Don’t be so dramatic, they just want to make sure your dog passed a mental health assessment and has completed a gun safety course. Guns are far too prevalent in dog culture for the government to just swoop on in and take them all. 🙄

…there are no bad dogs tho.

I took a concealed carry course ages ago, and it helped to instill a healthy level of paranoia about unintentional discharge.

My takeaways were:

• fuck semi-auto pistols. Many working parts means many points of failure; carrying with a round in the chamber is dangerous as fuck, especially combined with a hair trigger; even if you don’t think there’s one in the chamber, there’s no good way to verify visually without opening the chamber, and even then people tend to give themselves a false negative and carry hot thinking they’re carrying safely; if you don’t carry hot, you have an extra step to perform under panic-levels of anxiety, aka you fumble with a gun-shaped brick for a couple seconds while your assistant proceeds to murder you; and blocky shape = blocky imprint = you’ve made yourself a target before a potential altercation even begins.

• Revolvers are the way cuz ^that. And the imprint is more varied, making it conform better to your pudge and not stand out through your clothing. But even among revolvers, fuck any that have an external hammer, which can get snagged on clothing or something, pulled back partially, released, and strike a round causing it to fire without even touching the trigger.

• Internal hammer, double-action-only is the way, cuz ^that.

• Load one round fewer than the cylinder’s capacity, then close the cylinder with the empty chamber on top / in line with the barrel. Your gun is now only physically capable of firing by fully engaging the trigger. You can drop that fucker out of an airplane, and when it hits the ground it goes thud, not bang. Also, since the back of the casing seats further back than the back of the cylinder, there’s a gap that you can look into to visually assess whether or not there are any rounds loaded; and where or not the individual chamber in line with the barrel is loaded (hot).

Absolute safest way to carry. Only downside is you only have 4 shots to work with, but if you need more than that, you’re probably dead anyway.

I use duck duck go, it does the trick 99% of the time, especially if you use extensions to remove specified websites - like Pinterest - from the results.

Kinda redundant.

cool - all the more reason to deface our traitor in chief.

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YES. My suggestion was to mark Trump as the Nazi he is - currency with Nazi iconography on it is not fit to be reissued. It’s a petty protest, but the point is to make the proposed new bills inconvenient and convey a clear message until they’re inevitably pulled.

Except by the wording of the specific law in question. o_O

I’m not seeing the disconnect here. Nor the need for the disconnect in the first place: the first post I made here was to encourage people to deface prints of Trump. If you disagree that there’s a legal barrier to doing so, then cool - all the more reason to deface our traitor in chief.

Why are you wrapping random words with quotation marks? It reads like it’s being spoken aloud by Dr. Evil. Anyway, gonna go with the wording of the law itself over a wiki article about it:

18 U.S. Code § 331 - Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins

This one’s specific to coins. Anecdotally I was always told they were legal because pennies are explicitly an exception to that law. So, it’s either that or it’s in j-walking territory where it may be illegal, but no one gives a shit enough to enforce it.

…also coins aren’t really relevant here anyway - the conversation is about defacing paper bills if they decide to soil them with Trump’s traitorous image.

Then do the thing? Is super duper illegal different from regular illegal? Why are we bashing heads over the use of ‘super duper’ in NotTheOnion in the first place?

18 U.S. Code § 333 - Mutilation of national bank obligations

I guess there’s some wiggle room with regards to intent and whether it could be argued that adding Nazi iconography (moreso than trump’s face as-is) to bills renders them unfit to be kept in circulation.

If my personal freedom was on the line here, I’m sticking with “idk it was like that when I got it - can I get a new one please?” vs “ooh come on, it’s fiiine, you can still spend this!” but interpreting the law isn’t my specialty, so grain of salt.

Just so everyone’s aware, it’s super duper illegal to deface currency.

So like, it would be against the law to use a sharpie to add a Hitler mustache to Trump’s face on said dollar bill; or add an arm extended in a Nazi salute; or add swastikas over ‘god’ where it says “In god we trust”; to then bring it to a bank and report that you received defaced currency and would like to exchange it for new bills, only to do it all again.

So… y’know, probably don’t do those things.

Why can’t we go back to small phones?

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Yo, uBlock, see that little bitch ass window telling me to turn you off? Yeah, block element that piece of shit. Thanks bro!

Be a shame if thousands of people applied and talked the Nazi talk, only to drag out the hiring process and make ridiculous demands in wage/benefits negotiation. Worst case scenario, they actually agree to the demands, you take the job, and sabotage their ops from the inside.

I never said that they should not be held accountable.

Oh, that bit wasn’t meant to refute something you said. I’m mostly just bitching into the void right now - it looks like we see eye-to-eye on pretty everything here except perhaps splitting hairs over when to use the label ‘stupid’ vs ‘evil’. I do try to avoid the former cuz it detracts from establishing intent, but not a single thing you’ve said so far is wrong.

But yeah, I don’t mean to be argumentative or anything, I’m just pissed off.

Part of the problem with Trump and the other Trumpanzees following in his his footsteps is that we constantly give them the village-idiot pass and fail to hold them accountable.

When it comes to politics, world leaders, CEOs - it’s the the opposite of Hanlon’s Razor. Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.

If their actions cause damage, I’m going to assume it was calculated and intentional, especially when it’s a pattern that repeats itself on a daily fucking basis.

And honestly, you’re probably right. Especially as you go lower and lower down the Nazi chain of command, the spectrum slides from evil to stupid. But if there’s even an inkling of a chance that that any one of those Nazis has the self awareness to realize that they are in fact the badies, but stay the course anyway cuz they’re fucking evil, then that’s the assumption I’m rolling with.

Treat these traitors like the threat they are, regardless of their motive or capability.