The NRA used to argue against CCW and AR ownership, shit, even the inventer Euegen Stoner never understood why a random civilian would want one…

It changed in the 70s when essentially a coup backed by lobbyists from gun manufacters happened. That’s when it went from a hunting/conservation club to the rapid “pry it from my cold dead hands” modern NRA.

In 2026 there’s a very good reason for CCW and AR ownership, but if we fix society so we’re not under threat of fascists, that changes.

I’m kind of alright with this…

Pelosi is a piece of shit and a huge problem not just for the country but the Dem party.

Being the first people to go down to show everyone else how undeniably serious this shit is, is pretty much the only way old guard neolibs are gonna be useful.

They won’t fight, and they block people who would from holding their positions. So there’s no benefit from them staying in office.

Maybe Pelosi being run thru a kangaroo court will make the rest of them finally realize how serious this shit is. Even if they still won’t fight, they might resign and flee the country, again opening up their positions to people willing to fight.

It’s crazy how many people try to be smug about this.

All you’re doing is telling everyone it took shit this blatant and obvious for you to notice if you think this is a new problem.

I understand being ignorant of another country’s system of government, but how do you not know all the fucked up shit that’s been happening before this to think it’s new?

The “big 3” have been doing this shit for centuries, and before that it was just different countries.

Shuffling the countries around like you want to won’t solve shit. It just perpetuates the system itself…

Have you put any thought into this?

I think this study simply looked for generalizations of who would be most susceptible to CTs and wasn’t trying to focus on proving who is a ‘believer’.

The foundation of the study was flawed because “conspiratorial belief” isn’t always a bad thing, because real life conspiracies are a thing.

If they were looking for problematic conspiratorial beliefs, they should have used questions that correctly isolated those.

This research is completely worthless, which is so rare it’s almost impressive.

To reach their conclusions, the study authors focused on the idea of cover-ups, the belief that organizations and governments deliberately hide the truth from the public. They surveyed 253 people from several countries, asking them to rate statements such as “politicians usually do not tell us the true motives for their decisions” and “government agencies closely monitor all citizens.”

Uh…

Someone should let the researchers out of the lab occasionally…

If anyone disagreed with:

“politicians usually do not tell us the true motives for their decisions” and “government agencies closely monitor all citizens.”

Then they either live in some random Nordic utopia, or they’re the crazy ones.

Like, an international child rape ring involving multiple world leaders is the biggest news story of the decade, but only two people went to prison over it and one is about to get pardoned.

It’s 2026 and you’re crazy if you don’t believe in at least one conspiracy.

You need an LHD to do that, and the Iwo is already on its way back.

No, he said US based oil companies will…

From one of the many other posts about this:

In his remarks, Trump did not clarify what it would mean for the U.S. to “run” Venezuela but said that U.S. oil companies were prepared to make major investments in the country.

“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” he said.

Maybe someone should teach them…

One of the greatest dangers to a society is people assuming anything is innate or the next generation will magically know shit.

Nobody taught these kids how to read a clock. So they don’t know how to read a clock.

This is a very minor thing, but it’s an easier concept to grasp than the abstract concept of empathy we also stopped teaching kids.

People do talk about it.

I dunno…

I’ve literally never seen it talked about on here when I wasn’t the first to being up the connection.

Maybe I’m wrong, my blocklist is pretty stout so I don’t see everything, and would be genuinely happy to hear it’s actually being brought up more…

Because Epstein took over for Maxwell’s dad…

A spy who was at least double, maybe triple agent who had the current and multiple former Israeli PMs at his funeral…

The British Foreign Office suspected Maxwell of being a secret agent of a foreign government, possibly a double agent or a triple agent, and “a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia”. He had known links to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.[60]

Shortly before Maxwell’s death, Ari Ben-Menashe, a former employee of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate, approached a number of news organisations in Britain and the US with the allegation that Maxwell and the Daily Mirror’s foreign editor, Nicholas Davies, were both long-time agents for Mossad. Ben-Menashe also claimed that, in 1986, Maxwell informed the Israeli Embassy in London that Mordechai Vanunu revealed information about Israel’s nuclear capability to The Sunday Times, then to the Daily Mirror. Vanunu was subsequently kidnapped by Mossad and smuggled to Israel, convicted of treason and imprisoned for eighteen years.[61]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Israeli_support

After he died on a “yacht accident” his daughter has always said was likely a hit.

It’s crazy people don’t talk about Israel’s connection to Epstein and the child rape ring…

Like, why do people think so many governments will support Israel no matter what? They’ve got blackmail on most governments, and the way to fix that is flushing anyone who shows that level of pro-israel bias. We have to get rid of anyone they have dirt with, and replace them with a fresh face who won’t rape kids and/or support genocides.

Almost like it’s too complicated to be solved on the street during random stops…

Side note:

Next round of IDs can we stop putting addresses on there?

If a cop needs to know your address, they can view that when scanning it. It doesn’t need to be printed on there for anybody to see. And most people rent and don’t update anyways.

Even DOB too, just have a pass/fail for 21. No one needs your exact date of birth.

It’s crazy we put all that info on there.

Well, you might not understand it, but you learned how to repeat it at least

We’ll call it a win I guess.

Getting rid of pests was the problem, and it was a real one…

Killing all the sparrows was a legitimate attempt to help that backfired.

Overpopulation was and still is a problem.

One child would have theoretically been managed, but ignored how people act individually and the desire to have a son. An honest and legitimate attempt to mitigate a real problem backfired.

I feel it’s an apt comparison, even if I didn’t explain enough at first

The one child policy really gonna be up there with killing all the sparrows long term…

It was in place 45 years and only gone a decade.

You can’t just flip a cultural switch and expect them to become bunnies overnight. And that’s not even getting into the economic part.

Kids are fucking expensive.

When workers aren’t paid well, people stop having kids. That shrinks labor supply in a generation, workers can command enough pay to have kids, and population will stabilize.

The wealthy hate populations dropping, because they have the luxury to plan ahead and know eventually it leads to more powerful workers.

It’s why it’s a constant boogeyman and reproduction has been prioritized thru virtually all of recorded human history.

Sure about what?

There are 66 articles cited.

https://archive.ph/zC3nL

66 articles “cited” for a five point AI summary? Either your pawayll remover fucked up the website, or I have no idea why you posted this slop.

But I am understanding why this is going to be a confusing and frustrating conversation if you’re posting this slop like it’s an actual article.

Article is paywalled…

But IWI privatized like 20 years ago, and that was just the small arms manufacturing, as far as I know they kept making everything else too.

They “relied” on other countries because the grift was countries give Israel money, and Israel turns around and spends it at the corps who lobbied for Israel to get donations in the first place.

You go to Glasgow

The only real way to identify a problem, is get boots on the ground 2.5k km always, with a giant ocean for most of that space.

Want to be able to get the whole picture you see, the entire Eastern facing shore, then we’ll so what’s a vountry…

Nope…

But Greenland is currently a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, which is unhappy about Trump’s latest move.

It’s not a country.

Yeah, I was confusing the long-term problem of re-entry with the long term problem of staying up there…

Even with heat shields they warm up the atmosphere and release particulates and gases

But you’re right.

new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel

1. That’s what Starlink satellites will become on their own.

2. The trash cloud won’t go away, it’ll stay up there destroying future satellites as well.

We could very well permanently fuck ourselves over with this, and arguably already have. Because the people putting satellites up are just worried about short term profits and nothing more than a decade from now.