Moose don’t fuck around. They’re dumb as shit and territorial. They kill more people than grizzlies IIRC.

1. The older crowd of gun enthusiasts is the “there wasn’t no autism back in my day” type and are probably cheering this on.
2. It’s hard to be specific here, but the computer age changed a lot. A 20-30 year old gun enthusiast is generally going to be quite different in motivations and outlook from a 50-60 year old.
3. It’s generally just harder to pin down autism in older folk. They’ve had a lifetime to adjust, and probably without any support. Are they autistic, or just retired and they have a hobby?

Whenever and wherever “settlers” are publicly lashing out with violence, the IDF is on standby to immediately destroy any Palestinian resistance to their provocation.

The younger crowd of “gun nuts” can be autistic AF. No doubt guns and how they’re used can be a special interest like any other.

I’m pretty sure competent militaries store their munitions in networks of dozens if not hundreds of earthen bunkers per site, specifically so shit like this can’t happen.

264 kilotons is a fuckload of bombs.

Announcements like this are the equivalent of police saying “everybody remain calm!”

They are the institution. It’s not like they’re ever going to say “Yeah, shit’s fucked, guys. Pull all your money out and invest in canned goods and ammunition.”

There isn’t going to be another government or another free election until the current regime is put to the sword.

Many if not all school districts in the States have their funding tied to their performance, so there is a negative incentive to make grades look good. My elementary school tried to place me in their Special Ed program because my grades would have brought the average up there.

Plus, holding back 60, 70, 80% of an entire class just isn’t logistically feasible in most cases.

The internet has made it quite easy for kids to develop an “inner life” that their parents have little to no awareness of, regardless of how attentive they are, though it’s obviously worse if they are not.

Every teacher I hear from (US) these days basically says the newest generation coming up is completely screwed. Unreal levels of behavioral issues that are not being addressed at home. Complete lack of engagement with the lesson plan, unfinished assignments all over. They need to curve grades left and right just to get the majority of the class to pass. The parents are more emboldened than ever to make the teachers’ lives hell over things they know nothing about and refuse to take responsibility for.

It’s easy to brush it off as the standard generational nose-thumbing…but this seems different. Something is really breaking down and I think social media is at the center of it.

I would think drifting runs the odometer higher because your wheels are spinning like in a burnout while moving a comparatively short distance.

Remember that foreign agitators, above any political slant, would prefer that the US be unstable and collapsing upon itself. They will play any and conflicting sides to this end. I have to remember that every time a 1-week old account claiming to be a Brit or Canadian tries shaming Americans into buying a rifle and shooting federal agents right fucking now.

SIG 556-SWAT, a US-made iteration of the SIG 550 series that is out of production now.

1936 Olympics were held in Berlin, when the Nazi party held power. I hope this gains traction, but the IOC are not the most moral characters out there.

The fear of surveillance is as powerful a weapon against you as surveillance itself. You can’t let it paralyze you into inaction. If you are taking steps to resist with arms, you will have to come to terms with the fact that sooner or later you will be identified and become a fugitive. There is a massive gap in law enforcement effort between being identified and being captured/eliminated.

Right now you can buy quality, self-loading firearms with a driver’s license (in most states). You can have thousands of rounds of ammunition shipped to your doorstep (in most states). Neither is going to flag you as a terrorist and have you instantly arrested, because many thousands of Americans do this every single day. You’d be a fool to not take advantage of this.

Violent revolutionaries and their tools are only important during The Revolution. After that they are a liability and source of instability for the new regime, and often they are disposed of because of this. Any revolutionary leader who says you get to keep your guns into perpetuity is either naive, or lying to you.

A less radical way to put it: Allowing a legal mechanism for people to wage an armed insurrection against their state isn’t freedom, it’s insanity.

The same people made a 500-cigarette version because of that Orville meme.

I’m afraid replacement parts may not merely go up in price, but many could simply disappear from the American market. Higher prices quash demand, and importers may make the strategic decision to stop delivering less popular secondary SKUs if it doesn’t make financial sense.

one of their in-house artists, or a furry artist

Probably one and the same.

The front-facing pundits, maybe. On the ground, if you strip away the MAGA cult there is some understanding that the wealthy are fucking over everyone else, even if the conclusions drawn from that are confused and distorted. And it’s not like we’re talking about pacifists disgusted by violence here. “Rich Men North of Richmond” didn’t come from nowhere.