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Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

Sophy Wackles posted:

I’m confused OP. You posted an article that literally says the attack wasn’t related to a drag show then called for GBS goons to what, arm themselves and start killing people?

:killing:




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Haptical Sales Slut
Mar 15, 2010

Age 18 to 49

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:

this thread is the GED version of cspam

I’ve found my people

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Strategic Tea posted:

Is there any evidence of this?

More likely they're thoroughly compromised and stacked with right wing terrorist sympathisers, as reported by that one senior officer recently. Whoever gives out clearances sleeping at the wheel (again).

There is no evidence that the rightwingers running the cops share a command structure with the rightwingers shooting up preschools cause 8kun told them teachers cause chemtrails, even if they're frequently willing to play lookout and stop anyone interfering with the latter before they finish the job.

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Dec 6, 2022

Coasterphreak
May 29, 2007
I like cookies.

Archer666 posted:

Maybe they just didn't want the show to drag on for too long

This was a good joke

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:

this thread is the GED version of cspam


also did they ever find out who did the shooting what with the power lines

please don't compare normal people to cspam

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

Ups_rail posted:

I have a honest question should americans own guns?

like should we let the police protect us?

Or should we protect ourselves from our enemies who also have guns?

No.

No.

The population can't have guns, that's been proven.

Pigs can't have guns, that's been proven.

Like, if we're having a serious conversation about fixing the country, neither the right to bear arms nor the militarized police state can remain.


The fact that the idea of getting rid of either is outlandish is in itself loving outlandish.

Our "democracy" has been engineered for everlasting gridlock and sustained levels of misery. The only way to fix any of it is to take down all of it, which will never happen.

Flowers for QAnon
May 20, 2019

kntfkr posted:

No.

No.

The population can't have guns, that's been proven.

Pigs can't have guns, that's been proven.

Like, if we're having a serious conversation about fixing the country, neither the right to bear arms nor the militarized police state can remain.


The fact that the idea of getting rid of either is outlandish is in itself loving outlandish.

Our "democracy" has been engineered for everlasting gridlock and sustained levels of misery. The only way to fix any of it is to take down all of it, which will never happen.

Total agreement

PITY BONER
Oct 18, 2021

Hazo posted:

I work in infrastructure protection and there's a big conference a couple counties over in Charlotte this week so I'm looking forward to hearing a lot more about this from the fellas at Duke Energy
Is there any push to protect the US power grid against solar flares / EMP blasts?

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

Yeah Im working on it gimme a few

The Butcher
Apr 20, 2005

Well, at least we tried.
Nap Ghost

Dandywalken posted:

Yeah Im working on it gimme a few

I'll come down to the site with a wrench, and we can stare at the problem for awhile.

Mr. Crow
May 22, 2008

Snap City mayor for life
Still waitin on social media brags to be shared op

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Sorry it was me, I shot up the power station because I was about to lose a Tekken match

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Sorry it was me, I shot up the power station because I was about to lose a Tekken match

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

PITY BONER posted:

Is there any push to protect the US power grid against solar flares / EMP blasts?

Grid hardening

B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:

Ups_rail posted:

I have a honest question should americans own guns?

like should we let the police protect us?

Or should we protect ourselves from our enemies who also have guns?

I have a side business teaching firearm safety to marginalized indoviduals that the police won't actually protect so yeah we should have guns. And by side business I mean I just ask they pay some money for ammo and I teach them for free since poo poo is getting worse if you aren't a straight white male

Punkinhead
Apr 2, 2015

B-Rock452 posted:

I have a side business teaching firearm safety to marginalized indoviduals that the police won't actually protect so yeah we should have guns. And by side business I mean I just ask they pay some money for ammo and I teach them for free since poo poo is getting worse if you aren't a straight white male

My partner is jewish and took a client at work back to their office. As soon as the door was closed the client removed a ring from his hand and placed it on my partners desk facing them, it was a totenkopf. A Nazi deaths head. He said "It's a shame my ancestors didn't finish the job" and made lots of threatening implications. Partners boss said he's too valuable of a client to lose. And what will the police do? Nothing, no crime was committed.

On top of that we are both trans. No, I will not be the first to give up my pistol and anyone suggesting I'm immoral for that can suck every last piece of fiber from my rear end in a top hat. I'm not that privileged, I can't afford to do that.

B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:

PinheadSlim posted:

My partner is jewish and took a client at work back to their office. As soon as the door was closed the client removed a ring from his hand and placed it on my partners desk facing them, it was a totenkopf. A Nazi deaths head. He said "It's a shame my ancestors didn't finish the job" and made lots of threatening implications. Partners boss said he's too valuable of a client to lose. And what will the police do? Nothing, no crime was committed.

On top of that we are both trans. No, I will not be the first to give up my pistol and anyone suggesting I'm immoral for that can suck every last piece of fiber from my rear end in a top hat. I'm not that privileged, I can't afford to do that.

gently caress that's awful. Yeah the stories I hear from people are just absolutely heartbreaking, like they can't go to the store without being afraid of harassment or worse. And I know several people that have been assaulted. One of my good friends and his husband were attacked outside a gay bar in Philly and the only reason they weren't severely injured or worse was he had a gun on him and was able to draw and "reholster it in the main attackers eye" (his words) to create distance and he was able to get the guys who were pummeling his husband off at gunpoint.

And this was literally in the loving gayborhood which is supposed to be a safe space

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler
I thought about getting a gun for protection but I have mental health issues that make it a really bad idea

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

PinheadSlim posted:

My partner is jewish and took a client at work back to their office. As soon as the door was closed the client removed a ring from his hand and placed it on my partners desk facing them, it was a totenkopf. A Nazi deaths head. He said "It's a shame my ancestors didn't finish the job" and made lots of threatening implications. Partners boss said he's too valuable of a client to lose. And what will the police do? Nothing, no crime was committed.

On top of that we are both trans. No, I will not be the first to give up my pistol and anyone suggesting I'm immoral for that can suck every last piece of fiber from my rear end in a top hat. I'm not that privileged, I can't afford to do that.

:hai:

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

There is no evidence that the rightwingers running the cops share a command structure with the rightwingers shooting up preschools cause 8kun told them teachers cause chemtrails, even if they're frequently willing to play lookout and stop anyone interfering with the latter before they finish the job.

What I'm not sold on is that the FBI deliberately allows terrorist attacks to occur as a plot to get themselves granted more powers.

I think that's specific enough to need more than a vague line of second best fit plausibility. One of their people has come on national media and all but stated it's because they're stacked with terrorist sympathisers who are dragging their feet.

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Mr. Crow posted:

Still waitin on social media brags to be shared op

Yeah, the op stated that people were bragging about it.

So who did it?

DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde

PITY BONER posted:

Is there any push to protect the US power grid against solar flares / EMP blasts?

Western governments can't deal with current existential threats like covid, climate change, or domestic terrorism.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Actually the point of the government is smooth transfer of wealth from the population to tax exempt transnational corporations

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

DickParasite posted:

Western governments can't deal with current existential threats like covid, climate change, or domestic terrorism.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
Has anyone blamed Russia for this yet?

Regardless the solution is obvious. We have to vote harder in 2024.

Also lmao at the goon who suggest armed counter protests. If they ever took off the cops would come to crack down on the protesters and it wouldn’t be the chuds they were cracking down on. If 2020 didn’t destroy any hope of nonviolent protests for leftist movements panning out in America then you weren’t watching.

OP if you want a real response on what to do just keep your head down and focus on enjoying your own life in what ways you can because getting involved in any sort of grass roots struggle at this point is just a waste of time at best and at worst a way to get assaulted by police officers and end up with a criminal record.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



ArbitraryC posted:

Has anyone blamed Russia for this yet?

Regardless the solution is obvious. We have to vote harder in 2024.

Also lmao at the goon who suggest armed counter protests. If they ever took off the cops would come to crack down on the protesters and it wouldn’t be the chuds they were cracking down on. If 2020 didn’t destroy any hope of nonviolent protests for leftist movements panning out in America then you weren’t watching.

OP if you want a real response on what to do just keep your head down and focus on enjoying your own life in what ways you can because getting involved in any sort of grass roots struggle at this point is just a waste of time at best and at worst a way to get assaulted by police officers and end up with a criminal record.

Yes, nihilistic defeatism is clearly the best play here. Well done. :golfclap:

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Yes, nihilistic defeatism is clearly the best play here. Well done. :golfclap:

Honestly I think it is because as long as people keep thinking it’s possible to improve this country by working with/in the system we’re just going to continue our slow downward spiral.

Maybe enough people acknowledging things are broken beyond repair would be the rock bottom we hit before things started getting better. Otherwise you just end up dissonant poo poo like metoo movements supporting a rapist president with their sex trafficking son or a democratic socialist party that votes for union busting.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


the only way to change law enforcement is from within. we just all have to become cops.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

flubber nuts posted:

the only way to change law enforcement is from within. we just all have to become cops.

:hmmyes:

Someone take the proverbial bullet and then you can deputize everyone into the only strong union :madmax:

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



ArbitraryC posted:

Honestly I think it is because as long as people keep thinking it’s possible to improve this country by working with/in the system we’re just going to continue our slow downward spiral.

Maybe enough people acknowledging things are broken beyond repair would be the rock bottom we hit before things started getting better. Otherwise you just end up dissonant poo poo like metoo movements supporting a rapist president with their sex trafficking son or a democratic socialist party that votes for union busting.

I know it's old hat at this point, but you do see how this meme is practically obligatory at this point, right?

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

ArbitraryC posted:

Maybe enough people acknowledging things are broken beyond repair would be the rock bottom we hit before things started getting better.

Yeah. That's exactly the problem with people like you. You recognize this.... but then give up and spew your apathetic poo poo to everyone else and convince them to do nothing.

You want an armed insurrection? Is that the only way to solve this? What, exactly (and please be concise), is your plan to fix this?

I despise people who have given up on this country. Does it suck and is it horrible and maybe there's nothing we can do about it? Yeah, maybe. But you're doing much more harm by telling people that there is nothing to be done. Just accept it and take it and everything is terrible.

You're the reason why it is getting worse and you can go gently caress yourself by standing by and whining but not doing anything.

Shut the gently caress up.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
Vote harder in 2 years you’ll get em next time champ.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:

ArbitraryC posted:

Has anyone blamed Russia for this yet?

Regardless the solution is obvious. We have to vote harder in 2024.

Also lmao at the goon who suggest armed counter protests. If they ever took off the cops would come to crack down on the protesters and it wouldn’t be the chuds they were cracking down on. If 2020 didn’t destroy any hope of nonviolent protests for leftist movements panning out in America then you weren’t watching.

OP if you want a real response on what to do just keep your head down and focus on enjoying your own life in what ways you can because getting involved in any sort of grass roots struggle at this point is just a waste of time at best and at worst a way to get assaulted by police officers and end up with a criminal record.
Armed counter protests work. They have consistently. Look at the recent one Austin, bunch of counter protesters with ARs showed up and suddenly the proud boys weren't so loving tough. And the event went on and people got to be themselves and it was good.

This is why Colorado springs was such a pivotal moment. It not only showed a lot of cowards on the right that we will loving fight back but more importantly it showed a lot of people in the community that they are capable of fighting back. The endearing image of that horrible moment is a trans woman in heals stomping on the face of a facist piece of poo poo

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

ArbitraryC posted:

Vote harder in 2 years you’ll get em next time champ.

Thanks for the tip!

Now what's your plan?

You sound exactly like a sitting GOP congressman who bitches and bitches and bitches and bitches and bitches and bitches and bitches and bitches..... but you have no plan.

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

ArbitraryC posted:

Honestly I think it is because as long as people keep thinking it’s possible to improve this country by working with/in the system we’re just going to continue our slow downward spiral.

Maybe enough people acknowledging things are broken beyond repair would be the rock bottom we hit before things started getting better. Otherwise you just end up dissonant poo poo like metoo movements supporting a rapist president with their sex trafficking son or a democratic socialist party that votes for union busting.

People like this guy are the reason I got my last ban. They give off the extremely heavy implication that there's only two solutions: Give up and let evil win, or start murdering people now. The most lazy, childish, pathetic outlook on the world ever.

Don't hurt people. Don't give up and be a defeatist doomer.

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003


flubber nuts posted:

the only way to change law enforcement is from within. we just all have to become cops.

I'm a cop :twisted:

Jelly
Feb 11, 2004

Ask me about my STD collection!

ArbitraryC posted:

Has anyone blamed Russia for this yet?

Regardless the solution is obvious. We have to vote harder in 2024.

Also lmao at the goon who suggest armed counter protests. If they ever took off the cops would come to crack down on the protesters and it wouldn’t be the chuds they were cracking down on. If 2020 didn’t destroy any hope of nonviolent protests for leftist movements panning out in America then you weren’t watching.

OP if you want a real response on what to do just keep your head down and focus on enjoying your own life in what ways you can because getting involved in any sort of grass roots struggle at this point is just a waste of time at best and at worst a way to get assaulted by police officers and end up with a criminal record.

Armed counter-protests from the progressive side of politics are historically effective.

This post pisses me off.

Jelly fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Dec 7, 2022

ManBoyChef
Aug 1, 2019

Deadbeat Dad




can you get me out of a bunch of library fees? I borrowed a national geographic because it had titties in it when I was eleven and I never returned it. Its actually still in my bathroom at this point. I havent read any of the articles, but I still love that picture.

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003


I'm writing tickets for everyone here for posting without a license :jail:

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numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

need to weaponize power stations obviously

edit: i mean like attach sentry turrets to them

numberoneposter fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Dec 7, 2022

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