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Pontius Pilate
Jul 25, 2006

Crucify, Whale, Crucify
Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in Georgia, we shall fight on the facebook and metas, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the airspace, we shall defend our Island of Thought, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on twitter, we shall fight on the landing pages, we shall fight in the youtube and instagram comments, we shall fight in myspace; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Continent or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Trump Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the Good Ones, with all their power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

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Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


That glass of beer at the end of the bar? Thats for the ones who didn’t make it back, the ones who made the ultimate sacrifice on the fields of Twitter or the beaches of Facebook. So many good accounts but it had to be done

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Elea posted:

quote:


I’m part of that control group. Had covid last month. Got through it and we’ll see if I get it again. Some people say yes others no. And during my sickness some people basically figured it’s a death warrant. Now that I’m recovered I feel pretty drat good. Also I have some serious health issues like a cancerous tumor on my liver which I’ve declined therapy. Everyone else that’s gone through cancer therapy that I’ve known has died. That’s about 25 people in total. They said I’d be dead in a year and it’s been 5 years ago.

Well, to be fair, this guy has a good chance to not get covid anymore.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Nov 29, 2021

Captain Log
Oct 2, 2006

Now I am become Borb,
the Destroyer of Seeb
I'm loving the current meltdowns on Fox over Omicron variant covid.

People are managing to say "WHAT ABOUT THE PANDEMIC BEING OVER, CHINA JOE?!" and "I WILL NEVER GET VACCINATED AS THE LORD GOD JESUS ON THE HIGHEST OF HIGH IS MY VACCINE!" in the same comment.

Keyser_Soze
May 5, 2009

Pillbug
Fundy Deplorable shitstains will never die.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Captain Log posted:

I'm loving the current meltdowns on Fox over Omicron variant covid.

People are managing to say "WHAT ABOUT THE PANDEMIC BEING OVER, CHINA JOE?!" and "I WILL NEVER GET VACCINATED AS THE LORD GOD JESUS ON THE HIGHEST OF HIGH IS MY VACCINE!" in the same comment.


The virus is a horrible bio weapon being allowed to destroy our country in the name of communism.

I will never allow the vaccine to be in the same room as I am as It is an affront to god and really I mean how many people die from the flu per year?

Criss crossed narratives are thee funniest loving thing to hear out in the wild.

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
It's always great hearing every right wing media host talk about how the vaccine mandates are unconstitutional and tyrannical, then turn around and complain there's no vaccine mandate for immigrants.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
:umberto:

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin
I had it easy. I was blocked early in the fight. I know guys who had all their sockpuppets blown straight to hell. They'd rereg but AtJack (Or Apple Jack, as our memers would call him) was quick on the trigger. So quick on that trigger.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

*chomp chomp chomp*

Twelve by Pies posted:

It's always great hearing every right wing media host talk about how the vaccine mandates are unconstitutional and tyrannical, then turn around and complain there's no vaccine mandate for immigrants.

I think this is because there are actually a different set of laws (in general) for citizens and non-citizens and these people revel in being closer to the top of the crab bucket. And that's not going into right-wingers not caring or even bothering to think about hypocrisy.

kik2dagroin
Mar 23, 2007

Use the anger. Use it.
Why Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Islamophobic Stunts Won’t Cost Her Politically (leftist writer says with gritted teeth)

quote:

The old days are gone!
The intimidation tactics aren't working anymore.

1 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:22:21 PM by cotton1706
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quote:

To: cotton1706
[911.png]

5 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:27:13 PM by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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quote:

To: BenLurkin
That’s what I think of anytime I see a muslim.


6 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:29:04 PM by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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quote:

To: BenLurkin
Someone did something.


8 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:30:17 PM by SharpRightTurn (Election Fraud Deniers--Won't follow the science, won't follow the law.)
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quote:

To: SharpRightTurn
Someone did something.

Code for “The Jews did it”.


13 posted on 12/3/2021, 7:05:05 PM by rxh4n1
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To: cotton1706
“whose casual closeness with known white nationalists is embarrassing for the party”

You mean consorting with someone who believes in America First and is also (gasp!) white? How dare Boebert and Gosar consider associating with such people.


7 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:29:27 PM by SharpRightTurn (Election Fraud Deniers--Won't follow the science, won't follow the law.)
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To: cotton1706
Paul Gosar and Lauren Boebert are great representatives.


9 posted on 12/3/2021, 6:35:51 PM by EastTexasTraveler
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quote:

To: cotton1706
She’s getting more blowback from the apology than from the original remarks.

And rightly so.


19 posted on 12/3/2021, 7:31:15 PM by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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quote:

To: cotton1706
It is not Islamophobia, it is Islamonausea.


22 posted on 12/3/2021, 7:52:11 PM by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Jagged Jim
Sep 26, 2013

I... I can only look though the window...
Bob Dole, giant of the Senate and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, dies

Holy poo poo, I thought he had died decades ago, he was already old as dirt when he ran for President!

quote:

To: Anti-Bubba182

They never called him a “giant” back then. They called him the same names they called us. He kind of ran against Clinton and then made Viagra commercials. RIP, Bob.

4 posted on 12/05/2021 9:04:56 AM PST by Luke21
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Unfortunately Dole has been deemed to have sufficient adoration of Trump so this is kind of a boring thread.

quote:

To: Anti-Bubba182

He was also a Trump supporter!

6 posted on 12/05/2021 9:07:28 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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quote:

To: Luke21

Not unexpected as the man was almost 100 years old. He lived a full life and served us all well in WW2 as well as the Senate. Also, he was a steadfast Trump supporter in his later years and proudly attended his inauguration despite his advanced age.

Never forget that the Left ridiculed this fine man when he "dared" run against the Predator-in-Chief back in 1996. Dole was never my choice to be on the GOP ticket but he did not deserve the treatment he got either. So all praise now coming from the Democrat side of the fence rings hollow with me.

13 posted on 12/05/2021 9:20:01 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 80 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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Perot! :argh:

quote:

To: SamAdams76

He would have won had the GOP not had that third party person running as well.

16 posted on 12/05/2021 9:33:12 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: napscoordinator

Perot worked for Clinton ...

18 posted on 12/05/2021 9:37:27 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: napscoordinator

I believe he worked for Clinton. Why else would he re-appear in 1996 after going underground for 4 years?

22 posted on 12/05/2021 9:52:33 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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I'm reading this as Norm Macdonald's Bob Dole impersonation on SNL and it's hilarious.

quote:

To: Anti-Bubba182

Bob Dole has died.
Bob Dole lived a wonderful life.
Bob Dole. Bob Dole.

26 posted on 12/05/2021 10:10:45 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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:tinfoil:

quote:

To: bankwalker; napscoordinator

Perot and Clinton both were confections conjured up by the Deep State.

31 posted on 12/05/2021 10:29:53 AM PST by dodger
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Jagged Jim fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Dec 6, 2021

Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



quote:


To: bankwalker; napscoordinator

Perot and Clinton both were confections conjured up by the Deep State.

31 posted on 12/05/2021 10:29:53 AM PST by dodger
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What, like a loving pastry?

Was he gonna loving eclair a bombe threat while wearing a baklava?

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

quote:

He would have won had the GOP not had that third party person running as well.

His platform of "Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others" was pretty popular.

kik2dagroin
Mar 23, 2007

Use the anger. Use it.
If you thought some of them would sympathize with the shooter's parents collect your prize!
Bond set at $500,000 for parents of alleged Oxford High School shooter

quote:

To: madison10
They are not flight risks and they are not dangerous, so a case for high bail or no bail is missing.


29 posted on 12/4/2021, 11:31:40 AM by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: madison10
That’s fair.

They took off and through their lawyer alerted authorities they fled for their safety.

That home could have burned to the ground with them in it.

Can you imagine if your child did this? Took one of your guns and did this?

I’m just not into this parental prosecution until I see more of a negligent link. Guns in the house? NO.

We all have them under the couch, by the door, in the nightstand. Without easy access, self-defense guns are rendered meaningless.


If the parents were blindsided, this is prosecutorial overreach.

Need to see more. Parents should hire Rittenhouse’s defense team.


2 posted on 12/4/2021, 10:33:47 AM by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: hanamizu
I think that there’s a good *civil* case against these people for negligence, just as if their kid ran over someone with their car.

But *criminal* liability for involuntary manslaughter? I’m not seeing it. The idea of involuntary manslaughter is that the accused’s conduct was so egregiously reckless that they knew or should have known the likelihood that their conduct would cause someone to die.

The parents should have taken him home after they saw the notes? Perhaps, but what about the school officials who saw the notes and allowed him to stay? Ultimately, the school made that call, not the parents who weren’t in a position to force the school to allow their kid to stay.

Seems to me that this case boils down to whether merely letting a teen use or have access to firearms is tantamount to recklessness per se. I’m sure that the left would like it to be so, but I think that most Americans would reject that on 2nd amendment grounds.


15 posted on 12/04/2021 10:55:58 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: hanamizu
One media report said that taking him home was an option, but so was leaving him in school.

I would like to see more facts to understand the charges for the crime charged. At a high level, it has the appearance they are being caught up in the emotions to find someone to blame as this kid might be a true mental basket case.
Despite this, many parents would be in shock and denial if called into school and being confronted with such information about killing and blood, etc. Even if they had seen such stuff before elsewhere. It’s similar to people denying their kid has a drug or alcohol addiction.

There was a case in Delaware over 30 years ago where a young man, only child, murdered his parents in their new expensive townhome. At least one of his parents was a psychiatrist who was well known in the state’s profession, may have actually been president of the body governing the state’s profession. Did they not see his son’s mental illness, something they were experts in treating other patients? Or were they in denial for 18 years? Or were they treating him with mind bending drugs? We’ll never know. But if the professionals “couldn’t see it” then, these non-psychiatrist parents cannot be held to a standard that they should have recognized the problem and the law required them to do something after the meeting at the school.

A fact that does not help the parents is that they fled when they knew they had to/agreed to surrender. That is usually interpreted as knowing they did something wrong. I’ll wait to see what facts come out, as the givernment has to prove its case.


22 posted on 12/04/2021 11:14:40 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: hanamizu
Some decades ago I was engaged to a fine woman whose teenage son from her previous marriage had emotional issues. She was a conservative Republican, a gun owner and a NRA member. She also had enough basic common sense to recognize the risk and not leave her guns sitting around where her beloved son could get to them. Maybe the definition of “common sense” has changed since the 80’s? Not sure.


35 posted on 12/04/2021 11:56:53 AM PST by Izzatso
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To: Izzatso
We had a student where I taught who reminds me of the kid in Michigan. His parents gave him access to guns including an AR-15. He was obviously disturbed and suspended several times. If someone was going to shoot up the school, we teachers all figured it would be him. His mother saw absolutely no problem with his having firearms and even defended his right to them. Sheriff was out to their home several times over complaints. Last I heard of him (four or five years ago) he was living in a tent on his parents’ property.


36 posted on 12/04/2021 12:21:05 PM PST by hanamizu
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And if you were wondering what their opinions would be if the perpetrator was black...

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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
The black racist who hated Trump supporters and mowed down and killed white kids in a Christmas parade -- how much is his bail?
59 posted on 12/5/2021, 7:30:05 AM by GOPJ (Black thugs loot Walgreens:"Oh well" - loot Louis Vuitton-liberals'd scream STOP CRIMINALS)
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To: hanamizu
While it might be prosecutorial overreach, the parents cannot say they were ‘blindsided’. The morning of the shooting the school confronted them with their kid’s notes and still refused to take him home with them.
Based on what we have seen in other high profile trials and events it is entirely possible that what the prosecutors have said turns out to be entirely untrue. Think of the Zimmerman or Rittenhouse trials, or the many news reports of MAGA hat wearing attackers who beat up Jesse Smollet.

Even if it is true, the school officials should have acted on the information they had if they really believed the kid was a danger to others. They could have simply sent him home, or called the police, or called an ambulance to have him taken for a psychiatric evaluation. They didn't though, so at the time they must have believed that it was safe to let the kid back into school.

The media and the prosecutor want to blame the parents because the mother tweeted out support for President Trump. Notice how nobody is asking for Darrell Brook's mother to be arrested for not keeping her son away from the car he drove through a parade.

51 posted on 12/4/2021, 2:39:10 PM by freeandfreezing
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VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

quote:

That’s fair.

They took off and through their lawyer alerted authorities they fled for their safety.

Incredible

"The wallet inspector informed me he would return my wallet once he confirmed everything is in order, I'm sure he'd have brought it back soon"

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary

quote:



I’m just not into this parental prosecution until I see more of a negligent link. Guns in the house? NO.

We all have them under the couch, by the door, in the nightstand. Without easy access, self-defense guns are rendered meaningless.


2 posted on 12/4/2021, 10:33:47 AM by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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This is... Um... Catastrophically unsafe :stare:

Captain Log
Oct 2, 2006

Now I am become Borb,
the Destroyer of Seeb

DarklyDreaming posted:

This is... Um... Catastrophically unsafe :stare:

Yes. Yes it is.

A firearm can be "ready for self defense" without being literally shoved under a couch or some bullshit like this.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

quote:

They are not flight risks and they are not dangerous,

They literally ran from the police the moment they heard they were being charged and are currently most well known for leaving a gun laying around that was then used in a mass shooting.

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Scratch Monkey posted:

They literally ran from the police the moment they heard they were being charged and are currently most well known for leaving a gun laying around that was then used in a mass shooting.

"laying around"/"bought it for the kid and encouraged him to get ammo"
"tomato/tomahto"

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

Captain Log posted:

Yes. Yes it is.

A firearm can be "ready for self defense" without being literally shoved under a couch or some bullshit like this.

Not according to right wing gun nuts.

The NRA used to be about gun safety and "You should lock up your guns" was pretty well accepted as being responsible and safe, but when they pivoted to "You need ALL THE GUNS to protect yourself from the [thugs] that are out to rob your house and kill you in your bedroom!" that went out the window. Now the talking point is that it's unsafe to keep your guns locked up and unloaded because what if people break into your house and rush into your bedroom to murder you? You can't be fumbling with the combination to a gun safe or trying to find the keys to unlock the trigger or going to get your ammo case, that just results in your entire family dying! You have to have loaded guns right next to you and ready to fire so you can wake up, roll over and immediately grab it and start blasting!

gently caress, now I'm remembering that gif of the bed with the headboard where the guy is lying in bed, reaches up and a rifle or shotgun falls down and he grabs it.

SwingShift
Apr 27, 2013

Scratch Monkey posted:

They literally ran from the police the moment they heard they were being charged and are currently most well known for leaving a gun laying around that was then used in a mass shooting.

These extremely damning details are certainly not being reported on the "media outlets" these people watch, meaning they only hear of them when the lying leftist media reports them and we all know Those People can't be trusted to tell the truth about responsible gun owners (tm). Or it's a very garbled version - of course those god fearing people ran for the hills for their safety! They told their lawyer so! The fact that they then did not return and had to be hunted down and were found hiding in a warehouse somewhere won't even reach their ears.

Captain Log
Oct 2, 2006

Now I am become Borb,
the Destroyer of Seeb

Twelve by Pies posted:

Not according to right wing gun nuts.

The NRA used to be about gun safety and "You should lock up your guns" was pretty well accepted as being responsible and safe, but when they pivoted to "You need ALL THE GUNS to protect yourself from the [thugs] that are out to rob your house and kill you in your bedroom!" that went out the window. Now the talking point is that it's unsafe to keep your guns locked up and unloaded because what if people break into your house and rush into your bedroom to murder you? You can't be fumbling with the combination to a gun safe or trying to find the keys to unlock the trigger or going to get your ammo case, that just results in your entire family dying! You have to have loaded guns right next to you and ready to fire so you can wake up, roll over and immediately grab it and start blasting!

gently caress, now I'm remembering that gif of the bed with the headboard where the guy is lying in bed, reaches up and a rifle or shotgun falls down and he grabs it.

I'm a leftist and pretty active in firearms, having been active in shooting for a literal thirty years. In a place like TFR, the NRA is loving loathed. They are a cancer on gun ownership, being nothing more than a tap dancing alt-right mob wearing Yosemite Sam masks.

It's just ridiculous to have anyone try and justify keeping a loaded firearm laying out in the open, where any child or visitor to your home could potentially kill someone. Mostly because it's patently untrue, lazy, and gets people killed.

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

Captain Log posted:

I'm a leftist and pretty active in firearms, having been active in shooting for a literal thirty years. In a place like TFR, the NRA is loving loathed. They are a cancer on gun ownership, being nothing more than a tap dancing alt-right mob wearing Yosemite Sam masks.

It's just ridiculous to have anyone try and justify keeping a loaded firearm laying out in the open, where any child or visitor to your home could potentially kill someone. Mostly because it's patently untrue, lazy, and gets people killed.

For a while on facebook I had some pro NRA friends who would repost these "armed citizen alerts" which were supposedly cases of "good guys with guns" driving out thugs and murderers. There were constantly tales of grandmas with a gun having their house assaulted by a gang of thugs (black) who were going to rob/kill/rape them but by successfully brandishing and or firing their weapons indiscriminately at the door they were constantly able to "defend themselves".

They were laughably obviously untrue, and if that level of violent crime was occurring all the time we'd be living in RoboCop era Detroit, but people obviously believed them.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

As well fumbling for their gun while half asleep and firing wildly into the darkness is how their kid coming home from college unannounced or their wife coming back to bed from taking a piss gets killed

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-husband-fatally-shoots-pregnant-wife-thinking-she-was-intruder-n1246651

Keyser_Soze
May 5, 2009

Pillbug
It makes more sense to just update the security on every entrance to your house including lots of lighting, steel framed doors, and cameras over hiding guns all over your house like a deranged squirrel.

are there Claymore mines with Fentanyl gas available yet?

Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Dec 6, 2021

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin
Insurance covers property. Let it go.

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

pseudanonymous posted:

For a while on facebook I had some pro NRA friends who would repost these "armed citizen alerts" which were supposedly cases of "good guys with guns" driving out thugs and murderers. There were constantly tales of grandmas with a gun having their house assaulted by a gang of thugs (black) who were going to rob/kill/rape them but by successfully brandishing and or firing their weapons indiscriminately at the door they were constantly able to "defend themselves".

They were laughably obviously untrue, and if that level of violent crime was occurring all the time we'd be living in RoboCop era Detroit, but people obviously believed them.

That kind of poo poo is to blame for things like that person whose car broke down and they went to a house to ask to use the phone, only to get murdered at the front door.

HootTheOwl posted:

Insurance covers property. Let it go.

Despite claiming to be members of a religion that very explicitly says "Materialism is bad" (Jesus straight up says "Don't care about things on earth, they're temporary, you should only care about things in Heaven) the US is insanely materialistic and stealing someone's property is to many people the same as injuring or killing them. Which is why they believe that death is an appropriate punishment for theft.

Captain Log
Oct 2, 2006

Now I am become Borb,
the Destroyer of Seeb

Keyser_Soze posted:

It makes more sense to just update the security on every entrance to your house including lots of lighting, steel framed doors, and cameras over hiding guns all over your house like a deranged squirrel.

ryde
Sep 9, 2011

God I love young girls

Twelve by Pies posted:

You can't be fumbling with the combination to a gun safe or trying to find the keys to unlock the trigger or going to get your ammo case, that just results in your entire family dying! You have to have loaded guns right next to you and ready to fire so you can wake up, roll over and immediately grab it and start blasting!

I'm actually not sure what the dumbest part of the home defense narrative is (if you have a matter of seconds to get your gun you're probably hosed anyway), but they do make fast-open gun safes. A relative of mine has the whole home defense thing but they got a safe that will open with a fingerprint scan.

Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



I will always chuckle at these dumb fucks that live in East Bumblefuck, Montana, cowering against the urban ferals that stalk the night like loving werewolves, when I lived most of my 20’s in a totally busted-rear end part of East Harlem and while the apartment was awful the people were great. Everyone called me “the white guy” and I’d do bullshit handyman things while little old ladies gave me temales. It owned and was really cool.

Safety Dance
Sep 10, 2007

Five degrees to starboard!

ryde posted:

I'm actually not sure what the dumbest part of the home defense narrative is (if you have a matter of seconds to get your gun you're probably hosed anyway), but they do make fast-open gun safes. A relative of mine has the whole home defense thing but they got a safe that will open with a fingerprint scan.

Often times, these fast-open safes fall short on security essentials and fail the "curious teenager" test, per the Lockpicking Lawyer (on youtube).

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

Safety Dance posted:

Often times, these fast-open safes fall short on security essentials and fail the "curious teenager" test, per the Lockpicking Lawyer (on youtube).

can you link to that video? I have teenagers and I'm curious (hur) if my safe would fail

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary

Safety Dance posted:

Often times, these fast-open safes fall short on security essentials and fail the "curious teenager" test, per the Lockpicking Lawyer (on youtube).

If there's one thing I've learned from the Lockpicking Lawyer it's that the more "High tech" The lock, the easier it is to break in with a simple screwdriver

Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



Scratch Monkey posted:

can you link to that video? I have teenagers and I'm curious (hur) if my safe would fail

"Curious adolescent" is pretty much LPL's standard of scrutiny for locks he reviews. If you follow any of the links below, your recommendations should fill with his other gun locks and you can spend an hour or so watching the guy make fools of tons of gun locks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UB9j-P6JSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82WX4sJBcs

The guy is also kinda nice if you just wanna zone out to a soothing voice. The one below is actually a good review on an AR-15 lock from him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9w_QknjTe0

Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



God I have spent so much time destressing with those videos. Yes please man with the calming voice, I would love nothing more than to hear you soothingly discuss how orderly mechanisms work.

kik2dagroin
Mar 23, 2007

Use the anger. Use it.
Gab Is Not For Sale
This is an official press release from gab and it's pretty nuts.

gab.com posted:

There were two big announcements in the alternative technology space this week that solidified Gab’s place in the market as a multi-billion dollar business.

It’s being reported that the gang of grifters around former President Trump are looking to raise $1 billion dollars from a bunch of satanic hedge funds for a project that failed to even launch into beta testing as promised in November and was hacked within hours of being announced.

This is a project with currently no public product, no users, and no revenue that is now worth $4 billion dollars “just because.” Perhaps their business model will involve selling covid vaccines to kids or something, who knows.

The stock is currently trading on pure speculation. The vast majority of that trading is coming from President Trump’s main street supporters, the good and decent hardworking Americans who are buying the stock in anticipation of it going even higher if and when a service ever actually launches.

I truly hope and pray that the Wall Street short sellers and hedge funds don’t screw these good people over like they always do, but it appears that Trump Media itself is already doing so with this new billion dollar deal which is reportedly going to massively dilute existing investors. The SEC is now investigating.

"Trump Media is now looking to secure a so-called private investment in public equity (PIPE) that would value Digital World shares closer to their recent price, currently hovering around $40, the sources said. It is a departure from most PIPE deals, which are typically done at $10 per share, and would result in a much greater dilution of existing Digital World investors."
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Defending free speech at all costs, even at the cost of Trump joining Gab, is why Gab is the number one alternative technology platform on the internet and growing fast. While we have specialized in free speech for five years now, free markets inevitably develop anywhere that free speech is protected. That’s exactly what is happening on Gab right now with our vision for a Parallel Christian Economy.
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Gab could very easily do exactly what Trump and Rumble are doing and go to Wall Street and raise billions. Many of the same investment bankers, venture capitalists, and hedge funds who are working with Truth Social and Rumble have already gotten wind of Gab’s recent growth and have been reaching out to us in droves. We politely reply telling them to go pound sand. I have no interest in dealing with these people or taking their money because when you raise billions from the Beast, the Beast owns and controls you for life. I am a free man and I intend to keep it that way.

Gab is the only platform on the internet where true free speech lives and no amount of money is worth giving that up. God has always provided more than enough for us to meet our needs and continue to grow. I have faith that He will continue to do so without the need for Wall Street blood money.

Money isn’t interesting to me, free speech is.

This isn’t about money, it’s about the future for my children and yours.


It’s about reclaiming our country and protecting our home.

It’s about getting access to information that the Regime doesn’t want you to access.

Most importantly it’s about the ability for Christians to authentically practice our faith in Jesus Christ without being attacked, smeared, censored, and systematically destroyed for doing so.
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gab.com posted:

... Gab’s place in the market as a multi-billion dollar business ...
:lol: that someone wrote that.

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
As time wears on, I become more tired of the incessant messages and emails asking me to donate to Trump and those he has endorsed.

An alternative social media site would be nice, but since deleting my accounts at Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, life is better.


3 posted on 12/6/2021, 7:33:42 PM by datura (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny.)
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But that would be the end of gab.com :monocle:

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
POTUS Trump should use his investors for a hostile takeover of Gab.


4 posted on 12/6/2021, 7:34:15 PM by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Just close it.Let’s pick up with trumps site if it’s going to be any good.


9 posted on 12/6/2021, 7:51:32 PM by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Deaf Smith
Gab is flawed. Trump needs to make his own.


10 posted on 12/6/2021, 7:52:51 PM by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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Group of Somali's Break into Apartment in Minneapolis and Beat Two Women
Source: twitter

quote:

To: shadowlands1960
The backstory is we let a bunch of 65 IQ pedophile worshippers into our country.

L


2 posted on 12/6/2021, 8:00:07 PM by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker
And how’s that cultural enrichment coming along?


5 posted on 12/6/2021, 8:05:35 PM by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: shadowlands1960
Quick, attend the main priority, find a way to blame Whites.


8 posted on 12/6/2021, 8:09:05 PM by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: shadowlands1960
islam is a scourge upon the Earth and must be expunged.


16 posted on 12/6/2021, 8:26:59 PM by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: shadowlands1960
That’s the way they are. They love to go to restaurants in MN in groups of 20 to dine and dash


18 posted on 12/6/2021, 8:28:11 PM by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your vocabulary, it all begins to make sense)
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To: shadowlands1960
Thanks George H. W. Bush. If he had not sent the U.S. military into that sh*thole called Somalia in December 1992 we would not have those people in our country.


22 posted on 12/6/2021, 8:31:53 PM by forgotten man
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To: shadowlands1960
Good for them! The People are getting what they voted for in 2020.


19 posted on 12/6/2021, 8:28:35 PM by sport
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J.A.B.C.
Jul 2, 2007

There's no need to rush to be an adult.


Twelve by Pies posted:

Not according to right wing gun nuts.

The NRA used to be about gun safety and "You should lock up your guns" was pretty well accepted as being responsible and safe, but when they pivoted to "You need ALL THE GUNS to protect yourself from the [thugs] that are out to rob your house and kill you in your bedroom!" that went out the window. Now the talking point is that it's unsafe to keep your guns locked up and unloaded because what if people break into your house and rush into your bedroom to murder you? You can't be fumbling with the combination to a gun safe or trying to find the keys to unlock the trigger or going to get your ammo case, that just results in your entire family dying! You have to have loaded guns right next to you and ready to fire so you can wake up, roll over and immediately grab it and start blasting!

gently caress, now I'm remembering that gif of the bed with the headboard where the guy is lying in bed, reaches up and a rifle or shotgun falls down and he grabs it.

You can hear the message change in 1999 after Columbine left the NRA scrambling. And it has it all: calling their supporters rubes and suckers, deflecting blame, trying to cover their asses to keep up profits. Everything we know and loathe about the modern NRA.

Every single one of these ghouls deserves to die alone and destitute, with a yearly celebration to piss on their graves.

Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



J.A.B.C. posted:

You can hear the message change in 1999 after Columbine left the NRA scrambling. And it has it all: calling their supporters rubes and suckers, deflecting blame, trying to cover their asses to keep up profits. Everything we know and loathe about the modern NRA.

Every single one of these ghouls deserves to die alone and destitute, with a yearly celebration to piss on their graves.

The thing for me is that I can't actually remember a time when the NRA wasn't primarily a right-wing propaganda group/astroturfing operation. I expect there was a time when they were actually a responsible and useful advocacy group that did pro-social things like encourage firearms safety and such. I just don't know when that was.

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Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Warmachine posted:

The thing for me is that I can't actually remember a time when the NRA wasn't primarily a right-wing propaganda group/astroturfing operation. I expect there was a time when they were actually a responsible and useful advocacy group that did pro-social things like encourage firearms safety and such. I just don't know when that was.

Gun nuts took over in the 80s with the help of the firearms industry. It did, legitimately, used to be a good organization that promotes safety and responsible ownership, but that was almost 50 years ago.

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