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I wonder what Freep thinks about daylight savings time...quote:Posted on 3/10/2018, 9:07:09 AM by ETL quote:To: ETL quote:To: ETL quote:To: ETL quote:To: ETL quote:To: ETL quote:To: SMGFan; unkus; SkyPilot; ZULU uhhh...... quote:To: ETL quote:To: pleasenotcalifornia
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That would make a good Kelly comic. Honest God Fearing Patriot: B-but we just changed the clocks! Government Sicko: One less hour of sleep for you! Lady Liberty:  Corner Kelly: Daylight Savings Crime
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Mar 10, 2018 18:00
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I thought Freepers would hate UPS now since they dropped their NRA perks.
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Mar 10, 2018 18:56
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Neo_Crimson posted:I thought Freepers would hate UPS now since they dropped their NRA perks. They can't keep track of who they are supposed to boycot anymore.
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Mar 10, 2018 19:00
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Neo_Crimson posted:I thought Freepers would hate UPS now since they dropped their NRA perks. What else are they going to send their inattentive cats with as they watch COPS?
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Mar 10, 2018 21:03
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I agree with freep on daylight savings time. Abolish it.
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BardoTheConsumer posted:I agree with freep on daylight savings time. Abolish it. I like light until like 9 pm 
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BardoTheConsumer posted:I agree with freep on daylight savings time. Abolish it. Look at all you sorry fools. One day, perhaps, you can achieve the greatness of Saskatchewan!
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Mar 11, 2018 03:13
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quote:To: ETL And thus with the stroke of Trump's pen, America joins the ranks of Newfoundland and Afghanistan in a +:30 time-zone...
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Jeff Sessions says prosecutors won't pursue "small marijuana cases" 50% of Freepers like weed, but 90% of Freepers hate Sessions. There is a small pro-Sessions minority (pro-Southern Strategy ex-Dems?), but they get poo poo on pretty quickly. quote:
Okay, mixed bag(gie) here: quote:
People have *really* opened up on this issue: quote:
While, yes, Sessions has said "if you don't want me prosecuting weed, make it legal", but I don't at all think that's his dream scenario. quote:s and enforcement go wrong. *vapes*exhales* quote:Cat is out of the bag. With all of the legal jurisdictions, new tech and products - vape pens etc. - there is simply no way to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Blind pig finds a stopped clock. quote:
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Guys, Sessions is doing everyone a *favor* here! quote:
...not that he knows personally. quote:
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This is gunna get weird and pretty racist... ‘Let them call you racists. Wear it as a badge of honor’:Bannon in France quote:Posted on 3/11/2018, 4:08:32 AM by wardaddy Remember the bad old days when we couldn't just come out and say we're racist? quote:To: wardaddy quote:To: wardaddy quote:To: wardaddy quote:To: wardaddy Sticks and stones can break my bones by black and browns really scare me. quote:To: a fool in paradise quote:To: wardaddy quote:To: Eleutheria5 ... yes this is exactly what happened. quote:To: a fool in paradise quote:To: Altura Ct. quote:To: BenLurkin; All quote:To: Eleutheria5 quote:To: BenLurkin quote:To: wardaddy quote:To: wardaddy ...there's a bunch more going on in Freep-land last night into this morning most of it seems to come from the trump rally last night in PA and the fact that some gun control platform is coming out today from trump. Plinkey fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Mar 11, 2018 |
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Now another thread about confederate statues....because this still isn't over yet. Former Confederate site rededicated to Harriet Tubman quote:Posted on 3/11/2018, 1:01:30 AM by goldendelicious quote:To: goldendelicious quote:To: goldendelicious quote:To: goldendelicious what does freep have against Tubman? quote:To: goldendelicious quote:To: V K Lee Someone died in basically a hate crime, but it's wasn't "violent" quote:To: Cowboy Bob quote:The irony of it all is that Tubman was a cigar chewin’ pistol packin’ Republican. quote:To: goldendelicious
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Christ. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3638796/posts
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Mar 11, 2018 11:59
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Waging a war on people vaping CBDs would not be practical or even possible. Certainly didn't stop the government from wasting effort trying to bust everyone that smoked a joint
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Plinkey posted:To: BenLurkin; All bold Said by a freeper, what a tool italic They're just branded "fine people" by republican president DJT while everyone else called them racists assholes Plinkey posted:Now another thread about confederate statues....because this still isn't over yet. Who the gently caress is rewriting history? What point does Lee have in loving Baltimore, for christ's sake Go to a drat battlefield if you want to spank it to traitors SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Mar 11, 2018 |
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Mar 11, 2018 13:04
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Didn't you know the South won the Civil War but decided to outlaw slavery and submit themselves to the north for some reason?
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The civil war wasn't about slavery, actually the south wanted to ban it just look at this quote from General Lee's letters, and Lincoln was the real slavery supporter just look at this out-of-context quote. The civil war was about protecting our small family farms from the northerners who tried to take them, and we kept our farms so we won!
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quote:why not do as Trump does, and bait traps for the name callers so they end up making fools of themselves repeatedly when the facts become known, and they lose all credibility. Wait, when did this happen? quote:Robert Lee was an American soldier, (for certain values of "American") quote:what does freep have against Tubman? Nah, he means that the leftists will eventually get upset at Tubman because she was a Republican and a gun owner. Seriously no-poo poo some rightists are trying to reclaim her as a rightist hero. I really don't know how you square "the South did nothing wrong" with "Tubman did the right thing by stealing slaves", but I think it's because on some level they know slavery is wrong, so they can lionize her so long as it doesn't lead to any deeper examination as to exactly who it was she was stealing slaves from. Actually, I guess they square it by the same means that The South Was Right and yet Lincoln was the OG Republican and why don't these ungrateful blah people recognize the party that set them free? quote:Would you have rather been a slave on a Virginia tobacco farm in 1790 or a Yoruba on the run from maurading Ibo While this is an interesting thought exercise, fundamentally this comes down to "He kicked you in your left nut, I kicked you in your right nut, why the hell are you angry at *me*? He's the one you should be mad at!" EDIT: I feel that in this thread, more than any other I post in, I feel compelled to caveat things like "no poo poo, they seriously do" or "I am not at all exaggerating".
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:
They're not wrong, he was a soldier, a good one. He was offered command of the Union armies when war broke out. Then he turned traitor because "Mah home is in Virginia, good sir!". If Johnston hadn't been wounded, he'd have bungled the army into a total defeat long before Lee ever became more than a footnote quote:Nah, he means that the leftists will eventually get upset at Tubman because she was a Republican and a gun owner. Seriously no-poo poo some rightists are trying to reclaim her as a rightist hero. See, they want to have everything, conflictions be damned. Their party can never do wrong, ever. And for that to be right they need to ignore where it's wrong SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Study: Calif. Pot Industry Staying Illegal to Escape State’s High Taxes, Onerous Regulations While this is certainly an issue, legal stores just opened in loving January, so even if it's bad news that less than 1% of CA grows are legal, it's not like if 100x more people had applied for grow licenses that the state has any ability to process those in a timely manner. Anecdotally from the weed thread, packaged legal weed smuggled out of state is sufficiently more desirable than unlabeled illegally-grown weed that it's depressing the prices for the loose stuff. So while Oregon still has illegal grows, an increasing amout of its exports were originally legal and tax-paid. Freep may have divided opinions on the ganja, but they are most united in their opinions on taxes and regulations. quote:
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Now the drug dealers are in trouble. The police may not care if you are dealing in drugs but they will go after you for evading taxes. Think Al Capone /s Yeah, if they do something as bad as a st Valentine's Day Massacre that turns public opinion way against them while actively murdering cops, then maybe. The only reason the feds went after his taxes was they couldn't pin him for anything else
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Why Democrats Would Lose the Second Civil War, Too *unzips* quote:To: Kaslin; Liz; marktwain quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: Kaslin quote:To: Kaslin Georgia Peach fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Mar 12, 2018 06:11
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quote:They are the enemies of freedom and hate Jesus and our founders. Enemies of freedom ALWAYS lose. Nazis, Bolsheviks, Khmer Rouge, Jap militarists, Redcoats, Comanches, Klansmen, etc. Bad guys always lose in the end...always. Real Freepers aren't afraid to admit the US was the villain in the Vietnam War. They woke. quote:Let’s talk terrain and numbers. Remember the famous red v. blue voting map? There is a lot of red, and in the interior the few blue splotches are all cities like Las Vegas or Denver. That is a lot of territory for a counter-insurgent force to control, and this is critical. The red is where the food is grown, the oil pumped, and through which everything is transported. And that red space is filled with millions of American citizens with small arms, a fairly large percentage of whom have military training. This is actually a pretty interesting thought exercise, and I'm all about insurgencies and whatnot. I've been of the opinion that a successful US insurgency would almost definitely have to be an urban one, but here Freepers are calling for a rural-based insurgency. Iraq was almost entirely an urban insurgency, Afghanistan largely a rural one, so we do have two recent examples to look at. That said, tribal Pashtuns are *way* more prepared to be cut off from modern industrial products than any Freeper. They are correct that oil is pumped in mostly rural areas, and crops are grown in mostly rural areas, but they *aren't the same areas*. Once the oil areas and the food areas are separated, the pumpers are going to be trying to eat oil and the farmers are going to be plowing medieval style. You could conceivably load up oil in trucks and take it to the farms, and vice versa, but you can't fuel tractors with raw oil, and refineries tend to be closer to cities. Plus you could commit suicide by trying to run your oil rigs up I-35 while it's being patrolled by Federal Bradleys and overwatched by drones, or better yet rheostat blimps with a thousand eyes that stay on-station for months. Or you could move all your products onesie-twosie in pickup trucks through the tiniest backroads, Ho Chi Minh Trail style. Also, the vast majority of farms today aren't an "all-in-one"; even if the farm is somehow able to operate independently without any city products (or maybe intensive smuggling of city products), you're gonna have a whoooooole lot of people in the Red Zones with nothing to eat but corn for fifty miles in either direction, or only soybeans, or have a chicken battery but no vegetables. And with cities closed off, in short order the Red Zones are going to run out of refined fuel, tires, car parts, etc. so I hope they're totally fine conducting this insurgency on bicycles and horses. And once the Red Zones start running out of food, a significant chunk of rural people who maybe semi-supported the revolt but not enough to pick up a gun, are going to start getting cranky, and you're going to hear a lot of "thanks assholes, we don't have gay marriage anymore but we *also* don't have medical supplies, gasoline, or new shoes or clothes. Exactly what is the desired end-state here?" Then, especially once the Federal Military continues to gain control of the major roads, the locals that a guerrilla depends upon are going to start getting antsy, and willing to narc on that one dude in town who runs an IED cell, in exchange for a styrofoam cooler of dry ice and insulin for the wife. I know I beat this drum a lot, but if the US were to have an actual effective insurgency it would look a lot more like Belfast than the jungles of 'Nam. With a relatively small number of riflemen and bomb-makers and placers, and a decent-sized number of people unwilling to fight but willing to be lookouts, let you store boxes of "stuff" in their garage, loan you a car, etc. you can cause a whole lot of expensive inconvenience that just drags on and on. The IRA never really seized ground (outside of maybe South Armagh, sort of), but they could create a lot of places that were just too much of a pain in the rear end to get into, and destabilize daily life enough that they eventually forced a political solution. Hey, what would the Freeper Sinn Féin be like? TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Mar 12, 2018 06:35
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Hey, what would the Freeper Sinn Féin be like? Shin Splint
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They would fight for the political goal of ... controlling all three branches of government? Also, I guess the city people have never used guns except for the legions of urban ferals, but I guess they won't be able to organize. Except into well established gangs?
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The largest farms and every oil refinery is owned by some faceless multinational conglomerate and if the dipshit crusade started raiding their semis you wouldn't even need to factor in the US military response as they'd probably start hiring their own private security goons that can easily outgun Flab Max with his AR-15 and pickup truck.
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Georgia Peach posted:They would fight for the political goal of ... controlling all three branches of government? Also 80.7% of Americans live in cities, 7% of all Americans are veterans of one branch or another. *scribbles on back of envelope* So even if rural Americans are 4x more likely to be combat-arms veterans than urban Americans, that would still leave Red Zones and Blue Zones with a roughly equivalent number of combat vets. I'm not saying combat vets, much less random vets like former Navy radar repairmen, are automatically amazing insurgents, but Freepers seem to think so. Not that I plan to insurge, but I like to think I would be at least an okay insurgent since I've spent two years in counterinsurgency warzones, covered insurgencies for an additional five years, and was Marine in a combat-arms MOS (albeit Artillery, but all Marines, especially officers, get more infantry training than any non-grunt in any other branch of the military). quote:They don’t serve in the combat arms in the military if they serve at all... I really fail to see the utility of the 4x4 given that basically every goddam thing in America worth seizing is in immediate proximity to a good paved road. We put the loving Romans to shame the way we lay concrete everywhere. And as above, unless rural folks are four+ times more likely to have been in combat arms, they wouldn't have any numerical advantage of vets (for what that's even worth). Rural people probably do have more small arms in their houses than urban people, on the average, but cities are going to have gunshops, warehouses with guns, massive police departments with amories, etc. Chicago PD by itself is basically an infantry regiment. *scribbles on back of envelope* Okay, 11,000 cops in Chicago PD, let's assume they all get ahold of a rifle, or shotgun for storming buildings, and set them loose on Red Illinois. Illinois has 12 million people, 1.5 million living in rural areas. We take the 3% rule of thumb just for kicks, so that's 45,000 fighters in rural Illinois, but they're spread out across the entire state, so at any given place. The closest officially rural county to Chicago would be La Salle, which at 3% would have about 3,500 fighters. I feel I've gone way, way, deep into the weeds here. This is fun but I'm not sure how enlightening it is...
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I feel like this needs to be a super grognard table-top game if it isn't already.
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quote:We have about 80 million militia ready to go. Attrition for them would be a bitch. How the gently caress is he counting? The entire rural population of the United States, from babies to geriatrics, is 60 million. There is no loving way that more than a quarter of them are fighting age and healthy enough to fight. 3% of Americans fought on the Revolutionary side in the War of Independence, so if a quarter of rural people are eligible to fight, and 3% do, that's 450,000 fighters from Florida to Alaska, covering 3.8 million square miles of turf that's mostly Red (though clearly most of it isn't strategically or tactically significant other than having to drive through it).
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This whole shebang is assuming no outside help for either side, though I'm pretty drat sure the sovereign government of the US, notable NATO member, would be able to rustle up extensive military support from Canada, the *actual military* of Mexico, and probably a chunk of NATO. Plus pretty much most of the planet would still be selling supplies to the coastal cities. And even in some weird scenario where Russia decides to step in to help the Red Zones, it's not like they can just roll container ships up to non-city areas of the coast without getting torpedoed, and/or losing all plausible deniability for fueling a civil war (not that such tends to stop Russia). I will just briefly address the suggestion that significant portions of the US military will defect to the rebels: LOL-loving-L. At absolute best, you're going to get random scatterings of low-ranking troops, who probably haven't even managed to steal a rifle and need to borrow a 30-30. Even if Colonel Crazy decides to take his whole unit over to the Rebels, at the first whiff of mutiny the base commander is going to have MPs chucking thermite grenades into tank engines to render them useless to mutineers, putting his most loyal troops guarding all the armories, and calling for air support. And even if the entire facility of Marine Corps Base 29 Palms decides to mutiny as one and join the rebels, they would be completely severed from the absurdly massive and complex logistical system required to keep them going for more than a day or two. Plus you're asking all your enlisted troops, many of whom have families, to say gently caress-you to the whole "getting paid on the first and fifteenth" thing and start subsisting on donated tomatoes from Ma Kettle's garden. At which point a large chunk of your mutineers would just start raiding rural communities for fuel and food, which isn't exactly helping the Red Zone.
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Georgia Peach posted:I feel like this needs to be a super grognard table-top game if it isn't already. I'd love to see this as a HoI-style grand strategy game, if anything, Sounds way cool.
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Georgia Peach posted:I feel like this needs to be a super grognard table-top game if it isn't already. Have I bored the gently caress out of everyone, or does anyone have lingering questions before I shut up about insurgency and get back to posting freepage?
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Georgia Peach posted:To: Kaslin; Liz; marktwain If numbers are the deciding factor, don't forget more than half of the pop swing Dem. Your electoral "Red is everywhere" means diddly squat Georgia Peach posted:I feel like this needs to be a super grognard table-top game if it isn't already. I'd like to have a Rascal brigade just for shits and giggles SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Of course the rascal brigade doesn't get that the blue buys the stuff grown in the red to actually turn it into food.
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Know what? Bring it. I'd love to see a million idiots on rascals try to take on the city folk. What s that? Freepers aren't even fighting the war in their hypothetical?
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BardoTheConsumer posted:Know what? Bring it. I'd love to see a million idiots on rascals try to take on the city folk. Bone spurs acting up something fierce.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Bone spurs acting up something fierce. What's that old thread title? The revolution will be declared a false flag?
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Freep: Django Unchained revenge squadsquote:To: Kaslin
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