I get this is a pitch for forced veganism, but this is basically only a few degrees off of “if we let a bunch of humans die we would solve the climate crisis.”
Pest blights can wipe out entire harvests, not just a clean, manageable percentage of yields. People would go hungry and die. Our current population levels depend on pesticides and fertilizers in industrial quantities, and that surplus of food you mention would quickly deplete without them.
Vaccines will get the most attention…but even though our use of pesticides is damaging to say the least, I’m pretty sure our agricultural base would collapse without them.
Basically all of the political schadenfreude being sold as “uplifting” here is coming from you, so of course you’re going to defend it. This place is only your personal blog because the mods are asleep at the wheel or just indifferent.
I don’t want politics to be a 4chan-esque game of trolling. “Orange man bad” “lolcow” Are you even old enough to vote?
While blaming cops is an attractive conclusion, I wouldn’t straight away give SIG the benefit of the doubt when they are basically saying “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.” They have been very cagey about the whole affair from the beginning, which should be expected from a corporation on the brink of being liable of a catastrophic fuckup.
Not only have they have sold hundreds of thousands if not millions of these pistols to the public, it has been adopted as the service pistol of every US military branch. If they lose a suit and are forced to start a recall, it could very possibly sink them as a company.
This is a foot in the door for using the mechanisms of criminal psychiatry to brutalize opposition, not a joke.
In what country is fucking de-mining “community service?”
I’m no fan of 2A at this point but I will say opinions on this are more mixed among gun owners than you might think. A lot of people fucking dragged the NRA for not backing gun owners murdered by cops like Castile.
Lack of positive structure and nihilism
There is no maybe about it. That’s the only recourse we have when the system actively works against the people on matters of violence.
Shield its population from foreign influence
Yeah, they would know the damage that could cause wouldn’t they?
If you’re willing to forego both the law and basic ethics because he’s a traitor, again, you should just be happy with the extrajudicial kill squad.
At least in the case of POWs, forcing captives to do life-threatening work is a specifically defined warcrime. De-mining is Example A for this.
Options 2 and 3 are literal war crimes. You might as well just be happy with the extrajudicial murder.
Unfortunately I like the theory that they will be spirited into Ukraine as a Russian meat wave before any repatriation effort can begin.
I will keep saying it: these people are at war with us and we need to start acting like it.
Openly using prisoners as slave labor (more flagrantly and abusively than is already normal practice) is part of a later phase. They don’t have the political capital for it yet. They don’t care about the waste, it’s our money they’re squandering, not theirs.
Hopefully not chemical weapons. I know Russia has used CS gas on the battlefield and legally that is “chemical warfare” but let’s not pretend that’s on the same level as fucking Sarin.
That ruling is about forced reset triggers, which absolutely replicate automatic fire in all but our pedantic definition of machine gun. I got dragged a bit on another thread for suggesting that they are effectively machine gun conversion devices the same as a DIAS or a Glock switch. People saying that these triggers “only help you shoot slightly faster and aren’t even close to what a machine gun can do.”
Original comment reads like he knows exactly what he suggested and it’s a piss take.
Often IDF troops are just a hundred meters or so away, ready to thumb the scale in the colonizers’ favor if things get violent.