https://archive.org/details/Ep-001-Waltons-Re-release.m4a/Ep-038-Police-Militarization.mp3

Podcast episode from Covid-19 era about police militarization, which talks a fair bit about Safariland if I remember correct (its been several years since I’ve listened to it). Lots of banter during the first 20-25 minutes.

I kinda hope people who’ve become enraged by recent ICE actions and weren’t already anti-police will realize they’re just using the same tactics various police have been using for forever (and tame compared to some historical examples). BLM protests gave people plenty of chances to figure this out though and some people seemed to only focus on the abuses specifically by federal agents in places like portland, ignoring the vast majority of the abuse which was done by the local PD, so I still have low expectations. ACAB.

Only weekly!?

No full story, but birther once traded us (me + my siblings) for a blanket. No context might make that sound worse than what actually happened.

One time my mom was telling on stories with a friend over (perhaps at my encouragement) and afterwards the friend, a social worker, was just like “I’m surprised yall are as well adjusted as you are” and it seemed like an odd reply to some old funny stories.

Keypass has apps which supposedly support autofill (I’ve never bothered with setting them up because I hate using a phone), but it might go through the clipboard. You can also set it to clear the clipboard so its at least not just sitting there indefinitely.

Wario!?

Mario?

Probably makes more sense to gay on to the furrycon. Are straights even allowed in such hallowed grounds? (no offense to straight furries intended by the comment - just not sure I’ve ever met a furry that wasn’t at least some form of GSRM)

That phase makes sense if you are the one to originally say something, which is imagine long-living vampires would have to deal with more than usual. Still there are RL examples like that one person who got a rejection for their paper by reviewer two who said they needed to account for the work of [insert name of the researcher who submitted the paper].

Also, if the garbage truck is hit by another normal car, its heavy enough to barely budge, so doing the same off a car going the same speed would still be more dangerous.

Was this burning while a single person was driving and being pulled over at gunpoint?

Takes a lot longer and you risk burning your car down when you get yanked out and they don’t care.

What actions of a lifetime are you (Bill, not OP) suggesting to stop ICE?

That’s like claiming using the n-word to refer to someone of recent African decent isn’t a slur because you are using the word “correctly” and that it would only be a slur if used for people who aren’t black.

And media and people have celebrated such bombing, even when they killed children and burned down entire blocks of people uninvolved.

How can you watch your friends, family, and neighbours being executed in the streets only to buy a whistle and yell at them a bit. I get that you’re afraid; but at this point your desire to survive should overcome that fear… Yes, there’s the threat of Marshal law, but it’s being imposed on you whether they officially announce it or not. There are federal agents patrolling your streets arresting EVERYONE that’s not visibly white AND carrying papers, including 3yo children, and shipping them out of state faster than the courts can issue injunctions (even when moving as fast as possible with emergency hearings).

I’ve never seen a single ICE agent in my life (despite being in one of the top 3 states in terms of “undocumented” immigrants). So I’d imagine a lot of it is simply an “out-of-sight, out-of-mind” for a lot of people. It may be the case that Alex was the only person armed with a gun at that scene (other than ICE, if you consider those people).

You’re being kidnapped and summarily executed. This will not end until you fight it off.

Agreed. I know when things escalate, I’m certainly in the group who’ve they’ve been building lists for as someone they consider an undesirable. I consider trying to flee, but I think partly there’s still a side of me that wants to believe it won’t get to that point so I can just get through living day to day.

^ this person second amendments!

0. You can see them take his gun and ran away with it before any shots are fired. They waited until he was disarmed to murder.

Perhaps wants ineffective violence. He doesn’t want violence at a scale that’s a legitimate threat to him.