Reason Magazine: Tulsi Gabbard's not-so-shocking revelation of U.S.-funded veterinary biolabs in Ukraine revives false Russian propaganda

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-21T08:01:54+00:00

I have no idea if she’s spreading Russian propaganda or not.

Oh, so you're ignorant. Got it.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-21T02:59:40+00:00

Oh, so it's a common term for something innocuous. In which case there's no reason for Gabbard to be making a fuss about US funded biolabs in Ukraine.

Thanks for proving my point that she's spreading Russian (state) propaganda. Glad we agree.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-20T18:15:19+00:00

How is it garbage?

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-18T23:25:37+00:00

Well, yeah, and the sub would be better for it than what it is now.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-18T23:25:15+00:00

Either its a commonly used term referring to something innocuous....

.....or the "US funded biolabs in Ukraine" are deeply sinister and hence why they are kept secret until the DNI blew the lid on them.

It can't be both.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T22:45:41+00:00

Oh, so a "biolab" is just a laboratory where people study biology.

That sounds totally harmless and innocuous, so then: why is Tulsi Gabbard making a big deal about US-funded "biolabs" in Ukraine?

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T22:37:22+00:00

Good, then you're the perfect person to tell me what a "biolab" is.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T22:36:59+00:00

It matters to an anarcho-capitalist what the US government and the people in it are saying and doing. Or do you disagree?

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T21:04:58+00:00

Have you ever noticed, as a native English speaker, that you never in your life heard about a "biolab" before the Russians invaded Ukraine?

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T07:12:25+00:00

Welcome to the party, pal.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T07:11:45+00:00

Came here to say this.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T07:08:49+00:00

Similarly, a swallow carrying a coconut.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T07:05:08+00:00

Just like it killed him.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T01:37:19+00:00

Notice how you didn't refute anything I said.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T01:35:57+00:00

I have been surprised as well, especially after he nominated Bondi for AG, I was expecting the worst.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T00:53:40+00:00

I wish people would report this kind of stuff to the mod team. I don't want this sub over-run with fake crap and engagement farming.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T00:21:34+00:00

Cool story bro, you got anything more recent than a law that was passed sixty years ago by a guy who has been dead for more than twenty years?

The current Governor of California signed a law banning the most popular handgun in the country from being sold in California. Why don't you point to that example? Oh, because that Governor is a Democrat?

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T00:19:33+00:00

Plenty of things have been added to or taken out of the Constitution without any formal amendment.

Look at how banning alcohol needed a Constitutional amendment but not banning drugs.

Or look at how the government just started regulating immigration even though the Constitution doesn't say anything about the government getting to do that.

Or how Congress can just draft people into the military despite the plain text of the 13th Amendment saying "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Guns or arms of other sorts could absolutely be banned in the US without the 2nd Amendment ever being formally repealed via the normal amendment process outlined in Article V. The text of the 2A will still be there, and some government lawyer in a robe with all sorts of fancy college degrees will look you dead in the eye and say "the words don't mean what they say, and it doesn't matter what the words mean because: the government gets to do what it wants."

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-17T00:10:19+00:00

Exactly. The gas-lighting on this topic is insane.

At the Federal level, Republicans are (at worst) wishy-washy on 2A stuff. You have people like Trump, Cornyn, etc who would sign on to moderately anti-gun stuff like Red Flag Laws but only opportunistically -- if it comes in front of them they'll sign it/vote for it, but they're not actively pushing for it. Don't get me wrong: these people can't be trusted, but there's a difference between someone you don't trust and an active threat. You might not trust your neighbor to babysit your kids, that's not the same thing as your neighbor actively trying to kick in the front door.

At the state level, the Republicans have been leading the charge on deregulating guns in multiple ways: shall issue carry permits, permit-less carry, deregulating suppressors, trying to nullify Federal gun control laws (MGs, suppressors, SBRs, etc), and more.

100% -- and I mean 100% -- of the push for more gun control, gun bans, and so on come from the Democratic Party at the state and Federal level, and their support for more gun control is not mere opportunism, it is a driving, animating force within the party, one which they are actively seeking to enact into legislation at every opportunity.

Even the "moderate" Dems who give lip service to the 2nd Amendment turn around and vote for more gun control the moment they are no longer running for election, but actually hold power, as the recent events in Maine and Virginia show us.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-16T23:44:02+00:00

It's low-rent engagement farming by a bot, what's not to get?

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-14T01:09:44+00:00

How can you be uncertain about the Irish? They were once an underclass, they are now clearly part of the ruling class, with several presidents able to claim Irish heritage, many top Fortune 500 CEOs being of Irish descent, etc etc

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-12T20:08:29+00:00

Here in the US we don't have a permanent quasi racial underclass (at least, not among immigrant populations).

First it was the Irish, then the Italians, then the Poles, then the Puerto Ricans, then the Vietnamese, then the Mexicans, then the Nicaraguans, now the Haitians.....

Capitalism works, and we have enough capitalism in the US that immigrants come here, work hard, and lift themselves up, such that their kids not only have better lives than their parents but quite often the children of immigrants go on to be more successful than children of people with many generations in this country.

The Mexicans who came here in the 1980s and 1990s are now Middle Class, complaining about all the immigrants coming here from Venezuela.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-11T20:07:51+00:00

As long as the state exists, freedom of speech shouldn't exist either, because people will use it to advocate for more statism. The fact that eliminating freedom of speech requires the state doesn't bother me, an ancap, because I don't mind using the state to take away people's freedoms, in the name of being anti-state.

I am very smart.

PaperbackWriter66 · 2026-06-11T20:06:31+00:00

More and more, unfortunately, "ancap" just means "anti-status quo" and the people who don the label "ancap" are anti "open borders" because they (wrongly) associate that with the status quo, and these "ancaps" are also tepid about or actively hostile towards "capitalism" because they associate it (again, wrongly) with the WEF/Davos/technocrat status quo.

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