https://twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1780335427334906347

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Tom Cotton was the angry neck beard that wanted to send the Army against George Floyd protesters so he is an extremely normal guy.

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Several states have at least proposed legislation to protect drivers who run over protestors. I forget off the top of my head if any actually passed, but the spirit of murder has been there.

  • somename [she/her]
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    132
    2 months ago

    The amount of people concern trolling about incitement to violence in the replies. Holy fuck. Look at that US senator’s post about killing protesters. I’m honestly furious.

    • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      47
      2 months ago

      The difference is, we, the left, get arrested for inciting and encouraging violence, not praised and rewarded like right wingers do. It is dangerous for us to openly encourage violence, even as a joke, because it can and will be used against us.

      Not to say we should never use violence or anything like that, just that we should be mindful of what we post on social media.

      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of workers whenever the petty bourgeois are inconvenienced while driving.

        -Thomas Pedo Jefferson

  • Rom [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Can't wait for chuds to find out the hard way that some leftists are armed and it's not their entire personalities.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      There's a guy who goes to my gym who always wears "operator" style gear and I always see him switch the TV to Newsmax and his truck is just layered in My other truck is a Gun stickers

      If I wanted, I could just crush him while he's working the free weights

      Yes, I have thought about it

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        I think it comes from a tweet that went something like "dude really got smoked by The Doohickey"

        I think at the time I laughed at the reply calling it The Contraption

      • @NewLeaf
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        2 months ago

        We had a struggle session about whether it was a thingamabob or a doohickey. It tore the community asunder

        • aaro [they/them]
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          2 months ago

          honestly shit take, you and I both know that it tore the community in twain and not asunder; I have no idea why you'd willfully misrepresent historical fact like that but LIBs gonna LIB i guess

          /meow-hug

          • @NewLeaf
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            2 months ago

            You know what?? A pig with poop on its balls to you! A pig with poop on its balls to your whole family!

            I'm going to vote for 101% Hitler now because a solitary internet stranger didn't agree with me!

            /Care-Comrade

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        Pounded in the Butt by a Cluster of Hardware Store Ball Bearings: A Shinzo Abe Story by Chuck Tingle

      • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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        2 months ago

        It gets worse the more you look. They're a zionist RPing a caricature of a Palestinian muslim who's trying to milk a "made-up" genocide for sympathy. Virtually identical to Neonazis mocking Jews for obsessing over the Holocaust/Shoah while posting happy merchants. Fascism but redirected towards "acceptable" targets in service of imperialism.

    • Nakoichi [he/him]M
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      2 months ago

      Jesus christ I thought you were joking about the name.

  • somename [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Cotton lives by the post and he will die by the post

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    So I was sort of idly thinking, just for shits and giggles "what's the next step in doohickey technology? How can this luducrously basic, electrically ignited muzzle loader be made more effective, and what's the biggest leap in effectiveness that can be achieved for minimum additional parts and labor?"

    And the first thing that came to mind was "electrical contact surfaces"

    As it is, the ignition wires seem to end in the chambers, buried inside the propellant charge. This makes the ignition and firing system one inseparable piece, which makes sense for a weapon that was never designed to be reloaded in the field. But if you want to get wacky with it, say if you're somewhere where normal cased ammunition is just too hard to come by, why not separate them? Make the ignition come from a copper rod permanently pressed into the chamber: the end of which, when the barrel is seated, makes contact with another copper piece hooked up to the gun's battery. Add a latch and a couple springs to the frame and bam, quick change barrel system. Keep some spare barrels, pre-loaded, and suddenly reloading your modern blunderbuss is as quick as a barrel change.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      15
      2 months ago

      times like this wish mythbusters was still on and willing to be really bold

      • @Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        Honestly between them and Brainiac I feel like these days explosion-based humor just doesn't hit that much

    • wopazoo [he/him]
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      4
      2 months ago

      There is no need to make a makeshift gun in the USA when you can walk into any gun store and exit with an AR-15.