Your Dunkle Sans posted:

http://www.ruindays.com/products/smelly-poop-in-a-box?variant=1110555784

It even comes in a glitter option!

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

It's apparently spring-loaded too so it'll be all over the floor/in their face when they open it.

_{Note: I'm not personally advocating mailing poop or gummy dicks to the militia people.}

Rhesus Pieces posted:

I'm laughing my rear end off imagining how poorly they planned this out.

says these guys are incapable of preparing food that isn't freeze-dried or microwaveable. Once they run out of beef jerky, overpriced instant camper food and pails of Jim Bakker Apocalypse Chow they'll be out of options.

I'm also willing to bet they took as much ammo as their pickup axles could handle but didn't bother to bring toilet paper. Go ahead and read Prepper forums, they're obsessed over how many guns and how much ammo they can fit in their bug-out bags but they never think the whole living off the land concept all the way through.

Also, what's with these shitkickers and treating their pocket constitutions like enchanted talismans?

Bubbacub posted:

Even though they're total shitheads, I at least understand why people want to drive their ATVs around or whatever. But horse people are total loving nuts.


Horses aren't even native wildlife...

Cythereal posted:

They can leave at any time. The Feds are making no effort to stop them.

Cythereal posted:

Because they don't want to give these chucklefucks the martyrdom that they want. As it is, the far right is distancing themselves pretty heavily from these idiots. If the Feds drop the hammer, it's going to be high-octane fuel for further far-right backlashes.

Letting the cold and these idiots solve the problem seems to be the best way to resolve this issue while not inspiring further far-right activity.

OxySnake posted:

Trust me they aren't going to freeze to death. There ideas of a glorious death are in a hail of gunfire against the evil Government.

When things start to get too cold people will realize this was a dumb idea and leave. People will see these militias aren't strictly trained professional soldiers. They are regular people who got in way too deep. Realizing this it could deter something like this happening in the future because "As soon as things get rough people leave. Maybe we should do something else."

Luigi Thirty posted:

There's an interview with Ammon Bundy in Jacobin of all things.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/ammon-cliven-bundy-bureau-land-management-oregon-standoff-militia-occupation/

quote:

Millions who have never heard of your movement are now watching your actions, and some say you’re a racist. How would you respond to them, and how do you feel about the Black Lives Matter protests and the police reaction to them?

In today’s society if someone doesn’t have the same views as you they consider you racist. That’s just how I see it. I don’t know a lot about the Black Lives Matter movement but I know their initial protest involved lots of looting and violence towards businesses and innocent citizens which I do not agree with. I do agree with them standing up for what they believe in. I just think during their protest they were unorganized and not well-planned.

Peztopiary posted:

NSFW story on Daily Beast about the Grandson who testified to the grand jury. Link was in the GBS thread.

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

No news coverage is complete without Taiwan's hot take:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbjo0MVIxHg

Kazak_Hstan posted:

Because the federal government owned at all (give or take some homesteaders and indian reservations) prior to statehood, and it was not all gifted to the states upon admission to the union. Quite the opposite, what land the federal government retained, and what land was given to the state was spelled out in the statehood legislation in each case.

Why does the federal government continue to hold a lot of land? Because a lot of it is environmentally valuable and worth preserving. National park system units and national wildlife refuges are, more or less by definition, areas of significant natural or cultural value and we as a nation have decided that we would rather not bulldoze over and log every single last acre of land. In the case of national forests and BLM units, the natural and cultural values are not always as high as the NPS or USFWS lands, however, they are also generally managed in a far more extractive manner. For instance, there are timber sales and associated logging in many (most?) national forests, and mining / petroleum extraction on a lot of BLM land.

States are not capable of administering these lands on their own. In a good fiscal situation they have skeleton staffs in the state units, and as soon as budgets tank state parks are among the first entities on the chopping block.

Contrary to the narrative the Bundys are pushing, the federal government is not excluding the public from these lands. Certainly, they exclude people from converting public lands to their exclusive personal economic use. That is really what the Bundys want. They want it to be theirs, not yours, and they want it for free, because ARE POCKET CONSTITUTION says so. But do you like to camp? Hunt? Fish? Do basically anything outdoors? Federal public lands are there for you. Compare that to the eastern U.S. where if you want to go hunting you often have to pay a private land owner to use their land. That sure doesn't sound like land that is free and available to me. Gov. Jay Hammond of Alaska said it best: federal public lands are locked open, not locked up.

We are one of the few nations in the world that has taken the opportunity to preserve ecosystems intact, at least in the west. That is a good thing.

Why is the federal government trying to acquire more? It basically isn't. There are small scale land purchases to enhance existing units, but the federal government is not really in the business of scooping up large tracts of land at this point.

Gaybee posted:

Send them only President's Choice beverages with "You're welcome -Obama"

SquadronROE posted:

Or they're cheap replicas. Because the only state the red tip is required is California (I think). http://www.airsoftgi.com/product_info.php?products_id=21045

sparatuvs posted:

How do they fetishize the military enough to spend time effort and money on a get up like that and some how miss the crucial fitness part of soldiering

Soylent Yellow posted:

If there's likely to be any kind of violence over this, the most probable cause is a gunfight over the last can of baked beans.

Who What Now posted:

Guys you don't understand, ISIS wants to be fought. Therefore we should just ignore them and do whatever they want. If you think we should be doing something to stop them then you're just giving them what they want. Stupid idiot leftists have the same goal as ISIS.

Jet Jaguar posted:

I don't see any of these guys carrying beef jerky or trail mix...

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...st-news_article

The-Mole posted:

You notice in the pictures that they're all wearing pretty light pants and cotton hooded sweatshirts. That's hilariously inappropriate for the winter out there. They must be freezing their asses off. Makes sense that all the top items on their list are cold-weather related. If you're standing in that cold all day you want a major winter coat and about 4k calories a day if you're being at all active.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Why are they asking for tampons?

UV_Catastrophe posted:

I don't know if there are possible legal ramifications, but having armed nutjobs roaming around, freely able to intimidate and harass locals doesn't seem like an ideal situation.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

theflyingorc posted:

! Crisis actor just dropped unironically

Adenoid Dan posted:

I don't understand why a rancher of all people would want to live in an unregulated industrial hellscape.

As a Millennial I posted:

Here's the "armored personnel carrier"

I'm gettin hype

As a Millennial I posted:

theflyingorc posted:

I'm using the word differently than you are, I think. He SOUNDS like he knows what he's talking about - if you're an idiot.

He uses words wrong but his tone and mannerisms, divorced from the content, are very persuasive. If he were aligned with a less-stupid cause I think he'd be a pretty decent spokesperson for it because he's got this calm pleading thing down