Just following up from my previous answer: MOST officers only need to pass training on use of firearms once a year. It does vary per department, and some officers use their access to training and ranges to hone their skills. But MOST of them only follow the guidelines, and most guidelines only require recertifying firearm use once a year.
By policy, it’s different per police organization. But overwhelmingly the biggest orgs only force training once a year. And the metrics they use to pass for accuracy and use are lower than most concealed carry courses.
As someone who used to create judgemental use of force firearm training simulators for law enforcement, I can tell you right now you’re likely a better shot than 90% of our police force too.
The problem with that strategy, was that Republicans were not doing that.
So it was a bad strategy. End of argument.
If you are actively strategizing, planning around what your enemies are NOT doing isn’t strategy, it’s stupidity. And it is what Dems have been doing for decades. They just want to blame Republicans for their complete lack of foresight rather than ever be accountable for letting the GOP cuck every single policy of theirs. Now to the point of undoing hundreds of years of legal precedent and progress.
The time for integrity and thoroughness had long since passed before Biden took office, so using it to defeat Trump was about as effective as using a fax machine to share memes. Being anything but aggressive after an active coup attempt that miraculously failed is astronomically naive at best.
But Biden was handed a literal democracy destroying shotgun with one barrel labeled “complete legal immunity” and the other “infinite executive authority” and he looked at that gift from the Supreme Court and decided it was best left to the next president to use. Oops wasnt Kamala. So now instead of Biden expanding the executive branch to control congressional decisions such as how many members of the Supreme Court there are, Trump is doing it to consolidate complete power and authority.
Our Supreme Court built a political Nuclear Bomb, that was 100% going to be used by Trump to destroy this country, and they gifted it to Biden first. His decision to not benevolently use it to destroy the holes in our Democracy MAGA has infested doomed us to be a corpse eaten by those MAGAT’s.
This article is PR for those who failed to protect our country to feel better about it. They failed. They sucked at their job by using clearly outdated strategies, and they did it despite our literal democracy being on the line. I do not blame the unstoppable force that is the MAGA GOP, I blame the Democrats who acted as tin cans for decades when they swore they could be immovable objects. Glad this article clears up the fact they literally never could be.
They reviewed our Indie game as “too woke” 6 days before I even had keys to send out. They literally don’t even play the games, just knee jerk to their audience 😂
I know you’re saying this as a joke, but art theft and related crime has been on the rise since the pandemic. And there has been quite a lot of art recovered from dying old mobsters and conmen.
Here’s the current FBI case list, and it’s WILD:
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/art-crime/art-crime-news
More Than 50 Years After Theft, Stolen John Opie Painting Recovered and Returned to Rightful Owner
The FBI was contacted in December 2021 by a Washington County, Utah, accounting firm acting as a trustee for a client who died in 2020. [An old mobster] The client had hired the firm to liquidate his residences and personal property. While appraising the painting for auction, it was discovered to likely be an original Opie stolen in 1969 from a private residence of the Wood family in New Jersey.
From a case in February of this year:
According to Acting United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, Dombek, Boland, and Joseph Atsus were part of a larger nine-person conspiracy which lasted over 20 years and whose goal was to break into multiple museums and other institutions and steal priceless works of art, sports memorabilia, and other objects.
Thank you! These are fantastic details, and I appreciate it! The correlation between having extra free time, and therefore having more time to see and report UFO’s is really practical. Great study.
Whats interesting is that result implies that there’s a fixed amount of UFO’s to be seen. If numbers go up or down according to the amount of time available in a population, it certainly implies there’s a fixed amount of UFO activity that we are or are not aware of depending on how often we’re looking. Granted, it’s likely this activity is explainable as false positives: drones in the sky, kites, etc have all been mistaken as UFO’s. So it could just be a fixed amount of human made things that are misidentified.
But the same result would occur if it wasn’t false positives. And that’s facinating. I would have assumed the amount being reported would stay relatively fixed, or just vary greatly regardless of income.
Thanks again!
This is an interesting take I’ve never heard. Can you better explain?
Believe it or not, there used to be a time when companies weren’t invading every part of your life with ads.
Ads were 6 minutes of garbage between TV, and between the pages of magazines and newspapers.
People would talk to each other on the phone. No ads. Mark their calanders to get together if they felt like it. No ads. Then actually meet up. Some ads.
Now, when you talk to anyone you know on Facebook? Ads. Any social media? Ads. Opening Google calander? Ads. Twitter? The person you’re talking to is an bot /ad. I don’t even have to be watching an actual TV show now to be served ads on my TV. Just turning it on gives me an ad.
These ads are from organizations trying to spin you a narrative urging you to give them money. The strategies they use for this are fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Things like: “Don’t miss out on that Lububu!” “Make sure to book your tickets for the movie opening next week!” “Make sure to buy this pillow before liberals take it from you.”
People now believe these narratives simply because they’ve been shoved into every aspect of our lives via social media.
These ads, collectively, are not something that ever existed in any society to the amount they do now. So it’s absolutley no surprise that the “narrative” these ads are telling us is completely warping people’s minds.
People still think Fox News is news. Simply because that’s how it’s advertised.
Okay. So this is going to sound weird. Not a book recommendation - but rather a video game.
Thought it’s about as non-fiction of a game as you can get. And it even talks about creative tools and the philosophy of what inspires creators.
Its called: “The Beginners Guide”
You can find it on Steam, and it’s about 2 hours long. It is basically a narrator walking you through some video games he liked playing from a certain artist that disappeared. He just analyzes the decisions the artist made in the game and why before moving you, the player, to another game from that artist.
Most of the gameplay is very limited. Just walking and looking. Almost like you’re going through a museum that itself is a work of art being described to you by someone who appreciates it.
There’s a couple of clever twists, but when it comes to finding yourself creatively again, it certainly helped me.
Admittedly I’m a writer, but trying new experiences is what gets me creatively working again. This one certainly did it for me, and thought I’d at least recommend the same.
The fact that Frank Frazetta is basically the most hetero man you could imagine IS proof that a maximum on the spectrum is nearly attainable.
Thank you so much for eloquently destroying the above comment’s pedantry. Reading your response was magical. Please don’t ever stop.
I mean, what you said is funny, but more so because it does actually proved an excellent analogy for what Biden could have done to actually stop Trump.
Becaue Trump literally showed up to Congress with a double barreled shotgun engraved with “executive order,” and “legal immunity” on each barrel. Then used it to bypass Congress entirely when it came to canceling appropriated funds, passing blanket Tariffs, and expanding the executive branch to include independant agencies like the FTC and SEC.
So Biden unquestionably could have done the same to the Judiciary branch, and forced an expansion of the Supreme Court without congressional approval to avoid the absolute disaster we’ve been experiencing from our highest Court since the Roe V Wade decision.
He very much could have showed up at the Supreme Court with the exact shotgun Trump is now using to rule by force. Instead he chose to follow norms, as every Democrat has before him. So now Trump chose the gun to destroy those norms, as he likewise always has before. Just now with the full support of the Supreme Court, and complete legal immunity behind him.
And no surprise, he’s done quite a lot of damage with all that legal immunity Biden left unused.
Seriously, this analogy is an excellent one for all the reasons you likely didn’t intend. (Sorry about that). However, imo, it does make your comment funnier on another level to be honest.
Cool. Here’s Trump admitting to wanting to fuck kids over the age of 12 on Howard Stern:
Great picture of Clinton in Epsteins house though.
If the world taxed them all only half their wealth (keeping them billionaires) and took the results and invested it in a trust, it could be generating 80 billion a year from only a 1% return. That’s enough to solve world hunger every year twice.
The world doesn’t have a resource problem. It has a billionaire problem.
I spent a lot of time reading the time cube guys rants, and I’m like 90% sure they just never understood that if you rotate a cube enough on both axis it resembles a globe.
He just didn’t understand that the earth has multiple times zones because it’s a big old globe, instead of 4 timecube-zones, because he couldn’t understand how surface area stretches over a globe, just a cube.
Anyway, my two cents. Sometimes ranblings are just a misunderstanding of basic math or scientific concepts.
Sorry 2D /3D OP, but you’re a great example too.
You want to claim 2D or 3D aren’t “real” when what you’re simply trying to say is that we, as humans, with limited and dull senses, are incapable of perceiving dimensions / universes that exist outside our own.
No shit.
That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. For that, it requires tools that exist outside our perception, but are universally sound. Aka Math.
So yeah, we can prove other dimensions exist with math, but can’t perceive them because we’re meat.
That doesn’t mean math is bullshit, it means you need to read philosophy enough to understand our existence isn’t centered on human perception.
We’re monkeys that have harnessed self awareness to the point we can prove there’s a reality that exists outside our limited perception. But simply because that’s only doable through math, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
It means your feeble human body is literally only capable of understanding extradimensionality because of the meat in your head, and it’s ability to comprehend math.
You are meat. But math is universal. You are limited in perceiving the universe to what your meat has given you. So doubt your meat, not the math.
It’s what the time cube guy should have done imo.
Real question:
If the goal is to change out the Dem leadership through more and more primaries -
Then why not do the same with the GOP?
If that is the work that needs to be done, why should it be aimed at the Democrats instead of the GOP who are the real problem?
Why should we spend so much effort slowly reforming the good guys to do better instead of the same effort to just reform the bad guys?
The GOP is such a mess of Swiss Cheese that the second Trump isn’t holding it together, anyone progressive could likely succeed there by just giving them what Trump lied about: better wages, inflation control, rent control, universal Healthcare. You know, actual progressive policies.
The entire conservative media system would eat itself without a political party to support, and it would be far better to split the GOP than the DNC with these candidates. (As the DNC already know how to do that themselves, clearly)
Honestly, if Dems are only effective once their leadership is changed, then maybe that effort would be better spent on changing it for the GOP as they are the real problem. Better Democrats means the same problems with the GOP. Better GOP means no more problems.
Cool. So to clarify:
Remember Bernie and his horde of young male Bernie Bros supporters?
Remember Mamdani and his horde of Republican supporters?
Yeah. Dems just need policies that made these candidates popular if they want young male and Republican voters.
Instead, they fight these candidates harder than any Republican.
Maybe if Democrats want votes they should do more of what makes them popular, not what brings popularity to Trump.
Until then, it’s no surprise they’re struggling with respect because they’ve done nothing but ignore what works for their constituents in favor of what works for Trump. Eventually there will be no difference in behavior at all, which is basically where we are now.
Imo, the better strategy would simply be for every Dem to abandon the party, and instead register as Republican. Trump reformed the entire GOP in 10 years because they have no rules for who they’ll let into the party. Seeing as there’s far more registered Democrats in the country than republicans, and the GOP is a lot weaker towards reformation because of Trump, taking them over with progressives and progressive policies would just be putting condidates in place who don’t lie to their GOP constituents.
Honestly, if you want progress, Democrats should start a movement to abandon their party and reform the GOP into the organization it used to be. INCLUDING Democrat candidates. You want to take advantage of gerrymandering? Do it as the GOP instead of fighting them.
This is basically what Russia did to the GOP and in its shape, it would not at all be hard to take it back. And once the GOP isn’t all foreign agents promoting an media echo chamber working for a dictator, there’s no more evil party the Dems have to fight.
Taking on Trump from the outside has literally never worked. And in the last 20 years, the GOP has undone almost 100 years of American and Democratic policy.
So take them over with non insane Americans, and the GOP bullshit ends.
If you fight them as Democrats, they just get stronger, because Democrats just fight with words.
Not that this will ever happen. But it’s by far the best option America has for moving forward.
Be an adult:
List a single Democrat judge that has done this and how. Then compare it to the list provided by OP.
This is called critical analysis. It will easily reveal a completely different answer than what you are implying.
Since you’ve clearly never done this analysis yourself, you’ve likely trusted someone else to do it for you. Which allows you to be manipulated.
Other people can’t tell you these results if you are willing to just do them yourself.
So do it here and prove you aren’t just repeating what others told you.
You’re not making a bad argument. Just the wrong one.
The system we have is now whatever Trump wants it to be. Going back to the system we had previously would now be just as radical as changing it into one that actually benefits us.
The system we had lead to Trump. Period. Why would you want that again?
Ask yourself: when should we go back to exactly?
Back to before the Patriot Act robbed us of our constitutional right to privacy?
Back before no child left behind made our graduating high schoolers functionally illeterate?
Back before Citizens United allowed corpate power to influence every single election for decades denying you minimum wage, universal Healthcare, or literally anything that would detract from corporate profits over public welfare?
Back before Reaganomics then?
Maybe further back before the business plot of 1933 to overthrow the government in place of business nepotism?
Or maybe before all the Tariffs we passed in the 1920’s that accelerated the great depression?
100 years later we literally have the same problems. Just without the benefit of actually stopping them from destroying our government.
Half the white house is missing. An elected congress person isn’t being sworn in. Our own military is in our cities and it’s to protect masked police deporting some citizens with no due prosses.
This is not a future we reached by mistake. It is a future that was inevitable given the limitations of our existing system, combined with the centuries sociopaths have had to game it. We should not go back to it. It will just lead us here again.
It would be far better to use as a model for a better system. Certainly many other countries already have. But do not let nostalgia blind you to the fact that the problems in the system we have are inherent, and they are not fixable from within using the systems tools. They allow for exploits to grow, and after a hundred years, fail entirely in containing them effectively.
During WW2, a very difficult decision was made to use nuclear weapons. Killing hundreds of thousands to stop millions from dying. If they were not dropped the losses in the south pacific would be well over 8 million dead.
The argument you are currently making, given the WW2 context, is for us not to drop the bomb. Despite us already being at a point where Orange Hitler is about to destroy Snap benefits killing millions more than USAID closing and COVID already have.
There is no more normal course of action given the current situation. And there hasn’t been for quite some time. Just because Democrats haven’t noticed that in decades, doesn’t mean they ever will. This article confirms they won’t, and was written as PR for people like you to believe otherwise.