I remember reading somewhere that the Third Reich was pervasively cooking the books and scamming their own financial sector to support their war and genocide, basically from beginning to end.

The secret police will find the money.

Seems like a signal jammer is something someone would want if they wanted to fight back against an occupying force that heavily relies on radio communication.

The Duttons are the kinds of people who would buy up this land and brandish guns to keep people off of it. Just cause there’s bigger fish doesn’t mean they don’t eat smaller fish.

The land will get sold by the thousand acre parcel to oil, mineral, and lumber interests to be ruined. “Affordable housing” my ass.

For everyone’s awareness, Congress hasn’t voted on a Declaration of War since 1942. Every single conflict we’ve been involved in since WWII has been initiated by some sort of executive fiat, with Congress claiming authority over war through “appropriations and oversight.” This particular issue has been fucked for decades.

Typically that is a customer-provider relationship, and ideally (but probably not in reality) that relationship is tightly regulated. At best this move is a breach of ethics.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power

-Benito Mussolini, some dude who probably knew something about fascism

Is this what happens when you’re going to Lose the baby?

It could be operator negligence, but it would not surprise me if a Chinese handgun had problems with “uncommanded discharges.” Now SIG doesn’t have to be alone!

I think the motivation is racism, but few are going to admit that in an interview or questionnaire.

I think people should stop trying to rehabilitate the image of these assholes. They’re bad people who need to be held accountable for their decisions, all of them.

“Because once we have that power, we’ll use it on you if you speak out.”

I think basically everyone except North Korea is. Anyone who allows goods and people to move through their borders with any level of freedom can theoretically get attacked like Russia did.

For the record, this should always be the assumption if you have an interaction with ICE and are allowed to walk away. They’re not going to just forget about you. Prepare accordingly.

Which is probably why .ml is unhappy about it.

We need to bring back the 1800s practice of our elected officials actually throwing hands and beating each other senseless with canes, none of this euphemism crap.

The audacity itself is a destabilizing action. Kind of like how Putin has hinted in public statements that he helped rig the 2016 elections and that he and Trump have close ties. He wants to break down trust in our system from all sides, not just one.

Toof

MAGA vs. hawks AIPAC plants

Regarding the thumbnail, I figured procedure would be to remove your sidearms while on riot detail, being as you’re getting within melee distance with multiple people at once, thereby risking it being snatched. It’s more of a liability in that context, prison wardens do the same thing.

I guess asking a beat cop to give up his emotional support pistol is a nonstarter.

To be clear, the Pentagon has dusty filing cabinets full of playbooks and wargaming scenarios ranging from plausible to outrageous that various think tanks have cooked up over the years. There is almost certainly a plan to fight an extraterrestrial invasion. I recall one being made about a zombie outbreak during that pop culture craze. We’ve had plans to invade Canada and Mexico wholesale for decades at least. Their existence doesn’t inherently mean that anyone at the Pentagon takes the possibility of the scenario seriously. They’re thought exercises as much as they are preparation for the unlikely.