$0. I would not have any it if I didn’t pirate it. I was never going to spend any money.

You have big “tipping the waitress a penny for bad service” energy

Here here

Good praxis. Everybody should do a little more of this kind of thing at work

Still alive!

I mostly agree with you (see my other comments in the thread). I was just explaining it from the perspective of the Maryland lawmakers. Although, you’re not entirely correct. It appears that the law is a lot more broad than the title would lead you to believe

It’s just posturing, really. It’s the kind of gun legislation that gets liberals excited, but probably won’t actually change much in the long run

Nothing. I didn’t say it was an effective strategy, just what appears to be THE strategy at play

The AR platform is high modifiable, has a nearly infinite number of configurations, can be customized to meet just about any need, and is easily the most widely available sem-automatic rifle on the market. This makes the barrier for entry (to being a mass shooter) much higher.

It is if I print it on a sticker and slap it on my bong!

No, but this manosphere shit isn’t new. It’s been around since at least the “Men Going Their Own Way” movement in the late 90s and early 2000s, which me too and the Right’s culture wars are a reaction to. So yeah, watch, like, ANY movie starring Michael Douglas, or basically any movie that involves a male/female relationship dynamic and you’ll probably see a LOT of proto-manosphere stuff. (Pretty Woman?)

If we’re extending the metaphor here, then no, things just LOOK better. Like how cgi is so cheap now that they can make stuff that looks like the avengers for the the budget of a(n) (inflation adjusted) episode of the X-Files. The budget is still in the tank, though. Make no mistake

Like basically every movie prior to the 2010s, yeah

Yes, that’s the meatspace hacking I’m talking about

Signal can only be hacked in meatspace. It’s totally end to end encrypted.

This is Farmer Maggot erasure and I won’t have it

As the other commenter said, it depends on where you are. But I would say, overall yes. Nobody really wants to talk about how bad it is/shaping up to be. The people preparing for serious defensive action are all dark, and everybody else is somewhere between denial, anger, or depression.

There are a lot of spinning plates in the air, and they seem to be all falling down at around the same time. A small example of this is the 20,000 new ICE agents that the administration has order to be quickly hired. Back during the campaign, they had Trump loyalists at his sign up to “work for the Nation”. That’s almost certainly the pool that they will be hiring undertrained, and armed Trump lackeys from. That means within the next 2.5 months, Proud Boys, Boogooloo Boys, Patriot Prayer, Patriot Front, J6 insurrectionists, and many other actual Nazis will have badges, guns, and a mandate from the federal government to round up immigrants, dissenters, disabled, and anybody else they deem to be “undesirable”. And that’s just ONE of the plates spinning in the air.

I know you weren’t correcting me, but I went ahead and fixed it anyway :)

If are thinking about coming to the U.S. this summer for vacation, please do not. Things are bad here. Worse than the news is letting in, even. PLEASE don’t come here. Things are only going to get worse this summer.

It seems like grammar pedantry knows no bounds. I updooted in retaliation. All things must be balanced.