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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I think a bullet through the neck counts as "not peaceful."

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Oh, I'm sure it's Hell on Earth.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Because severe crimes deserve severe punishment.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I don't. I think execution is more prudent and humane - certainly in the case of the shooter.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

*who slashed tires, disabled security cameras, etc. I really doubt you find this sort of mealy-mouthed legalism compelling when it's used by people you're not politically sympathetic with.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Only if you think the proper order of society is a constant war of all against all, which you just might.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If nine people sit at a table with one Nazi, there are ten Nazis at the table. If fifty people attend a protest and one shoots a cop in the neck...

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In theory, sure. In practice, the names on some offices in Washington change, and little else. NATO expands eastward, vehicles get larger and uglier, nothing gets built, and the government has no idea how many people are in the country to the nearest ten million.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The 1st amendment doesn't protect shooting police officers in the neck.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

They'll be pardoned within my lifetime, so I'm a fool to even opine on the sentencing.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yes, it is. Given the option, I would prefer to not have to see fat people as often as I do.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm partial to wealth caps to accomplish the same ends, mainly because the taxation approach looks too much like dependence, which just cedes power right back.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

According to Bluesky, if nine people sit at a table with one Nazi, there are ten Nazis at the table. So if fifty people go to a protest and one of them shoots a police officer...

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If I have to look at fat people everywhere, my life is negatively impacted.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

They disabled security cameras and shot a police officer in the neck. You go to prison for that.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What should the sentence be for targeting a constable of the law with deadly force? Why should such a person be permitted to enter public life?

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Didn't a police officer get shot?

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Good news: Being fat is a moral choice, and anyone can simply stop doing it whenever they want.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I doubt that it's apocalyptic, certainly not in the planetary short-term, and it's very telling that any potential upsides to a warmer climate are completely ignored. Prior to the modern hysteria, it was generally assumed that warmer = better for humans.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What people on this site fear automation will do to the labor market is already being done by offshoring and immigrant scab labor. Despite constant talk of reindustrialization, this will keep happening. Eventually we'll produce nothing but green paper and subsidized corn.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

To what end? Well, we've painstakingly fostered a criminal and dependent underclass which functions as what Indian political scientists call a "vote bank." It's also an effective hostage when FedGov has to defend its pathological expenditures. Poverty? Still here, I'm afraid.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's funny seeing in action the indestructible myth that the United States Government is stingy and callous, disdainful of the bottom quintile. Au contraire: It shovels billions upon billions of dollars into its vast social welfare bureaucracy.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Why even hold elections, in that case?

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's astonishing how many people think the problem with the United States Federal Government is that it's underfunded.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'll bet a divine emperor could at least build a railroad and balance a budget.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The average American woman is 5'3" and 170lbs. So it's not exactly sunshine and roses for men, either.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If I lived in San Francisco, I'd want a dictator too. Liberal democracy has been a poor steward of the place.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

No. Please explain as if I know nothing at all.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Not really. It's actually perfectly fine to laugh at this stuff.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In that case, should Europe deport its immigrants from the Middle East and Africa?

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I love what they've done with Detroit, personally.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The left has no answer to ethnic rape cartels except to pretend that they don't exist.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Got my black wife a watermelon for Juneteenth, and we laughed, because it's a silly holiday and neither of us care about modern racial narcissism. Happy slave day or whatever, though.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This was never a serious conversation. You're just jacking off.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I think you're relying on semantics and this embarassing performance of incredulity to avoid what I'm actually saying.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Lmao. One of us is screeching, and it's not me. You've got nothing but invective, and it's not even good invective. I could get the same tired old stuff from anyone on this site.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Mao turned China into a basket case because of his insistence that people and party need to act out proper revolutionary action. If you think the modern People's Republic doesn't have top-down control of its economy, I don't know what to tell you.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Whatever. It's not like I can prove that I've never voted. Whether you believe me is up to you, but I've no reason to be dishonest.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What, I'm lying? Odd thing to lie about.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Ditto ditto ditto. The state's mission remains unchanged. If anything, these tools ought to make governance easier, not harder. With modern surveillance and drone tech, we could probably govern the U.S. with a few thousand people.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm sure. You'll be glad to know I don't vote, protest, or even sign petitions. I have no political engagement whatsoever, as a rule.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

That's not at all what I said. The times are different, but the critical element - human beings - are fundamentally identical. An Egyptian conscript laborer needs laws, order, and safety. A Jew in Manhattan needs laws, order, and safety.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Is that where your own theories come from? Statistics? You're a neutral observer of cold facts?

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Ditto. These didn't alter the nature of man, nor do they change the difference between subject and sovereign.

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Dexter Parker @ridingtime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My theories of sound government are derived from old political science, yes. You don't agree with those theories, and for some reason this causes you emotional distress, and so you say stuff like this.

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