Also, it will take weeks for the whole process to get started again. Once deals are made, factories start production again, and containers are loaded onto ships, which will then take weeks to make it across the ocean. We’re talking months of supply chain shocks in the best possible case.

Cascadia baby!

I don’t think that’s correct. Plenty of us on the left have firearms, we just don’t make it our entire personality.

“no, see, the plane which crashed into my house was full of rich people”

This is our Bitty Kitty!

Edit: it won’t let me post the picture.

Also weird ergonomic issues and a different manual of arms. Those can both be trained around, but that’s a big ask for most militaries.

I don’t often run across a piece of pure poetry in the wild. Well said!

I mean, if the alternative is getting shipped to a torture prison in El Salvador with no due process? Not saying it’s a good alternative, but it is an alternative.

Hey hey, we also want people not to starve or go into horrific debt because of medical issues. Super clear indicators of fascism or something.

From all the reporting I’ve read CECOT is significantly worse than the Japanese internment camps. What America did to Japanese Americans was cruel and unjust, and I wouldn’t say conditions in the camps were good, but CECOT seems to be on a whole other level. Prisoners are confined in crowded bunk rooms, outside time is limited to one hour per day, and physical violence from the other prisoners and the guards seems to be the rule rather than the exception.

Those books are so goddam good. I need to find copies and reread them.

Oh hey look, a brand new account with 2 total posts. Totally a real person.

A fish who is a sadist in his sexual relations with other fish obviously.

Decomposing to feed local biodiversity is about the only good they’ll ever do.

I keep seeing jobs posted for it support for ice on LinkedIn and indeed, wish I could just block them entirely.

As a leftist who owns firearms, I’m waiting for everything to kick off (in Minecraft obviously)

Same! I remember as a kid just deciding one day I would remember where I was at in a book, and ever since I’ve just… been able to remember.

Shit is going to get weird. Talk to your neighbors, see if you can find community support groups, that sort of thing will carry you through a lot more than just about anything else.

Also if you have the spare time and income, take a stop the bleed style class.

“do no harm, unless it violated your specific religious ideology” that’s how the oath goes right?

Man, I really enjoyed Hyperion, but the rest of the series kind of lost me. It also doesn’t help that Simmons is an actual nut case.