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[King Metalia]

The pope is Argentinian and lives in Italy.

I don’t understand why everyone thinks America invented and spread wokeness when we’re just catching up with Europe.

To be fair to the Americans does anyone really care about Europe?

I keep hearing Europe is where wokeness started is their truth to that or is it just a meme? Apologies for my ignorance but in my defense there's so many countries in the world it's difficult to keep them all straight.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

I keep hearing Europe is where wokeness started is their truth to that or is it just a meme?

To a degree. It's France where post-modernist thought (and non-Soviet communism) was born, which (both) feed into US woke cultural imperialism. However, all of that nonsense is far, far less bad in Europe: the farther away your language is from english linguistically, the better off you are, generally speaking. It's a re-import of mutated, mutilated, trooned out 60s-80s Eurocommunism thought.

 

[clipartfan92]

Most specifically, an "assault weapon" is a TEC-9 and has been since the TEC-9 existed. The more like a TEC-9 you are, the more assault weapon you are. Recently that's changing, but that's the historical definition.

Here's a glimpse into 1995 media reporting on the subject:

https://preservetube.com/watch?v=pcNX_fGy2Tg

The Hezakya Newz channel (a) is a goldmine for old TV news content like this that's hard to find. The hip-hop intro music on some of the vids can be annoying at times, but it's uploaded by a free-thinking black dude in NJ, so I can bear with it. In other news...

Bay Area businessman accused of selling fake fans to the military, possibly risking missile systems and a nuclear sub
San Francisco Chronicle (archive.ph)
By Demian Bulwa
2024-02-21 15:26:29GMT

Spoiler

The owner of a Bay Area company spent several years selling more than $3.5 million in counterfeit cooling fans and blowers to the U.S. military, putting at risk sensitive assets including missile systems and a nuclear submarine, federal prosecutors alleged.

In a court filing Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco accused Steve H.S. Kim of felony counts of wire fraud and trafficking in counterfeit goods. Kim has not been arrested, nor has he responded to the charges.

The government did not state where he lived and did not identify his company, saying only that it was headquartered in Alameda County.

Prosecutors said Kim defrauded the Department of Defense from around 2016 until May 2023 by selling fan assemblies to the DOJ’s Defense Logistics Agency that were “either counterfeit or that he misrepresented were new fan assemblies when in fact they were used or surplus fan assemblies.”

Kim created fake labels and tracing documents to fool the government, according to the investigation by the DOJ’s fraud unit.

The fans “were installed or intended to be installed in, among other places, a nuclear submarine, a laser system on an aircraft, and a surface-to-air missile system,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine M. Lloyd-Lovett wrote in the charging document. “The failure of one or more of the counterfeit fan assemblies Kim sold for use in military systems was likely to cause impairment of combat operations.”

The government did not elaborate or provide further details.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Bear with me frens while I put on my tin foil hat, but is the goal to destroy air travel for everyday consumers so only the elite in their pjs are allowed to traverse long distances?

I know the quotes below are me quoting me like a faggot, but it's the conspiracy/facts that go toward proving your point.

Each country has a different reason for scaring people away from travelling.

My tin foil hat is equipped.

I don't believe this is to do with climate change and more to do with restricting travel for the common person. Take a look at the UK for example, there are strikes, automated passport computer failures, long delays on the main motorways, roadworks on same motorways and all of these happen leading up to or during a bank holiday or 'school holiday'. The cost to travel doubles or triples during these times and taking your kids out of school during school terms lands you with massive fines.

There's an effort being made to keep people in their homes and prevent travel. Those private jets will never be banned though.

If you think this is about climate, think of this: A standard plane takes 100 people, for talks sake. 100 people do a 2hr journey by plane, now those 100 people have do those journeys by either train or car. That can't be good for the environment.

There was a popular conspiracy theory floated around after the lockdowns ended that theorised about "climate lockdowns" coming into force. The idea being that you aren't allowed to travel to X place for Y amount of days because of the climate.

Think '15 minute cities' set to a calendar.

There was a thread a few weeks back about how air travel would be limited and banned in the UK. Only airports in the 4 capital cities would be allowed to stay open.

This comes on the back of the idea last year that the French can't take domestic flights anymore.

The grip on travel is tightening. Plebs will not be allowed to travel; be it via air or eventually, outside of their 15 minute-cities.

Who were the first group to be mandated at taking the coof jab? Federal workers.

 

[Meat Target]

The ATF Director can't define what they mean by assault weapons in 15 seconds. Defers description to congress. Our so called betters won't define what an assault weapon is because they don't want to be tied down to a single description. They want anything and everything to be a weapon. No knives, no guns, nothing. But you'll still be able to get them in the black market. Which criminals will do and shoot up a superbowl parade like in Kansas City.

Dettelbach is diet Waco Dave, and it shows.

 

[Snekposter]

To a degree. It's France where post-modernist thought (and non-Soviet communism) was born, which (both) feed into US woke cultural imperialism. However, all of that nonsense is far, far less bad in Europe: the farther away your language is from english linguistically, the better off you are, generally speaking. It's a re-import of mutated, mutilated, trooned out 60s-80s Eurocommunism thought.

France is where Communism itself was born. Marx looked at the French Revolution, slapped some of his own pseudo-psychological nonsense on top, and named his brilliant, totally original idea Communism after the Parisian Commune.

Seriously the French Revolution was absolutely batshit with how Year Zero they went with things, even tossing out the calendar in favor of a new one, as well as ditching all of their old weights and measures and replacing them with metric. I was lucky enough to read a based as hell book about it. You wanted to change your name to something badass and heroic, reminiscent of the glory days of the Roman Republic? Expect to be hauled into court for anti-revolutionary, elitist thought, beg for your life, and wind up changing your name to Legume Verteaux (Virtuous Vegetable) as penance.

You hate metric because its different. I hate metric because it was invented by French Communists. We are not the same.

 

[Seedling]

It's the rare quiet night on this thread.

Friday Biden is set to show the new Russian sanctions, that'll be fun to pick apart for the weekend

 

[Betonhaus]

France is where Communism itself was born. Marx looked at the French Revolution, slapped some of his own pseudo-psychological nonsense on top, and named his brilliant, totally original idea Communism after the Parisian Commune.

Seriously the French Revolution was absolutely batshit with how Year Zero they went with things, even tossing out the calendar in favor of a new one, as well as ditching all of their old weights and measures and replacing them with metric. I was lucky enough to read a based as hell book about it. You wanted to change your name to something badass and heroic, reminiscent of the glory days of the Roman Republic? Expect to be hauled into court for anti-revolutionary, elitist thought, beg for your life, and wind up changing your name to Legume Verteaux (Virtuous Vegetable) as penance.

You hate metric because its different. I hate metric because it was invented by French Communists. We are not the same.

Oh yeah Metric Time was really stupid

 

[babadook]

This homo is falling apart, even his staff can't spell:

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All these cuts and camera angles made me think of that copypasta about Coach Red Pill having dumb cuts in his vids

 

[pwnest injun]

Also unspoken: White, leftist, race traitor pieces of shit WOMEN are the authors, engineers, and executors of dIvErSiTy in the workplace
Also unspoken: Diversity means LESS whites...unless it's white race traitor whore in HR/Corporate_____position. Then, "that's different."

Diversity really should mean LESS white leftist race traitor college educated females in the workplace--especially in the office/corporate/HR jobs.
Fuck, just get rid of HR. That's the real problem anyway. There was a time when administrative assistants and secretaries conducted payroll and assisted with new hire onboarding paperwork. Often it was the hiring manager who took care of it.

Diversity means more Marxists. That's the secret Rosetta stone.

 

[ShitLurker]

DIE will end when white women start getting targetted by it. Most of the pushback is because white women have started getting targetted by it, especially millenial single white women who are losing their looks and the privileges associated with that.

Sad but true. Once AWW (Afluent White Women) are affected, suddenly action seems to happen, it's the reason why so much insanity got though without batting an eye, but there is actual pushback to trannies. And since men have their balls in the AWW purse, they don't act till those get pissed. So basically, in a deranged way, simping is the way forward. Bet you didn't have that one in your bingo card!

To be fair to the Americans does anyone really care about Europe?

I keep hearing Europe is where wokeness started is their truth to that or is it just a meme? Apologies for my ignorance but in my defense there's so many countries in the world it's difficult to keep them all straight.

Yes and no. A lot of faggotry started in Europe, but it tends to play the long game. The US on the other hand seems obsessed with speed running everything. So some gay shit that starts in Europe, it will take 15-20 years to simmer, in the US it's 5 years. The problem is that the US is a fucking cultural juggernaut so it also affects Europe and speeds up the cycles.

Biggest example is multiple countries in Europe with protests for Saint Floyd of Fentanyl in countries that barely know what a black guy is nor had them as slaves ever and even then, they get African niggers, not the american thug guy variety (both are feral, but the africans are nowhere near as entitled). It's why in Europe we have a sandnigger problem more than a nigger problem, since the sandniggers did get special perks.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

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FFS, those eyes, is he so owed by Beijing that he's morphing into a Chinaman?

 

[Bulk Bogan]

I thought it was the AR-15, but the TEC-9 makes sense because of the pistol length.

Spoiler: TEC-9 Sperging

It's what scared Californian politicians the most, or at least, it's what they were allowed to be scared of the most. The Uzi was from Our Greatest Ally and thus enjoyed a special little aura of protection, aside from being expensive and very popular in movies. The MAC-10 was being supplied to cartels etc by the US government itself, then finding its way back north into the hands of Latino gangers, so pissing themselves about that too directly could have drawn attention to the whole gunrunning thing. The KG-9 was invented by a Swedish immigrant, and thanks to his devotion to the "universal access" principal of the 2nd Amendment he made his firearm available to all... which meant that black folks really liked it.

So it was the black gangbanger's stereotypical weapon of choice (especially in California), combining Hi-Point tier affordability with a genuinely menacing appearance and, initially, a very, very easy conversion (back) into a fully automatic firearm. It specifically is a big reason why the ATF banned open bolts. It passed through a few names, but it's of course most famous as the TEC-9, the second closed-bolt version. Everything about the 80s=90s wave of gun bans is based on it. Common ban targets like barrel shrouds, threaded barrels, carry strap lugs, magazines forward of a pistol's grip, high capacity magazines, being too heavy, black polymer furniture, open bolt action, excess affordability, simplicity of design, popularity with the wrong crowd, menacing aesthetics, are all because of a genuinely terrible little pistol.

The Swede who invented the TEC-9, George Kelgren, would go on to invent Kel-Tec, by the way. I'm a fan of his work, if you couldn't tell.

tl;dr Turn of the century gun control is heavily based on the TEC-9, modern gun control is indeed starting to focus more heavily on the new boogeyman that is the AR platform. There's a commentary about the changing 'most feared demographic' in there somewhere.

 

[thediad]

This homo is falling apart, even his staff can't spell:

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The most frightening thing about the Biden Administration is that not only is Biden a puppet, his puppeteers are just as brain-dead as he is. There's an old saying that goes "If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous." I think that fits this administration to a tee.

 

[John.Doe]

More like preserving the Court from term limits and packing.

I wonder how long they can possibly drag out deciding on the Trump case?

The ballot access case was already argued, so they have until June to release their opinion. They'll block Colorado from removing him, simply because Colorado's position is absolutely insane, so much so that even Jackson raged against it in oral argument. Not really controversial, so I think it won't be unduly delayed, they'll just pick whatever is the shortest, simplest reason to boot it and maybe let Jackson crayola her way through writing the opinion.

His immunity plea against the DC-centered J6 case has a number of options for delay, though. First of all, the Supreme Court can simply put a stay on the trial until the case reaches them, which might be enough to push the issue until past the election. Currently a 3-panel DC Appeals Court (of communists) denied his motion, but if the SC will enter a stay for full re-hearing (especially with a directive to adhere to the district's standard rules) then it could add another three months for an en banc (full appeals court) decision. Again, presuming that the district is barred from speed-running the hearing by giving Trump 6 hours to draft his motions/responses. A regularly scheduled en banc hearing in DC would almost certainly make a decision too late to be heard before SC sessions end in April, and the Supremes won't hold any more oral arguments until September at the earliest.

The Trump Team has been quite good at giving the Supreme Court lots of very good-sounding justifications for placing stays and letting this draw out for a long time, from both a legal perspective and an institutional one. Lots of 'it is the established practice' and 'thorough process of legal review' and 'for proper consideration in the due course decided by the Court's tradition' type stuff that I am sure appeals to Roberts. Between the legal arguments and other pleadings, they are trying to give the SC every excuse to slow this one down and I hope they do so.

The real comedy option, though, would be if the SC issued a stay on a related matter about Jack Smith. It has come to the forefront through a series of amicus briefs (motions filed by people that are interested in the case, but not on Team Trump or the DOJ) that the appointment of Jack Smith may not be legal and correct. This theory is not a crackpot one, it has some serious legal weight and has been authored by some very well regarded legal scholars, garnering serious attention. The motions are a bit dense on the legalese, but to shorten and simplify the motions argue that: there is a well defined process with Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation required for appointment to the position of Special Council, Jack Smith was appointed without following this legal process, therefore all his actions are illegitimate and without authority. If this is found to be the case, both the Classified Documents and J6 case are gone, invalid, like they never happened. They couldn't even try to swap in another, legitimate prosecutor, and keep going or re-use the prior grand jury decisions. It would be a total hard re-est on the entire process. Which would be both hilarious and a massive boost for Trump, since it bolsters his claims of political persecution.

This pivots into a delay strategy now, however, because the amici argue, and it seems that Trump will motion, that the Supreme Court should also stay the proceeding until the manner of Jack Smith's legitimacy is decided through due process of the lower courts. Just like immunity, an illegitimate prosecution precludes having a trial in the first place and would logically require a stay until adjudicated. If Trump motions in both Florida and DC on this issue, we might face a Circuit split - and additional legal snarls that could easily take months to unravel.

I think that right now the Supreme Court has several different avenues to delay the Federal trials for Trump, with lots of very plausible excuses that give them plenty of political cover. The only question is whether they will take advantage of them, and I think they just might. If they can keep all these issues from getting to them by delaying the trials and appeals in the lower circuits, theoretically Trump may win in November and all these issues vanish without the SC getting elbow deep. If they involve themselves in either direction, they could face a lot of political pressure and blowback.

 

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Openly buying votes while ignoring the SCOTUS and then smugly laughing at them, their authority, and the checks and balances of our nation.

This is the sort of thing someone who feels the fix is in, either in regards to the election, or in regards to the judicial system, and thus can be smug and insulting at people about it.

Either that or one of his staffers is trying to bait someone into taking a shot at him before it gets much closer to November.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

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Openly buying votes while ignoring the SCOTUS and then smugly laughing at them, their authority, and the checks and balances of our nation.

This is the sort of thing someone who feels the fix is in, either in regards to the election, or in regards to the judicial system, and thus can be smug and insulting at people about it.

Either that or one of his staffers is trying to bait someone into taking a shot at him before it gets much closer to November.

Scotus will block it again right?

 

[DiggieSmalls]

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Openly buying votes while ignoring the SCOTUS and then smugly laughing at them, their authority, and the checks and balances of our nation.

This is the sort of thing someone who feels the fix is in, either in regards to the election, or in regards to the judicial system, and thus can be smug and insulting at people about it.

Either that or one of his staffers is trying to bait someone into taking a shot at him before it gets much closer to November.

SCOTUS at this point is a joke.

 

[mandatorylurk]

This should be a giant red flag to SCOTUS to say "you know what, we should stay the DC case for Trump just because of this."

 

[Useful_Mistake]

while ignoring the SCOTUS

Wasn't SCOTUS' issue with this last time was that they've used some pseudo-law nonsense to give themselves unlimited power and thereby cancel all debt? If he actually didn't piss his pants and did it right, this could pass