Finally, one might say.

Remember when she chased down an underage survivor of the Parkland shooting and harassed him insinuating he was a crisis actor?

Fuck her, she’s garbage. Make her miserable.

Probably the State Department on both accounts? But that’s assuming this deal is being made by a respectable administration and not an organised crime syndicate pretending to be one.

Biden trying to pad his “legacy” like he’s not the James Buchanan of the modern era.

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.

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.

They do this literally all the time, not to normalize the idea, but to desensitize you to the accusation. That way, when they do something that is actually fascist, like calling up the Kansas National Guard under the Insurrection Act to go door-kicking in Chicago for illegal immigrants, your brain enters a thought-terminating state of “nothing-burger, both sides, etc.”

Example, they liked to use the word “insurrection” a lot about anything Democrats did following J6.

If the only families pumping out kids are Christian crackpots, that’s a win for them. They want to out-breed you.

This is kind of where I’m at. I don’t imagine any amount of cash in a bank account is going to prepare us for what’s to come. Even if you could put money aside, the money you typically put towards retirement might just be better off towards becoming a doomsday prepper. Probably wouldn’t save you either way, but it may buy you a little time that you wouldn’t have otherwise.

Like others have said, I imagine my “retirement” as bearing witness to the collapse of modern society and ultimately dying in some lousy brawl with other desperate refugees, or by some untreated bacterial infection.

It should be legal to target state-sponsored shills with malware, especially the kind that bricks hardware.

This country will break before anything meaningful happens, just like with chattel slavery.

1. That’s why they reference the Insurrection Act. Whether the current situation meets the criteria laid out does not matter to them.
2. It should be obvious by now that words on the books do not stop fascists. They intend to stack public institution far and deep with party loyalists so that nobody can say “no” to their will…legally, anyway.

I could be considered a gun nut myself but I will not pretend that this behavior is some abnormal outlier. There are plenty, plenty of American gun owners who think like this man does, they just haven’t had the opportunity for their malformed amygdala to get someone killed.

You mention Rittenhouse but he’s a gun culture hero. Zimmerman and the like, all heroes. People who get to use their gun to lay down the law like the Earp posse are generally seen as heroes when they don’t completely fuck up like this guy, they’re not shunned as short-sighted and reckless.

In the conservative household children do not have agency. They are simply the father’s progeny, and are expected to carry on their ideals and generally act in ways that please them.

I feel like this should have been released closer to tax season? Now the big filers will have 10 months to strategize and try to sabotage the use of this service before it hits their bottom line.

Backwoods small town yee-yee crap.

I’ve often wondered how many bodies are buried out in the sticks that never get found because the locals, including the local sheriff’s office, all cover for each other.