A Bad Poster posted:

How the gently caress can you be in the Guard for one state, where you'd have to have residency to serve, and be in congress for another state, where you'd also have to have residency?

Shaddak posted:

I think the correct answer is Das Boot.

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

The sense of purposelessness and futility is so overwhelming in Das Boot that it's hard to watch. This alone qualifies it for greatest war movie ever made.

Vasudus posted:

He's in police custody because of course.

BigDave posted:

I apologize in advance if this is out of place, I'll donate $25 to DVA or eat a 6'er if I'm wrong, but I just feel like I need to say this. I know 90% of what we talk about is directly connected to serving, and I always feel out of place because I didn't serve, but with gun violence I think I can lay claim to being personally involved.

Back in 2012, an uncle of mine was murdered by a psycho ex-girlfriend of his. He had a restraining order out against her and couldn't buy a gun legally, but bought one anyway because Armslist is still a thing and private sales don't require a background check. I sat next to my dad at the funeral, I remember the day she was picked up and charged, and I got into deep poo poo at work because I called out sick with no available PTO so I could attend the sentencing hearing. I starting problem drinking for a while, and dropped out of community college over it. It took me a good three years of my life and anti-depressants to bounce back. It was partly because of him I got into Infosec and studying computer security, one of his favorite movies was Sneakers and I like the idea that he would be proud that his nerdy nephew went into computer hacking because of him.

My family and I went though hell, and every time I see another shooting on TV I think about how some other family is going through what my family went through. And every time I hear about another mass shooting, I see what happened to me, but multiplied tenfold. I was 8 when Columbine happened, and I was 29 when Parkland was shot up. Vegas, Aurora, that community college in Oregon, Pulse nightclub, loving Sandy Hook, it never ends! We've gone from 'Never Again' to 'yup, mass shooting season is starting again'. We could encase every school in blast shielding and post armed guards at every public building, and it would still keep happening! We as a society never seem to want to confront the actual cause of mass shootings, and that's the easy availability of the guns used! If we had a bomb go off ever couple of months that killed people, we would say "hey, we should probably take care of that mass bombing problem". But because it's guns, woah hey slow down we can't do anything to upset the gun lobby, Wayne LaPieare might become mildly annoyed between suit fittings.

We're scraping up bodies like cordwood, but nobody in Washington wants to do anything because if they piss off the Gun Lobby or the House Freedom Caucus or the goddamn Koch Brothers they might lose their jobs and lobbying jobs and junkets to Nassau paid for by Wayne LaPierre.

I don't know where I'm going with this, I just wanted to vent about how loving futile it feels whenever another mass shooting happens. There is literally nothing I can do, besides donate to the Brady Campaign and move to Kentucky just so I can vote against Mitch the Bitch in 2020.

If you've read this far, you're probably EBB who is checking out this post after it was reported. I'll take whatever you send me, but goddamnit I'm tired of seeing murdered children on CNN

Casimir Radon posted:

Put together an FBI task force made up of left leaning former cops who couldn't take the bullshit anymore and turn them loose on Chuds.

Prop Wash posted:

Please, thread, find solace in the fact that nobody is going to have a take quite so bad as this guy.

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1158074774297468928

Milo and POTUS posted:

That whole klan is as rotten as they come and wholly representative of the typical american christian

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

mlmp08 posted:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1160449196085977089.html

I’m phone posting so forgive the lack of crafty linking but be thankful i used a threadreaderapp link.

Casimir Radon posted:

Why do we never talk about pill eating trailer dwellers in the Midwest as a "tax burden"?

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

i was hoping pornhub was gonna buy tumblr

FAUXTON posted:

looks like UK gets to remain pedophile island while epstein's island can be called Kid Rock

Vasudus posted:

See if the market actually cares who is in charge!

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/1161368172303441921?s=19

Everything makes sense once you realize that Russia was trying to build a nuclear-powered cruise missile that predictably blew up.