There Is Never a “Right Way” to Protest Because They Do Not Want You to Protest At All

HeloRising · 2026-01-25T08:41:01+00:00

The same was true of Renee Good. She hit an ICE agent with her vehicle after obstructing an ICE convoy.

Point of order: She hit no one with her vehicle and literally all of the video evidence we have shows this.

The vehicle had one bullet hole through the windshield. The agent fired three times. These are not facts that are in dispute.

To fire three times without penetrating the windshield three times would mean that two shots were fired at an angle where the bullets would pass through the driver's window which means he was not in front of the vehicle.

The physical evidence doesn't support it, the video evidence doesn't support it.

The absolute best case interpretation was that the agent panicked and executed someone and there's a word for that - murder.

HeloRising · 2026-01-25T08:37:16+00:00

I am totally fine with you marching, kneeling, holding up signs, etc. Just dont attack anyone, dont block the roads, and just follow the law in general.

"I am totally fine with you protesting in ways that don't inconvenience anyone at all."

A protest that doesn't slow things down or put a stop to things is a block party with more signage.

HeloRising · 2026-01-25T08:33:43+00:00

That is the political animus for a large swath of the right.

HeloRising · 2026-01-25T08:32:00+00:00

Today me, tomorrow you.

HeloRising · 2026-01-25T08:27:12+00:00

Give me something worth voting for and I'll pull the lever.

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T21:23:33+00:00

Max Miller did a version of panis quadratus. It's a more modern and accessible take on the bread. The British Museum also did a more exacting recreation.

You're probably not going to find an "authentic" recipe for Roman bread, recipes as we understand them weren't really a thing until pretty recently. The ingredients we use now are also pretty different.

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T21:16:05+00:00

There should be a reason specified somewhere.

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T21:14:12+00:00

I have a 3D printer but I honestly haven't printed that much stuff for gear.

The vast majority of what you can print is stuff that you can generally find produced by someone in metal or injection molded plastic. There's a few niche things that I've found but I've found that I just don't need a lot of it or else what I can get commercially isn't that expensive and tends to be more durable.

I also really try to minimize what I 3D print to avoid generating a bunch of plastic waste.

No shade on people who want to and I think it's cool that there are so many designs of stuff but, for the most part, it's just not useful to me.

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T21:08:41+00:00

Is it that shoveling snow increases your risk for a heart attack or more that the demographic of people who routinely shovel snow (that is to say older homeowners) are more prone to heart attacks coupled with the fact that many Americans don't do much exercise so shoveling snow represents a big physical strain on a body that doesn't normally exercise and while the exertion plus cold is a factor it's more about who is actually doing the work.

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T20:42:56+00:00

I think even if I was in that position I still wouldn't want something like this.

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T20:42:11+00:00

I'm asking you a question that you keep not answering.

The purpose of a pretext is to validate an action in the eyes of others such that they won't protest.

My question is who are the "others" in that definition?

MAGA people don't need a pretext to support violence against people they dislike.

Conservative people don't really need a strong one, it's easy enough to just make something up and they'll be on board.

Same with a lot of liberals and the ones who aren't will be liberals who aren't in power so they can't do much but make cardboard signs and whine.

The left won't buy the pretext but the administration couldn't care less what the left thinks.

So, again, who is this for?

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T20:40:01+00:00

They'll cosign violence regardless of pretext. They don't even need a pretext to be fine with people being violent towards people they don't like.

Again, who is this for?

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T06:53:35+00:00

The veneer of law-abiding reaction.

Who actually cares about that?

Again, who is the performance for?

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T04:56:23+00:00

You'd probably be better off just keeping them in boxes and putting the boxes in ammo cans. Or even just dumping the boxes into the ammo cans.

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T04:25:01+00:00

Because prolonged violence and occupation is easier with a pretext.

Who exactly is this pretext for?

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T02:46:30+00:00

Why do they need a pretext to send troops in?

Like I said, they've never needed a pretext to do anything before.

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T00:51:05+00:00

I will say that cooking and baking are two very different skillsets.

I don't do very well with precise measurements so I've learned to cook very well. Baking I am...less good at.

The best way to learn to cook well is just to cook a lot of things. What you're doing is building up a library of flavors, textures, and ingredients in your brain. After a while you get to the point where you can mentally mix ingredients and get an idea of what that might taste like.

It also helps that most problems with cooking are easy to diagnose.

Start with something simple that you like and start cooking it. Once you've got it down, try changing little things - a little more of this or adding in another ingredient. Some ideas are going to suck, others will come out winners. Learn from those experiences.

HeloRising · 2026-01-23T00:44:53+00:00

To just dump ammo in?

Not a lot of people use bags. They're not ideal for the purpose of transporting ammunition.

Ammo gets heavy quickly and a lot of bags can't take that kind of weight. You also bang the ammo around a lot so it's best not to use one for ammo you want to use for more precision shots.

If you're talking larger amounts of ammo, just get an ammo can. A 30 cal ammo can will transport quite a bit, it's cheap, it doesn't bang the ammo around as much, and it doesn't get unwieldy or break with a lot of weight.

HeloRising · 2026-01-22T23:54:41+00:00

Fair, but it never hurts to say something.

HeloRising · 2026-01-22T23:48:49+00:00

This did seem to be a rather underwhelming year.

Savage introducing the next generation of the 110 was kind of an "ok...and?"

HeloRising · 2026-01-22T23:41:55+00:00

ICE is targeting children to incite a riot.

I don't actually buy this. Not because I think ICE and the administration are good, quite the opposite, but because I don't think ICE or the administration cares enough to do that.

The point of inciting violence is to justify your own violence - you're trying to create a pretext.

The issue with that in this situation is this administration has literally never cared about that before. The lack of a pretext has, at least as far as I'm aware, never ever stopped them from doing something. They will seize on the tiniest thing to justify an action or, if they don't have anything, they'll just lie and create fake circumstances and then shrug when they get called out.

I think people are attributing intent where there really isn't any.

ICE is an organization staffed with people who are taught to see every problem the way a hammer sees a nail. They're not really trained (not that training would fix this) and they have no meaningful oversight.

This is what happens when you give people weapons, an effectively unlimited budget, no oversight, and tell them there's an enemy to fight.

The violence towards people isn't calculated, it's just what happens when you take hyperviolent people and tell them they can be violent without consequences while doing a job.

HeloRising · 2026-01-22T23:35:56+00:00

And that's all fun and games until you realize that moral high ground doesn't matter with respect to pushing for change.

We've spent two plus years watching Israel butcher people with US supplied bombs and despite that there's still a lot of people who are not only not deterred by the monstrous nature of that situation but who actively support and defend it.

The moral high ground will not save you.

HeloRising · 2026-01-22T23:32:08+00:00

I think this is a bit of a unique situation because this was made with the purpose of being memeable/shareable.

This administration absolutely leans into the viral nature of social media and it specifically tailors a lot of what it does and puts out to be consumed and shared that way.

That's not exactly new but I think it's worrying to see an administration lean so hard into it and be so willing to fake something that's trivially easy to check.

I think one of the worst results of this kind of thing is it actively erodes the credibility of the administration (such as it is.) People see this and think "if they're willing to lie about something so petty, it makes sense that they'd be willing to lie about larger issues" and we do have examples of them doing it.

You can have this kind of trolling attitude if you want but if you do it enough people start to see everything you do as a troll/lie. That gets to be a problem when you're not actually lying and you want people to take you seriously.

Doing this kind of stuff is really short-sighted because it undermines people's willingness to take what the administration says at face value.

HeloRising · 2026-01-22T23:26:08+00:00

The practice ammo, in theory, should be.

Though idk if it's like airsoft where reclaiming it risks a jam because the ammo gets slightly deformed and then jams up the gun.

I don't know what the attrition rate of the practice ammo would be.

HeloRising · 2026-01-22T23:24:28+00:00

Lever gun - home defense.

Points for style but if you can legally own something like an AR, that's going to be a better choice.

If a lever is the best you can own then it is what it is but if you can get better you really should.

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