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I disagree with this bit completely. As a practitioner of a weapons based martial art I had to be very familiar with the law to ensure that I didn’t break the law by accident. Ignorance of the law is not a defence.
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Intrisive thoughts are fairly common, and not related to a specific community or exclusive to any identifiable subgroup: > These thoughts are part of being human, and need not ruin the quality of life. Treatment is available when the thoughts are associated with OCD and become persistent, severe, or distressing. > One example of an aggressive intrusive thought is the high place phenomenon, the sudden urge to jump fro…
I specifically mean the TikTok self-proclaimed community. Search #intrusivethoughts or find some videos and I'm sure the algo will start showing you more.
Ah, OK. I'm not on TikTok.
> Search #intrusivethoughts or find some videos and I'm sure the algo will start showing you more.
Thanks, but no thanks :-)
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> assumption-of-LARPing. And this seems accurate as the ratio of larping to terrorism is probably millions to one. Thousands of people larp every day in the US. Terrorism is fairly rare with maybe a few events per year.
“Terrorism is fairly rare” The only people who make that claim are terrorists.
I made the statement because according to statista [0] there were only 149 terrorist acts in North America from 2007-2022.
That seems fairly rare to me.
[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/489581/terrorist-attacks...
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“Terrorism is fairly rare” The only people who make that claim are terrorists.
Not only is this a weird generalization, but it doesn't even make sense. Why would a terrorist want to downplay the frequency of terror incidents? That defeats the entire purpose of trying to, you know, inspire terror.
So maybe this is another case of terrorists just being stupid.
Or I expect that GP had some sort of brain fart, disagreed with my statement, and typed the first version of “nuh uh” they came up with.
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Blackmail, lying, misinformation, manipulation, and gaslighting: the tools of an undercover FBI agent.
Such things have always been a part of law enforcement repertoire. When the FBI was engaging in such "entrapment" against Muslim Americans after 9/11, you would never hear the right-wing complaining, but now of course that their own are turning out to be the perps and the targets, suddenly they want to act like they are against law enforcement over-reach and malfeasance. Except of course when the victim is Black, and…
This implies that only full pacifists can be good persons. Because for everyone else, there is a situation in which they will engage in violence, and all you have to do is fool them into thinking they're in that situation.
Instead of morally corrupting someone, all you have to do is fool them about what the facts are.
And that is a lot easier, and it's what the FBI in fact does. From police work, they know exactly the type who can be convinced to not only confess whatever you like, but come to believe it too. The world is full of people with little faith in their own perception, memory or understanding of reality, and they are not any more likely to be principled pacifists than anyone else.
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It's both. VEs are increasing in number and sophistication over time because the social contract of the United States has been cleaved. On one side you have individualistic capitalists who don't want to be told what to do and don't want to subsidize the existence of others. On the other you have communal idealists who recognize the scale advantage state actions and programs can have and want to deploy them. The later…
We tried secession before and it didn't work out too well, and I don't see anything indicating it would be better this time. Edit: my understanding is that the leading idea is not secession but something called Project 2025. Depending on how you look at it, it's either a "rightsizing" of government or a coup.
That is also why conflict is only going to increase over time until one side or the other is decisively defeated (and even then there will be clandestine groups).
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Republicans endorse political violence when it’s targeted against their political opponents - the plot to kidnap and execute the Michigan governor was “just a joke” (the perpetrators have been convicted and are currently incarcerated).
And seems like Democrats endorse police overreach when it is targeted against their political opponents, since it is them who are all over this thread saying basically "nothing to hide, nothing to fear". I wonder where all of those are in the typical police threads? ACAB except when cops did something I like, then it is "trust the cops to interpret this correctly!"? Politics is tiring for that reason, most people los…
The overreach in question is that the police were allowed to arrest and prosecute those people in full accordance with the law.
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The crazy/normal ratio among milsim larpers is EXTREMLY high. Just listen to the language they use in YT videos to describe other participants and general public There is this odd thing about the human brain that as soon as it is in a group and have tools of violence at hand it will often start planing to take over the society
Luckily individual soldiers without heavy equipment (at least some artillery) are more or less useless in a proper military showdown. Has been the case at least since WW2. ISIS was a good example, they were being quickly defeated by pretty much everyone involved in the Syrian conflict.