• GucciMane [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        Dude, WHY would you post something like this on the clearweb. You still have time to delete this

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        Commies post shit like this so often y'all must be suicidal and want to be executed by SWAT or something

        • D3FNC [any]
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          9 months ago

          From your lips to God's ears my friend

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        9 months ago

        For the love of Pete, join an org and do some volunteer work before you blow a blood vessel.

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        googling how much a reproduction welrod is brb

        EDIT: oh fuck off it's like $5000 angery

        • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          wait this is awesome. a whisper-quiet bolt-action subsonic 9mm. Currently coveting

          note to my FBI agent (put this in the file for my next FOIA request), the standard American revenge fantasy is a mass shooting and you really cannot do one of those with a bolt action gun. at least not at a police station lol, you'd be instantly merked

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          9 months ago

          reproduction welrod

          I'm not a gun guy but I did a bit of googling about Welrod because I had no idea what it was - other than it was certainly some kind of gun. At Wikipedia - I found this...

          Brügger & Thomet VP9

          The Brügger & Thomet VP9 (Veterinary Pistol 9mm) is a manual repeater, magazine fed, integrally-suppressed pistol created by Brügger & Thomet (now B&T) for use as a veterinary pistol for putting down sick and wounded animals. The design is based on the Welrod pistol.

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          $5000

          Maybe it's cheaper? By a lot?

          • D3FNC [any]
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            9 months ago

            Your average redneck can put together a silencer, scuse me, a suppressor, for less than $20 at Walmart.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    Wasn't there some viral image going around a month or so ago where China had the same thing but for wanted criminals and everyone was screaming about how this is literally 1984

  • FoolishFool [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    Think they could sue for libel? This feels wide open for litigation. lol

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      Not a lawyer but I have a good feeling that whoever is doing this has a big stack of cash set aside for settling/paying out libel suits

    • TheMadBeagle [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Some other form of known harm this can bring maybe worth pursuing, but I kind of doubt libel would be a viable option unfortunately. Firstly, I imagine most of these people are in fact making pro Palistine statements, so if that is what the group paying for this truck to drive around is publishing, in that regard, this truck is not really libel. I do notice that the truck specifically references a website called "harvardhatesjews.com", which, if they are stating that these individuals are antisemitic without any other proof than being pro Palestine, then maybe that could be construed as libel. The another major problem is that libel is just plain tricky to get to stick in a lot of instances from my understanding, so even if this was a candidate for a libel case, it may be difficult and expensive to prove. And to that last point, it is difficult for people with little money to sue as going to court in the US (pf which would be the case in this instance) is incredibly expensive. Since most of these kids are college kids, it may be difficult for them to even find the means to pay for a suit. Before anyone says it, yes I know this is Harvard, of which many attendees are from wealthy backgrounds, but by no means is that true for every student. Even for the ones that is true for that also happen to being willing to make a pro Palestine statement, it might not be that their wealthy family is will to back them in a suit such as this.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media

    AIM, which opposes the scientific consensus on climate change, has criticized media reporting on climate change. The organization gives out the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award. Past recipients include Marc Morano (who runs the climate change denial website ClimateDepot), Tucker Carlson, and Jim Hoft (who runs the far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit).

    Accuracy in Media (AIM) was founded in 1969 by Reed Irvine, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank who is now bathroom

    In 2022, AIM sponsored an ad campaign against antisemitism that used a truck with a digital image of Hitler giving the Nazi salute. The image included the text: "All in favor of banning Jews, raise your right hand." Several rocks were thrown at the truck. The use of the imagery was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and the UC Berkeley chapter of Hillel International

    what-the-hell

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    AIM helped “create the image of the mainstream media as very liberal,” according to Alex S. Jones, the director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The New York Times described AIM as “dedicated to exposing, challenging, and at times bullying” news organizations.

    AIM’s founder Reed Irvine was previously an economist with the Federal Reserve. 10 While at the Fed, Irvine led luncheon discussions for the International Economists Club and the Arthur G. McDowell Luncheon Group. The discussion topic for one of the 1969 luncheons was perceived bias against the Vietnam War by the television nightly newscasts. 11 At this 1969 discussion, Irvine, then 50, hatched the idea for Accuracy in Media.

    https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/accuracy-in-media/

    Accuracy in Media (AIM) has grown from a one-person crusade to a million-dollar-a-year operation by attacking the mainstream media for abandoning the principles of "fairness, balance and accuracy" in its reporting. New Right philanthropies, think tanks and media support its work, and many members of its advisory board are former diplomats, intelligence agents and corporate directors.

    https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Accuracy_in_Media

  • JuryNullification [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Would be wild if someone followed it to where it parked and filled the gas tank with water.