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Cake day: August 1st, 2023

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  • So is your argument that the Biden/Harris administration is blind, or stupid?

    If I give my kid an AR-15 and they shoot up a school, I may or may not be culpable.

    But if I hand them another AR after the first shooting, they kill again, and then I give them another, and another, and keep handing them weapons for months, and theres a pile of 15,000 dead children, then I am definitely culpable.

    It doesn’t matter how many times I tell the kid “this AR is for defense only”.


  • I think a lot of this comes down to the semantics of “intention”.

    I intended to write line 152 exactly as written. I intended to write code that compiles. But that pesky compiler imposes reality on me when it says “bug on line 152”. Did I intend to write the bug?

    Similarly, a politician may make a public promise on the campaign trail. They may truly intend to fulfill that promise, but political reality stops them when they are elected. There are hundreds of possible reasons for failure: poor planning and naivety, lack of political capital, or even accepting a lobbyist’s bribe. Which of these cases should be considered lies?