💼 Careercow Devin J. Stone / LegalEagle - Agenda-driven armchair lawyer who uses his politically charged videos to push his ideology, but holds the power to kill the Trump administration through lawsuits

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TowinKarz said:
Modern society is proof that no one person is smart enough to be a genius in all fields, or even all parts of their chosen field.

In his semi-satirical treatise on economics, Eat the Rich, humorist J.P. O'Rourke points out that, in modern society, a pencil is seen as a cheap, throwaway item with little value. They're worth is so insignificant that just breaking the tip is seen as a reason to throw one away instead of going to look for a sharpener.

Yet, the average person is incapable of making one due to the wide variety of skills and materials needed.

To make one lousy pencil, you'd have to be a lumberjack to get wood, a woodworker to shape the body, a miner to get graphite, a geologist just to know where to look for it, a chemist to refine it, you'd also need to be a botanist and have the skill to care for a rubber tree to make the eraser.... and a painter to get the yellow stuff on the wood... and on and on and on it goes.

Science is the same way, even Einstein worked in the company of people like Fermi and Neils Bohr and others that they could bounce their ideas off of together. The Hollywoodism (and Movie Bobism) of super smaht people having a divine right to lead the sheep comes from this and is laughably immature, or would be, if they didn't always do their best to make it so we, the commons, cannot defy the "expert".

So, that's the problem with "Experts" and how everyone gushes over experts - yes, there is an area of expertise they have, but it in no means translates to expertise in all fields, or even what they may be speaking about currently. And when we exalt the "expert" we forget the mountain of equally smart down to just mundane people they stand on top of unseen to have all that knowledge.

I'll trust Ian 110% to tell me about the history and development of the AR platform from the 60's XM-series that was seen as so out-there and Buck Rodgers that the Ordinance Department deliberately fucked with them in the hopes they'd fail their trials so they could go back to building "proper" military rifles with wood furniture and full-size 30.06 cartridges (just like God intended!) up to todays' ubiquitous civilian-grade AR-15s, but that doesn't mean (nor do I think he would disagree) that he gets to chime in on the intricacies of self-defense with any more authority than you or I or anyone else who's seen the video.

So when I go for legal breakdowns of a case, I instantly tune out when anyone, even from Harvard Law, starts going down personal political paths as if such diversions are just as scientifically/legally sound as a reading of the statutes.
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Yeah, that was exactly my point. If someone is narrowly only defining "expertise" as someone who has a bajillion hours firing a platform but ignoring all the people who know how to fix it or development or the history or any of that. Only tactical operators get the prize, apparently.
TowinKarz said:
Oh, and P.S. - The Reising wasn't just not Marine-Proof, it wasn't Soldier-Proof, the QC at the factory was so lax every single gun was essentially a hand-fitted original as the parts wouldn't interchange with another and had no ability to tolerate dirt, sand and mud. In the hands of cops, they were in use as a budget Thompson submachinegun into the 50's without issue.
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Yeah, the jarheads didn't know that parts couldn't swap and that damage to to feed lips on the mags would cause them to jam up.

A firearm expert (like the armorer) would notice the inherent flaws of the design the first time he field stripped it and avoid treating it in such a way as to cause it to break. But if you just handed one to a standard Marine (or even not-so-standard as I believe the ParaMarines and Marine Raiders used them) and told him to take care of it the best way he knew how, it would break. That's exactly what happened. Some experts, huh.

Look, I'm opposed to the idea in general that some twenty year old who is fresh off the farm and passed through basic and Infantry School is an expert in anything. Buying shitty Mustangs and marrying strippers, maybe. Expertise comes from years, decades, lifetimes of researching and experimenting and operating. Knowing all the teeny-tiny minutiae in all of it's subtle permutations. We throw around the word "expert" too casually to the point where people are considering 23 year olds who did a hitch in the corps some of the most qualified. It's laughable if you actually think about it.
 
ColtWalker1847 said:
Yeah, that was exactly my point. If someone is narrowly only defining "expertise" as someone who has a bajillion hours firing a platform but ignoring all the people who know how to fix it or development or the history or any of that. Only tactical operators get the prize, apparently.
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No, I'm saying he's a historian, a documentarian and an entertainer. None of these are experts by themselves, or even together. He's good at the things he does in those regards, but his opinions, which is the thing the entire comment thread is circling around for LegalEagle, are dumb, informed by some Fudd-ass-logic and ultimately with the merit that a guy who reviews cars but only rides a bicycle and takes public transit in his personal life, would have. He's the gun equivalent of a sportswriter that never took gym or played competitively, he knows a lot of things, but none of it is in the least bit useful to those who actually have experience playing the goddamed game.

PS: I bet you were admin
 
TiggerNits said:
PS: I bet you were admin
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Never served. Which is why I have distaste for people who act like they walk on water and have sooper-special knowledge because they got to be babysat by a platoon sgt as junior enlisted for four years. Those that think making it to the exalted rank of E4 where they can kinda be trusted to make decisions for themselves is something deeply meaningful intellectually. It isn't. They are kids.

The old salty senior enlisted career types, I got nothing against. They are jaded old fucks like me. We all know who put in all the work in those detailed field reports. What it means to do something for decades and just barely catching a whiff of being an expert at one small aspect of a thing.

Again, you don't seem to understand the purpose of a museum curator and why that is going to have more depth of knowledge than some E-3. One guy is standing on the shoulders of giants and just citing their work that they have carefully researched and arranged. The other is some kid who thinks they know everything because the sarnt didn't tear him a new asshole today.

Like, do you not think that curators have access to exactly what all was said in the archives? Field trials. After action reports. Logistics reports. All the communications from squad level on up. When they make an argument about something, it isn't them making it, it is them pointing to a huge pile of collected information created by people far smarter than them.

What's Pvt Snuffy doing? "Well, I feel it's better like this and I never really dealt with anything else so..." That leads to far more dumb firearm shit than academia. The cult of the 1911 and stopping powah mythology was because of ex-servicemen jerking themselves off when the M9 Barretta was introduced. "When I served..."

They are as bad as the Fudds.
 
To get back on topic, LegalEagle posted his Thanksgiving dinner preparations:
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LegalEagle on Twitter: "This Thanksgiving (as is tradition) I will be…

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No one cares how you cook your "garbage bird."
What's funny is that the account he mentions has been abandoned (by glancing at his last tweets, Kenji sounds like a typical, virtue-signaling Leftist, too):
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J. Kenji WEAR A MASK López-Alt (@kenjilopezalt) / Twitter

archived 25 Nov 2021 02:40:16 UTC
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Don't expect a retweet anytime soon, Devin.
 
Justtocheck said:
I was not the one who supports BLM, unlike Kyle lol. Bitched out after seeing the Proudboys don't offer good protection beyond photoshoots.
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You are the one trying to justified people getting killed by a fucking nigger. So keep on sucking that nigger dick.
 
Sammich said:
You are the one trying to justified people getting killed by a fucking nigger. So keep on sucking that nigger dick.
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They were grannies leeching on pensions and a boy who'd probably would have grown up to be white rapper. Nothing of value was lost.
 
5t3n0g0ph3r said:
To get back on topic, LegalEagle posted his Thanksgiving dinner preparations:
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LegalEagle on Twitter: "This Thanksgiving (as is tradition) I will be…

archived 25 Nov 2021 02:38:35 UTC
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No one cares how you cook your "garbage bird."
What's funny is that the account he mentions has been abandoned (by glancing at his last tweets, Kenji sounds like a typical, virtue-signaling Leftist, too):
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J. Kenji WEAR A MASK López-Alt (@kenjilopezalt) / Twitter

archived 25 Nov 2021 02:40:16 UTC
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Don't expect a retweet anytime soon, Devin.
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J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is actually a very very well respected chef and a great resource for learning amd creative recipes.
 
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