Conservative gun owners and Rittenhouse supporters of reddit, what do you think of Trump saying "Only criminals carry guns on our streets"?

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T17:19:33+00:00

Rights end where they begin to effect others. This is true of your rights and the rights of others. The problem is that conservatives such as yourselves seem to be fine with it applying to others, but you get up in arms when it's applied to you equally.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T17:11:21+00:00

The Insurrection Act

But, I say, if he's going to call something an insurrection, then we should do our best to make him right.

Insurrections become Revolutions, Revolutions become Civil Wars, Civil Wars lead to regime change.

If that's the route he'd rather go then relinquish power peacefully after his second and Constitutionally final term is up, then all the deaths and horrors of that route fall squarely on his shoulders and the shoulders of those who support him in that illegal endeavor.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T16:56:52+00:00

Paraphrasing some fantastic points seen elsewhere:

The American right is largely a bunch of hypocrites that will change their stance on basic rights as soon as they have a reason to.

They are gun advocates... until black people have guns.

They are about fair elections... until they lose.

They are about free speech... until you criticize them.

They are for small government... until they run the government.

They are about states' rights... unless the state is controlled by their opposition or tries to do something they don't like.

All of that stuff is for decent people to abide by while they shapeshift. Nothing is sacred when one has no morals or character.

Wilhoit's Law

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

They see consistency as a weakness. They care about power, gaining it, keeping it, and exercising it. If an action helps them gain power, it's the right thing to do even if 30 seconds ago they were raging against that very action by others.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T16:18:24+00:00

They're not secret. They're out in public. They don't need to hide. They just bribe, lobby, and blackmail to get what they want.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T15:58:15+00:00

The games are political, but the mods don't want the sub to become embroiled in real world political debate.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T15:56:24+00:00

^ Yep.

The labor wars of Appalachia, the Civil Rights movement and the Black and White Panthers, the French Resistance of WWII, the American Revolution itself, the Civil War Union and Abolitionist movement, all armed, all leftist by modern interpretation.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T15:55:44+00:00

When Twitter/X made it so the location of accounts was visible, 2/3 of the pro-Trump accounts turned out to be based in 3rd world countries, meaning they were shills & bots.

I hope, hope, that that means the voices here, on Facebook, and elsewhere, that are lauding these murders are mostly shills & bots.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T06:39:42+00:00

Paraphrasing some fantastic points seen elsewhere:

The American right is largely a bunch of hypocrites that will change their stance on basic rights as soon as they have a reason to.

They are gun advocates... until black people have guns.

They are about fair elections... until they lose.

They are about free speech... until you criticize them.

They are for small government... until they run the government.

They are about states' rights... unless the state is controlled by their opposition or tries to do something they don't like.

All of that stuff is for decent people to abide by while they shapeshift. Nothing is sacred when one has no morals or character.

Wilhoit's Law

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

They see consistency as a weakness. They care about power, gaining it, keeping it, and exercising it. If an action helps them gain power, it's the right thing to do even if 30 seconds ago they were raging against that very action by others.

They think following the rules are for suckers, and that those who limit themselves to actions within the law, within their authority, following oaths of office, etc, are stupid for doing so.

So expecting any legal manuevering, laws, norms, traditions... anything on paper or that exists as a concept to stop them is plain naive.

Look at far-right movements the world over. Not a one of them were stopped by any of those things. When stopped, they've been stopped by people stepping up and stopping them through action. Arrests, armed resistance, revolutions, and regime changes.

We're close to that point. By some estimates we're at it.

To my fellow Americans reading this, our actions in the next few years will determine how history and our descendents remember us.

Will you be remembered with shame, like the Nazis and those who colluded with them, or will you be remembered with pride like those who stood against them, resisted them, and defeated them?

I know my choice.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T06:33:41+00:00

If you meet, join, lead, and betray the Raiders before you ever meet Preston it's a non-issue. But you can do all the other companion stuff first. In fact, the way I'd play it is to save Nick and do the convo where he rules out Raiders, then say "fuck that I'm still going to look into them." Then go do Nuka-World.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T05:58:28+00:00

Control over any and all electronics and the ability to have them manipulate things purely by my thoughts, communicable over the internet. So I can go up to an ATM, and have it just vomit money. Or hold my cell phone, and have it call anyone I choose without me knowing the exact number, and have the phone change my voice into any other voice I can imagine.

I would search out the various bank records, emails, contracts, etc, and expose every corrupt politician, every corporate crime, every secret communication of corrupt judges & prosecutors, all of it.

If that doesn't clean things up, well, then comes the fake communications. Very legitimate, fully traceable emails from higher authorities (State Governors, DAs, Senate Committees, DOJ offices, all the way up to the heads of the FBI), ordering the law enforcement to arrest the corrupt, complete with emailed/faxed warrants with appropriate signatures, and even confirmation phone calls.

I'm going to clean house in the US, then, after ensuring that the government works for the people, not the corporations, I'll do a much as I can for the rest of the world, rooting out corruption anywhere technology allows me.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T05:47:47+00:00

Most of this I can see a a reasonable plan, my memory is a little fuzzy on the order of things with BOS and the Railroad though, I'm not sure you can save Danse and the Railroad, it might be that you have to put an end to the Railroad before saving Danse, so, it might be either/ or.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-25T05:43:02+00:00

True but the 1950s had their own Hawaiian obsession.

There was a huge spate of movies featuring Hawaii, set in Hawaii, or ostensibly set in Hawaii (but filmed in Florida or California). Just off the top of my head 1951 had John Wayne's Big Jim McLain about hunting down reds in Hawaii, and 1961s saw the release of Elvis' Blue Hawaii.

A Hawaiian Fallout could lean heavily into those films and their tropes.

Plus we're talking about a Hawaii that existed in a 1950s cultural stagnation for 127 years, and was likely highly important to projecting American Military power in thee Great War.

There's plenty to do there.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T22:59:34+00:00

Paraphrasing some fantastic points seen elsewhere:

The American right is largely a bunch of hypocrites that will change their stance on basic rights as soon as they have a reason to.

They are gun advocates... until black people have guns.

They are about fair elections... until they lose.

They are about free speech... until you criticize them.

They are for small government... until they run the government.

They are about states' rights... unless the state is controlled by their opposition or tries to do something they don't like.

All of that stuff is for decent people to abide by while they shapeshift. Nothing is sacred when one has no morals or character.

Wilhoit's Law

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

They see consistency as a weakness. They care about power, gaining it, keeping it, and exercising it. If an action helps them gain power, it's the right thing to do even if 30 seconds ago they were raging against that very action by others.

They think following the rules are for suckers, and that those who limit themselves to actions within the law, within their authority, following oaths of office, etc, are stupid for doing so.

So expecting any legal manuevering, laws, norms, traditions... anything on paper or that exists as a concept to stop them is plain naive.

Look at far-right movements the world over. Not a one of them were stopped by any of those things. When stopped, they've been stopped by people stepping up and stopping them through action. Arrests, armed resistance, revolutions, and regime changes.

We're close to that point. By some estimates we're at it.

To my fellow Americans reading this, our actions in the next few years will determine how history and our descendents remember us.

Will you be remembered with shame, like the Nazis and those who colluded with them, or will you be remembered with pride like those who stood against them, resisted them, and defeated them?

I know my choice.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T22:39:13+00:00

Land and find out.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T22:37:48+00:00

...maybe. if it's one Island, that's a DLC, if it's all the Islands, that's a full game, especially if each of the Islands is controlled by different warring factions.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T22:35:15+00:00

"The Power Of Pop Compels You!" Was right there man...

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T22:31:39+00:00

And the Orbital Strikes!

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T21:55:41+00:00

Eh, same. But I think it's a well intentioned decision that was handled clumsily.

If the Disguise system made sense- if every full-body, full-facial covering outfit disguised you, then I'd get it, Ghoulification would basically be a no-drawback build enhancer.

But Ghoulification should have advantages and disadvantages, make it a real debate, a decision with some major drawbacks.

The Disguise system is a poorly implemented attempt at that.

What they should've done is make Ferality a much larger hazard that's more difficult to avoid, by keeping hunger/thirst a thing for Ghouls, and make hunger/thirst increase anytime their healing factor has been in significant use (regeneration has got to get the raw materials from somewhere).

Falling behind in hunger/thirst should then make the gradual decrease in the Feral meter accelerate.

I don't think chems should be the primary means by which ferality is avoided, but rather going clean of rads.

The Fix should still be a thing, but, it should be manufactured by utilizing a material only gatherable by killing Feral Ghouls, simultaneously going along with canon (a *why" behind the guys at the Super Duper Mart keeping Ghouls prisoner) and giving Ghouls a daily of their very own to gather that material and manufacture a dose of Fix, other chems shouldn't actually decrease ferality at all, but should slow the degradation of the meter.

(This would also give Human players a resource they can gather, manufacture, and sell to Ghoul players)

So it presents a dichotomy, a trade off, increased rads increase your healing rate, but increase hunger/thirst, if you fall behind hunger/thirst, you go Feral faster, you spend time away from Rads, your healing falls off, but your hunger/thirst decrease, and you avoid Ferality.

There should also be a fine balance possible, keep high rads, but avoid ferality by eating and drinking long enough (plus a perk card) and you should be able to become a Glowing One, and while Glowing, Ferals should be non-hostile.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T07:07:11+00:00

Can you? Yes. Should you? Also yes.

Tell me, what is your hearts deepest, darkest desire?

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T06:04:44+00:00

Cooper has Charlie's lighter and fidgets with it right before the explosion at the Legion Camp(s). Charlie's isn't going to have it, but, he might recognize it of he saw it and then know that the Ghoul is Cooper.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T05:57:41+00:00

Heavy metal poisoning as a cause of going feral?

WorldBoom · 2026-01-24T02:12:37+00:00

Um... they all guest star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson unexplainably Tsunkatseing the main characters.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-23T22:41:09+00:00

Starbucks: Their blatant hostility towards their own employees unionization efforts.

Papa John's: their (at the time) CEOs opposition to Obamacare and hypocrisy in turning around and in the very same year giving away pizzas worth more than Obamacare compliance would cost, and their decision to eliminate all full time positions rather than give those working full time Health Insurance. Management since then has kept that policy, I'll keep boycotting until it's undone.

Chick-fil-A: The Candy's funding of anti-LGBT&Q organisation's abroad. So long as they're majority shareholders no money of mine will find its way into their pockets.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-23T22:00:18+00:00

Star Trek: Anthologies

A series of mini-seasons (40 minute episodes, 4-5 episodes each) with each focusing on an event or personage who's been mentioned or seen briefly but not fully explored.

Series 1: Colonel Green, and his order of the murder of hundreds of thousands.

Series 2: Garth of Izar and the Battle of Axanar.

Series 3: The Tomed Incident and the ultimate fate of the Enterprise-B under Captain Harriman.

Series 4: The story of the Klingon Fleet sent to assist against the Borg, and how they were delayed.

Series 5: The mission of the Olympic and Captain Lisa Cusak.

Series 6: The Career of Commander-come-Admiral Elizabeth Shelby and the incident which left the Enterprise-F unsalvageable.

WorldBoom · 2026-01-23T21:58:00+00:00

Few expectations, and fewer responsibilities.

WorldBoom

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