you wanted to get pregnant. I was very glad to clear that little misconception up.
It’s not just former POTUS though, it’s presidential candidate also. It honestly looks like a gargantuan fuck up.