Eh, I would say "disgusted by the society in which he lives and in contact with Feds who wanted to create a narrative"
Considering the recent ones there is no unifying thread of thought, no consistent manifesto other than copy/paste of another one.
They are/were essentially children who picked up on the degradation of society but immediately went to the deep end. Most young men who know shits fucked do not pick up a rifle and do stupid things.
I think the sane young men know exactly what's going on and chose to respond in other ways. It is the mentally ill or other wise vulnerable young men who act out in such a way, with constant reassurance and guidance from some Fed.
Glowie Induced Mass Psychosis
I would bet many people here already follow Dank but, if not, here you go
Spez: To add: There are famous cases like the one involving Larry Nassar and young girls but grooming does involve young boys as well. The case in the OP happened 30 odd years ago. It has become an overt thing now. They know they can operate in the open and they don't care if they are found out. This is why they are pushing drag queen story readings. It's NAMBLA type men who know the easiest way to get a young boy's trust is to mimic mom, in the most absurd, caricatured way.
And that is why I think putting these people against FED POST is not a bad idea.
Maybe she heard about some dude named Malcolm X and heard he was a freedom fighter of some stripe. Never bothered looking in to his stance on arms ownership.
But got to keep that last name to make sure people know she isn't white.
I got a copy of Hagakure after watching it. I like Jim Jarmusch's movies in general but that one inspired me to buy a book.
"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking."
It's weird. I think I'll try and dig that article up. My father and sister are the same way as you. I don't react like that. (great grand father mentioned is on my mothers side)
I think it's a regional thing. In the US south they are so damn easy to grow many people now grow them on their front porch, because why not? It's almost a meme about how "large" your cherry tomatoes got.
But I figure in earlier times they were something that was easy to grow, didn't require much maintenance, and had some nutritional value. So, make a sandwich out of them.
They aren't great. But BLTs are a thing.
My mother ate tomato sandwiches, as did her mother, and grand mother. I remember seeing my great grand father eat a tomato like an apple.
More than a few people thought my great grand father odd.
The only time I've seen them was when I was younger parked on some air base, at an air show, or as you said on mounted on posts.
It is hard to watch, and I can't imagine for someone who worked around them, but I get it. There really isn't a better way to "decommission" them given the gov really wanted to make sure Iran couldn't salvage anything.
Given the time when they were developed I am curious about the documents about the design and creation of the aircraft. Surely they were archived but where and how? Are they still available now? If so, are they Grumman's or US gov property?
While I am inclined to agree with Crichton's take now, given have things have panned out, I don't think it's as bad as laid out. For one thing, it's astonishing how not-online many people are, even younger people. Sites like Twitter or Youtube are really only frequented by a very small part of the population. I know someone who tries to stay informed about current events but still thinks reddit is "too far out there" to visit.
Since you mentioned accents, I work for a company in the US south/south east. I mostly work with small and local businesses. When I need to contact a company I either speak to a low level employee, like a receptionist, or the owner. Almost always I am greeted by a southern accent. The lower level employees I know are younger than myself and the owners I know are older. These are the not-online regular people. I don't know where they get their news from, if they bother to check at all, but they are certainly not part of the internet hive-mind. So there is still hope. And we have a large reach, covering many rural areas as well as most large cities in the south.
An interesting thing about the company I work for, even as new and re-opening jobs are almost entirely work from home, we only hire people in our region. As it was said to me "someone from New Jersey would have no idea how to handle these interactions" The company explicitly understands there is a cultural, regional component.
From what I've heard the Great Plains region is also doing the same thing, keeping business local and not expanding beyond their region to keep that "homey" feeling.
Taking to the high seas is great and all but I think used book stores are somewhat undervalued. Libraries are cool, and the inter-library loan system is awesome, but in the end you pretty much have curated options, with no option to own. Used book stores are wild, you really have no idea what can show up there. Sure, the contents of the store is curated by the owner or who ever is working the desk but in my experience they'll take pretty much anything. And many of them offer credit. You can show up with a stack of books, drop it off, browse around, and return to buy a new stack of books and get charged 50 cents. They are pretty much for profit libraries.
Another thing, in my own experience, is that the people that run stores like that are similar to the people who ran independent video rental stores. They have extensive knowledge and a genuine love for the media they are selling. Chat one up and they will unload a crazy amount of esoteric information about Philip José Farmer, Robert Silverberg, or EE Doc Smith and the Lensman series.
I was planning on keeping mine as "street" as possible. Never cleaning it, never taking it apart. Just beating the shit of out of it. The sights were the first thing to fail. Color points, dots (?) just fell out, they moved around a lot, too. Still, pull trigger, go bang, no matter what was in it.
I looked at some disassembly pages on-line and, yeah, that damn pin seems to be an issue.
It really is a great bathroom gun. No kidding, you get that monster in someones face, they will back up.
You chose what happens after.
I had a 9 hi point, cause fuck it, cheap. Buddy of mine had a fowty fife. Gotta say, it ate everything I fed it. The entire design is ugly as hell and I'd never consider carrying one but it just works. I really dig the idea of taking old rust belt factories and re-tooling them for something like firearms, too.
Yes, they are a meme. But if you look at them as a tool they really do the job.
Yes, mine was a "truck gun" That truck was actually a boat. And it flipped. Lost forever.
It includes copy/pasted parts from Tarrant's manifesto. It reads like it was written by someone who has a very surface level understanding of /pol/ and /k/
As someone posted "this is not home grown, organic autism"
r/drama posts are pretty easy to spot. It's always written with the same tone and with the same structure. There is a sort of earnestness to them. "Guys, I am doing the right thing but I keep running in to problems from ̶n̶o̶r̶m̶a̶l̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ wrong thinkers"
They get their outrage but there is always genuine replies in support of what ever lunacy they posted.