ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
In fact, Frank Sinatra was once charged with seduction for promising to marry a woman if she slept with him then backing out. Turns out the woman he banged was already married but didn't tell police (or him) that so the charges got dropped, but it led to his famous mugshot. This all happened in 1938, when Sinatra was 23, so it's interesting to see it predate the sexual revolution by so many decades.
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/celebrity-mugshots/frank-sinatra/
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
A post ban edit 5 days after you got banned? Must have really struck a nerve
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
The median American doesn't need to fight though, only a small percentage does. The same was true in Afghanistan, Syria, and in any other guerilla conflict you can think of. In fact the "3%ers" (who I assume are mostly glowies) are named after the supposedly only 3% of colonial Americans that fought in the Revolution.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
America has a ton of motivated political irregulars of many political stripes, and loads of impractical terrain not far from farmland.
Also the I-70, I-80, and I-90 freeways run through some very mountainous territory full of some of the most conservative groups of Americans. Rebels in the mountain west could literally cut the northern part of America in half. All interstate transit would have to be on the I-10 and I-40 through Arizona.
More broadly, I think that the idea to use guns to keep the government in check was fine in 1800 but today is just laughable.
You're making me break out the old /k/ copypasta (how do I make the quote one continuous block I don't know how to internet):
Listen, you fantastically retarded motherfucker. I'm going to try and explain this so you can understand it.
You cannot control an entire country and its people with tanks, jets, battleships and drones or any of these things that you so stupidly believe trumps citizen ownership of firearms.
A fighter jet, tank, drone, battleship or whatever cannot stand on street corners. And enforce "no assembly" edicts. A fighter jet cannot kick down your door at 3AM and search your house for contraband.
None of these things can maintain the needed police state to completely subjugate and enslave the people of a nation. Those weapons are for decimating, flattening and glassing large areas and many people at once and fighting other state militaries. The government does not want to kill all of its people and blow up its own infrastructure. These are the very things they need to be tyrannical assholes in the first place. If they decided to turn everything outside of Washington D.C. into glowing green glass they would be the absolute rulers of a big, worthless, radioactive pile of shit.
Police are needed to maintain a police state, boots on the ground. And no matter how many police you have on the ground they will always be vastly outnumbered by civilians which is why in a police state it is vital that your police have automatic weapons while the people have nothing but their limp dicks.
BUT when every random pedestrian could have a Glock in their waistband and every random homeowner an AR-15 all of that goes out the fucking window because now the police are out numbered and face the reality of bullets coming back at them.
If you want living examples of this look at every insurgency the the U.S. military has tried to destroy. They're all still kicking with nothing but AK-47s, pick up trucks and improvised explosives because these big scary military monsters you keep alluding to are all but fucking useless for dealing with them.
Dumb. Fuck.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Summary execution for not picking up your dog's shit, for not returning your shopping cart, and for dropping gum on the ground (or sticking it under a table, etc.). All of society's other problems would self-correct quickly after I implemented these rules.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
though not easy to follow unless the plausible threat of eternal damnation is attached
Or the threat of shotgun weddings.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
It's a reference to this meme (apologies for the iFunny link it was the fastest version I was able to find):
https://img.ifunny.co/images/1fc743a3a8bc67f6f16403b2ef05ae1634dc672725db781e5738c8b384845f0d_1.jpg
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
The latest episode of Hanania's podcast reverberated his entire car, making it pulsate even as the $100 champagne circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of proles exercising political power. "With a car, you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
This doesn't belong in the Culture War thread, at least not with a lot more added to an and some attempt to make it relevant to the culture war
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Additionally, a lot of Sig's manufacturing has been outsourced to India of all places recently, and India and Indians have been the subject of a lot of enmity (deserved or not I won't get into here) in recent years. What I will say is that as a gun guy the only gun of Indian manufacture that I'm familiar with is the INSAS, and it doesn't have a good reputation at all. If you were going to offshore gun parts manufacturing to some cheap country Turkey would be a far higher pick on the list, they have a decent existing gun industry.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
That's not how inheritance worked in older societies. Even taking the examples in the Bible, the birthright inheritance given to the firstborn (see Jacob and Esau amongst other examples) wasn't everything his father had, it was simply a double portion compared to the other children. So if your father with two sons had 60 acres the oldest son would inherit 40 and the youngest would inherit 20.
Eh, my fantasy in a Civil War 2 Electric Boogaloo sort of situation isn't to be a king/warlord, it's to be a gunsmith supplying any and all takers.
Edit:
Looks like @Southkraut and I have basically the same dream
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Yes lend-lease helped, but Soviet home industry did most of the heavy lifting.
That's dramatically underselling lend-lease. The US provided approximately 2/3 of the USSR's trucks, 60% of their aviation fuel, 10% of their planes, etc. And the US was also able to give all this to the Soviets while they also built the most powerful navy in human history and waged a war across North Africa, Europe, the Pacific, and Southeast Asia.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
FWIW I've been warned by the mods here a couple times for not being sufficiently charitable towards feminists, and I didn't think what I had written was particularly unkind.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Shame on him killing himself via fent overdose then
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
My favorite was the show Vikings when one of the lead female characters stops a fellow viking raider (and the fact thst there was a woman on the raid already tells you a lot) from raping a woman in the town they're murdering and pillaging in.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Pay your pest control contractors or they'll murder your children.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
I guess the Chudin didn't make the joke clear enough: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2883054-nothing-ever-happens
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
I had a friend who straight up quit Dota 2 because of how negatively it affected his mood and mental well being. I never let myself get too frustrated but the tryhards in ranked are obnoxious to play with so I usually just play turbo as mid ogre and hit Q and 4x multicast (multicast is pure skill and zero luck fight me).
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
I was a doomer 15 years ago. Things have mostly continued to get worse since then, but nowhere near as fast as I expected. The old saying goes that things fall apart slowly, then all at once. I figure it will all fall apart eventually, but I won't pretend to have any idea on the time scale. Anyone who pretends to know when is selling something.
"There are weeks where nothing happens, and there are decades where nothing happens" -Vladimir Chudin
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
Does it hit your credit score, or can you usually negotiate it down before it goes to creditors?
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
My favorite example of this is from the band Queen. I've often heard people say "Freddie wrote Who Wants to Live Forever after he found out he was diagnosed with AIDS" when the actual story is far more pedestrian: Brian May wrote it after viewing an early cut of the movie Highlander.
ChickenOverlord
4mo ago
I've seen in plenty in body cam videos, but the closest I have in my personal life is a great uncle who got screwed over by his ex wife. This was like 30 years ago and I hardly know this great uncle. He and his wife owned a business, she was cooking the books and ran off to a country with no extradition treaty while leaving him to face any consequences. You'd think his wife fleeing the country would be evidence that she was the one cooking the books but the cops wanted their scalp.
He spent a few years in jail, and obviously he divorced her over it.
For whatever it's worth, I think both your example comments are wrong and retarded (and I even replied to one of them with a 4chan copypasta effectively saying as much) but I didn't downvote either of them. The reason being that downvotes (and upvotes) are for narcissistic ninnies who care way too much about imaginary internet points.
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