look there is absolutely valid shit to write about how suddenly getting money changes you. My income has increased by like 600% over the last three years and it is weird. But if you are saying 200k isn't life changing to 99% of people you are terminally out of touch
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i have had hundreds of interactions with the police over my life. I have never been arrested. I have never once felt safer as a result of their presence in a situation.
i have never been arrested for the same reason I have never been seriously injured by an angry dog. The same tactics work on both. Your best best bet for safety with with cops is to treat them like violent and unpredictable animals.
this all of course presumes you are white. I would not attempt to give anyone else advice on dealing with the cops.
If you are wondering why Texas's electrical grid is on the brink of collapse, it's because Texas is the only of the lower 48 states with its own power grid. The reasons for this boil down to "fuck the federal government."
In 2011, and on other emergency occasions, Texas has had to borrow power from Mexico, who are objectively better neighbors than us.
On the last big winter storm I was here for, much of Dallas lost power for 2 weeks. We had electric workers from like a dozen states come to help.
The message of all this is that Texas's toxic style of libertarianism is not real. "Rugged individualism" repeatedly gets us into trouble and we have to be bailed out by our neighbors.
Anyway, 100,000 people in DFW have to boil their water now because the treatment plant broke.
Goad and Emily stood against Nazis during Unite the Right in Charlottesville, 2017. Joe Biden used footage of them being assaulted in his campaign ads.
But no mainstream politician actually listened to them.
Also @danieleharper and his wonderful podcast I Don't Speak German. @idsgpod. No one put in more work following these people.
Conspiracy theory time: I think Tarrio may have purposefully gotten arrested with two illegal (in D.C.) rifle magazines.
He admitted to destroying property before flying in. He brought exactly two magazines, which is weird.
What if his plan is to challenge D.C. gun laws?
There is a decent chance he would win if such a case made it to the Supreme Court. And more to the point, a big publicized gun rights case would be an opportunity for Tarrio to crowdfund huge amounts of money AND gain more fame.
It is a smarter bet than doing another rally.
Even if SCOTUS never took the case, he would have a pretty decent chance of raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in short order from conservative gun owners spooked about Biden.