mickey

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[–] mickey@hexbear.net 17 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

This sucks man. Without even touching on the world historical travesty of US support for the Israeli genocide in Palestine, the things that have been fucking me up in the past few weeks are the strikes on Yemeni civilian leadership, killing 31 journalists in Sanaa, Yemen, bombing the Hamas negotiating team in Doha, Qatar, and the bombing of random boats allegedly coming out of Venezuela. It's like, okay bro, international law and constitutional protections are a joke, but are you even pretending that you don't reserve the right to blow me up when you feel like it?

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 6 points 16 hours ago

a-little-trolling They say Hexbear has the best gun-knowers!

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 3 points 16 hours ago

Heh I just saw this, yeah 1.004M needed indeed. I think that is an HOI4 mod? The days when a game could latch me in feel passed but that does look fun.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 6 points 16 hours ago

No or at least I hope not, I'm referring to discussions I've seen on the unaffiliated SRA subreddit wherein people do sometimes suggest it as a practical purchase. They usually get talked down but there are a few defenders. I haven't checked in there regularly in several years so I couldn't say how that has changed. It is mostly a meme. Also back in the late 90s through possibly the early 00s they could be had very inexpensively often bundled with cleaning kits and ammo, so there was at least some rationale.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

NATOpedia lists 7.62x54R as entering service in 1891, so that doesn't sound too far fetched.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 20 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Idk what NY state politics are like but she seems famous and well-liked enough to perhaps become senator? But a presidential run, yeah no that is going to be a blood bath (hopefully not literally but also maybe) and I feel like dems fumbled too hard disciplining their own constituents in 2024 (and 2020, and 2016...) to seem authentic (LMAO) as a party running her.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 14 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Yeah the image didn't have any context and it was in a Yemen solidarity post. I assume these are mobilized people's defense units of some sort and pretty low on the priority list for getting fresh arms. It is still a cool pic and people kind of meme on the Mosin so I thought to share. Someone in the news mega posted a nakedcapitalism article about Colombia threatening to move away from US-supplied armaments, I don't know much more than what I learn here but it'll be interesting to see how that shakes out.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Truly awful stuff. The anti-ICE actions back in June included protests, yes, but also were uprisings by a community defending itself from an occupying force.

Edit: I wrote then deleted this part, but what I said was: Recently near me ICE snatched up a man right after he dropped his kids off at school, then a few days later while people were still protesting they swooped back in and snatched some day laborers in the same neighborhood. And that this is hardly identifying information to be because our gestapo operates so widely!
These kind of high-handed tactics only work against a passive population, and both the spontaneous & organized resistance is successful in preventing ICE from doing what they're trying to do.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours ago

That's rad, I don't think I've seen anything like this. For booba on currency a great one is the Libertad minted by Banco de Mexico 1 Onza Oro Puro

 

Saw this on https://xcancel.com/Aldnmarki retweeting https://xcancel.com/AlAndalus074478

SRA-bros advocating for the Mosin feeling real vindicated right now. But also please get these men some modernized AKs or smth idk.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 36 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Lord forgive me, I'm gonna do a reddit-ism:

Yeah, no one's gonna believe this story, what were they Tonkin?

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