This is my big worry, being left holding an empty ETF bag as Clippy Inc becomes 100% of the economy.
The only way I can think of hedging is holding major banks, weapon companies, any industry with enough political clout that they can't be (immediately) competed out of business.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Did they include the Focus On The Family(?) shooting on that list? If not it would be fascinating to find the editor who removed it.
I wonder if this will trigger a rush of copycats now their aura of invincibility is gone, or if the widely shared shot of the shooter's body will make people think twice.
They used to have to hang bodies/heads from the walls for a few months to discourage the others, now it's much easier to do it all on the internet.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Thanks. Does he purge it a lot? This is the first I've seen from him since he flounced from Twitter.
That's chimps running wild with a Glock, not planned political violence. The closest the right ever got to that is Breivik (a fair effort) and McVeigh (absolute "please read literally any other book" retardation)
Where's the White Army Faction that car-bombed blackrock CEOs, disappeared politicians, shot down air liners, massacred a whole country's Olympics team? And then went on to get hidden in safehouses by right wing politicians until their financial backers got them pardons?
That's political terrorism.
The bullet is very, very, very different. Like twice as heavy for one thing, 30-40 grains vs 55 to 90 grains.
Plus 223s are engineered for controlled fragmentation while your average 22 is, uh, a lead blob with some copper painted on, lightly crimped into a case. The ones I buy in 1k buckets wobble and can be pulled with multitool pliers.
No, the Washington Post is actually the most reasonable and conservative school shootings database. It's the one we always point to when the rest of the press use absurd numbers like "over 500 this year!!!"
Jesus Christ this is unpleasant.
Leftist journalists are ranting about how this shows they need to murder more fascist republicans, with no apparent fear of a 2am knock on the door from the police.
Remember Popehat the famous legal blogger? He's on bluesky telling people to do mass shootings at "soft targets" like federalist society meetings. Can link later if you'd like: unsynced phone.
Political violence is happening. Political violence is going to happen. And somehow the people with all the guns have become so bad at it that all the violence is happening to them and their families.
The time for right wing terror was 20 years ago, and I fully endorse going back in time to shoot evil robots and impregnate hot waitresses.
But it's sad to promise that it'll happen any day now, we'll totally go apeshit if there's just one more riot or malicious prosecution or assassination or ATF death squad or CPS seizing more of our kids to cut their dicks off, we really mean it this time!
They won't even sue the freaks talking about how the shooting was faked by crisis actors for 60 billion dollars. They're not even rioting and smashing up enemy monuments like the left does every single time they throw a wobbly about a criminal getting shot.
They can't even march to protest violence against them without being put in prison for a decade with some bullshit lawfare because one of them held a cigarette lighter, which suddenly counts as cross burning (unlike leftists torching city blocks).
Why should the left fear their threats when they've never once made good on them?
Back your files up to another disk/cloud/whatever, download the win11 installer from Microsoft, stick it on a flash drive, boot from the drive, install win11.
Then download massgravel's Microsoft activation scripts from GitHub, follow the instructions, and you're done.
Very good chance you're just going to have to back up your Firefox tabs to a json file (all the tab manager add-ons have that. Tab session manager is my favorite)
Continuity is nice, but imo a fresh install once in a while is good for clearing out crap.
Seems like if you guys were going to do anything about it you'd have started by now. After 2020 they know they can do anything to you and you can't or won't stop them.
It's way too late to talk tough now. If Robert Evans and all the other antifa leadership had been found decaying under a bridge in September '20, maybe they'd actually be scared to fuck with you.
What would you want to try replacing 22LR with? Something center-fire?
I've given it some thought and could never come up with something cheaper (which let's face it matters a lot more for plinking and practical use than ballistic performance)
16-19 year olds are also "kids" if you look at the statistics, and also near the peak demo for gang shootings. It's procedural manipulation all the way down
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Technically by the rules used to track school shootings, they are. Any shooting within X-feet (300?) of a school, at any time of day or night regardless of if the school was in session.
Naturally this lumps in a lot of common urban shootings stemming from 2AM drug deals gone bad.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Let's just say I've been waiting to stock up on a lifetime supply between crises for over a decade, and somehow there's always a war, gun ban, or election spiking prices. 5-10x higher than 2011, iirc.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Listed for deletion by "Di (they-them)" at that.
The script writers are really phoning in all the tropes on this one.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
It looks like thetes damage to both the front and back of the top of his ear (swear I used to know the words for the bits...)
If it's a bullet wound, it's one for the history books.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Looking at pics of his ear I suspect it was glass or some other fragment. There's hardly any actual tissue damage.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I don't think the types that get to write the history books will be interested in that one.
I want to bet we'll even see a fight over what picture gets used for the Wikipedia article.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
USA today reports "Trump removed from stage by secret service after loud noises startles former president, crowd"
I've worked as a grocery store cashier (God help me) and see what foods people buy. I stand by it.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I haven't gotten into the ozempic discussion so I don't know if other people have been talking about this, but isn't this going to make people consume 2000 calories of the same corn-syrup-on-soy-flakes diet they were already on?
I worry we're going to have a lot of malnourished people who maintain a BMI of 20 on nothing but Snickers bars and potato chips because their entire appetite regulation system is being overridden.
Would they? They talk a lot about being the ones to "equitably distribute" value to people according to their needs, not producing it. Like I worked in the nonprofit sector for years, nobody ever talked proudly about creating value.
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