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Re: A New Thread For The Russian-Ukrainian War
RMS Oceanic wrote: »Jewish leaders get a pass on Godwin's law, right?
When they've been told they're the real antisemite by someone who goes out of their way to kill Jews and commit genocide, yes. :P
ceres
+1
Re: The [Job] thread brought to you by WAP.
My right knee is giving me some shit. It's kind of swollen and it hurts to kneel or crouch. Which is annoying because I spend like 70% of my workday kneeling or crouching. Which is probably completely unrelated I'm sure.
Re: Uvalde Shooting: 19 elementary school children dead, 2 adults
Hey folks, just to clarify, in case there was confusion, it's okay to discuss the potential political ramifications of this shooting, just please be careful with your language and potentially erroneous reads. Not everyone knows that referring to dead children as a "jackpot" is just a reference to a sci-fi trilogy and not, you know, the standard definition of the word.
ElJeffe
+1
Re: Uvalde Shooting: 19 elementary school children dead, 2 adults
SyphonBlue wrote: »I am now suspicious that some cop did charge in but instead of shooting the gunman he shot and killed a couple kids and that’s why the outside cops were so adamant on keeping anyone else from getting in, including parents and other departments.
NBC News Correspondent NEW: Texas law enforcement officials at a press conference say they believe that all the children that were shot and killed in Uvalde, TX were shot by Salvador Ramos and not anyone else [i.e. law enforcement].
Yeah that's uh...that's exactly what happened
*58 magazines* found at the school.
18-year-old bought 1,657 bullets.
Those are definitely a lot of cop magazines. I don't even know how you carry that many mags unless you just have a loose sack of them.
Steven Dennis is a reporter for Bloomberg, Robert Evans is a reporter for BellingCat and a podcaster.
The cops murdered children that day
Wait. Hold on.
I'm supposed to believe this kid was wandering around with 20 KG's (or 45 lbs) of ammo Plus whatever the the magazines weigh (of which he had to have had at least 52 if he was using a 30 round mag)?
It is literally impossible to believe this kid managed to source a thousand rounds of 5.56 in a month without stealing it from someone else that was stockpiling. Like the ammo just isn't there to buy.
He might have also bought it from someone else that was stockpiling. It's Texas, so I assume that even if there's a retail shortage there probably isn't a shortage of individuals who've had a pile of it sitting around since whenever.
Zibblsnrt
+1
Re: [Webcomics] featuring some place where people don't rest
"What is the City? Control. The City is a literal dream world, built to keep us under control, to change magical girls... into this."
*holds up doll*
*holds up doll*
Re: Evil Dead: The [chat]
as long as you enjoy doing the exercises as a routine then it really doesn't matter what those exercises are as long as you're doing them in moderation at a comfortable level and not attempting olympic level sets/weights/etc. to the point of damaging muscles/bones
And as long as you have proper form. I injured my knee in a perfectly normal beginner's yoga class while supervised by a paid teacher. Bodies are bullshit! You have to waste time moving them around doing nothing to make them stronger except also that breaks them sometimes?!?
Powerpuppies
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Re: Evil Dead: The [chat]
the full name of the elden ring blood katana in japanese is "mountain of corpses, rivers of blood"
fucken siiick
Damn that is sick
Casual Eddy
+1
Re: Uvalde Shooting: 19 elementary school children dead, 2 adults
joshofalltrades wrote: »OneAngryPossum wrote: »joshofalltrades wrote: »I’m glad to see some of y’all out of the “numb to this” feeling
We should never accept this as something that “just happens sometimes”
These kids deserved better
I have moved firmly into ‘end the second amendment within my lifetime’ territory. It’s a fantasy, but I’m sick of letting idiots and cultists define this argument. Every day we keep the second amendment, we are choosing a sad power fantasy over innocent lives.
In short- and medium-term fantasy land, a buyback/amnesty period followed by intense penalties for possession. Any access to a firearm requires a lengthy training course, background and mental health screening, proof of safe storage capacity, regular checks of your home to verify storage practices, multiple current references updated annually, and the notarized signature of everybody you have lived with or been in a significant relationship with for the past few years. You want to own any gun, you better be on your best behavior for a long fucking time. And that gets you a single-shot rifle or shotgun, no handguns, nothing semi-automatic.
The FBI can follow the record industry’s lead from the 90s and leak bad 3D prints of ghost guns that overheat and destroy your printer. Bonus points if they can devise a mechanism that results in near-permanent resin stains on the attempted user.
I just don’t care about these people or trying to convince them any more. The only thing they fear is losing their fucking guns, so fuck it, take them. They can’t get worse than 40,000 dead a year, and the world can’t be better until they’ve been disarmed. Make it the police’s primary job for the next couple decades to seize and destroy guns, with constant federal oversight.
There will be blowback, because these people worship death, but you’d need a hell of a lot of blowback for it to compare to the losses every day of our current situation brings.
Edit: I’m sure there are a hundred flaws to every step in this, even beyond the sheer fantasy of it being feasible at all. Thankfully the bar for success is low enough to functionally not exist.
People thought the same thing about cigarettes, but the way to make this happen is actually fairly simple, if there is any political will at all to make it happen.
You systematically dismantle the mystique around the thing. When it isn't cool anymore, when every gun owner that doesn't need their firearm for subsistence hunting, when every dumbass that says they need it for home defense looks like what they really are (sociopaths), they start to feel like losers.
When they feel like losers, you offer to buy the thing from them. Suddenly they're winners again, because they got rid of the thing that was making them uncool and unpopular and they got some money for it.
The problem here is step 1, because our politicians can be (and are) bribed to not do even the most simple things to fix the problem.
Fully correct. Team Gun needs to feel like being a loser. A weak, pathetic, scared loser. Make Team Gun suck to be on, and people will change teams. There's no logic to this, no thing you have to talk them into, no need for facts or figures or graphs.
Bingo.
There is no appeal to being better, no reasonable debate, no line of discourse people can possibly engage in that will make these people understand. They need to made to feel small, and have their life feel immeasurably worse.
This is a terrifying issue because we're trying to divorce people from their source of power and identity that is causing mass murders, but there's no other way around it. Top to bottom, these people deserve no respect from us because they don't respect human life. They actively seek ways to stockpile the ability to end human life, fantasize about it, create situations where they are allowed to do it.
jungleroomx
+7