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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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    1. The older crowd of gun enthusiasts is the “there wasn’t no autism back in my day” type and are probably cheering this on.
    2. It’s hard to be specific here, but the computer age changed a lot. A 20-30 year old gun enthusiast is generally going to be quite different in motivations and outlook from a 50-60 year old.
    3. It’s generally just harder to pin down autism in older folk. They’ve had a lifetime to adjust, and probably without any support. Are they autistic, or just retired and they have a hobby?




  • Remember that foreign agitators, above any political slant, would prefer that the US be unstable and collapsing upon itself. They will play any and conflicting sides to this end. I have to remember that every time a 1-week old account claiming to be a Brit or Canadian tries shaming Americans into buying a rifle and shooting federal agents right fucking now.



  • The fear of surveillance is as powerful a weapon against you as surveillance itself. You can’t let it paralyze you into inaction. If you are taking steps to resist with arms, you will have to come to terms with the fact that sooner or later you will be identified and become a fugitive. There is a massive gap in law enforcement effort between being identified and being captured/eliminated.

    Right now you can buy quality, self-loading firearms with a driver’s license (in most states). You can have thousands of rounds of ammunition shipped to your doorstep (in most states). Neither is going to flag you as a terrorist and have you instantly arrested, because many thousands of Americans do this every single day. You’d be a fool to not take advantage of this.


  • Violent revolutionaries and their tools are only important during The Revolution. After that they are a liability and source of instability for the new regime, and often they are disposed of because of this. Any revolutionary leader who says you get to keep your guns into perpetuity is either naive, or lying to you.

    A less radical way to put it: Allowing a legal mechanism for people to wage an armed insurrection against their state isn’t freedom, it’s insanity.





  • Generally no. Bulletproof glass is thick as hell and requires extensive modification to the door, plus it often precludes being able to roll the window down.

    Some might opt for kevlar panelling in the door. Anything heavier goes back to “extensive modification” and turns an $80k cruiser into a $400k cruiser.

    They buy MRAPs from the DoD on the cheap for armored vehicles.






  • Its a problem with basically all the post-communist states. When the soviet world collapsed it left a lot of early computer professionals, if not outright intelligence officers, out in the cold, and many of them turned to crime to support themselves. That fostered the environment of hacking and scams that exists today.

    The one time my steam account was getting hammered with access attempts, they were from Serbia.