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TwiceHorn

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  1. Between the essential cheapness of military surplus after the war, and inflation, I don't doubt it. I believe Oswald purchased that Mannlicher-Carcano 20 years after for like $13. I've seen old ads with similar ridiculous pricing for Moisins etc.
  2. I suppose after a fashion you can use a stripper clip to load any box mag rifle, but rifles designed to use them are comparatively rare, usually military, and usually antiques or nearly so.
  3. You realize I said as much? Slavery was easy for them to ignore because they weren't confronted with it on the daily like we were. Also, it wasn't an immediate economic question. So, despite their ability to largely ignore it, they abolished it anyway, although it wasn't much of economic question. That it was an economic question here, that we chose cheap labor and profit over grotesque inhumanity and immoraility doesn't exactly speak well of us. And it took a war to get there, well . . . . Where they did have an advantage over us is not having to assimilate a sizable percentage of the population in the days, months, years, and centuries after they were recognized as human. That's a pig we still haven't swallowed.
  4. This is so bizarre. On the one hand, if an immigrant credibly claims to be unwelcome and endangered in her "home country," it seems humane to send them back, and better to send them somewhere else and to make arrangements to find someplace that will welcome them. On the other hand, if an immigrant is believed to be unwelcome and endangered in their home country, why aren't they granted asylum?
  5. I might guess that really contemplates Catholic or protestant and is a product of the nation being a hockey puck in the post-Reformation battles.
  6. Seems pretty unlikely. Canada has quite restrictive immigration policies. And you have to buy in to their healthcare system.
  7. He should get negged into Bolivia on the username alone.
  8. I will observe that the American thing was different in that most European nations had slavery outside their national borders, in colonies, where it was "out of sight, out of mind" for the most part. That doesn't make it any better for us, just a little different, and maybe worse.
  9. One thing he said that was bullshit is we were among the first nations to abolish slavery. We were among the last, particularly among what might be considered enlightened nations.
  10. But stripper clip? Also did we ever establish whether Robinson's gun was a modern Mauser or a 98 mod? I saw a pic that maybe looked modern, but didn't preclude a "sporterized" 98. And I saw a bunch of shit about "grandpa's gun."
  11. SKS seems the only really likely rifle using a stripper clip. So 7.62x39? Look kinda like em, if a bit long. For some reason, that cartridge seems to get pointy bullets more often than most you see.
  12. Dismissal of criminal charges? Trumpco is going to attempt to abuse existing laws, no question about that. This EO doesn't make it easier for him to do so. At best/worst it expresses his intention to do so.
  13. Apparently, the idea of a sovereign wealth fund is unobjectionable. But that would require political independence and independent agencies are about to go down the tubes. "White House" equity investments are suspect as shit. I thought we didn't like the government choosing winners and losers?
  14. Dabbling is doing some heavy lifting there. Haven't looked it up, but guess it doesn't include filing 60-plus lawsuits, fomenting a riot at the US Capitol, and the loser whinging about it for five plus years.
  15. Didn't know about that, but I have seen some 401ks with horrible options and the default option being the most horrible.
  16. Limitations has expired, so no. Had she sued within limitations, an oldlaw court would have ordered disclosure of that at least to her, if not publicly. DPS dickface would have qualified immunity, at least initially.
  17. And If that's what Fidelity sticks you in by default, targeted to your retirement year, that's a whole hell of a lot better than what some other 401k manager enties default to or force you into. Another positive point for Fidelity as a 401k manager for small to medium business.
  18. Apparently confirmed.
  19. Well, what he's really doing is giving acceptable cover (politically incorrect) to what are racist, ignorant, undemocratic, unChristian, inhumane, and really inhuman thoughts and statements.
  20. Given that the other side is pretty much 100% outrage, of course it does. This may be the first justifiable outrage cancellation, though.
  21. Not my point at all. ICE gonna ICE, regardless. But declaring Antifa a DTO is a performative nothing.
  22. You've seen what grand juries and others are doing with bullshit Trump crimes haven't you?
  23. I'd suggest that the entire era was largely characterized by politicization, rather than Humphrey's Executor itself. Four of the justices politically opposed to FDR, the rest more agnostic, but also acutely aware of the scenario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_switch_in_time_that_saved_nine But yeah, FedSoc vetting/training has been extraordinarily good for their purposes and takes things to a level heretofore unseen. Or like no one has ever seen before.
  24. I don't think they really do anything. Keyboard/video warriors.
  25. Being a "domestic terror organization" doesn't change the substantive law applicable. Those things aren't crimes and didn't become crimes overnight. To the extent being a DTO affects anything (it's kind of like Antifa, it doesn't really exist), it might make them the target of investigation by task forces.
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