Carmakazi

It's framed as "vaccine bad" even if it wasn't outright stated. Or at the very least that Da Gubment is inherently reckless, irresponsible, and clueless in handling vaccines...just like they believe with every other government function.

When one of the points on an official report is

but what about muh natural immunity, I dun need no damn shot!

You know where they're coming from. And when they've chosen "there is no such thing as a safe and effective vaccine" RFK Jr. to lead our public health, you know where they're going.

Bartering also assumes, for your example, that the apple farmer wants oranges and the orange farmer wants apples. Consider that either one may not. And then consider how many other goods exist even in primitive agrarian society that people may or may not want at any given time.

Currency is whatever the agreed vehicle is for value exchange that solves this. The apple farmer can now sell apples for silver nuggets and use the silver to buy tools from someone else later, which the orange farmer either doesn't have or is unwilling to part with. It allows for more complex transactions that then helped grow more complex societies.

Armalisation

They "don't need" women as independent personalities.

They want to go back to women being property and prizes to do with as they please.

I'm not saying to cower, I'm just pointing this out because a lot of people, likely including the leaders of these states, are still of the mindset that the proper, and therefore only, path of "resistance" is through lawsuits and picket-sign demonstrations.

I fear that they are going to be utterly shocked, and more importantly, unprepared, if and when the reaction to this "resistance" is lawless mass incarceration and murder.

I think they will be prepared to make dire examples of any state that so openly defies them. Insurrection Act, federal troops losing all pretext of "law enforcement action" and just going apeshit, finally ending with the arrest and/or execution of governors, state legislators, and anyone else involved they can get their hands on.

I mean...they are making a lot of them, but they're earmarked for militaries and other actual users. Civilian builds are almost always limited drops of factory second tubes put together by small businesses from my understanding.

anonymous

You have to give Uhaul a copy of your driver's license to rent a truck. If the plates are caught, a detective can run down when and where it was rented, and therefore by whom, should they choose to put the legwork in.

Though it's probably better than most personal vehicles in the last 10 years that are basically snitching smartphones on wheels.

Yeah, it's more an issue of someone was able to steal Army property and they want to make an example of them. You can buy all that legally in one day with just a driver's license in GA.

My guess is that the pistols are gone at this point. One or two will turn up at auction in 15-20 years "Genuine US Army Issued!" at which point the Army will demand them back, but the chain of ownership will be too convoluted or lost to press charges.

If cops get return fire in a (leftist) protest/riot, they'll come back with MRAPs and live rounds and re-enact Kent State. They live for that moment.

Oh, and that magnifier is on a Unity FAST mount, and yes, it flips up to get in position. It's on a higher sight plane along with the Eotech to help with shooting while using things like night vision goggles, and a lot of people say it's more natural and comfortable for fast shooting in general. It's actually some Gucci shit and looks squared away to me.

Time

Basically none on the part of the handlers. Often this arrangement is handled by a private firm that doesn't necessarily have to be Russian or Chinese, I have heard of one operating in Australia. The posters themselves are spending a lot of time, but they're the ones selling it.

Money

Again, they're not exactly paying these guys a living wage, and even if they were, it's peanut crumbs for state-level actors.

Effort

A lot of people say that Lemmy is not worth the effort to demoralize because it's too small, I say the effort is too small to not be worth the investment. I would even say that Lemmy users are self-selected for radicalization in some ways, broadly speaking they are fed up with corporate social media and corporatism in general.

It's also a somewhat important step to have a place they can speak unfiltered amongst themselves, no matter how small the clubhouse is. That's where the real funky shit happens.

Because the big players there are not serious idealogues, they are paid a paltry sum through private channels to constantly spread Russian and Chinese disinformation in their larger psyop campaign against the West.