The Republican base has basically never forgiven the rest of us for desegregation, and they’ve been pining for their revenge ever since. Murdering liberals has been standard conservative cooler talk for at least 30 years.
I wish I could say this outburst surprised me but it doesn’t.
Didn’t they just kick a whole ton of people off of ACA? Like not even a week ago?
He wants the “institutions” of old where the purpose was containment, not treatment. Out of sight, out of mind. These people were often tormented and treated like unruly animals for their entire lives with no recourse.
He would kill himself or have a complete psychotic or dissociative break before prostrating himself like that. He literally cannot help the way he acts. As someone else said, “one giant ball of Id.”
Just Civil War (2024) him like the worm he is and move on.
Ian/Forgotten Weapons I’d file under “impartial to an actual fault.” He wanted to publish the combat memoir of a Ukrainian self-avowed Nazi and got absolutely blasted by his followers for it, to the point where he dropped the idea. I don’t think it was because he himself has Nazi sympathies, but that he sees things through the lens of “all viewpoints are valuable from a historical perspective even if the person giving it is flawed.” If I remember right he wasn’t exactly gracious about learning any sort of lesson and was more or less just caving to pressure.
For what little it’s worth, I still support him as a creator because I think he does good…historical? work that few others are doing or have the access to do.
As for Karl and Ian…I’ve seen this posted publicly before so I feel okay repeating it. “Fascist tendencies” was only a part of it, and IIRC that took the form of “Ian and others refused Karl’s call to disavow or even ban certain openly hateful people from a specific shooting match and assert an environment of inclusivity/2A for all” Whether or not that refusal constitutes being fascist on its own is up to you.
That might have been what started the second and probably meatier thing. Ian started spinning up his own “Brutality” shooting matches with no relation to InRangeTV, and to this day they are running two parallel but separate entities. It gets a bit he-said-she-said from here without being able to look at the evidence. Karl alleges that this was in breach of a verbal agreement to tie-in any “Brutality” match with ITV. Karl also alleges that Ian’s matches were copying shooting stage layouts and instructions from his matches, sometimes verbatim. All that seemed to be what really irritated Karl and caused the more permanent split. He has no nice things to say about Ian at this point and prefers that he not be brought up at all.
Alright, enough gossiping like a high school girl. Black Flag Civilian is a pretty good vaguely leftist guntuber, though he’s kind of limited to militia-esque stuff and how-to’s and not traditional gun reviews. He’s been doing a lot of things with mesh messaging networks recently, reading between the lines it’s for counter-ICE communication.
That Chechen douchebag Ramzan Kadyrov also said something similar after years of being personally involved in murdering LGBT people.
“The Death Star created millions of jobs so it’s immoral to oppose it.”
Prepare for him and his cohort of traitors to ignore them entirely if they don’t go their way. They have the broad support of the people with guns, both in and out of uniform. They’ve tried it once before, and you can bet they’ve learned from their mistakes.
Essentially none, they are all significantly to severely terrible on privacy.
The Slate truck looks promising due to not having a head unit from the factory but it’s anyone’s guess if and when that project comes to fruition and in what state.
If there is no explanation one must assume the worst interpretation.
Wealthy connected people. The police who ultimately manage the local contracts with Flock. Federal agents and their ancillaries.
Why? “Because fuck you, we’re your betters. Keep your nose down, citizen.”
There’s actually a lot of political solidarity about mass surveillance. Go to the grimiest YouTube comment section and you’ll see the same kind of vitriol against Palantir et al that you would here.
They just think it serves the globalhomo socialist cabal trying to take over the US and not the fascist coup that already has taken over the US.
I’m waiting for news of the sailors who are telling and showing this information to the public getting thrown in the brig and on the fast track to Leavenworth. Chasing and punishing whistleblowers is one of the Trump regime’s favorite pastimes.
These people will rake you down with belt-fed machine guns before they acquiesce to “public pressure” to resign their most powerful office.
But they won’t have to, because they just have to ignore you like No Kings and then you’ll go home.
This is hardly the first time Freetube has broken at a core level. They (and their upstream dependencies) have to keep up with YouTube’s constant technical changes, some of which are deliberately hostile to people circumnavigating their panopticon.
It may take weeks or even months but they’ve fixed it up until now.
It’s that consistent 30ish percent again. They’re not just morons, they’re extremely dangerous in both their dogged conformity to the fascist norm and their own personal spite. If the “Throw every Democrat voter in a dog cage and throw the cages in a lake” Act got unveiled, that 30 percent would be polling positively for it.
They’re human cattle.
Once they have full control of a MAGAfied military they have absolutely no use for civilian gun ownership, in fact it’s a liability to them.
It’ll be better until you are forced into a “center” or a “facility” or a “camp” or a “hospital” where the entire purpose and function, stated openly or not, is to kill you.
That’s like faking a Jewish heritage to get out of being drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front.
Hurting brown people and “communists” is more important than anything else to that 1/3.
Expounding upon the Civil War origins of our problems:
Every member of Confederate “high command”, both military and civilian, should have been executed.
The wealth and property of any slaveholding plantationers should have been seized by force and redistributed to the formerly enslaved to follow through on the “forty acres and a mule” edict. Allowing slavers to keep and/or regain control of their wealth was a critical error.
The South should have had their participation in the federal government stripped away from them and been under US military rule for at least a generation.
Of course all this assumes that there was the public heart to actually stand up for black people and truly punish the slavers, where the reality was at best complicated, and more likely highly disappointing.