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Obviously that's a substantial portion of it but no, "songwriting" involves everything you end up hearing in the final product.

Yeah the invitation key isn't working. If you delete the invitation key that box will get replaced with a "password" box and you can type in 2025 manually. Then it works.

Believe it or not, after the left brought us a centimeter away from civil war, yes I’m all about lawfare now. There are too many fags in the Republican Party though. Gonna have to run them over but I’m not sure anyone has the stones for it.

That they didn’t during the 45 admin was obviously a very bad error in hindsight. “Lock her up” shouldn’t have been a mere slogan.

Look, I don't have any real skin in the religion game, but this is one of the things that easily reveals a pagan/atheist as ignorant at best, and a nitwit at worst. Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most well-attested historical figures of the region and time in which he lived, both in Christian and non-Christian sources. There are vanishingly few influential scholars, Christian or otherwise, who would argue that there was no historical Jesus of Nazareth. Bart Ehrman is probably the foremost of the American New Testament critics and characterizes Jesus mythicism as the flip side of the same coin on which snake-handling fundamentalism is printed.

Whether he was a Roman citizen or not, he had the same status in Galilee as he did in Egypt. "The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail." Deuteronomy 28. See, I can do it too.

As far as Jesus being a criminal, obviously crucifixion was reserved for certain types of criminals. But keep in mind the only source documents purportedly written by eyewitnesses to the event imply that the Roman official with the power to command his execution did so only for fear of what the Judean mob might do if he didn't. Remember that within a generation Rome was forced to destroy Jerusalem and humiliate and disperse what was left of the historic peoples there (who had already been dispersed a number of times by the particularly brutal Assyria and Babylon before them).

He wasn't a refugee because neither he (nor his parents) ever left the empire he was born in.

Wouldn't that mean it's a new trope? Modern Stellantis vehicles (aside from RAM from like 2019-2022 for whatever reason) are awful.

lol why do you people fall for this? Let’s say it’s true. The NG isn’t in the highest crime areas, for the sake of argument. You know why the NG gets deployed to the best parts of the city? Because Americans go there. You shove the undesirables back where they belong - out of sight. Run them out of the areas where they can affect people who actually matter. Keep them away from nice cars, nice places, nice people. Contain, control, neutralize.

Depending on what year Taco you end up with look out for gear slipping. Transmissions have been kicking it like they're Jeeps the last few years.

Everything is a tin can now lol

When all the statistics bear out the fact that one segment of the population is particularly lawless, it is logical to focus your enforcement efforts there rather than on those who tend to follow the law. Which is the opposite of what Americans have dealt with for the last sixty years, something closer to this: ”Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’”

Correct, but if I'm reading this guy correctly it's really not going to make much difference to him. Pro/con-wise if it's just a daily driver unibody is fine.

Honestly if you can haggle it down a bit (private seller or dealer?) I'd jump on that 2013 assuming you aren't driving crazy amounts of miles/year.

Typically extremely reliable vehicles, have had some issues in the last couple of model years causing them to slip in the various rankings and reviews a bit. If you don't mind being made fun of the newer Ridgelines haven't had many issues. Biggest downside to them is no 4WD but most people don't actually need their 4WD. Their loaded up price point is a bit lower than the Tacoma.

When you look at the “crime in red states” slop that leftists often post for longer than ten seconds you end up realizing that the disparity is almost all due to urban areas with large black populations.

1. Most violent crime is intra-racial, meaning in the case of homicides that if the victim is black, all else being equal, the perpetrator is more likely to be black. In the age of mass surveillance and the widespread use of cameras on even people’s domiciles it’s rare that we have to jump to any conclusions right away. Knocking on doors gives us more knowledge every year. 2. Strict enforcement of all crime in violent crime hotspots is most likely to result in steep drops in crime. We’ve seen it happen before, and following the summer of 2020 we saw the effect that the opposite approach had: not just more homicides but also more fatal traffic accidents among blacks in particular. 3. Gang violence is a large contributor to inner city violent crime in particular. In my area there were recently a lot of OG shot callers and soldiers let out of prison after serving their time (10 year mins) for federal beefs. We subsequently saw a spike in all crimes. 4. I’m bearish on using soldiers to police generally. There are a number of reasons for this but the number of bad cops out there that served in the military is high up on the list.

The rate of gun violence committed by Whites in the US is roughly on par with several of the restrictive European nations that gun grabbers love to talk about. It’s not the guns.

Except those guns are in theory available to everyone. So ultimately it’s not whether there are illegal guns but whether someone is inclined to obtain and use them. Thus the disparities.

If black market guns were the biggest problem we wouldn’t see the kinds of disparities borne out in crime stats year after year, decade after decade. The founders didn’t write the second amendment for the descendants of their slaves.

What if I were to tell you we could keep the guns, get rid of something else, and have far fewer violent crimes

Ok, we’ll just take that for granted for argument’s sake. From your link: Wow I wonder if those two things have anything to do with one another.