But.. Blah

What I really want, is a remake of FF6 that's as good as the DS remake of FF4 was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIOBPR6V7W4

so i'm looking at airsoft guns right now and i was thinking about how ive wanted to try shooting one of the dozens of rabbits that are in the yard every night, but then remembered that killing small animals is like a sign of being crazy or something? ...which i find weird cuz my logic is just, i mean they multiply pretty fast, theyre rabbits after all

thats why youre looking at airsoft guns and not bb guns

you can buy a cheap spring pistol and rounds for like 40 bucks

yeah idek the difference, idk what i'm doin lmao

airsoft fires plastic and generally has much lower fps

feet per second

o

bb fires metal and has a much higher fps

those can actually break skin and kill even on cheap models

buy an airsoft pistol and some googles

youll be rabbit free in a week

lmao

not becuase theyll all be dead

but because theyll learn they get hurt going into your yard

i'd do it in secret and my mom would later be like "why aren't there shit tons of rabbits in our yard anymore?"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lol

say migration

problem solved

lmao

it's not even that they bother me or anything

i dont even know what rabbits *do*

eat gardens, poop and breed mostly

well we do have a stack of hay in the yard with a target on it because we got my little cousins toy bows for their birthday and we had some fun with em

so i already have a range lol

Rabbits don't poop!!

They make milk balls.

Prepping for easter.

fuck easter

i'll be sittin in my chair outside, waitin for that easter bunny bastard to come onto my property. he's gon' git what's comin to 'im

🤠

i tell you hwat

anyways i was also looking a uh... *softcore* forms of self protection, i.e. bb guns or whatever, not because i feel in danger out in rural california, but just because it's better to be safe than sorry

wait i just remembered theres a firearms chat

my b

I mean if you want a non lethal form of protection being fit is probably the best option

My solution is the same as always

Sick backflips.

You cant just backflip your way out of everything

😏

...I just study comatatus and other weapon base martial arts. I can already hit pretty hard, but give me a pipe or large stick and I can win while not killing the man.

maybe i'll try the backflip method 🤔

san fran.. why does that not surprise me https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1029231140060557312?s=20

So it has nothing to do with any actual skill

Subjective skill. Don't really see why anyone would care that some people somewhere decided to do something silly.

Social media has become an issue.
They are already receiving or have received funding from the government.
The courts already deemed Donald Trumps twitter feed a public forum... would that not mean Twitter and by extension all social media’s would be a public forum? Or public square?

Wouldn’t that make them obliged to follow and be ruled by the doctrines of the first amendment?

Am I reaching or is this a common train of thought

Ancient aliens... https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1029322872081264640?s=20

@GodOfMercy (Jack) that makes sense to me, what's the point of rights if big companies walk all over them

@tmg copper that’s what I was thinking... I’m about to write a piece for my uni course about this but I feel like the people I would talk to in Australia don’t quite grasp the meaning, importance or weight of the social media tyranny that is taking place

Are we talking about regulating companies?

There's an argument to be made to regulate companies that infringe on your civil rights

@Grenade123 I’m talking about holding them to the same standards as the government as they’re the modern public square.
I’m talking about evolving laws to evolve with modern technology and if Mark Cuckerberg is able to undermine the rights of Americans and everyone in the world via excluding them from the public square with their own personal set of rules.

I’d say that’s an argument to hold them to the same standards. They are monopolistic and tyranny by private company is still tyranny

Tyrannical: exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way.

Arbitrary: based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

When the top 5 social media’s are owned by 2 companies with aligning ideologies... something needs to be done. Because right now they’re banning The Proud Boys and Alex Jones to the applause of lefty plebs, next government will ban antifa collectives and the young Turks to the applause of righty plebs.
Slowly slipping into a fucked up society where the government can no longer step in and there are no longer small options other than the main ones because they’ve been shut down or bought out.

Now tell me @Grenade123 does that sound fun.

It may be a bit hyperbolic but it’ll become something similar to that. History shows us the same

@Dan V unfortunately I have no civil rights in Australia... so I’m hoping Americans can hold the torch for people like me in countries like mine...

Tyt are the establishment lol

Or more acutely

Neo establishment

They are owned by yt pretty hard

Back when we had the demonetization wave they kept silent and didnt make single video about it

😔

I am pretty convinced that they are owned since then

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@GodOfMercy (Jack) unfortunately, it's becoming more and more common for western governments to further restrict individual civil rights which is directly against their mandate as a representative government

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/14/genoa-motorway-bridge-collapses-italy

Wew

Geez

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/97088s/brand_ironing_his_chest/?ref=share&ref_source=link

fuuuucking heeeeeeellllll

Some of the things people do...

@GodOfMercy (Jack) tell me... why should I care what social media companies do? I don't use social media. The closest thing I have is this. And if this went away, so what? This is just shits and giggles that can often be more annoying than it's worth. I only ever used Facebook, and even then I barely used it any differently I do this. And once i quit, I even felt better. Hell, I even started paying attention to things outside of a bubble. The important thing I need the internet for, is keeping track of my government. And for that, I can impose restrictions on my government, not my internet. Heaven forbid I be forced to go talk to my neighbors. Heaven forbid I need to pay as much attention to my own town and state as I do national and international affairs. If people who got banned off Twitter, want a Twitter, they will find a way to make one. People use Twitter because it is there and it is free. It's a convenience that no-one really needs. WikiLeaks is more important than social media and it's current enemy is the government so no, I don't think giving the government more power over private entities is a good idea.

@Dan V it really is quite depressing... when people wake up it’ll be too late

@Grenade123 the point isn’t about individuals explicitly. It’s about the collective suppression of individual rights by non governmental organisations that you should care about. Companies who have no one to answer to and no one to keep them in line.

Perhaps more people need to get banned off Twitter so more people are working on decentralizing things before it's too late and the government steps in, makes it a public utility, and makes decentralized version of the internet and social media illegal

Companies answer to money. Piss off enough people, that money goes away.... Unless its money from taxes. Aka the government

Honestly, social media is a cancer.

Nad I agree they answer to money but people are stupid

They’re happy to surrender their security and freedom for ease of use

^

A company cannot suppress a human right. Unless they force you to use their service.

Someone they don’t like gets banned and they cheer... not realising that what they’re cheering for is a precedence of privatised tyranny.

Last I checked, no one forced me to use twitter.

You’re missing the point

What? That if I make something popular enough you want to take away my ownership of it and hand it to he government?

>Advocate a society without rules
>Ban someone for breaking the rules

No one forced you to use the public square in the day either but it was left untouched so if you wanted to you could

The thing is about twitter.

If you're an entrepreneur trying to create/promote/crowdfund ANYTHING, everyone and their dog will tell you to get a twitter.

It was owned by the government, and as such we put restrictions on the government.

"Social media bro. Social media bro."

"That's where it's at bro"

They ruled that Trumps Twitter was a public space but ban people from Twitter for vague non things like hate speech

I despise twitter. I think it's a shit service that turns people into cannibals.

But in order to put restrictions on a private company, you need to strip away restrictions on the government

But to pretend these things are anything short of ubiquitous, is silly.

If a company is in bed with, taking money from or getting assistance from the government

Private companies are not supposed to be this ubiquitous.

They should be treated as a government organisation

So the whole corn and oil industry?

And thus abide by the same rules.. ie the first amendment

As long as the companies remain American companies

I would rather they stop receiving government funding

They're not even abiding by american principles.

I agree

"Yeah yeah, freedom of speech.. But that's more of a GOVERNMENT thing.."

Rather than say "oh yeah government, you pay for it... So just take it over entirely"

"We're just.. citizens of that country. We can be outlandishly different from those values and it's fine. It's all fine."

I also wish they were not in cahoots with each other in coordinated unpersoning of people they don’t like

But we can’t have what we want

Twitter should at least have to tell you WHICH TWEET GOT YOU BANNED.

Oppress enough people, they will find themselves missing their heads.

How's that for a start?

I wish their vague TOS weren’t complete fucking garbage and people could talk freely online

Just telling the reason for a banning.

Tyranny does not have to originate from the government.

But tell me, how good did they oppress Jones? They kicked him off, and that managed to increase the number of people listening to him

And that's another thing. Any rule they enforce, they are MANDATED to enforce it equally to every last person on that goddamn service.

Until the people who own his IP and website domain say he can’t have that either

That only works because Alex Jones has been around.

And people know him.

Until apple caves to pressure and removes infowars app

Until the next person

What about up and comers that this sorta shit happens to?

And the next

They're just done.

And the next

I think that Affirmative Action should be leveraged to enforce an equal spread of *political* views among hires

And then people who don’t have a large platform

Ew.

That way all companies would be politically neutral

what, you think all the people listening to him will just forget he existed?

You’re missing the point again

Heard anything big from Milo lately?

There’s a bigger picture here

A picture slowly being erased

yeah, that no one knows how to make alternatives anymore

and that people are lazy

give people something for free, and suddenly they think they have a right to it.

I agree. People are stupid, but when given appropriate information people can decide for themselves

If they decide to side with censorship they can lie in the bed they made

We really collectivize people, don't we..?

i don't think giving the government more power will do anything any good.

I've been seeing this a lot lately

"YOU PEOPLE got James Gunn fired. Now YOU PEOPLE can be silenced."

Uhh..

No giving the government more power won’t help

Are we sure it's the exact same people who are the perps?

thats the only things you can do if you want to restrict companies

Giving the government more power never helps

But making the social media platforms abide by the first amendment is not governmental power... it’s the courts

Holding them to account

the court is the government

So they don’t tread on anyone’s right to free speech

No.

The court doesn't create new laws or anything, they create precedents.

Especially if they are considered public spaces which they have no been viewed as in court rulings

yeah, give the power to the courts... just in time for dems to get voted in and erase the first amendment

good idea

The first amendment is not a law it’s a protection.

Uh.. what?

it is words on a piece of paper that at least one party does not like and is actively trying to erase

Tbh I think both parties would like it gone

That’s why it’s so crucial

true, but currently its the dems

5 years ago it was republicans

its whoever has the most authoritarian power winning inside their party

the dems got too authoritarian, so the repubs took up the free speech cause to win voters

I don’t understand why these fucking idiots don’t just accept that free speech is fundamental and stop trying to fuck with it

This Week in Stupid (12/08/2018) is amusing

Just like gun control it’s a losing issue

because apparently religious fanaticism is a human trait

Also Orban is my favourite Chad

This is historically true

@Scribblehatch the constitutional amendments are not laws...

Technically

i mean, depends on how you define laws

you could say they are the most powerful and absolute laws of the land

Okay look here boi

The only way they can be challenged is if they violate another fundamental right

When H3H3 beat Matt Hoss in that RIDICULOUS lawsuit

What they created was a precedent.

If Matt Hoss won that for some reason..

You'd get more sycophants (professional accusers) just crawling out of the ceiling ready to get a piece, in the ruins of their rightfully-obscure careers.

But since H3H3 won it

Yes

The chances are, we'll get very few of those fuckwads using the courts to their advantage.

I agree

What’s your point

...

That's the court's main export.

Precedent.

I never said it wasn’t

D'okeh.

But let's fight anyhow.

👊

Lol

👊

You'll never be able to hit me.

Not as long as I have my backflips.

😂😂

Australia sucks...

All this talk about American freedoms make me sad

Oh yeah.

I've recently come to appreciate what the true differences in our countries are.

Australia will ban A-cup girls from porn.

Take a wild guess the reason.

They legit would

I know exactly why

They’re fuckwits

These are what I call Mom laws.

My state is governed by a nanny government

I wish we had no confidence votes

"Hey you! You can't eat that steak! A baby couldn't bite it. Don't you know that?"

"But.. **I'm** not a baby.."

Because no one is worthy to run this fucking country

"BUT THINK OF THE BABY."

I just watched the entire Metokur video on Mundane Matt.

Look up firearms categories Victoria and sit back and laugh

Jesus fucking christ, they got him dead to rights and he just hopped onto the next horseshit cart.

What an absolute child.

😂

Welcome to my life... I can’t compete in 3 gun because of these fuccked laws which have no exceptions for genuine sport shooters... we have no ranges further than 500m that aren’t 4 hours away

My rifle is illegal in New South Wales because it has a folding stock

Look up part 18c of the racial discrimination act

Tell me that’s not the most subjective, dogshit piece of legislation you’ve ever seen

"Think about an anarcho-commune run this way. There will always be authority and this type of ideology would abuse those who dont fall in line."

but don't you see, that IS anarchy! Anarchy doesn't mean no rule of law, it just means no government! people will still have their own communities with their own rules which will be enforced by PMCs but we don't call them PMCs, just call them the police.... but they are private police! No, you see, these communities with enforced rules are not governments because people have the choice to leave! And clearly i cannot leave my current country because every country surrounding my country requires a passport, and the government can choose not to give you a passport. No i can't tell you what will stop that from happening in anarchy, but clearly the reason it won't happen is because there is no government and you will never be born into a community in the middle of other communities that won't let you in, basically making you trapped! /s

Anarchy is a terrible idea

Just like libertarianism.

You have to have a balance

I like the concept of libertarianism

But it needs balance

what do you believe libertarianism is?

its been bounced around a bit in recent years and seems to have two very different sides to it

It’s (from what I understand) a highly limited government society of little to no taxes, near complete privatisation and a open free market economic system

I most likely missed some things but that’s what I’ve gathered

It’s nearly anarchistic

But not quite

i think the key point missing is that is the "dream" but is viewed as an unobtainable dream.

which leads to a large split from an-caps to Marxists

Yeah

the common thread is that all power accumulated in the government should always be pulled back towards the people. so its more of a give and take.

It’s a utopian image of the woeld