“A lot of people don’t get that they don’t make the rules about things that belong to other people. And when you tell them they’re not entitled to that, well, they won’t fucking hear it.”

You can see them just fine. What’s foreign is the speed at which they approach on the radar. You know it’s the Navy when this sizeable target comes tearing ass across your ARPA/radar with no AIS signature.

Not necessarily true. If a vessel is constrained in maneuvering due to draft or other reasons then the sail vessel does NOT have the right of way.

My suspicions of the British have been vindicated!

I...don’t actually have any response. Even with my usual deadpan sarcasm. That can’t be the actual reason, right?

I think you’re confusing “shyster” with “shylock”. While it is an insult, shyster is not a slur. Some people believe that it is derived from shylock, an antisemitic slur, but it is not.

Why the pivot?

There are plaques of names of soldiers who died in WW2 in German cemeteries. Mind you, they are usually generic in the sense of “died in war” and usually include WW1 and WW2, but they do exist. They are different in that they don’t typically single out a general or leader and make it a praise to them, instead it’s a…

I think, for context, the American Civil War was a failed rebellion, slavery was one policy of many that the confederate states wanted to hold on to, and a policy the established federal government was beginning to turn against. Whether Robert E. Lee kept slaves or not is secondary to the fact that he was a leader in…

Are you suggesting that we tear down Washington, D.C.? And raze the state of Washington? I like the way you think. Just think of all of the streets, roads, buildings, bridges that are named after dead slaveowners that we could tear down.

Maybe a plaque instead of a statue that explains who specifically they’re remembering? I do feel bad for the poorest conscripted soldiers who died far away from home in a rich man’s war. But they were on the wrong side (much like the ambivalence I feel about the teenage brainwashed German soldiers who were super young…

And that’s the thing. If you think violence is OK, it’s going to escalate into full-blown death squads.

It’s actually the most powerful thing you can do. And it’s not just Bee.

FDR also didn’t send American soldiers to Europe with orders to engages Nazis in fisticuffs either. Richard Spencer has the same abhorrent beliefs now as when before that guy’s fist connected with his face... If you’re actually committed to the strategy of violently stamping out Nazism then you should stop sharing…

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good woman with a stick.

Editing to clarify *in Western Europe*.

When men have to cover their heads as well, and boys have to cover their faces, then I’ll be all for it. Until then, nah.

It sounds like an unreasonable fear, but this very scenario has happened before.

The linked article mentions that the car appears to have jumped an embankment in the yard and cleared the front porch. Apparently the hedges were safe.

Sending dogs to the catacombs seems like a bad idea somehow. I wonder if they where distracted while there.