This is going to kick off a major war if the US keeps going.

Greenland is the hottest spot of real estate on the planet. Lots of idiot voters deny global warming, but the powers that be know. A thawed Greenland offers major mineral extraction and will guard the soon-to-be open Arctic waters. There’s probably much more I’m ignorant of, but “~Fifteen million dollars~ Greenland is not money. It’s a motive with a universal adaptor on it.”

Yes, Trump’s a dumbass, was so even before the dementia got hold. Yes, he’s looking at a Mercator projection and thinking, “That’s a lot of land!” But there are people behind the scenes driving this goal or the administration would have dropped it by now.

Think Europe will simply stand by? (Well, maybe, they don’t seem to be doing what needs done vis-a-vis Russia and the Ukraine War.) What if Europe does nothing? The US will take Canada next, that’s what.

Not being funny, but I never thought I’d wish for a military coup in my own country.

We don’t get to choose who and what we are attracted to. 🤷🏻‍♂️ However, that does not absolve one of immoral actions.

This is like the fuck up with redacting the Epstein files.

“Oops! Sorry!”

I’m still astonished people think these events are screw ups and not intentional.

Very cute. I already have it on my RAID array. Take me down.

I would hardly call crustaceans sentient, let alone conscious. FFS, they hardly have brains.

Worked at Red Lobster back in the 90s. The cook would just flip it over, split it down the middle and gut it. 5 seconds, it’s dead as a rock.

They farted around, shot some shells, went to the place to check it out, bla, bla, bla.

And of course the media making this out like Seal Team 6 level of planning.

China has already been moving into Africa, for some time. Russia doesn’t have the currency to support such international adventures.

The media won’t even call out his dementia. This should be a non-stop story as there are daily examples. I gave up on all media due to lack of reporting on this.

Notice how Trump disappears now and again? Like any dementia patient, he has good days and he has bad days. Look how he was with the Premier of Japan. Bad day where his handlers couldn’t hide him.

There’s no magic “gimme all” button, but this is closer to what you want.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures

More direct link:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures

The consequences were not outlined in the bill. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I wouldn’t trust that function. Download the whole mess and search for yourself. Not saying they rigged it, saying the search function probably sucks.

Not trying to be funny, but I thought this was The Onion at first glance.

This isn’t the first story that had me feeling the same. He’s not flat out desperate yet, but the fall is inevitable.

If one isn’t into guns, it’s hard to parse what you’re looking at it. You’re looking at mostly garbage. Those are grandpa’s guns, which may be great!, and I’d bet few actually function. Can’t get a new firing pin or funky spring for that 70-yo shotgun? Turn it in, get paid!

EDIT: See my edited breakdown on that first pic: https://old.lemmy.world/comment/21103440

Anyway, over on /r/liberalgunowners, we’d get a hearty chuckle out of the buy backs and police pics.

Or, look at it this way: Almost every gun pictured is a long gun of some sort. In America, long guns, including AR-15s, are used in ~4% of gun deaths (including suicides, weirdly enough). It’s the pistols people kill with. See any pistols?

No, it was not. Gun buybacks are never successful.

Look at this bullshit. Here’s a wider angle.

It’s a joke, always is. People turn in their crappy, broken, rusty guns, get paid and the state is like, “Look how great this is!”

Wish they’d do a buyback in my state. Got a couple of busted POS guns I’d love to get paid for.

EDIT: Apparently lemmy doesn’t believe me. Let’s break down the first pic where we can see some detail. Making educated guesses here. Left to right:

• Unknown, broken stock
• Pellet gun
• Unknown
• Pellet gun
• Unknown, but something’s off ?
• Toy
• Unknown, either a .22 or a pellet rifle
• Broken body, snapped off stock
• I think they zip tied two dissimilar gun together? Broken body, hence, the zip ties
• Neat looking antique, WWII era? Older I think?
• Homemade. How To Blow Your Fingers Off 101.
• Bolt laying there as filler?
• Homemade pistol. LOL, you couldn’t pay me to fire that monstrosity
• 120+ yo old shotgun, can’t shoot modern loads or it explodes, missing foregrip, badly broken stock (have 2 such antiques)
• Unknown single-shot rifle
• Single shot, break-open shotgun.

Not enough detail to guess on the last couple. One other thought, you can’t get ammo for much of that old garbage.

What a haul of killing machines!

All true! But in the end, they still affect my life, so I do have to care what’s said, even if it is a bot or a filthy Russian.

Got two vintage bolt-action shotguns. Both suck, but they weren’t that great to begin with. Been wanting a lever action! Seems that would be about as fast as a pump? Never touched one. LOL, never seen one IRL.

I didn’t say a bolt-action was potentially worse? I did say that a pump is mostly better than a semi. I did say a single-shot is potentially worse than all of the above.

I know that doesn’t make sense, very counter intuitive. But I have never, not once, had a single-shot fail unless the load itself failed, and I have some truly shitty single-shots. I should add the caveat that the single-shot needs to eject the spent shell, or you’re really going to be slow.

Hard to explain unless one has the experience. With a single-shot you get into a rhythm; aim, fire, break, reload, fire, aim, fire, break, reload, fire. It’s easy to spaz out with a semi and loose all your ammo. When your shots are limited, you take the extra split second to aim, make it count.

Or, consider this, if we’re talking about mass causalities; what about reloading? There are techniques like “violin reloading”, or “combat loading” singles, that go fast, but take serious and continuous practice. If we were both challenged to send 10 shots downrange, on target, bet I could do better with a single shot. First 5? Ya got me, assuming you didn’t spaz out and spray lead all around. 10? I never stopped or hesitated, and I had the extra second to consider the situation and aim.

Anyway, if you ever make it to Florida, hunt me down and we’ll go to my little camp in the swamp. Have a friendly shoot!

This is lemmy. You have to spell out every detail, in finer detail, or you will be misunderstood.

My take? Harris would have done nothing different in materiel support to Israel. She would have made slight condemning noises, but America would still be shipping money and munitions.