John Lockeson

I conclude that the academic differences between communism and socialism are irrelevant, to be categorically dismissed. They are interchangeable, parasitic systems masquerading as philanthropic symbiosis. They thrive on minds unable to penetrate its morally rotten essence.

@brockpierson Where's Window Runtime?

What was the first version of Windows you ever used?

Some folks have favorite football teams. I have a favorite armed force, the US Marine Corp. Dad, true blue Navy man affectionately called them "sea going bellhops". This IS the greatest use of AI ... so far.

@elonmusk Yeah. It's embarrassing to fizzle at KL1 or less. Very rubbish. ;)

Any self-respecting civilization needs to reach at least Kardashev II

@TimothyEveland Rifle plates are sacrificial. They absorb and redirect kinetic energy by breaking.

Medieval plate armor is super flexible and it's also lighter than modern tactical gear. Seriously, why hasn't any military copied medieval armor design yet? Imagine a suit made from the most advanced bullet-proof materials.

@frozenaesthetic So, it's unanimous, then. Fuck Woodrow Wilson.

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@RensingTrades Taxation *is* theft. I think the taxation power must be entirely reset and reconsidered in light of that.

I honestly believe we should get rid of the IRS and just go to a consumption tax The more you buy, the more you spend, the more tax you pay! What do you think?

@Ford_Nick Filet Mignon. :)

Name one thing better than a ribeye..

* Rights and Power are independent variables. * Power varies. Everyone's Rights are the same. * We ALL have more Power than we have a Right to use. * Good people know this, and restrain themselves. * Bad people don't, and must be restrained.

@OzarkArmament Ayep. Pocket Cannon in .357 magnum.

Would you ever carry a wheelgun as your EDC?

@vampiric_shirin Karl Marx was too busy begging Engels for food & rent money to personally kill anyone. MarxISTs, on the other hand, have about 100 million bleached skulls at their feet. (And spare me the red herring critique of the LBBoC...it's independently documented elsewhere too.)

there is an unbelievable number of americans who believe karl marx killed millions of people

@Spoon_town Not all of them. I have way too many for that.

How someone answers this question will tell you if anything else they have to say about guns is worth listening to.

@kyilaw1 @TheAliceSmith It's important to understand that using media to censor free speech is a FACTIONAL project. The governmental aspect is an expression of that faction's grip.

I don't think many Americans would find it strange if the government started arresting people for free speech. The only reason the American government doesn't do that is the courts have been pretty good on free speech, so the government tries to intimidate media ownership into self-censoring their platforms instead. Practically every week the government issues some new threat intended to silence unfavorable speech.

American gun ownership may seem strange to the British. But then the British government arresting twelve thousand of its citizens per year for free speech violations seems strange to Americans. Which is truly stranger?

@GigaBasedDad Raised Catholic. Currently a non denominational Deist. $DEITY ftw. There is a god. Jesus likely manifested Divinity to unusual degrees. This is likely not an exclusive thing. If crammed into Christian taxonomy, that officially makes me a Heretic.

Let's have fun here What Christian denomination are you right now? Under what Christian denomination were you raised? Curious to see the results

@Matt_Pinner Local calls were a dime, then a quarter. Long distance was many quarters.

I honestly don’t remember. Do you?

@Maga4liberty Password1

Be honest No Cheating

@_Billy_Beck_ The truth of pricing, which is essential, is a key concept that is sabotaged in our society. Accordingly, the young struggle with it.

Price is truth, kids. NYC is going to find out what Mamdani really is.

@SandyofCthulhu Doctrine views as Mortal sin ie straight to Hell, no burial on holy ground. No concept of futility, room must be left for miracles. View suffering as soul preparation. Mystery as to possibility of God's forgiveness and unseen repentance of final act.

I have a genuine question for Catholics. As LDS, I too agree that suicide is bad in God's eyes. Does MAID count as suicide? Is it a mortal sin? Does it depend on the circumstances? Not trolling. Curious.

@SandyofCthulhu Disparity of force is an important moral and legal principle that folks should understand.

How the heck am I supposed to know an intruder is unarmed. Is he waving a sign? I’m 70, as is my wife. My mom who lives with us is 93. An intruder doesn’t need a weapon to injure or kill us in any case, so I’ll shoot to protect my family.

Your enemies will take from you everything they believe you won't fight them for. Everything they can grab, as long as there is no cost to them. Basic psych tells us that the price of abusing free humans must be credible, predictable, tangible and immediate. Letting them believe otherwise courts tragedy.

Been getting a surprising number of QRTs, comments, and DMs from people advocating for civil war and violence in response to gun control proposals. Stop that talk now. Do you actually know what comes with civil wars? You run out of water because the taps don't work and the water is contaminated anyway. Your grandmother gets picked off by a 14 year old trying to prove himself. You hear about a nearby neighborhood getting torched and everyone getting put in a mass grave. Foreign mercenaries and governments aiding your enemies and leaving you to starve. It's not just you and your buddies running ambushes and raids. It's dirty. It's vulgar. It's animalistic. It's total war. The sides won't be clear cut, either. Think about how divided the right already is. If you can't even build coalitions to fight gun control laws how are you going to build a coalition to fight your enemies? We're more likely to see massive infighting within the right than we are to see everyone unite. Then the left will do the same. And then everyone will be fighting everyone else. Civil wars are rarely two-sided conflicts. They are quagmires of disparate groups killing each other and their enemies relentlessly. You should look to Syria if you want to see what a civil war in the US would look like. 13 years and over 500,000 dead, over half were civilians. I understand the anger and frustration but violence is an absolute last resort and shouldn't be talked about lightly I have been proposing we do what the left does to push their agendas like coalition building, protesting, and being a legal nuisance and instead I have been getting edgy edgelords and justifiably upset people calling for violence. Stop it. It's playing with fire and once the djinn leaves the bottle, it doesn't go back in.

@SenFettermanPA Picture ID doesn't prove citizenship, & mail in voting is pure fraud fuel, John. You should know better.

83% of Americans agree on voter ID. 71% of Democrats agree on voter ID. Keep it basic: PHOTO ID to vote. Stop turning this into a Christmas list and attacking vote-by-mail. If GOP wants real reform over a show vote––put out a clean, standalone bill and I’m AYE.