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Lord Ratner

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  1. So far the only thing that I can see affected by her age would be how extraordinarily difficult it would be for a 20-year-old FO to tell a 55-year-old PIC that he's a moron for trying to climb over or through/close to a thunderstorm. Hell, I'm 41, experienced, and largely unsocialized, and even still sometimes I have the internal debate over telling the dipshit in the left seat that 20 miles from any thunderstorm is the rule, not a suggestion. Some of these guys act like they are charged a fee for every degree to the left or right that they deviate. Sometimes it feels like it would be easier to just say nothing.
  2. Subway? Sandwiches?!
  3. You forget how many regular citizens view gun ownership as inherently "asking for it" much less answering the door with a gun in the hand. The sheep out-bred the sheepdogs a long time ago.
  4. Correct. But since we have to make rules for the aggregate, her example isn't very useful. There was a time we didn't need to worry about immigrant integration. Now we do.
  5. Same story, my mom never taught me Spanish. Well, except she didn't come through Ellis Island like your old ass 😂🤣
  6. You don't have to enforce integration. You have to enforce the ability to integrate. That means you do not get to come to this country if you don't speak English. Maybe some asylum exceptions, but nothing beyond that. You cannot integrate if you cannot communicate with the people with which you are supposed to integrate. And before anybody gets all high and mighty, my mother was born in Cuba, so I'm pretty familiar with immigrants who refuse to learn the language. My great-grandmother never integrated because she never took the time. And that was back in the '60s when you couldn't move to a state that has entire communities of ethnically homogenous immigrants forming miniature versions of their home countries. But the real answer is, immigration probably just needs to stop. Give it about 20 to 30 years, everyone will be integrated, and we can start the machine back up again
  7. This is everything you need to know about him. There are good, well meaning progressives out there, guys. He isn't one of them.
  8. Lord Ratner started following Squadron Bar
  9. Right?
  10. Jesus Christ, Dibs!
  11. Post a video you think sums it up well. It'll be good for others to see, and I could use a refresher. Just goes to show how unsettling "settled science" usually is.
  12. How unfortunate that starting with Kennedy and ending with Reagan, the United States basically closed down all the insane asylums. It would be a pretty handy place for all of the drug-ruined homeless, in addition to women who lose their mind and kill their children.
  13. It wasn't postpartum depression, it was postpartum psychosis. And there is a well-documented history for this woman of battling it. Obviously everything about it is a tragedy, but this is a textbook insanity defense. That doesn't mean she should walk free, but she should not be put into a prison with rational actors that made criminal choices.
  14. Lord Ratner replied to VL-16's topic in Squadron Bar
    That's fair. You need something to clean the guns with.

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