Liam is a great example of projection, and some other mental illness that involves over sharing.
When a friend got assaulted, Liam had dark fantasies about attacking black people. Iirc? Imho having vigilante fantasies about going "Death Wish" and shooting muggers is a natural reaction, and never acting on those thoughts, normal. Wanting to kill people who look like the people that mugged your friend? That's an immature, racist, thought pattern, to be ashamed of.
Liam was ashamed, after some time of dark obsessions, and he had some idiot thing about confessing this to the entire planet.
My opinion is he would have been better to have confessed to a Priest, ( most Christian churches have such customs, iirc ) or his shrink, the secular, popular, modern, method. Apparently, post modern, post guilt, post morals, idiots use Twitter instead, and publicly air their mental illness or bad judgment, instead of quietly hiding their guilt with traditional therapy.
This isn't necessarily a generation thing.
I'd never say I wanted to kill people for having blue eyes if a friend was mugged by blue eyes devils! That's an unthinking, racist, projection of the actions of human individuals on to a group based on prejudice, not logic.
That was Liam's "crime". His public stand on guns, shows the same mental illness.
I know a fellow with the same problem. ( unlike Liam, we've talked about this )
He'd kill people out of fear and lack of control & judgment, he thinks. So everyone would kill people out of fear and lack of control & judgment. So no one should have a gun.
He projects his failings on everyone.
Imho he also underestimates himself, dark and stupid thoughts happen to everyone, and the vast majority of folk never act on them. ( see also Sheep, Wolves, & Sheepdogs essay )
He just can't comprehend how anyone could carry a weapon to defend themselves and others from harm, and not be a loose cannon that would over react to their own emotions.
This lack of realization that other people are different is a sad thing, and limits his thinking, horribly. He's a smart guy, just.... Wrong & blind to it.
A MUST READ, especially for young folk considering joining the military and law enforcement.
I often comment I do volunteer security service at a large camping event for a history education group.
This doesn't mean I'm a power mad cop wannabe.
I just like helping folk, and working security let's me ride a golf cart around and talk to people. Security there has zero power. Strict rules on having zero power. No weapons allowed, including club like flashlights.
Since the population there is full (30%+) of martial artists and more heavily armed than an Afghan firebase, ( albeit with edged weapons, not cowardly, chemical propulsion abominations! ) with a Sheepdog ethic of monumental proportions, wise folk figure "security" means calm folk who can summon help and talk upset people into also being calm.
which means my stories involve funny people and not harrowing tales of violence. It's "security" in a land where nearly every adult dreams of rescuing a damsel in distress. ( or other gender rescue, personal preference ) So it's better than Disneyland, since helping happy people find their camp is the vast majority of my work there.
Didn't want to ruin the movie thread with political idiots.
And not going to give credit to the talented actors & film maker types that think pretending to be a hero means they have political authenticity to insult us.
Calling us stupid and evil for voting for X or owning a gun, or car, or having an opinion contrary to their Holy Writ. Inevitability the Writ of the Prophets Marx, Gore, CNN, and/or "anything but traditional judeo-christian morality".
Often ungrateful, spoiled, immature, parrots.
Certainly entitled to their opinions, but nice cheekbones and abs, don't convey moral authority.
Sports idiots, too, deserve to be mocked. Doesn't matter if he owns a team or swings a bat.
Becoming rich is a notable accomplishment. But like pretty abs, it doesn't mean your political opinion matters, because you have photogenic abs. Or breasts, or cash.
It's amazing how they can objectify women, pretend guilt about it, suck up to misogynist creeps, while offending them at the same time, and brag about how enlightened they are while endorsing sex slavery.
Confused? Why? Consistency is for truth tellers, not leftists.
The so called burkini isn't one. As far as a sexually uptight Muslim goes, it might as well be paint on a naked women, wearing a parody of modest veils.
Personally, I enjoy that kind of thing, both women showing off their bodies, and parody/Insult to uptight folk.
I'm fine with the opposite, too. Men showing off their bodies. I took the ( adult! ) niece & her Bestie to Aquaman & Avengers. Many sighs from the gals during Aquaman!
And parody/insult to fake enlightened holier than thou types. In fact I enjoy parody aimed at all holier than thou types.
Find me self deprecating humor from the folk praising the Islamist suck up attempt, or from the Islamist movement.
Dare ya!
Seriously. Dare ya! Good luck.
If I had published a hot young lady in a skintight suit as Sports Illustrated did, as a joke on The Magazine, and a mockery of Islam, I'd get death threats for offending an entire religion. Hollywood would accuse me of racism ( it's not, but they are stupid parrots ) and Islamaohobia.
We KNOW there will be death threats, but they will try to pretend there aren't.
This doesn't have an American analog. Our politics is fundamentally different than the multi party mutations they have there.
Occupy & the Tea Party, one a passion play by rich socialists with commie cannon fodder youth, and the other a grass roots leaderless response to anti Citizen Obama & Hillary, are not the same as France's yellow vests.
You can spin it in ways to make parallels, but there's real differences.
The Tea Party was fiercely peaceful and clean. The occasional openly armed rally goer wasn't feared, and no one broke anything, at all. The pictures of garbage free sections of D.C. or other malls left behind is in stark contrast to the socialist hate mobs and generation "spoiled brat" music festival trash zones.
And all that was before the Bad Orange Man!
France's chaos is like the dystopian alternate universe where Hillary won, and the Bernie fans plus radical Greenies, riot because she isn't pure enough. Too dedicated to maximizing bribes from Wall Street, and ignoring le deplorables, which is everyone who doesn't worship her.
Again, a poor analogy. I don't see Tea Party or middle road suburbanites marching with the Bernie & Watermelon crowds. Which seems to be the case in France.
The green nude eel proposal, aka the Flintstone Initiative, can be summed up as destroying the economy, rights, freedoms, and property, aka The Enemy's Dream.
It not a Dream For America, it is the Crushed enemy Fantasy. What you want the loser in War to look like.
I will point out that a ban on disposable grocery bags will lead to an outbreak of food poisoning, as the reusable bags tend to become bacteria farms unless the owners wash them with bleach regularly, which is a waste of water, and pollutes the environment with chlorine, which is used as a murderous war gas. Just saying.
The death toll will probably a win for Darwin overall. A few thousand dying in agony every year is well worth less trash on the streets, apparently.
I'm going to skip any opinion on the drugs involved, and just note the irony. If there was such a thing as Big Mushroom, and tobacco was an underground illegal drug...
Perhaps this is a great example of the intersectionality of puritan intolerance and free drugs hedonism?
So does Hogg think only marksmen should be able to defend themselves in their homes? I do agree that an AR-15 tends to be easier to put on target than a pistol, isn't that a good thing when having to shoot a bad guy?
The Church of Liberation Theology aka the Communist Party aka The Last Pope's One True Faith, is sheltering the money stolen from Venezuela in it's banks.
Now offering shelter for the narco terrorists of the Maduro Kleptocrats. Presumably the Cuban killing teams are also prepared to take shelter in the Church. ( with weapons )
I bet the Russian troops will stay at the Air force base to occupy/guard the base against the People, ( who were disarmed ) to maintain the nuclear bomber strike force and long range anti aircraft missiles. ( now in Venezuela )
This echoes the Cuban missile crisis, where the Last Good Democrat President ( as he was assassinated by a communist krazy before the scandals in his administration became election fodder, he is beloved ) faced off against the Soviet Empire, and struck a deal. Pull the nuclear missiles out of Cuba, and we did the same in Turkey.
What concessions will Vladimir make & demand? This Deal will probably have Putin demand more of Ukraine and to solidify his blackmail power with gas supply to Europe.
There is also the Putin/Merkel upcoming Molotov-Ribbentrop II pact, which indicates The Bad Old Days in Europe may be back!
As a pale blue person I have nothing to say on the racism aspect of this story.
But as a loud mouthed occasional jerk, I do.
It's possible, depending on mood, that I would make a snarky remark to someone eating in a no food zone. The you do you response would amuse me, and I probably would apologize for my authoritarian informant moment. It would be hypocritical of me, since I've had to scarf down part of a sub on breaks in inappropriate places, too.
It would not occur to me to try and get someone fired for offending me with a get lost response to snark.
The difference is, I'm a sarcastic jerk, not a Big Brother Enforcer at heart, also I'm not a vindictive victim wannabe. ( that last is a euphemism for a word I hate to use )
The real issue is the way that informant mentality is basically Evil. Soul corroding evil. And those who are informants for dictators can pretend the excuse of police pressure or necessity.
This female chose to be an informant out of spite. Her evil predates this petty action.
We should pray for her soul, since in most faiths, she's headed for the Bad Place.