As is often the case the thing they most often accuse others of—a whining sense of entitlement that their marginal POVs need to be rammed down everyone's throats and declared Best by government force—is 100% what they are constantly running around doing themselves.

The throughline between the OU thing, Bari Weiss, Trump's shakedown of colleges, the War on Christmas discourse, all of it, is that My Beliefs are Special and Must be Given Primacy, and if they're not winning the "marketplace of ideas" we need to affirmative action them or grant them special favor.

This far into the Trump era, I'm over everybody wanting to credit people with hypothetical future resistance (they never seem to get around to) rather then the lack of it now. Trump has been moving the Overton window on the use of "his" military—successfully—over and over again. That's what matters.

That may be, and yet, from ordering them into American cities to having them target and execute noncombatants to serving as window dressing for explicitly partisan assignments, there has been no actual operational resistance. They do what he says. Grumbling about it off the record is not meaningful.

The cool thing about major public figures running campaigns is you can just, like, ask them shit and actually listen to their answers instead of inventing Kung Foo 4D chess that they surely must be secretly playing or these agenda and plans that you just assume they must secretly have but can't say.

That includes (probably) your favorite candidate! Bernie Sanders was that guy just as sure as shit as Joe Biden was! Nancy Pelosi as much as Hillary Clinton. Obama, Harris, Schumer, Buttigieg...pretty much all Dems run on "the redress for past bad actions is just electing me and I wont do that."

Every Dem primary cycle for the last twenty years I go "Wow, this major candidate sure is explicitly saying we should 'turn the page' and if elected is mainly interested in 'looking forward not back' and I get yelled at by their voters for believing their candidates when they say that.

It's a ridiculous fantasy that we can precrime everything. That every act is preceded by some obvious thing we could have found and recognized if we'd only looked hard enough. It's copaganda that there's some perfect predictive profile you could build of everybody with enough mandate/power/will.

Do we imagine they were members of a "Shoot Americans" club back home? That their medical records had "Might Mass Murder" buried in it? That they'd previously went on shooting rampages and the system just like forgot it? Their "I Break for Shooting National Guards" bumper sticker?

Anytime this comes up, I feel like the person demanding more checking should be obligated to point out what we SHOULD have been checking for, but didn't, that would have uncovered this person and prevented the shooting.

This goes both ways. Most times, we DID check, and came up with no reason to deny the person, because no reason existed. There's no magic bullet red flag that would have prevented it if only we'd *checked harder* - that's a fantasy. Even in the most perfect surveillance state, people just do shit.

Trump has not been subtle or given to mixed messages. We do remember one of his first acts in Term 1 was the "Muslim ban" right? The only people who really get confused on this are the press who don't Ike to admit or say out loud that it might just be that his supporters are fucking racists.

This is true, and it is also true that most Trump voters know this and were not tricked or confused but voted for him precisely *because* they fundamentally agree with him and Stephen Miller on this subject and their explicit goal was always a whiter America more hostile to minorities.

And people saying "riding horses was rich people rare!"...that might be true in urban areas, but in rural parts (which described a much higher % of the country then) horses (and mules etc.) horses were as ubiquitous as you'd imagine when you couldn't necessarily just walk to town or even a neighbor.

I would guess that per capita the rate would be similar if not higher for horses. People tend to wildly underestimate how dangerous horses (and livestock) are and how careful you have to be around them. Cars also turn off; 99% of the time they're inert.