It's the military.
From the moment you get your gun you'll be more than happy to leave it at the armory because whenever you're told to go and get it, you're about to do some bullshit.
Even the range sessions aren't all that fun. It's all tightly scripted and controlled to provide as little opportunity as possible for Private McDumbfuck to cock it up.
yes.
They're basically small governments within a defined neighborhood. Usually staffed by Ken, Karen and that old fart from two houses over who shouts at kids playing in the streets.
I'm sure some are good and work for the benefit of the neighborhood, but a lot of what you hear about them is small scale, vindictive dictatorship nonsense.
Yeah? That's what happens when you have a nation of self-loathing cowards who'd rather butcher themselves to the (questionable) benefit of some minority rather than stand up for themselves and for what's right.
Democracy is privilege and obligation.
But man, why is it that so many of the people—particularly women—that are theoretically on our side still suck?
Because they're sociopaths. The only thing they care about is the personal gain they can extract from the situation.
This woman is doing the conflict resolution version of monkey branching. She's currently on side A, but she'll never commit and always try to keep the door open to switch sides and stab you in the back should she at any point conclude that doing so would be to her benefit.
You know... On one hand, what amount of absolute retardation is required to go "you know what? People eat hot dogs and drink cola, so why not save a step and dunk your hot dog into your cola?"
On the other... Have you seen the shit Americans eat on the daily? To paraphrase the late George Carlin, if Americans were offered sauteed raccoon's assholes on a stick, they'd buy them and eat them. This just might work.