If you have access to a belt sander you can sand down a 12mm screw. Done crap like that before.

It’s framed as “vaccine bad” even if it wasn’t outright stated. Or at the very least that Da Gubment is inherently reckless, irresponsible, and clueless in handling vaccines…just like they believe with every other government function.

When one of the points on an official report is

but what about muh natural immunity, I dun need no damn shot!

You know where they’re coming from. And when they’ve chosen “there is no such thing as a safe and effective vaccine” RFK Jr. to lead our public health, you know where they’re going.

Bartering also assumes, for your example, that the apple farmer wants oranges and the orange farmer wants apples. Consider that either one may not. And then consider how many other goods exist even in primitive agrarian society that people may or may not want at any given time.

Currency is whatever the agreed vehicle is for value exchange that solves this. The apple farmer can now sell apples for silver nuggets and use the silver to buy tools from someone else later, which the orange farmer either doesn’t have or is unwilling to part with. It allows for more complex transactions that then helped grow more complex societies.

Protocol on incendiary weapons states that using them in civilian area, such as in a marketplace in an urban area that was not properly evacuated, is prohibited.

And we actually signed that one, which is surprising considering how many protocols and treaties we are not party to.

A logical and strategic justification. Still a literal warcrime.

Not this decade, but during the battles of Fallujah we gave the civilians there 24 hours to evacuate, and then after that the official rules of engagement were pretty damn close to “everyone left is presumed to be an Al Qaeda militant.” They were allowed to shoot people with phones or radios in their hands on sight. We also bombed the fuck out of that city, including with white phosphorous. We know WP was used because there was a recorded friendly fire incident with it.

And all of this was basically reprisal for the killings of those four Blackwater mercenaries.

Watch “Don’t Talk to the Police”

He’s rotten and party loyal enough that he’ll probably be around until the end of the regime.

Theoretically the judicial should be considered nonpartisan and objective when talking about this but we know that’s a load of crap now.

I remember when they started talking about mass deportations they were saying 4 million people. An insane number on its own.

During the debate it was 8 million.

Now it’s ballooned to up to 15 million people.

Personally I think this is a lie, an excuse to put together a massive apparatus of detainment and processing. I doubt they will only loose it on illegal immigrants.

No. I’m saying that’s how the issue has been handled historically, possibly deliberately in some cases, but more likely just coincidentally. Not that we need to go back to it in some exercise in eugenics. “The issue” being something to do with an outmoded view of masculinity that was never substantially replaced as the world got less violent and dire. I would rather fix that. How? I don’t know.

That said, your disgust with the phenomenon does not necessarily make it wholly untrue. Right now we have a bunch of maldeveloped, entitled sex pests with violent ideation who just helped vote in a thousand-year Reich. “Burden” is not the right word for them. Rejected by polite society, they have had no outward outlet for their chauvinism and rage, and so they have turned it inward on the rest of us.

How many American military age men do you think are going to be killed in the next 5-10 years?

I sometimes wonder if this is a mass psychosis of sorts that happens when you have a surplus of military age men. In history how many of these impotents would just be given a spear or a rifle and told to go die for the Emperor/King/Fatherland on some pointless military adventurism? Then they wouldn’t have the time to ruminate and make up their own cause to lash out for. “Women are against you, academia is against you, society itself is against you.”

They wont make it a total free for all, they’ll still want their victims as defenseless as possible. I would not be surprised if gun stores start asking for proof of Party affiliation before any purchase. Courts will say “private business nothing we can do lmao.”

I’ll throw in with the other replies. Everything in this comment is political discourse from 2006. Disagreeing with the opposition’s policy and at most suggesting that they’re dishonest about it.

Right now we’re worried about the GOP and their figurehead bringing about one-party rule and loosing the military on their domestic opposition.

I’d want to wind the clock back too, even if it means having to eye roll at conservative rhetoric like this now and then.

It can sometimes speak to the suspect’s state of mind. A large number of historical firearms neatly displayed in a secured room is different from 2 dozen loaded AR-15s strewn about in every room of the house “in case BLM comes knocking.”

When you get to hundreds of guns it is quite often a situation of compulsive hoarding. Not necessarily criminal, but often careless (as leaving unsecured firearms around is careless), and indicative of mental health issues.

Neighbors describe this specimen as a “January-6-type-guy” and avoided him.

Speaking as someone with his own gun collection, weapon collecting will always be considered eccentric at best. You’re going to have to live with that stigma.

Because if and when we get into a position to deal consequences to these freaks, I don’t want them to be able to say they were just goofy little guys who got in over their head. They may have many bouts of incompetence, but that’s not the core problem.

The problem is that the GOP and the people who make it are, willfully, a traitorous, criminal, and rogue organization that is no longer interested in playing by the rules.

incompetence

It’s malice.

Specifically he murdered POWs, once with a knife, and then threatened to kill any of his team that ratted on him.

He is kind of the poster child of the disdain conservatives have for modern rules of engagement. They still think he was falsely maligned and that he only “did what he had to do.” Of course, that’s why he was pardoned. They need people like him going forward.

I don’t have links handy right now, but take a look at DeSantis’ Florida State Guard.

1. Unlike the National Guard it only answers directly to the Governor of Florida and there is no precedent for the federal government to take command of it.
2. It was publicly billed as a sort of disaster relief agency, but volunteers reported that significant amounts of training time was being dedicated to paramilitary topics like riflery and small unit tactics.
3. There is also a small (30-50 people) QRF, SWAT-like element to this organization, and it got out that they were receiving paramilitary training from a private organization that currently employs convicted war criminal Eddie Gallagher, if you remember that fucker.

I thought that the solution there has always been to bury it in desert bunkers for 10,000 years.

If we’re still around by the time that becomes too cumbersome we are hopefully space-faring and then yeeting it into Jupiter becomes an option.