As measured by the average suck point.

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7411043/m/986109911/xsl/print_topic

His own son, allegedly.

Yup, that was my first thought as soon as I read op’s question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccoa/Ocoee_River

“Florida” is a weird way to misspell “southeast Tennessee and northern Georgia”

She’s good at grifting and stock trading on privileged information

Capitalists don’t forget. They exploit.

If we’re lucky maybe we’ll get a referral for Halligan to be disbarred out of this.

They pulled the reciprocity clause out at the last minute after Texas passed it’s bill.

Womp womp.

The facts in the California case will find that it was driven by political alignment, not race.

Probability says yes.

I just retired a 20ish year old brother multifunction black and white laser for a new Brother color LED multifunction.

Very happy with both, the one I just retired still worked great, but I got tired of jumping through hoops to get the network scanner drivers working on current OSes.

That’s a lot of words to say ExxonMobil wants access to their oil production

HTC! Don’t call it a comeback

I’d argue that at least one of the organizers of the J6 insurrection experienced permanent consequences.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/charlie-kirk-january-6-bus-transportation-f71523

A general strike that lasts a month will stop all of this nonsense.

It’s already been pulled. All 4 major networks in my area have had the flags enabled on their 4k streams for months now.

You’re looking for a moral and just solution against an opponent who respects neither morality nor justice.

Best case in my opinion is massive, prolonged national strikes. The Solidarity movement in Poland is a good model for this. But it’s going to require 3-5% of the population to be very desperate and some organizational leadership to arise.

The fascists know this, which is why they’re moving to criminalize opposition, starting with the designation of ‘antifa’ as a terrorist organization. I assume that the definition of who is a terrorist expands, probably quickly, so that participation in peaceful protest is criminalized.

Removing the right of peaceful change tends to lead towards violence, historically speaking.

Sorry, I didn’t realize there was going to be an audit.

What you’re looking for doesn’t have much backing in the historical record: After Francisco Franco’s death in 1975, Spain transitioned from a fascist-style dictatorship to a parliamentary democracy. Franco had to die (natural causes) before democracy returned.

Same for Tito, but that didn’t last, unfortunately.

Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship (1933–1974) ended with the Carnation Revolution, a nearly bloodless military coup. But still, a coup. Not exactly by writing strongly worded letters.

In Greece, he military junta (1967–1974) collapsed after the Cyprus crisis.

General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990) ended after he lost a national plebiscite in 1988. However, ridiculous amounts of violence predated that on the course of his authoritarianism.

After decades of authoritarian military rule, mass protests in 1987 pressured the regime into accepting constitutional reforms. By my reading “mass protests”==elites fearing for their lives, or at least their standard of living.

How about the list of the opposite? Nazi Germany

Fascist Italy

Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist dictatorship collapsed in the Romanian Revolution: Protests escalated into armed clashes; over 1,000 people were killed.

Ceaușescu and his wife were captured, tried in a show trial, and executed on Christmas Day.

Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule ended in the Libyan Civil War.

Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian regime in Syria faced mass protests in 2011. The regime’s violent crackdown triggered a full-scale civil war.

Russia, 2017 The Tsarist autocracy collapsed in the Russian Revolution.

Aftermath of USSR: Baltics (1991): Soviet troops tried to suppress independence movements in Lithuania and Latvia. In Vilnius, 14 civilians were killed when tanks stormed the TV tower.

Caucasus: Ethnic clashes in Georgia (1989) and Azerbaijan (1990) left dozens dead.

Post-Soviet conflicts: After independence, wars erupted in places like Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and later Chechnya, costing tens of thousands of lives.

Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot (1975–1979) ended not by reform but by foreign invasion.

I’m not advocating violence. I’m observing that history suggests it’s not unlikely.

In a society with a strong commitment to democracy and honoring the social contract, tolerance, even of ideas you don’t approve of, is an excellent ideal

In a society with rapidly eroding civil liberties and authoritarian disregard for the social contract, tolerance of authoritarianism is a luxury ill afforded.

Given that Kirk was demonstrably intolerant, and happy to leverage authoritarianism to accomplish his goals, he egregiously violated the social contract.

Given the rapidly dawning realization that nothing will meaningfully improve for the lower and middle classes until the elites fear for their lives, a lurch towards violence is expected.

The great depression and the progressice policies that arise from ir were somewhat driven by violence and the resulting fear in the elites.

Examples:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_West_Coast_waterfront_strike Leasing to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act_of_1935

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_sit-down_strike

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_Movement