Authoritarian and Totalitarian Democracies

[DB]

Clearly what the FFZ needed was another opportunity to attack the UK and cause Stuart to have higher blood pressure.

OK, we admit it. We're the pure embodiment of all that is evil the world, always were, always will be. We will go down whining as the yoke of servitude crushes us beneath its, um, metaphorical, boot-heel, etc., and so forth.

Is everybody happy now?

[sunday]

14 minutes ago, DB said:

Clearly what the FFZ needed was another opportunity to attack the UK and cause Stuart to have higher blood pressure.

OK, we admit it. We're the pure embodiment of all that is evil the world, always were, always will be. We will go down whining as the yoke of servitude crushes us beneath its, um, metaphorical, boot-heel, etc., and so forth.

Is everybody happy now?

Nope. Where is my Gibraltar? 😜

[Murph]

1 hour ago, rmgill said:

A semiauto rifle with a belt feed. ie a semi FN Minimi/M249S. 
 

https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/modern-sporting-rifles/fn-m249s-semi-auto-rifle/p/1477799

Wow, learned something new!  

[rmgill]

1 hour ago, DB said:

Clearly what the FFZ needed was another opportunity to attack the UK and cause Stuart to have higher blood pressure.

OK, we admit it. We're the pure embodiment of all that is evil the world, always were, always will be. We will go down whining as the yoke of servitude crushes us beneath its, um, metaphorical, boot-heel, etc., and so forth.

Is everybody happy now?

Considering how the woke are in charge in the UK and the self flagellation has resulted in statues being taken down… perhaps you need to address that to your own woke government leaders? 

[rmgill]

2 hours ago, bojan said:

Firearms equivalent of decaf coffee or non-alcoholic cocktail. 

Not even close to a real thing, worst thing is that some people with zero military experience will probably declare that "it is totally inferior to M4 with 4x on top in every role".

I would love to see the NFA cut down to just the tax stamp.  But at least FN is doing reasonably well vs how HK treats the US arms market. 

[sunday]

3 hours ago, Murph said:

Wow, learned something new!  

I think the M73/M219 machineguns worked, in practice, in a manner not different from a semiautomatic rifle. Or like straight-pull bolt action rifles, even.

[R011]

6 hours ago, Murph said:

Wow, learned something new!  

I can certainly see Crips and MS13 members lining up to buy eight thousand dollars plus markup  for a semi-auto Minimi rather than a couple hundred dollars for a hot Glock.  Or cartels paying that instead of just diverting fully auto machine guns from the Mexiican Army.

[rmgill]

Thats the thing, well, one of many that falls flat on the gun control argument. 

[Tim Sielbeck]

16 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Them im afraid just like Ryan, you are listening to your own tune, and not actually trying to understand what im saying.

I've always marched to my own drummer.  It's kind of an American thing to do.  And if you want people to understand you then you need to learn to communicate better.  Listening is only the second part of communication.

[Rick]

The antidote to Authoritarian and Totalitarian Democracies from a former lesbian college professor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMu0gCeDRgg&t=27s

[Stuart Galbraith]

18 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

I've always marched to my own drummer.  It's kind of an American thing to do.  And if you want people to understand you then you need to learn to communicate better.  Listening is only the second part of communication.

And I've always understood that, living in civilisation, I'm also part of the society that built it. I don't suppose the pilgrim fathers would have got far without leaning on each other. Rugged individualism was great, if you were a gunman. Most people were not.

Thank you, but at least on this point, there is nothing wrong with my communication. There is seemingly something  of a comprehension issue though.

[Tim Sielbeck]

54 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Thank you, but at least on this point, there is nothing wrong with my communication. There is seemingly something  of a comprehension issue though.

That is an all too believably arrogant statement.

[lucklucky]

On 10/3/2023 at 4:07 PM, DB said:

Clearly what the FFZ needed was another opportunity to attack the UK and cause Stuart to have higher blood pressure.

OK, we admit it. We're the pure embodiment of all that is evil the world, always were, always will be. We will go down whining as the yoke of servitude crushes us beneath its, um, metaphorical, boot-heel, etc., and so forth.

Is everybody happy now?

I already put one from Canada, it will not be difficult from other countries since the Liberal Democracy is being murdered being replaced by Totalitarian Democracy 

[Ivanhoe]

58 minutes ago, lucklucky said:

I already put one from Canada, it will not be difficult from other countries since the Liberal Democracy is being murdered being replaced by Totalitarian Democracy 

The current head of CISA says that CISA has authority to manage America's "cognitive infrastructure." 

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/

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“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.

 

[lucklucky]

I remember that one.

 

And we are back to UK

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-to-create-smokefree-generation-by-ending-cigarette-sales-to-those-born-on-or-after-1-january-2009

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Prime Minister to create ‘smokefree generation’ by ending cigarette sales to those born on or after 1 January 2009

 

[Ivanhoe]

They'll just go black market. NHS will surely create "lifestyle rehabilitation ranches" with substantive physical security measures to keep the addicts in and the peddlers out. 

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

12 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

That is an all too believably arrogant statement.

It might be, but considering some of the present company on this thread have already labelled me as a Communist, and others that believe im in favour of blanket censorship, there are some grounds for my believing it to be so. Neither have I ever communicated, or ever believed.

Americans really cannot grasp how we Brits think. Ive spen some 25 years trying to be helpful at showing how different we are, but still the penny doesnt drop. We dont do rugged individualism. As a Society we are different, and always have been.  it wasnt just the Socialists that made it so. Why do you think you guys left?

Edited October 5, 2023 by Stuart Galbraith

[Stuart Galbraith]

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Edited October 5, 2023 by Stuart Galbraith

[Tim Sielbeck]

6 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Americans really cannot grasp how we Brits think.

Just as you don't grasp how Americans think.

6 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Why do you think you guys left?

Because certain people in England were acting the a-holes which was an affront to "our guys'," then, English sensibilities.  You seem to forget that it was your former countrymen's treatment of their English  colonists in America that created Americans.

[lucklucky]

14 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

They'll just go black market. NHS will surely create "lifestyle rehabilitation ranches" with substantive physical security measures to keep the addicts in and the peddlers out. 

 

Year 2040.  Dystopian Totalitarian Democratic London

Mr. Stuart born 2009 is 31 years old  asks Mr. Galbraith born 2008, 32 years old. 

Stuart: Hey G. can you buy me a pack of cigarretes?

Galbraith: Too risky S. money is all digital, government tracks every transation and i am only allowed to buy 1 cigarrette per day, they have digital signature to sense my DNA.   Why don't you smoke pot instead? Government even give it you free.

 

 

 

 

[lucklucky]

https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/swiss-writer-who-called-journalist-fat-lesbian-sentenced-to-60-days-in-prison/

Swiss writer who called journalist ‘fat lesbian’ sentenced to 60 days in prison.

 

It seems she is both fat and lesbian.

[sunday]

Lately, it looks like journos are not found guilty for lying, only for telling the truth.

[Strannik]

23 minutes ago, lucklucky said:

https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/swiss-writer-who-called-journalist-fat-lesbian-sentenced-to-60-days-in-prison/

Swiss writer who called journalist ‘fat lesbian’ sentenced to 60 days in prison.

 

It seems she is both fat and lesbian.

Is being called a lesbian a defamation or a hate crime?  I am confused. 

[Ivanhoe]

7 hours ago, Strannik said:

Is being called a lesbian a defamation or a hate crime?  I am confused. 

Who isn't. Maybe the PC term these days is lesbianX. 

 

[Strannik]

50 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

Who isn't. Maybe the PC term these days is lesbianX. 

 

There is a Predator X already. Argh.

If this case is not overturned I will loose all the respect for the Swiss  - they do(did?) have the best closest thing to popular democracy in the West. 

Alas, sic transit gloria mundi...

Edited October 6, 2023 by Strannik