Death penalty is implemented by the state, not individuals. He was starting to charge at her - credible threat to her life that he started and she finished. FAFO.

Guys like this will find something to rage at others about. There will always be some limiting resource that becomes a source of conflict.

In a non-car society, it could have been the last of a product on the shelf, or the last spot on the bike rack.

Except I think that cars actually make people of different physicalities more equal.

Let’s be real - he got pissed because someone smaller and weaker than him bested him over some territory he wanted. In a non-car situation, he would have just stollen what he wanted or pushed her out of the way.

In this case, the car and gun both acted as equalizers, allowing her to protect herself and her kids despite the greater physicality of others around her.

Grand juries exist to make sure the norms of law enforcement and prosecution don’t stray too far from the common populace.

It’s why the guy who threw the sandwich at the CPB guy about a year ago did not end up with a felony.

However, it cuts both ways. I don’t know if I believe TX is really about to flip purple because shit like this is common. Ask the protesters sentanced to life as terrorists for moving a box or leaving an ICE protest early.

A lot of people here treat the idea of being American like it’s a sports team.

Also, it isn’t classy. And it isn’t meant to be. It also serves to communicate that you are relatable to other non-classy people. That can mean that you are an 'easy going person who accepts people as they come" or it can mean the same “…if you are white” (and conservative).

There was a popular show here in the 70s called the Dukes of Hazard about outlaw redneck hooligans. They drove a car with a Confederate flag on it. That kind of crass display was part of the ‘fuck you, you can’t tell me what to do’ mentality, and it caught on for the aesthetics despite being racist. But I think it also opened the door here to people doing the same thing with the American flag.

It’s called Indian food. Sometimes also Mexican food.

What does ‘in the middle’ look like? Getting vaccines for some things and not others?

As someone who is an expert in one area and as dependent as anyone else in others, and who also hates appeals to authority -

To me, the correct stance is that any should be able to question things that don’t make intuitive sense or that one suspects might be a perspective motivated by financial considerations instead of expertise.

Note that I said question. Not invent your own replacement fever-dream explanation.

Questions require good-faith attempts to find information and understand.

Not pitch something where its main virtue is that it makes ignorance feel good actually.

I hope this takes off so DDG improves their search engine. I’ve tried to switch, but 2/3 of the time the results are off target and I end up back at Google anyway.

You probably uninstalled it before the algo figured out what really hits your engagement, which is the point at which it becomes addictive.

I’m guessing your Mom is now on ‘team Bear’.

I would consider that your Mom is the problem here except that the dudes lumped you in with being burned alive, and that suggests they are the PoS.