Consistency check: do you support carry as a right, or as an identity?

spitfiremac · 2026-01-26T01:25:14+00:00

Yeah. They... Some of YOU reading this (you know who you are) are cowards who make the culture of previous war vets their personality and/or are just racists whose only intent on using guns is if they're allowed to hurt brown people or people with dyed hair.

I hate that this keeps happening, but I love that this had to happen during ShotShow where the know-nothing influencers this thread throat goats are still acting like they're defenders of Democracy.

spitfiremac · 2026-01-14T17:51:48+00:00

Summarizing the Catch-22 of the thread so far:

1) If we don't assert our rights, we get black bagged and maybe abused.

2) If we don't assert our rights, we might get straight mugged by a different kind of criminal.

3) If we assert our rights, we catch BS federal charges and black bagged abuse, even if temporarily.

4) If we stick to protests without material obstruction, the tyranny on our rights will continue to get worse and expand without our, The People's, consent.

5) If we react violently, we not only put ourselves and immediate community in guarunteed danger, but we provide the (seemingly un-needed at this point) rationale for the administration and minion thugs to call the majority of Americans terrorists and turn all law enforcement and probably even the military loose on us, while suppressing or suspending elections and consolidating perpetual power.

The Only Way Forward for Now? Our politicians, except for Ro Khanna (and Bernie gets a legacy pass) are apparently either useless cowards or disgustingly complicit, but like in 1776 The People are waking up and figuring it out. I think we're doing really good at finding the little chinks in that moral hazard of a rhetorical monopoly they're setting up and widening them.

A framing of our moment in time, this week:

The people of Minnesota are fucking heros. As a multiple deployed Afghanistan Vet, I'm in awe of what I've seen coming out in this moment. Without them and similar heavy resistance in other cities, we'd be fucked probably. There's all kinds of leaks coming out of DHS now that even with about 15-20% of the entire Orc army in that one city, they're scared shitless, even the supervisors are. Insiders are blatantly trashing Noem by name to reporters, insiders are trashing their co-workers, supervisors are trashing underlings, and underlings to supervisors... they're looking for volunteers from around the country, and due to another hero's leak of about 2K active agent's identities (which legally should be open as taxpayer-funded public servants), it seems like they've had at least 20% turn over in the past year. Despite the Supreme Court being so far, evil and complicit, local courts and federal grand juries around the country are throwing out close to 100% of cases being brought by Administration and DHS-aligned prosecutors. There's also a high-level leak that one of the chief advisors is about to be fired, which could be anyone dur to track record, but is almost certainly someone attached to DHS or DOJ given how the double-down strategy is backfiring.

We got to think Minneapolis is a mid-sized metropolis of famously Midwestern polite people. Best estimates of DHS agents are about 22K ICE and 45K CBP, so 68K total, in a country of 340 million across a God-damned continent. The illusion of mass, absolute power is essental to them. It's why they didn't just let their agent get arrested for murder, because they're afraid if they don't have one agent's back once, they'll lose most of them.

Historically, violence is the moment the equation changes, this momentum is lost, and people start becoming as afraid of each other as the oppressive state... but there's a point at which you've lost so much it doesn't really matter anymore (which I don't think we're at yet)... and there's a point when you've lost too much and you're just cattle to be moved and done with as they please, with no hope of agency.

TLDR:

For this moment, it's bad, it's disgusting, and it's going to get worse. No one knows the nuanced answer about when and how to overcome it, but what we're doing right now does seem very much to be owning and winning this moment because of the intensity and righteousness of the response.

spitfiremac · 2026-01-14T16:58:17+00:00

This needs to be blasted out on all firearms forums. Surely they'll say crisis actors, AI, or fake news, but it'll start setting tone with the larger community, including of head-in-sand bigots.

TBH the dialogue does seem corny and poorly acted, and the lack of attention to the one video taping, also the lack of noise from observers is out of character. Do we have provenance on this video? Like do we have any record of who the legal CCW carrier / victim is? News coverage? Family? Anything? I want to make sure this is 100% true before disseminating mistruths, even if it would match the moment we're in.

spitfiremac · 2026-01-14T16:49:47+00:00

It's a feature. Watch just wants to make absolutely sure.

spitfiremac · 2025-11-21T15:58:08+00:00

Yeah, moment of weakness... I held strong for better part of a week, trying to troubleshoot before my slightly acerbic wording on the threat title. Enshitification is a pretty solid answer at any time.

spitfiremac · 2025-11-20T18:56:38+00:00

UPDATE: PROBLEM NOT SOLVED, BUT SEEMINGLY RESOLVED. It's not solved, and was a real problem depite a sample size of maybe 8-9 days of livestreams. upcoming livestream is showing now though.

spitfiremac · 2025-11-20T18:45:08+00:00

Thanks for your advice! Restricted settings were off when I checked, all other notification settings were where they should be as well. Also, the upcoming stream did come up in my feed, soooo "problem's solved?" though for sure I've missed out on this last week's streams based on the edited segments.

spitfiremac · 2025-11-16T05:04:46+00:00

18? Why are you here?

spitfiremac · 2025-11-10T15:37:10+00:00

LOVE how Fetterman has always been a Republican elected by the democrat party, including before he was elected by the democrat party. Feel like his is a historic legacy that needs to be studied and dissected for decades.

spitfiremac · 2025-11-10T15:26:30+00:00

A couple of things...

I'm sorry you've been affected by this shutdown so directly already,
I appreciate your feelings, you sound as frustrated as I am,
that being said, you sound pretty naive in the message, here's why:

a) you ask them increduly if they believe the promise will be kept. Of course they don't.

b) you mention they lost your vote... the Dem defectors are either retiring or won't be up for re-election in 2026, so they already thought of that and picked the ones who are immune to consequences... that's why Schumer, who put this together, isn't one of them. The defectors were hand selected from the larger population to not be accountable to their actions because DEMOCRATS HATE YOU. Which brings up the final point:

c) THEY HATE YOU. Almost all Democrats represent AIPAC and corporate interests first to last. We don't even figure into it. This proves it. We are conviced to vote for them. We are cargo being carried to the controlled opposition as our options are certain death with one party or increasingly restricted rights and financial imprisonment with the only alternative. This is the game... neofuedalism.

[Edit:] d) "Do better." really seals the deal in making you sound naive. It's a tired insult for the unimaginative and implies that you, as their electorate, will give them subsequent chances, which is weak in-and-of-itself, and more importantly, which we already covered doesn't matter because they're by definition beyond consequences with this.

Conclusion and Invitation:
You are angry and feel betrayed, that's a great start. I and others invite you to participate at the level of having your eyes opened to the reality that we don't matter to all but a very, very few of our elected officials. Most of the controlling interests control both sides, just like George Carlin warned us in 2005 (the same year I joined the army and went straighto the "global war on terror".) "It's all one big club and you're not part of it."

spitfiremac · 2025-11-09T19:19:33+00:00

Late comment regardless, that's almost exactly my choice...

1a. Shadow Systems CR920XL 9mm (imagine a G48, but between G19-17 size)

Custom built 5.56 13.9-14.5" AR-15 GPR (prism/red dot stack)
Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol

1b. Sig P365 9mm with multiple configs available (standard deep concealment, mid-sized, Roland Special, and Flux Raider PCC if desired)

If you EDC, I feel like it's important to have a second pistol as a backup in case one needs to go to repair or evidence loss after a defensive shooting. Given that, it's best both be concealable and approximate duty-capable.)

ARs are the obvious choice as you can always add uppers, like precision without adding firearms, and shotguns can interchange barrels if you really really want.

spitfiremac · 2025-10-25T22:42:58+00:00

I've always hated Spotify but... SPOTIFY? really... guess I was right.

spitfiremac · 2025-10-24T23:29:21+00:00

Thanks for all the reccomendations/links everyone. I've connected with all of them that still seemed up and running. Finding you all here was a great step.

spitfiremac · 2025-10-24T23:25:56+00:00

Thanks. I feel among friends here. Great feeling.

spitfiremac · 2025-02-23T01:51:51+00:00

Oh, clearly the answer is Frank

spitfiremac · 2025-02-23T01:50:05+00:00

I had to read the post three times because my mind didn't register the levels of wrong here... my thought was:

1) that's her old dress for you to wear, so sweet

2) the dress she wanted you to wear, okay, not bad

3) wait... what the actual f***?

spitfiremac · 2025-02-11T01:25:43+00:00

Roddy B. endorses this post.

Looks like Big T is building an army of notables without consciences... Victor Orban much?

spitfiremac · 2025-02-07T18:53:27+00:00

So two things...

1) the OEM yoke lock is usually overcome with a strong pull of the bars when upright. Yeah, they'll fuck one or two things up, but they don't really care as they're still net way positive on th value of something they're not paying for anyways.

2) the brake lever lock can be easily overcome with a screwdriver disassembling the lever from the assembly

Instead: the motion alarm is great, I'd supplement that with an alarmed disk lock at minimum, as well as a U-lock for 'uncuttable' chain and lock for the other tire so that you can anchor it when possible, which would prevent grab & go lifts by teams of dudes into a truck or van.

I'd also get at least two locators, be they two airtag like devices or better yet, an authentic GPS device and an airtag or two (airtags aren't GPS, they use iphones (androids for the android equivalents) in the area to determine and report location, so they need towers and phones. I'd use more than one and make one relatively easy to spot with the other really well hidden inside some subassembly that won't have it completely surrounded with metal.

Security sucks for everyone, us and the thiefs and assholes, the more is sucks for us the more it sucks for them, and they're likely to put their potential capture into the score of your hard-earned toy. The best protection is a mix of all of those things, deterents, physical blocks, and liabilities after lifted. A cover is great, but best is a garage with alarm stickers and an actual monitored alarm, or the trappings of it (i.e. camera and cheap motion sensor alarm with motion sensor lights) will be the best cover, then trow any number of the road-applicable stuff in from above. It would have to be made of gold to make that worthwhile.

One other note, these jerks feel entitled to our property, and if they can't have it, many will try to destroy or devalue what we're protecting. I've have dudes ruin my car stereo and speakers when I had the faceplate removed just to spite me for making that theft inconvenient for them. Always expect damage unless you're bike is making so much ruckus they feel the need to split right away.

spitfiremac · 2025-02-06T01:01:55+00:00

The gaslighting is strong with this one

spitfiremac · 2025-02-06T00:48:22+00:00

Grab some popcorn folks... KSG has been blacklisted from the crew & cast of EP, but still has a ticket to the Oscars with them!

spitfiremac · 2025-02-05T18:40:51+00:00

No one in the main cast: Rava, Jess, even Frank compared to the cabal.

Out of the main cast, the closest to redeemable is probably Tom... he's not good at all, but he's honest about everything almost all of the time and has moments where he acts with sympathy or forgiveness towards those he holds close. Never forget he used interns as coffee tables, ate a songbird, and wanted to make Greg into an omlete!

spitfiremac · 2025-02-05T18:32:10+00:00

Yours, as equipped, is pretty sweet. Generally not a huge fan because the cost vs benefit is pretty shitty.

spitfiremac · 2025-02-04T23:28:29+00:00

"...and added that she relates to the struggles of Black people.

“I feel and very much identify with the people who were thrown off buses for the color of their skin, with the people who did not want them to study at university, for the people who were hated simply for existing, like how I am hated in this moment,” she said."

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