Of course.

It’s just how people were back then. You have to evaluate people as a product of their times. Just because he was a rapist, plagiarist, cop, anti-semitic, homophobic, and liked Hitler doesn’t mean he was wrong about evil totalitarian stalinism! /s

Also true.

Didn’t Orwell say he couldn’t bring himself to dislike Hitler?

Some slave owners like Jeff Bezos are so nice that they even thank their slaves for all their hard work that they did to send their master into space for a couple seconds on a phallic rocket.

As far as I’ve seen it’s just libs who are desperate to smear him. It’s embrassing having your only talking points dismantled with primary sources.

The US isn’t even the best at that grift. Germany spent about double that over a decade while emissions increased.

IIRC his wife admitted at some point that Gulag Archipelago was a work of fiction.

I’m only superficially familiar with Fisher’s concept of capitalist realism, but it speaks to the same idea. As the tagline on his book says, is there no alternative?

I feel this. It’s also something I try to talk about with others, but I always have the feeling that it falls on deaf ears. At best I get general uncomittal agreement and some liberal platitudes about how this is just the way things are in return.

This is so insidious. I can’t believe how bad things have gotten in Alberta since the NDP government, and it’s not like the “Progressive Conservatives” were a particular good ruling party for nearly fifty years.

Sometimes I ask people what made Trump so uniquely bad. The only answer I’ve gotten so far, one which can’t be applied to every other US president, is his unfiltered and brash communication style.

I also think that Trump was good vis a vis nations in the US sphere of influence. The leaders of those countries started thinking about what happens when they’re not the US’ puppets. Unfortunately those thoughts were all forgotten as soon as Biden was elected, as everything went back to normal.

Given the detention in France I think the broader context of encryption policy in the EU is relevant as well.

The EU parliament has had multiple draft laws proposed over the past few years that intend to break private communication for everyday citizens. The proposals are varied, from the inclusion of backdoors to a requirement that service providers scan all messages for “CSM” (I put this in quotes because the content they actually want to track has nothing to do with minors and everything to do with class power). IIRC the current proposal is to just break SSL entirely by forcing browsers to accept certificates issued by the EU itself.

With seemingly random “terror” attacks occurring within the EU recently I can imagine that this will once again be used as the causus belli to go after private messaging and working class access to encryption. The politically motivated detention of the founder of Telegram is almost certainly part of the broader strategy to be able to surveil the thoughts of European citizens, residents, and guests. It’s also worth noting that the founder of Telegram was already detained by some US alphabet agencies (FBI maybe?) years ago.

That makes sense. I’m thinking of this all with a cis male body and bias. As are firearms manufacturers I’m sure.

Doesn’t the SCAR have a telescoping stock? I could be mixing things up though. It’s been over a decade since I paid much attention to firearms.

Until 2018 the Democrats even allowed their “superdelegates” (typically elected officials from the state levels) to vote for whoever they wanted, no faithless action required. That could (and maybe did?) swing candidate selection, as superdelegates make up 15% of the total.

There’s a bunch of different categories so I’ll keep it general.

A delegate is someone who votes at the national party convention on behalf of the people who voted in the state or district party primary election for a given presidential candidate.

It’s basically the electoral college but for the party.

Aren’t most modern ones ambidextrous? Either in that the ejection port can be placed on either side, or like the P90 design where the brass comes out the bottom. I can imagine mag changes being awkward depending on the location and necessary movements.

How were they awkward to hold in your experience? I have no hands on experience with bullpups but my sense of balance makes me think they’re better with the center of mass closer to your body.

a lot of national subreddits are compromised like r/afghanistan

I’d assume any r/country is modded by people in a US government controlled agency or institution.

Random word generator.

The “conspiracy theory” that she’s actually a spook is quite fun.

Bullpup platforms are cool. I’ve always liked the FN P90 cause it’s so unique but still very functional. Bullpup long guns like the Barrett M95 also just seem more practical. The combination of a shorter overall length, appropriately long barrel, and center of mass closer to the shooter just makes practical sense.