Carmakazi @ Carmakazi @lemmy.world

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Reading the article he also said that parents should be able to cast votes on behalf of their minor children, which is much more alarming to me.

"Other Emergencies" is a euphemism for liberal/non-white protests. The idea of their home town being overrun by "leftist" mob violence occupies both the nightmares and the fever dreams of the kinds of gun owners who would respond to this call-up.

DeSantis reactivated the Florida State Guard on similar grounds of "disaster relief" then started training them like soldiers. Now he has a force of 1500 or so that reports directly to him and cannot be federalized. He even sent a few of them to the Texas border to test the waters.

Expect to see more of these yokels try to muster up armed thugs in the coming months. I fear the worst no matter the outcome of the election.

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You might get off easier than the colored or mixed person in the equation, but you certainly wouldn't be okay as a race-traitor.

No way would USSS be able to get his fat ass to wear a vest consistently, let alone the plates needed to stop a rifle round. In this heat?

Though I'm sure now he may reconsider, or be forced to.

The DNC is controlled opposition for the owner class. They exist to attract and squash any substantial change to our current system, and to give you hope that such change is still possible so long as you stay civil and play by the rules.

What would you be doing right now if every single person in government behaved like Republicans?

Are you aware that you won’t be able to wear a furry tiger costume when you’re getting pounded in the ass in the federal prison I put you in next year?” Howell asked.

Part of me wants to laugh at the seething impotence...but he not only thinks Trump will win, but that he himself will get arrest powers in a Trump regime and will be able to wield it against his enemies.

Please vote...and prepare for the worst from these fucking freaks.

Wtf I love Trump now!?

His failure to meaningfully divest from his business interests coupled with the numerous times he used his office to funnel money to himself such as forcing the Secret Service to stay at Trump properties as he traveled.

There, one.

As an American I think that would all be reasonable...if the official US position was that Mexico has no right to exist, the Mexican people should be forcibly integrated into our society as 2nd class citizens, and the US Army was in the process of a "peacekeeping operation" in Mexico to carry all this out.

For all our flaws, we respect the borders of our neighbors and don't have irridentist aspirations that belong in the 19th century. Russia is the aggressor here, and they have demonstrated that they have little interest in global peace or human rights, only increasing their sphere of influence.

Continually rolling over for thugs because it's what avoids nuclear conflict will only lead to a global order based on thuggery, and it likely won't even avoid nuclear conflict in the end.

There's some subtle differences in the frame shape and other things that I'm too dumb to articulate. The only marks I can see are import marks from "CAI" - Century International Arms, which would be strange to see on a USGI 1911.

I think this model is a Star BM, and surplus retailers were hocking these things for ~$250-300, about 6/7 years ago. I almost got one but decided against it.

It's some Star model pistol, looks like a 1911 but not quite, and in 9mm.

And conservative voters see any measure to tackle this issue, no matter how benign, as "weak liberal nonsense" and "a waste of time" that cheapens our fighting ability. Of course I'm sure their hearts are set on what's best for our military, and not that they're sexist, racist abusers who don't want their sexist, racist abuse to be challenged.

This issue goes back at least as far as living memory for the US. We were particularly vicious to German women at the end of WWII. GI's having illegitimate children with local women in Asia during our multiple wars there was so common it's basically a trope.

I think it's somewhat arrogant to assume that the state violence apparatus is wholly on our side on this one.

1. What kinds of people do you think staff the military and police, LBGT activists and climate protesters?
2. For those not on the MAGA train but are perhaps "uncommitted", being ordered to fire on Americans may be a bridge too far.

The military will likely fracture like everything else in such a scenario. I imagine desertion, theft of equipment, and sabotage would all be huge problems until things more neatly sort themselves into "us" and "them."

Specifically, they are implied with the whole "call up the National Guard under the Insurrection Act and send them out to kick doors in looking for illegals, especially in liberal strongholds." I am sure they will act strictly under the color of the law and adhere only to these reasonable, publicly stated goals.

On an unrelated note, TM 31-210 is an informative, engaging, and entertaining coffee table read, if anyone is looking for that sort of thing.

A cheap springer airsoft pistol works pretty good in my experience

I've thought about this a lot. I think its more the sheer oversaturation of "culture" than it is a true lack of imagination. People alive today consume exponentially greater amounts of "culture" (for the broadest term possible) than anyone ever before, and it's not even close.

When tech enables you to experience a movie or a video game or a performer 30 years after the death of everyone involved, in essentially the same fidelity as the day it debuted, "old culture" has a much harder time making way for "new culture." If Star Wars exists, why care about Rebel Moon or whatever that movie was called?

I think the public consciousness can only maintain cognizance and interest in so much, but at the same time creatives are constantly adding to the Culture Pile. But the more tech enables us to hold on to our past, it becomes more and more difficult to move on, and the majority of new stuff goes unwanted and unappreciated. And so the mass market dives into keeping the old alive with reboots, remakes, remasters, and now AI recreations, because that's what people respond to.

How else are cops supposed to buy new sidearms every 3 years?

With something like 2/3 of American military-age men being too overweight or obese to serve, these drugs would likely be considered strategically essential in any [hopefully] theoretical throwdown.

Suing the Church of Scientology for wrongful death? Yeah, good luck with that.