Russia is fighting on the side of climate change, not against it. Their entire economy is based on petrol and raw material exports. Hell, they might actually come out ahead if some of their territory turns temperate in a warming climate, while it wreaks havoc on their enemies. Muh warm water ports.

I remember playing Ghost Recon (no tagline) back on the Gamecube, probably not the appropriate game for my age.

It was definitely a slower and more grounded game back then, or at least as much as a mainstream game could be back in the early 2000s. And first-person.

They aren’t serious political actors with consistent or defensible positions, they are nationalist campists if not outright propagandists.

The only acceptable Western leader to them is one that will cause the most internal chaos and self-destruction while leaving BRICS (mostly China and Russia) alone. Left-right politics has little to do with it. They don’t want us to coalesce into progressive countries, they want us to collapse and suffer.

Isn’t that place lowkey falling apart? Salt spray is not good for infrastructure.

Their geriatric audience still makes the connection between drugs like that and the unpatriotic, godless hippie movement.

That’s most usable explosives from my limited understanding. A small primary explosive charge setting off a more stable bulk explosive, whether that be ANFO or C4 or something else.

He may have already had dynamite, but not a Uhaul full of dynamite. Which would have been difficult and quite dangerous I imagine.

The same losers come by gun stores and ask how to convert their AR-15s into machine guns. Actual police work is difficult I guess, so they go on these fishing expeditions.

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I would throw that under the same kind of forensic pseudoscience bunk as ballistic matching of bullets and matching pens/pencils to handwriting. A detective may try to scare you with it in an interrogation, but there is no logical way you can get any kind of certainty with that.

Public stories attract ire and inquisitive noses. Having to put together a story (even a shallow lie) also implies that they have an obligation to answer to the public. They would prefer that not be the case, in fact they would rather questioning their work be a crime in and of itself.

After Oklahoma City I’m pretty sure commercial fertilizer is pelletized with some sort of coating specifically to prevent its use as an explosive.

My read is that he is absolutely going to fire him at some point in the near future, but he wants to to be a shock so he can financially position himself for maximum gain before and after.

Are they, if under this conceit their home country refuses to accept them back?

Or if they are US citizens arbitrarily stripped of their citizenship?

Legality or lack thereof also doesn’t matter if they’re at the point where they’ll just force-feed you their Glock and throw your corpse into a lye pit in the woods for pulling such a stunt.

It probably falls under making people stateless, which is illegal. MAGA’ll argue that because they’re in custody, that’s not what’s happening, but nothing they argue is in good faith. If they argue to do one thing, they’re planning on doing something twice as bad in a month.

I don’t think abusive theocracies have a right to exist. Letting people like that coalesce into a nation-state will just cause bigger problems down the road.

Kind of wish nose art was still a thing, cause we’d be seeing some really degenerate shit on some really expensive hardware.

They want to make Deseret and secede from the US, or simply hold together their fiefdom while everything else collapses.

Kind of what I was getting at with my comments. The median standard of living doesn’t have to be bad or even particularly uncomfortable, but it would require everyone who lives above that median to be knocked down to it and be okay with that. Which they won’t. Meaning it will require force.

Threatening me with death because I’m not throwing my life away at the soonest possible opportunity does not make me want to hurt the regime, it makes me want to hurt you.

Reported for off topic.

Westerners eat meat everyday, nearly everyone drives cars everywhere, they buy heaps of cheap clothes and electronics made by slave or near-slave labor, they drink coffee and eat chocolate grown by the same. They go on expensive, polluting and disruptive globetrotting vacations. You think all that and more will stick around in a more equitable society?

I’m sorry I wasn’t inclusive enough in my chastising, Commissar. It’ll be the same story for them, too.

What are “Decent Living Standards?”

I’d bet that they’re at least one step down from what the usual Westerner is accustomed to.