Why would their citizens need to fight if they do not want to? Zelensky is touring the world in his soldier costume but he is not fighting on the front lines.
I mean setting aside debate about conscription… But are you seriously questioning why government leaders aren’t fighting on the front lines?
You talk tough from behind your keyboard because it is not you getting sent to the front-lines.
Boldly stated from behind a keyboard.
Even if it’s not completely impossible, it would be completely useless. What would be the point of rotary chain guns on a drone? Assuming the thing had enough lifting capacity to carry the barrels, there isn’t enough space in that thing to carry enough ammo to fire for more than a second.
I think your issue is that you are perceiving them as government workers. In reality they are violent gangs with the backing of the judiciary system and state representatives.
The entire purpose of police in America has always been to protect property and to oppress minority groups. They are the evolution of slave hunters and mercenary groups like the Pinkertons. The monied class of America just found a way to socialize their monopoly on violence.
Lol, there are several comments on this post specifically talking about castration. Simply highlighting one aspect of the paradigm does not mean you condone the other, nor does it mean people are ignoring it.
Sexual violence against women is spoken more about because it is much more common than with men. One out of five women are victims or rape or rape attempts, comparatively only one out of thirty-one men have experienced the same. The same goes for cattle, as the vast majority of cattle are females.
Simply stating that fact does not mean people do not care about sexual violence towards men, nor would someone who cares about the suffering of animals condone the morality of the practices in the meat industry when it comes to male cows.
I would say that’s an example of perfect being the enemy of good. If someone is making a conscious effort to moderate their consumption of meat then how can that be a bad thing when compared to the vast majority of people who make no effort at all?
Any amount of effort is better than not trying at all. Plus, is wager that the majority of people transition into vegetarianism/veganism, and this may be the first step of that journey. Why would anyone be critical of these people when there are people whose main caloric intake is meat?
I knew this guy was going to be a crazed maga dude just because they called him a crazy gunman and not some kind of leftist antifa assassin.
It’d be nice to be able to walk down a street without making other people uncomfortable because men in general are less assholish than bears.
Eh… The vast majority of encounters with bears are generally with black bears where both sides are usually just scared of each other and scamper away.
I think most men just lack the perspective of just how vulnerable women are compared to men. Imagine if you lived in a world where you were surrounded by dudes the size of your average NFL lineman, and a non insignificant percent of them have a history of sexual violence towards someone your size… You too might be nervous walking in the dark by yourself.
I am 6’3 with a cut weight around 245lb and I have to be mindful about how I carry myself, or how closely I walk near people to not make people of any sex uncomfortable. There’s a reason a big jolly guy is a stereotype, no one is comfortable around a large dude with an attitude.
Untrained masked men kidnapping children from schools doesn’t entail political violence?
Enabling or advocating for these actions is a form of political violence itself. Himmler never killed anyone himself, does that mean he disengaged from the use of political violence?
Idk, I just think he just gets off on being an intransigent asshole. For some people being a vindictive ass is their higher calling.
I don’t really see the point. Generally when you restrict the wages of elected officials it just makes it to where only the upper class can afford to serve. I’d much rather them have an above average wage and benefits package, but highly regulate their ability to make alternative income by any other means.
We had red wolves throughout the south.
Which mainly prey upon small mammals like raccoons, possums, and rabbits. They also were never a large enough population to control deer populations even if that was all they were to hunt.
The northeast had timber wolves.
Again… Eastern wolves were rarely seen south of the Great lakes, and there’s evidence that there were less than 70k prior to Europeans coming to the Americas.
On the other hand pre colonial white tail deer populations are estimated to be a little over 30 million.
It’s more because white colonizers killed all the wolves, so deer don’t have as many natural predators anymore.
Wolves were not native to all of north America at the time when settler colonialists came to America. Nor were they ever in the amount of numbers that could control the deer population by themselves. Deer were a staple protein of native American societies and were utilized as free grazing stock animals by the tribal people in the anterior of America.
It’s pretty typical though that you would have heard someone “blame it on the indians” instead of the white settlers…
The native Americans developed the forest of America over thousands of years, and the overpopulation did not become a problem until the colonizers killed the actual predators who were namaging the deer population… The native Americans.
The overpopulation got worse when white settlers expanded westward and killed off wolf populations as wolves were the only predators left to help moderate some of the overpopulation. However the real damage had already been done generations before when disease cut through the native American populations.
The problem is that wolves weren’t really native to all the places deer overpopulated in America. The over population of deer wasn’t a natural development, but a purposely implemented design by native populations of America that took place over thousands of years.
Humans hunting deer is really the only solution because humans reshaped the forest ecology to overproduce deer in the first place. A lot of people like to think that prior to European colonization, America had a pristine and untouched forest. In reality native Americans spent thousands of years reshaping the forest to basically become deer factories.
Yep. From my understanding the native population of America basically reshaped all the forest in America to make the deer population go brrrr. Since we don’t really hunt deer to the extent of the natives anymore, deer populations basically have stripped the forest of all shrubbery, low lying plants, and young native tree saplings.
Lots and lots of TRT. It increases red blood cell production and can cause flushing especially if you’re already predisposed to something like hypertension.
Basically, if you see a dude past 45 put on more muscle than they had before they had in their 30s they are getting a lot of trt.
do people not understand how ecosystems work?
Absolutely not. This is why my friend who studies Forrest ecology sounds like an insane person whenever someone brings up deer.
Hes a lovely human being who really loves animals, but he honestly advocates that everyone should be forced to kill deer any time they see one.
There seems to be at least some level of neglect.
Especially since he is claimed to have quite a bit of alpine experience compared to her. That’s really what brings the liability of negligence to the whole scenario.
Alpine hiking at night is already incredibly dangerous, but not ensuring the person with the least amount of experience has the correct equipment and knows how to use it is just wild.
I wonder, though, did she not have a phone? Was there no reception, or why did she not call or signal for help herself?
Well the confusing thing is that they had helicopters overfly them multiple times as they made their climb and both failed to signal and continued their way to the summit. The person on trial claims that she was doing fine until right after the last flyover and then suddenly started to get worse.
As someone with a mild amount of cold weather experience… I don’t really believe this at all. If I were a betting guy I would wager that she was already suffering from the mental affects of hypothermia. You can enter a super suggestive state the colder you get and your mental faculties and decision making ability rapidly deteriorate to the point where you can get lost and just start walking in circles.
Were there other ways to make it through the night?
She did have a bivy sack that could have provided at least a decent amount of shelter, but he didn’t help her set it up before he left her on the mountain.
Tbh it really seems like he was purposely trying to endanger her, or at very least is a huge piece of shit that didn’t care about her well-being. This would be like a scuba diver taking an amateur on a night dive, not teaching them how to operate their regulator, and than abandoning them a hundred feet underwater in the dark. It really is criminal.
It’s almost like utilities are a natural monopoly that do not fit within the economic ideology of “free market” capitalism…
People seem to be forgetting that unless green power or nuclear power are socialized projects they would by default have to find a way to capitalize their products by some means. Whether it would be by capitalization via consumption rates, maintenance fees, or even subscription, a private business would have to be able to make ever increasing profits.
Yeah… unless you are a connoisseur of small batch methamphetamine, it’s probably best for you to steer clear of this shit hole. The trades here are all contract work with no benefits, shit pay, and literally no work place safety.
But to be fair, that’s quickly becoming all of America unless you actually own your own business that contracts out all their work.
You’d kinda run into the same issue either way, you’d either have not enough ammo or not enough battery storage. Plus, there isn’t really a reason to have rotary barrels on something like a laser. They would theoretically be more of a sustained fire kind of weapon.