Gigasser

joined 2 years ago
[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean....when we say guns, are we saying they own 120 AR-15s? Or are we realistically saying that certain gun owners like collecting even rather useless guns? Like most gun owner wishlist are having an AR, AK, 1911, Glock, a revolver of some kind, SKS, Mosin, PS-90, etc. Once you got one gun, it's like "yeah I mean I can have fun with just one gun, but it's funner to larp as a Soviet soldier with an AK, and also 1911s are objectively beautiful guns, and also yeah 1911 is a pistol, but a Beretta 92 FS would be cool because it looks cool and is in a bunch of movies, and you know, even though I have 2 pistols, a Glock would be nice because it's practical and utilitarian and those other 2 pistols are just for fun, and also i can makr glock perfection memes, and now i want a civilian version of an MP5 because that shit looks sick in the movies I see it in, and also I'm a fan of Stargate, so fuck it I'm going to get a civilian version of a p90 too, and also you know what else would be cool? A revolver, maybe two of them, one for my detective larp and one for my cowboy larp. And shit, I'm interested in a shot gun too, for self defense of course, so let's get a Mossberg! But damn the KSG bull pup shotgun looks so sci fi and cool, so I'm gonna get that too, and also wow some double barrel wooden stock shotguns look beautiful! I want two, one that I can afford to rough it up a bit with for hunting, and one really beautiful one, because why not!"

Like a few of the guns above are practical for combat and or revolution or what not because of their ease of fixing, customizability, etc. But a lot of them are redundant and bought because of some cursory historical interest/larp/coolness and alot are just for fun.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Part of it is trying to keep up morale. If you feel so beaten down that you won't do anything, that's just as bad. Not everyone can get motivated from the bleakness of a situation or from difficult and almost impossible struggle. For those of us who are, it feels like finally we're fighting some actual great evil, of whose evilness justifies ANY means of defeating it. It feels exciting for us, I'm guessing it almost like a form of that bloodlust that those who get captured by the enamoring power of war feel when their country declares it upon another country which they view as evil.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

People should realize a lot of the EXTREMELY LARGE 1-3 day protests, should really just be a means of networking and actually creating more dedicated hardened resistance groups.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You would be surprised. Many people truly think "politics doesn't matter and my vote doesn't matter, thus if I'm gonna vote anyways, because why the hell not, seems fun to get involved and join the community of people also voting for trump and make these weak crybabies which annoy me whinge over my political choice, which isn't really that important because politics isn't that important in the grand scheme of things, then might as well vote for trump".

And then they complain as they get shunned by family and friends for voting trump, because they TRULY think that politics and political choices aren't important...somehow.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, I never got the mirror thing. Was tripping alone on my first ever trip. It was the realization that, hey, "this technically only lasts a few hours(8-12) so eventually it'll end lol" that brought me out of that potentially bad(is any trip truly bad lol) trip. Also, for anyone still reading this, cannabis can help as well.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

People need to form Left Wing Militias NOW. The foundations of a armed fascist resistance movement/insurgency can't be put off till the last minute. Armed protection squads for Zohran would probably be good too.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I will say this though, if you feel a bad trip coming, you have to surrender to it. Surrender to the fact that you are tripping balls, and that it's is a finite experience, and that you'll be ok. You won't get in trouble, you won't become crazy, and if you do? Fuck it we ball.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I suggest listening to some Terence Mckenna talks before tripping. Also, surrender to the shroom if needed. It'll help.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Was this the child who missed his chemo treatments and was showing remission symptoms?

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I think most people know about her through her fox, Finnegan the Fox

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I think what you're talking about about are social "networking" sites, vs social "media". You could also say that it's a spectrum, some sites are more social media and others more networking.

 

Generated using chatgpt on my lunch break at work since I'm a lazy ass with no talent. Something I wrote on some other post with the same image:

You know what I find funny. The US fucking whinges about China nearly all the time. Yet they seek to become Insular and Autarkic. They make the same mistake the Qing Dynasty did.

The Qing dynasty, is often seen as prizing its material abundance and cultural legacy so highly that it sometimes failed to adapt to new challenges and technological advancements. This narrow focus is often cited as one of the factors that contributed to their eventual decline.

Equating the greatness or state of the nation with it's wealth. That's the fall.

 

Reposted from c/politics since it violated their rule about needing to have a link:

Now that the fascists have taken over, what books, academic studies, and pieces of knowledge should take priority in personal/private archival? I'm thinking about what happened in Nazi Germany, especially with the burning of the Institute for Sexual Science(Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) and what was lost completely in the burnings.

Some of us should consider saving stuff digitally or physically. Redundancies will help preserve stuff.

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