Carmakazi @ Carmakazi @lemmy.world

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The insinuation that if you see any woman or person of color in a position of power, prestige, or even competence, they got there because of identity politics and not their own merit, is directly bigoted, not even concealed by the first or second degree. The corollary, of course, is that you can only trust white men to do these important jobs correctly.

Most of the people I'm around are not rich by any means, but they are not living paycheck to paycheck. Rising cost of living is worrying, but manageable. They can afford to pay even the littlest bit of attention or concern, but they don't. Because then they would have to admit that things are collapsing around them week by week, and that's too frightening for them.

Frankly I'm tired of justifying the behavior of the average American with infantilizations like we are some lower form of life without sapience. At some point we have to own up to it, even if it's painful, even if all we have is ignorance, cowardice, and apathy.

As George Carlin said, selfish ignorant people elect selfish ignorant leaders.

Personally, talking to anyone about politics here is unnerving. Most people are in this fog where current events are only an ephemeral storyline that they tune into periodically like it's a TV drama. Never a big deal, never anything that could affect them or those they care for. It's a position of privilege, frankly. Maybe some of them are just that dumb. I think a lot of people, though, are scared, either of their ignorance or their powerlessness, so they simply avoid being involved or educated out of discomfort. That's probably the nicest interpretation I have for my countrymen's behavior.

Otherwise you are spot on. The uniquely tasteless brand of brash American chauvinism that we were globally lampooned for during the Invasion of Iraq has metastasized. We are long overdue for being knocked down a peg. I wish I could say the fallout from this painful reckoning would stay within our borders, but it most likely won't. We have a very uncertain year ahead of us, let alone the next five years.

I could keep this joke going, but I'll instead say that you're forgetting about the broad daylight assassination of UHS CEO Brian Thompson, where the shooter used a suppressed pistol. Sure, it's one incident. But frankly, with the current political climate and perhaps the coming economic climate driving people to desperation...I would not be surprised if we see copycats.

Yes, it appears that the shooter used a 3D printed suppressor and glock frame. That is not a good excuse to deregulate factory suppressors. Saying that there is no tactical value in the signature reduction suppressors give is disingenuous.

It's not like people are going to start running around committing assassinations with silent guns

Uhhhhhh

I'm just throwing info out there, my intention isn't to brag. It's a silly thing to be proud of...I spent a bunch of money, big whoop.

The frames drop certainly doesn't matter to me, but it might matter to someone else with a different rig.

I guess they're really not afraid of taking fire from a 5.56. What a shame.

Now that I take a closer look, this Patriot Soldier looks a little...husky.

Homan didn't just threaten individuals and communities, he threatened city and state officials who would dare get in his way. Almost like he knows what he's doing will draw a lot of ire.

He's taking small town good ol' boy sheriff attitude to the federal level, that's why conservatives love him.

Brownshirts were the German Sturmabteilung.

Blackshirts were the Italian squadristi.

Yeah, the name American Blackshirts says they're pretty open about being literal, Mussolini-style fascists.

There is a sizeable "Lost Cause" myth among racists for both South Africa and Zimbabwe/formerly Rhodesia. In talking about these countries and seemingly caring about them, it makes them seem more worldly and less racist. They'll often try to deny that these regimes were apartheid at all by pointing out that the military was desegregated, despite that having little to do with how the native Africans were actually treated both under the law and outside of it. Their fascination also crosses over with anti-communist sentiment because many of their adversaries were communist if not directly USSR-backed. And killing communists is BASED.

It's all "right of play" rhetoric that one quote about arguing with Nazis talks about, it's either intellectually lazy or intentionally dishonest. When you get down to brass tacks with this Myth, the hypothesis they put forth is "Africa can only ever prosper if Whites are in charge."

Harrison Ford has had more than one aviation incident IIRC.

I could not get the benchmark to complete on my desktop, I tried a half-dozen times, it always locks up ~15 seconds into the "gameplay" section. Tried experimental proton, turning off frame gen, nothing.

7900xtx so I'm not wanting for hardware. While it behaved I was getting ~200 frames with framegen and ~100 without.

EDIT: Proton Hotfix seemed to work. Noticed the frames were a bit worse but for sure beats a hard lock

As much as we like to assume soldiers will follow orders and doctrine as if they were computers running code...they are ultimately human beings with their own free will, reasoning, biases, and agendas, to hell with what is and isn't legal and proper on paper. It would be a crossroads for the country and everyone who serves.

One of the oldest rules of quelling rebellion is to not use the local soldiers to do it. Too much emotional attachment. Bring in an outside force, preferably ones with standing ethnic or political hatred for those you want to crush.

Referencing the Vaporeon copypasta in a school assignment is...definitely a strategy.

I suspect that usernames that consist of "adjective-noun-4 digit number" are bots tasked with demoralization. Not that we can entirely discount actual people being so braindead.

1. Who's angry mobs are going to be victorious, is the question.
2. That's not where things will end. That's where they'll start.

Guantanamo is a notorious US torture facility, it doesn't need to be compared to other US torture facilities.

I wish our flag stood for all the things we were brainwashed to believe as kids. But it doesn't. Around the world, it stands for brash ignorance, chauvinism, neo-imperialism, and warmongering.

I guess it's fitting that at home it doesn't stand for much on its own. For sale and free use to the highest bidder and the lowest opportunist.