As everyone should be.
Based
You know what? Yeah. GFY trump.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Welcome to the rebellion.
Sounds like bro wants to start the plot to the movie civil war.
Is that worth watching?
Watch the korean film A Taxi Driver instead.
Yeah it is. The whole film is worth watching for about 4 key scenes, and the 15 minutes are very satisfying.
Its less about the war and more about journalism and the limits of the human capacity for violence over time. IMO excellent film, amazing performance from Kirsten Dunst
I thought so. Don’t go in with expectations. Enjoy the ride.
That should really be the rule for all movies.
it sucks.
The Confederacy was in a state of rebellion too. He’s equated standing up to ICE, which is seemingly similar to when the Bostonians stood up to and were massacred by the British, with the Confederate’s bombing of Ft. Sumter.
Here we go. Buckle up and arm yourselves.
ELI5, If Republicans in general don’t want federal control, they want de-regulation, then why they are supporting federal control of California?
They want to use the government to attack their enemies.
Like a switch, as soon as a Democrat is in office they will all be lying about wanting “small government.”
They’re lying about that first part
They want small opposition, and they like to deregulate themselves.
They are only against federal control when it’s them who are being controlled. They are fine with it happening to other people. It’s how they can claim to be pro freedom out of one side of their mouth and anti-freedom with the other. Laws for thee, none for me.
This is extremely important to understand. As fun as it is, we really need to move away from the gotchas. The right wing are not consistent because they do not have an ideology. They are simply reactionary.
So the trump administration is fully admitting that the insurrection attempting to block the certification of the Presidential election 2021 on Jan 6 was open rebellion?
Holly shit. I hadn’t seen that last image you posted before. I didn’t realize the Jan 6 insurrectionist brought flexcuffs. That is quite disturbing. Who the fuck were they planing to kidnap or take hostage with those flexcuffs?
Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Mike Pence, and really anyone who they deemed to have offended their god-emperor and who happened to still be in the building.
They were probably associated with the ones that built the gallows outside on the lawn. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-gallows-construction-new-video/
I know this is sarcasm but, sadly, they don’t. I have talked to a few of them. Some either say it is patriot8c and others said it didn’t happen.
You can’t win
others said it didn’t happen.
Who is it they acknowledge trump pardoned when he got into office? If it didn’t happen, then there as no one to pardon. Yet trump came out and gleefully pardoned the lot of them. If it was “antifa” that did it, why did trump pardon antifa?
Keep in mind I’m not questioning you on this but them, and I know the mind of a MAGAt is finely tuned to support cognitive dissonance.
He was just correcting a witch hunt of patriots sightseeing by the former administration./s
They admit no such thing.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit (not the political scientist who passed away in 2010, a younger one who is alive still).
Right to freedoms of assembly and expression.
They need to chill.
And listen.
“Why won’t these fascists just chill and talk things out?!?!!?”
Yeah… not exactly their style.
Can California please just withhold taxes already and put this country out of its misery?
They can’t, you pay taxes directly to the government.
That’s not completely true.
Your employer withholds your federal taxes from your paycheck.
The state of California employs a lot of people. The state can intercept those funds, refusing to send them to the IRS. That obviously only affects state employees, but it is feasible.
The state could go on to act as a staffing agency, “hiring” workers whose labor is then contracted to private businesses. The state would then be doing the withholding for their employees, and the business would be contracting with the state.
There are plenty of ways around that, but it requires actual rebellion.
Yep. Totally true. You are born, and the taxes are automatically deducted from your existence. There is no way for a state to change the amount paid, or to whom the taxes are paid. Absolutely impossible.
I’m all for CA residents paying their federal taxes to the state, but that’s going to require a lot of faith that the state will protect them from the feds.
Great documentary!
I really enjoyed the ending.
When California splits from the union and their army begins enlisting/recruiting, I’d be willing to throw my hat in the ring for the cause.
Aren’t California cops on the side of the Nazis?
Isn’t this the same as saying *the government is working against the will of it’s populace"
Microwave dispersal cannons can be blocked by a large poster covered in aluminum foil. Just be sure to attach it to a wood stake.
Sound cannons are loud enough to work through strong ear protection, but sound waves are still air pressure pulses. You can disrupt the flow of the pulse with a solid enough curved shield.
If necessary, storm matchs have their own oxidizer. You can light it and wind won’t put it out. Styrofoam and gasoline is sticky. Use that information however you want
Do not use a belt to stop blood flow. Get some proper tournequtes (I don’t remember how to spell it). Slide it on, and turn it until the bleed stops. If you think it’s too tight, turn it some more.
Edit: most military vehicles are diesel fueled. They are pretty thirsty, so be sure to share water with them. Right in the fuel tank is good enough.
microwave canons
I did not know about these, but some quick searches suggest that they pose a major threat to people’s eyesight as they can boil your retina before you really feel anything when used at a low strength.
Messed up these are used at protests, fuck these fascists.
Eh, from what I’ve watched “low strength” is still quick enough to trigger people to scatter.
Remember, it obeys r squared, so if they use it and want it to be effective at distance, they can’t reduce the strength a lot.
If you curve the aluminium foil somehow, you can actually refelct it back. They did tests on youtube where they used a flipped riot shield and it work.
Sounds like you could make a curved protest sign with plywood and then hide some foil between the plywood and a paper/cardboard layer for a fairly inconspicuous shield that can block and even reflect both microwave and sound cannons.
Do not use a belt to stop blood flow. Get some proper tournequtes (I don’t remember how to spell it). Slide it on, and turn it until the bleed stops. If you think it’s too tight, turn it some more.
If you’re worried about blood loss, there are some online resources for how to do first aid. I think https://www.stopthebleed.org/training/ was recommended last time this came up.
I read you need to be careful with tourniquets, because they’re quite painful and if used inappropriately can cause long term damage. Used appropriately they can save a life, but you don’t want them to be the first tool you reach for.
Long-term damage is only really a danger after a couple hours in a proper tourniquet. Something makeshift in order to survive to a hospital is always fine. It’s like CPR: breaking ribs is a small cost to pay for survival.
Yeah I think either DeviantOllam or Tacticool Girlfriend on YouTube says 2 hours. It might be in Ollam’s “Passport. Lawyer. Locksmith. Gun.” talk. Unfortunately I don’t have that info indexed yet.
That’s a fair point, and thank you for linking stop the bleed
Sound cannons are actually pretty weird, in that they don’t work like you’d imagine them to work. They produce sound when multiple beams of ultrasound collide with an object, so if they’re pointed at you, you’re the one producing the sound that hurts you. That’s why they’re so effective.
Some people online have done some tests, and thin cardboard appears to be the best way to stop them. Put the thin cardboard before you, and it stops most of the sound. It can be the cardboard from a poster, if you have one.
Ear protection headphones (for workshops) also help, and their effectiveness is enhanced further by wearing small earplugs inside. Active noise cancelling headphones don’t help and can even be counter productive, so don’t use those.
To be a little more pedantic, they send ultrasound frequencies and they “degrade” into regular audible sound waves when they collide with something (combination of harmonic effects and destructive / constructive interference). The reason they send ultrasound instead of using regular directional speakers is because it’s smaller wavelength is easier to aim so much more of the energy moves forwards, so you don’t hear much noise coming from the source itself.
That’s why they work for “crowd control”. A strong enough regular speaker would bother the operator too much.
The noise cancelling part was particularly fascinating. Not only was it ineffective, it amplified the sound. I think its because noise cancelling circuitry relies on the ability to create a signal frequency that cancels out the initial waveform. That’s all well and good, but I think the sound cannons use separate speakers out of phase. Since the noise cancelling headphones produce a signal in phase with the first frequency detected, the microsecond slight delay causes it to be added to a subsequent phase boosting the power.
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Old spark plugs are really handy for craft projects since you can break them and make pretty mosaics
Would hearing protection that electronically filters sound be able to cancel out sonic cannons?
You cannot electronically filter out sound. That’s not what they do. They just emit the same sound they hear in the opposing phase. This is risky with sonic weapons.
