SARGE

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Newsome has the authority to have state police and the CBI to arrest guard members who don't follow the order to stand down.

He won't, and I don't know if I believe the state police would side with a Democrat, but the possibility is there.

Of course, there are MANY things that politicians have had the authority to do to stop things since January, yet they haven't.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All radicals who are willing to spill blood are on Trump’s side.

I'm not so sure on this one.

I'd like to think I'm willing to use the tools at my fingertips to sling hot lead in defense of minorities and prevent a total takeover, however, I recognize that doing so myself is a death sentence.

Taking a stand just makes you a target in a very wide open field. You need more people to take a stand with you to be effective. How many people feel the same as I do? Willing to stand as a group, but not solo?

Organization is important. Organize or be sent to a ~~concentration camp~~ "prison". Organize or be arrested for protesting the regime. Organize or die.

Organized resistance is much harder to take down. With enough people, you wouldn't even need to fight. But you should absolutely be prepared to.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

then that kind of autonomy is a fictional concept that is out of reach for any modern nation.

True autonomy and isolation IS impossible for modern countries. There isn't a single country that has access to every single resource needed for modern society, some things will always have to be imported.

A 1700s era society, however, is totally within the realm of possibility. Not much use for neodynium or lithium in the 18th century.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

wtf are even 20 armed civilians supposed to do against trained military combat units?

Ask Vietnam.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah I love how other countries like to mock the US for Vietnam, yet for some reason seem to forget about it when it comes to "us military would dominate their population"

I'm sorry but some random Douchebag from Omaha or some small town in Texas doesn't know jack OR shit about the countryside around the Sierra or Appalachian mountains, and all the fancy tools at their disposal didn't help them much when they had to search through desert for 20 years chasing down "terrorists"

Sure, the US couldn't beat vietman because they didn't know the terrain and would never be able to convince the people they're shooting at its for their own good.

But that totally doesn't apply when it's the US fighting against itself, somehow.

The enemy is both weak and strong, I guess.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 52 points 3 months ago (9 children)

But is it interactive?

Also I'm sure part of it for some people is the corruption of something that wasn't originally smut.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wow, that's terrible! What mod is this? So I can avoid it? What a weird thing! That I'm definitely going to avoid and not go check out.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But I am a tad mystified. I do wonder what kind of lifestyle it is that leads a person to turn a videogame main menu into hardcore pornography.

It must be the author's first day on the internet.

If the internet were banned globally, porn mags would immediately disappear from shelves, and anything up to and including national geographic where they show cultures where clothing is sparse would all be hard to find, as the porn starved masses come out of their jizz encrusted caves to find something to give them that little hit of dopamine and oxytocin.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will preface this by saying I don't believe for a second the US was ignorant of the intent to attack.

In fairness, if one of your allies that you've been giving tons of weapons to suddenly decides to attack its neighbor one day, especially when both countries have nuclear capabilities, you can bet your ass the people in charge of militaries all over the world will be watching just in case shit hits the fan.

For instance if France went insane and attacked England, you can be assured all of the EU defense departments (let's pretend their defensive treaties aren't in place) will be watching it like a hawk the moment it starts.

Again, I believe the US government had full foreknowledge and would have given its blessing for the attack if Israel cared to wait for it. They definitely shared Intel that made it happen.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand this mentality from people who already have their name out there. You're supposedly famous and you're getting mad about being even more famous and recognizable.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

A doll house where there's an even smaller doll house inside, where the tiny TV in the living room plays episodes of the show Dollhouse.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I know someone who did something like this.

They bought a huge garage/warehouse on an empty plot of land, and built essentially two floors of a house right next to each other inside it. Didn't make it look fancy though, just enough to keep the insulation in and hold everything solidly together.

His reasoning? "it's got to be cheaper to heat and easier to maintain if it's inside a cheaper building"

He's lived there for over a decade and has since gotten married and had a kid, so it's still working for him.

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