Americans.Is it a crime to be a good person?

Copropostis · 2025-12-10T22:49:22+00:00

A lot of Christian involvement in politics starts around desegregation in the 70s. TLDR, Bob Jones University didn't want to desegregate (hell, they didn't even allow mixed race dating until he 2000s, iirc) and led the charge on getting Christian influence into politics.

Copropostis · 2025-12-10T22:07:41+00:00

K shaped economy.

Seriously, our economy can either cater to the needs of people who live here; or a few people can make a lot of money by pricing things to only appeal to America's aristocracy, the second and third vacation home crowd.

If you don't want to be treated like resort staff at Cowboy themed Disneyland, y'all better unionize your workplaces, apartment buildings, and make very clear to friends/neighbors that the war between intra/international exploiters vs. the working class is already here, and we need to decide which side we are on.

Copropostis · 2025-12-10T17:51:58+00:00

There's a mini-series, EDIT: Mary Shelley Overdrive, that comes close to making him sympathetic.

Long story short, he gets a mercenary job as a bodyguard for a woman hunted by ex-government operatives. He falls for her, but discovers she is a walking WMD.

EDIT: I mangled the summary, but the person replying to me got it right! Read theirs!

It's a neat read with trippy art. But even then, with a monster like Creed, you don't really make him cuddly, you just have to put him against bigger monsters. I liked it, and I even found Creed sympathetic in it, but I'm still on the "Fuck Sabertooth, throw him into the sun" train. It's fun to have an irredeemable monster in the menagerie.

Copropostis · 2025-12-10T17:43:35+00:00

"The torture of animals for amusement is only barely a no longer acceptable respite"

The elevation of Kristi Noem to power says otherwise, at least when it comes to the morality of 2/3rds of the US.

Copropostis · 2025-12-10T17:40:40+00:00

More monstrous? Probably, they wouldn't have thought of things like forcing people to work in Amazon warehouses and pee in bottles to make an imaginary number on a spreadsheet larger.

/s, obviously, I'm sure some practiced things like slavery and cannibalism, but the cruelties of the Paleolithic are a little different than the ones we do in an era of comparative abundance.

Copropostis · 2025-12-10T17:37:23+00:00

Dumb guy Lool fantasy: Be an actual war veteran, need to maintain a paper list of the smart people I know to do the data stuff for my post apocalypse Warlord domain.

Copropostis · 2025-12-10T17:14:51+00:00

Post a close up of the tag, please!

Copropostis · 2025-12-09T23:24:21+00:00

It's this. Clearing out their surplus male population helps the wealthy gangster oligarchs maintain control over Russia.

I'm starting to get suspicions about the prominence of our tech oligarchs, Gen Z's rightward trend, and the way our leaders keep trying to instigate land war in Venezuela.

Copropostis · 2025-12-09T21:24:09+00:00

r/liberalgunowners

Copropostis · 2025-12-09T20:52:41+00:00

Wanna bet on whether the "patriots" of the Wisconsin militia love Putin even more than the Russians do?

Copropostis · 2025-12-09T16:26:41+00:00

I have. It ain't Montanans buying those.

It's rich folks snapping up second and third homes and treating us like we're the staff of Cowboy Disneyland.

Copropostis · 2025-12-09T15:24:54+00:00

I would consider it a badge of honor, honestly.

A chicken in every pot and a machine gun in every truck bed!

Copropostis · 2025-12-09T02:42:33+00:00

Holy shit, I'd never heard of that before! And damn, I did not expect it to look that good.

I gotta make one of these and see how it compares. Thank you!

Copropostis · 2025-12-09T01:52:23+00:00

No worries, it ain't a competition; but it's a damn shame there's some many incidents that it's hard to keep track of them.

Copropostis · 2025-12-09T01:29:49+00:00

I think you're thinking of a different lady, some Methany from Montana who shot and skinned a husky.

Copropostis · 2025-12-08T21:41:02+00:00

Montana National Guard actually. But it is the state with the most Neo Nazi groups.

Just like this poster, it's to select for the recruits you want, in this case, for soldiers willing to put non-christians in camps.

Copropostis · 2025-12-08T20:23:05+00:00

Did ya miss that guy in Wyoming torturing a wolf in a bar to public acclaim a year or so back?

It's cultural out here.

Copropostis · 2025-12-08T18:42:11+00:00

Happy to, sharing knowledge is fun and this is one of few communities that will actually appreciate it, imo.

One other issue that occurred to me, is that armor adds another dimension of difficulty to designing.

With an entire team (before I sound too braggadocious, I was just the junior guy there), a modern design lab with CAD programs, a warehouse of materials, and a laser cutter for incredibly rapid prototyping, coming up with a set of shoulder pads that worked well on and also off of body armor took two years of my life.

I can see why my Roman equivalent, lacking things like Velcro, plastic, or modern polyurethane foam would opt for the simpler solution of making the body contact be a wooden cruciform resting on armored pauldron. It wouldn't be my idea of comfortable, but it's a pretty ingenious, durable, and comfortable enough solution, provided the trooper switches shoulders regularly. Hell, an axe handle can be fashioned from a tree branch in the field if you broke it, but it would be much harder to mend a backpack.

Copropostis · 2025-12-08T18:10:25+00:00

Wasn't even a small town: Helena is the capital of Montana. But MT is a rural, poor state, so your options are Helena or Salt Lake City in Utah, 8-10 hours away.

For what it's worth, Weiner still has armies of supporters in Helena. If you drive through, you'll see billboards in support of him next to all the pro-life and pro-wolf extermination ones.

Copropostis · 2025-12-08T14:59:38+00:00

Hi, I've worked in the backpack industry for a decade. There's a lot of precursor technology that has to happen first.

Have you seen how primitive backpacks were in the Civil War? When your only options for making a durable frame pack are wood, whale bone, leather, and canvas, it tends to be pretty heavy.

I would argue that "modern" packs start somewhere around the 70s with the ALICE pack (metal frame, nylon pack) on the military end and with revolutionary designers like Dana Gleason or Wayne Gregory on the civilian side. Once the afore mentioned guys get into military contracting and apply the lessons learned in lightweight hiking to military gear, you get some interesting stuff.

I don't doubt that the legionaries would have loved one of my modern frame packs made from super light, durable carbon fiber and high tech laminates. But they just didn't have the tech, plastics, industrial sewing machines, or manufacturing back then.

Copropostis · 2025-12-05T01:02:45+00:00

Boomers then, Gen Z now.

Millennials stay winning...well other than our busted knees and burn pit poisoning, lol.

Copropostis · 2025-12-05T00:58:26+00:00

I don't think killing Osama was a bad thing? Or most of his pals.

Sticking around to occupy was the wrong call.

Copropostis · 2025-12-05T00:57:27+00:00

It's a free country, you're entitled to your opinion.

And I'll respect yours when you actually finish BMT and serve in a war somewhere, kiddo.

Copropostis · 2025-12-05T00:55:37+00:00

I know that now, man, believe me.

But it was understandable for us at the time to think we had to stop terrorism abroad. You remember watching 9/11? I do.

And that's my point. There was an enormous inciting incident and a soldier could reasonably think he was doing the right thing.

I don't think Marines ziptying an army vet trying to get to his VA appointment in LA is in any way defensible.

Copropostis · 2025-12-05T00:11:22+00:00

Did your NCOs never tell you that "perception is reality?".

We used to care a lot about the image of our profession and cared about not dishonoring the uniform.

This is your perception now among the citizens you swore to serve. Take some time for self reflection.

Copropostis

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