tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50445896713263607402024-03-18T22:16:55.670-04:00Assorted MeanderingsIt's FiveTens. The Jack's reviews, critiques, thoughts, and writing.The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.comBlogger1730125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-34208150280529408992021-12-03T18:17:00.003-05:002021-12-03T18:17:56.484-05:00Cracked Mondern Gun Control started out as Racist.<p>In an article that points out how "good intentions" and "nice sounding" goverment programs have racist roots. Michael Dawson point out the that modern gun control started <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_31986_5-nice-sounding-government-policies-with-secret-racist-origins.html">out as explicitly racist.</a></p><p><br />Which is interesting because on January 20, 2021 Michael Dawson wrote for cracked. <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_29428_the-4-racist-defining-moments-in-gun-control-history.html">The 4 Racist Defining Moments In Gun Control History.</a><br /><br />Which I <a href="http://fivetensfourtens.blogspot.com/2021/01/cracked-gun-controls-massively-racist.html">commented on here.</a></p><p>In fact this current article seems to crib the section about the Mulford Act from his previous article.</p><p>But hey, it still counts.</p>The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-70572299912966150572021-09-13T13:16:00.004-04:002021-09-13T13:16:59.745-04:00Cracked: The Masculinity Industry<p>It's more guns adgacne in the end. And has some good points but Cracked's article about the <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_31252_5-ways-americas-masculinity-industry-eats-mens-brains.html">"Masculinity Industry" </a>is goes in some 'interesting' places.<br /><br />Such as a few sexist comments implying how women who buy guns for self defense might as well be men.<br /><br />"Strong overlap between guys who love cops and the military, and guys with zero trust in them to keep us safe. "<br /><br />Which.... turn that over the head. What about the overlap between those who think the cops are structurally racist and will use prohibitionist laws disproportionaly against minorities annd then want to give the cops more power by banning more things.<br /><br />If you think the War on Drugs was a racist assault on civil liberties, imagine a War on Guns.</p><p><br /><br />Or this</p><p></p><blockquote>If you browse, say,<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CCW/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc;">Reddit’s concealed carry group</span></a>,
the average gun owner sounds responsible and happy to chastise dinguses
with Rambo fantasies. But concealed carry, despite sounding so American
that George Washington probably walked around with a little flintlock
shoved under his wig, is yet another aberration. 2.7 million Americans
had concealed carry permits in 1999 but, after intense lobbying by the
NRA and other advocates to loosen laws, that number’s<a href="https://www.gameandfishmag.com/editorial/concealed-carry-permit-holders-near-20-million-and-growing/385133" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc;">now almost 20 million.</span></a> </blockquote><p><br />It's not good enough to be responsible. And note that they complain about how gun laws were loosened, you know from the racist way they were in the past when Police could ban people they con't like from carrying guns even though they passed a background check and took the required training. <br /><br />A racist history Cracked has pointed out.<br /><br /></p><blockquote>But … why? A majority of Americans have, for decades, believed that crime rates are rising. And, for decades,<a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-convinced-crime-is-rising-in-the-u-s-theyre-wrong/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc;">they’ve been wrong</span></a>. Media and politicians<a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-are-white-men-stockpiling-guns/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc;">mislead us about how dangerous America is,</span></a>
petty crimes like vandalism lead to the mistaken assumption that
serious crimes are also rampant, a high-profile crime across the country
can convince us that we’re next, and all while the actual statistics
keep improving. </blockquote><p><br />Hmm, it's not just the "masculinity industry" that uses a single high profile crime to convince people that they're next.<br /><br /></p><blockquote>Between 2019 and 2021 the U.S. Concealed Carry Association, which
teaches self-defense and trauma care, saw its membership jump from
300,000 to 600,000. Their success came from their<a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787507138/the-u-s-concealed-carry-association-woos-nra-members-with-a-focus-on-family" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> focus on family protection</span></a>. The USCCA is far less combative than the NRA, and they emphasize that<a href="https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/seeking-danger-self-defense-is-not-about-a-combat-mindset/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> part of being safe</span></a> is avoiding fighting. But they still talk about America as a place where you’re perpetually on the verge of<a href="https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/ask-ed-concealed-carry-faqs-july-2020/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> fending for yourself a gunfight.</span></a> </blockquote><p><br />Note how they slip into "training is bad".<br /><br /></p><p></p><p></p><blockquote>The USCAA says 40% of their members are Democrats. If that’s not
conservative enough, you can join one of America’s growing militias, but
if that’s still <i>too</i> conservative then you can check out the John Brown Gun Club, the Socialist Rifle Association, or another<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/22/if-others-have-rifles-well-have-rifles-why-leftist-groups-are-taking-up-arms" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc;">rapidly growing</span></a> leftie<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/how-liberal-gun-owners-see-2020-self-defense-is-self-care.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc;">gun group</span></a>.
The language they use is different, but it’s still the same message:
learn to protect yourself before things go to hell. Did I mention the
study that suggests gun ownership for personal defense is<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0373-z" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc;">driven by fear</span></a>? </blockquote><p><br />So.... the acknowledged that gun rights groups are all political stripes and there are minority groups.... and then immediately dismisses them as "driven by fear" that seems.... a bit racist. <br /><br /><br />Now to give the article credit they don't go for cheap solutions. They don't even demand gun control, though the implication is there. They even talk about the problem of suicide.<br /><br /><br /></p><blockquote>And the solution isn’t to continue the endless churn of videos that tell
guys to bury all emotion, barricade themselves against the imaginary
wolves at the door, and become the kind of man that never really
existed. </blockquote><br />The problem with this advice. It's not just the "Masculinity" folks who tell men to bury all emotions. The stigma that mocks men for being weak for opening up, or for dismissing the problems of others, is very broad in today's society.<br /><br />Heck, even this article itself is framed as "stupid men with their stupid fears and stupid feelings".<br /><br /><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-82933988119345300112021-02-18T09:24:00.005-05:002021-02-18T09:24:45.926-05:00Cracked Bad Neighborhood myth<p> https://www.cracked.com/article_29510_4-lies-that-need-to-stop-being-spread-about-bad-neighborhoods.html</p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #0e101a;">Numerous policing initiatives have
come and gone over the years, one failing right after the other, like
the infamous stop-and-frisk program implemented by then New York mayor
Michael Bloomberg in 2003 that gave cops the power to search random
"suspicious" people on the assumption that they might carry drugs or
guns. As you could probably tell, most of these initiatives were steeped
in racism, </span><a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/ending-new-yorks-stop-and-frisk-did-not-increase-crime" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">as critics often attacked programs like stop-and-frisk as unfairly punishing non-white people.</span></a></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;">But
surely, some of these programs had to be good, right? Not exactly. The
controversial stop-and-frisk program actually did not result in much, if
any, crime reduction. When the program expired,</span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nypd-low-crime-first-quarter-2016_n_5702b0dae4b0a06d580653e3" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;"> crime rates actually dropped</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">,
which sounds almost contradictory if you don't consider the fact that
crime naturally decreases over time. Second off, a fair amount of
arrests made by cops don't actually reduce crime that much or are
actually false arrests. </span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Now will other gun control programs and policies result in racist enforcement by police?<br /><br />If you think Bloomberg's Stop and Frisk is surely an Anomaly. Well... Bloomberg is a major donor and defacto boss of most of the Gun Control orgs in the US. Or that his legal team helps write most of these laws</p><p>And it's not like the the last Federal Assault Weapon Ban was packaged with a mandatory minimum tough on crime law.</p><p>This is by the same Michael Dawson who nearly a month ago wrote <a href="https://fivetensfourtens.blogspot.com/2021/01/cracked-gun-controls-massively-racist.html ">Gun Control's Massively Racist History</a> Who made a credible case that Gun Control in the US is a racist, not just in it's far history but that the majority of current laws were made with a racist animus.</p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></p>The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-2821254694556599802021-01-20T12:13:00.013-05:002021-12-03T18:11:42.408-05:00Cracked: Gun Control's Massively Racist History.<p>Wow <a href=" https://www.cracked.com/article_29428_the-4-racist-defining-moments-in-gun-control-history.html">this is acutally a really good article that points out the whole racist history of gun control with plenty of examples</a>: The Mulford Act, Slavery, how Gun Control was used by the state to go after minorities, and that Gun Control was selectively enforced just to punish people the state didn't like</p><p>I mean when this is in the opening section: </p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #0e101a;">For starters, much of America's gun
control today was precisely informed in response to Black activists
arming themselves against white supremacists, like ...</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br />Now it does get a bit... well part of what it says about the NRA's history and dumpsterfire is correct but the way it ends...<br /><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/How-the-NRA-became-ATF-s-biggest-enemy-4950703.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;"></span></a></p><blockquote><p><a href="https://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/How-the-NRA-became-ATF-s-biggest-enemy-4950703.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">It wasn't until 1971 when the feds raided Kenyon Ballew</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">,
a lifelong NRA member, on suspicion of hoarding a bunch of illegal guns
and shot him, making him paralyzed for life, that the NRA finally
decided that this whole "let the government take our guns'' thing maybe
wasn't in their best interests after all. Shocker. The proceeding
outrage led to a striking change in the group's attitude, helping form
the modern "gubbermint tyranny!" NRA that you see to this day.</span></p><p>
</p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;">The funny thing is, the Black
Panthers basically said the same thing about needing guns to protect
from government brutality, which the NRA cribbed completely, pretending
that they had always been pro-gun rights. Seems like the second
amendment only matters for white people.</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><br />And then the article goes on about how goverment tyranny and gun bans aren't... paranoia. They are things that have happened.<br /><br />Now... what keeps current gun control laws from being racist?</p><p><br /></p><p>Cracked has pointed out numerous times issues with law enforcement in the US. And we've seen how relatively recent Gun Control policies like "stop and frisk" are basically "walking while black."</p><p><br /></p><p>Or what about May Issue Laws, where for a citizen to get a gun permit they have to convince the Police that they have a justifiable need? Does anyone see how that might be abused for racial ends?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or what of an expensive registration plan where say someone has to pay 200 dollars per Assault Weapon to have them registered with the government? That puts a class basis right in there where guns are priced out of poor people's hands.<br /><br />Also ironic that this article drops <i>right</i> as Biden is inaugurated.</p>The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-33575030558129044002021-01-09T12:06:00.001-05:002021-01-09T12:06:03.921-05:00Cracked: The police are Horrible Racists: Let's give them more power!<p>Remember how yesterday Cracked was hoping that Congress would pass some strong gun control in reaction the Sacking of the Capitol (where the only person shot was by a cop...)<br /><br />Well today Dan Duddly (who you've seen before) <a href=" https://www.cracked.com/article_29355_olympus-has-fallen-made-d.c.-takeovers-look-harder-to-do-....html">is comparing a bad action flick of taking over (and holding hostages) in the Whitehouse, versus a mob in the Capital that didn't capture anyone and was chased out</a><br /><br />But it gets better, when talking on how they rioters get in:</p><p></p><blockquote>Armored assault vehicles? Who needs em? Just ask the police nicely, and they'll let you through the gates.</blockquote><p> </p><blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;">Of course, maybe that wouldn't have worked since the terrorists in </span><i style="color: #0e101a;">Olympus Has Fallen </i><span style="color: #0e101a;">were North Korean, and the ones attacking the Capitol on Wednesday were um ... well, look at the videos and see if you can pick out a common theme. </span></blockquote><p></p><p><br />So they're gonna mainstream that theory? T<span style="color: #0e101a;">here it is. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #0e101a;">Given yesterday's plea for gun control Cracked thinks that racist cops who (in this specific case worked with literal pillaging vandals), and Cracked has have at many many times exposed US law enforcement institutional corruption, sympathized with BLM.... shoudl have more police power. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /><br /></span></p>The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-48920514444381679812021-01-08T17:54:00.000-05:002021-01-08T17:54:09.374-05:00Cracked: Look to the Wisdom of Tick Tock Teens<p> So.... in a violent riot on the Nation's Capit0l where the only person shot was a rioter so by a cop... And no one else who died got shot... <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_29360_american-students-hope-capitol-attack-serves-as-wake-up-call-to-congress-to-act-school-shootings.html">Cracked had to find a way to make it about gun control.</a><br /><br />And boy did they. They went to the Students Demand Action style well by trying to get the Congress folks to think of their fear and how it would be for students. Of course the difference is Congress had armed security that drove off the rioters, in one case with lethal force.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: proximanNova;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: proximanNova;">With their help, they can build a nation where no student, teacher or Congressperson ever experiences this horror again. </span></blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-family: proximanNova;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Note the universality. How in a country of 300 million people, and 100 million guns could even the most draconian law ensure that?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: proximanNova;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Do you want the police, you know the folks Cracked has been rightly pointing out their abuses to have even more power?</span></span><p></p>The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-42477703058265374862020-11-25T11:42:00.004-05:002020-11-25T11:42:27.181-05:00Cracked: Ignorant Fear-mongering spawns Racist and Easily-circumvented Weapon Bans<p>Only for <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_29048_cobra-kai-americas-weird-old-anti-karate-hysteria.html">Martial Arts weapons of course.</a></p><p> <br />Cracked has an article about how bans on martial arts weapons are spun up by fear-mongering media, racism, and other absurdities (like what is the point of banning something that a person could easily make in their garage), and actually don't make any increase in safety.... </p><p>And despite talking about how guns and knives are common. They make no connection... not even to gun laws, but no connection to knife laws either.</p><p>Because it's not like gun or knife laws might have a similar racist motivation to passing them or enforcing them. Wonder why switchblades and butterfly knives are illegal in some areas?<br /><br />For a bonus about a week ago, <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_29017_flamethrower-toting-man-hops-bus-spews-fire.html">Cracked was gushing about how cool flamethrowers were..</a>.. after a guy got on a bus and started randomly shooting fire into the air, and then talked about how it was cool that they were legal, and were only banned in 2 states. They then proceeded to implore their readers to buy them.<br /><br /><br />There is no requirement for people to be consistent.</p><div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" id="tweet-text" lang="en"><br /></div>The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-44017269269639443902020-10-14T10:09:00.002-04:002020-10-14T10:09:09.870-04:00So.... Cracked is back to gun control...<p>And doing so in a article that.... questions if free speech and representative governance is good.</p><p><a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_28610_5-scary-questions-about-future-no-one-wants-to-ask.html">Buckle up.</a><br /><br />After a part decrying free speech for the commoners we get this part:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #0e101a;">For example, after every mass shooting, my feed is full of celebrities </span><a href="https://twitter.com/DannyDeVito/status/765228355155210240"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">saying "Get rid of the guns"</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> and columns about how </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html?smid=tw-share"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">it's time to repeal the 2nd Amendment</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">, pointing out that half-measures like background checks and mental health interventions </span><a href="https://time.com/5648987/mass-shootings-background-checks/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">won't stop similar attacks</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">. The problem is that, even without looking at polls, you have to know that Americans really, <i>really</i> like guns. If you do look at the polls, you'll find that </span><a href="https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/h8n9gvrqyj/econTabReport.pdf"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">only one in five Americans want to repeal the 2nd Amendment</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> and only one in nine feel strongly about it. Yet, when we see a video of sprawled corpses in a shopping center, millions of well-meaning people think, "It'd be nice if we could just, you know, do it anyway."</span></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;">This is coming to a head sooner than you think. What happens when those exact same voters stand in the way of fixing global warming, aka, the thing that could collapse civilization? In order to curb emissions in time, we apparently </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-cars/sell-last-gasoline-car-by-2035-to-meet-climate-goals-study-says-idUSKCN11L197"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">have to ban new gasoline cars within 15 years or so</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">, and </span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-must-hit-peak-meat-by-2030-to-avoid-climate-change-crisis-scientists-say/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">beef consumption has to drop dramatically</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> even sooner than that. But Americans love their gasoline cars even more than guns (</span><a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2020"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">more than 97% of new car buyers still choose gas</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> over electric, with huge gas-guzzling trucks being </span><a href="https://www.trucks.com/2020/01/07/ram-catches-chevrolet-silverado"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">the fastest-growing market</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">), and they love their hamburgers and steaks even more (Americans average </span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/07/03/americans-eat-more-beef-and-meat-trend-thats-expected-continue/435331001/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">more than a pound of beef a week</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">, only </span><a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/267074/percentage-americans-vegetarian.aspx"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">5% of us are vegetarians</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">).</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span>So.... the whole "background checks and red flaws" are just half measures? And the mentioning of Celebrities filling my twitter feed, right after decrying free speech....</p><p><br /></p><p>So much for "nobody wants to take your guns" or... nobody wants to take your cars or meat...<br />And note this is *AFTER* the item where the writer muses that most of the populace just can't handle free speech.<br /><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;">That's actually the unspoken tension behind every argument about censorship or "cancel culture." Speech only exists in human brains, so the problem isn't the comedian's bigoted joke; it's the assumption that some segment of the audience will not have the brainpower to know what to do with it. You're giving a blowtorch to a toddler.</span> </blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Blow-torch toddler. But guns should be banned because Celebrities want it.<br /><br /><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximanNova;">If society can't be saved without a strong majority of citizens on board, and we secretly believe that most of them are immune to both reason and empathy, then what are we suggesting be done? This isn't a rhetorical question! We literally will have to answer it! Shit!</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximanNova;"><br />Saved. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximanNova;">So.... what <b>is</b> the answer?</span><p></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximanNova;">If right after complaining about people having free speech.... one complains about what to do to with a m<i>ajority of voters</i> who "are immune to both reason and empathy", what conclusion would you come to?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximanNova;"><br /></span></div><p>Followed by an item about.... dropping testosterone? And bemoaning some culture war: </p><p><br /></p><p></p><blockquote>That is, in fact, the larger problem -- our addiction to antagonism has made us even worse at processing information than we already were. When every spoken word is seen as a shot fired in some goddamned culture war, then facts are useful only as ammunition.</blockquote><p></p><p><br />Yeah <i>shame</i> that.<br /><br />ANd then gets into a neo-luddite rant about automation. Which then goes to "twitter feed solutions"<br /><br /></p><blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;">The obvious solution, among the people in my Twitter feed, is a Universal Basic Income. To make up for paychecks lost to automation, the government taxes the corporations and gives us a monthly check just for existing. This would apparently mean that a skilled and ambitious minority will continue to do the tasks too advanced for robots, but the hundreds of millions displaced by self-driving cars, delivery drones, and retail kiosks will just become full-time consumers, I guess? Planted on the sofa, staring at a screen and getting zombified by social media dopamine drips?</span></blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /><br />That's the <i>positive </i>solution!</span><p></p><p><br /><span style="color: #0e101a;">But what about people who still have to work?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;">He or she then passes by a porch full of stoned, giggling UBI neighbors, still up from an all-night gaming session (it doesn't matter if this characterization of the neighbors is unfair -- what matters is the perception). You're saying this person </span><i style="color: #0e101a;">won't</i><span style="color: #0e101a;"> feel any resentment toward them? That they won't feel like their own vote should count for more, that the system shouldn't be geared more toward the needs of the "producers?"</span></blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br />Well.... given earlier you proposed that some people can't handle free speech, and that people who like such icky things as guns.... meat... or cars.... can still vote is "problematic".....<br /><br />Again, what <i>solution </i>comes to mind?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;">And to be clear, I'm not pointing the finger at anyone but myself here. I don't have children, even though I have a yard, a spare bedroom, and a penis that almost works <i>too</i> well. Shouldn't I be forced to raise at least two replacement kids and train them in some high-value task? Shit, am <i>I</i> even doing a high-value task? I make a good living writing escapist novels with </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Zoey-Punches-Future-Dick-Novel/dp/1250195799"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">increasingly stupid titles</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">. Isn't that a frivolous inefficiency in the system? Shouldn't somebody be forcing me to write patriotic propaganda or cautionary tales about climate change?</span></blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /><br />Umm.... doesn't that sound pretty fascist? So much for, I can do what I want as long as I'm not hurting anyone else....</span><p></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br />But it gets <i>better</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;">I spent thousands of dollars on vet bills when my dog got cancer; would that be allowed in a perfectly just and efficient society? In fact, should people capable of treating cancer even be allowed to waste their talents on dogs?</span></blockquote><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #0e101a;">Should. Be. Allowed. We have a man who literally is bemoaning not just that people are <i>allowed</i> to care for pets, but that veterinary workers are ALLOWED to provide such care.<br /><br />Nobody is taking your veterinary oncologists.<br /><br />If you want to know how compassionate, caring, eco-woke people can end up oh-so-reluctantly endorsing fascism? Here you go. (And for more examples the comments can be pretty chilling)<br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;">And this shows why a grounding in what was once called Classical Liberalism is so *vital* because without a foundation of: "Yeah individuals for all their flaws have rights in what they can say and do" you end up with....</span></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;">"Well, maybe for the good of all free speech, universal suffrage, self defense, vehicular mobility should be replaced by food rationing, assigned labor serfdom, censorship of books, full rationing of medical care" And not one wiff or worry about the corruption or /who/ would be running such a state?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0e101a;">I mean going "*We* need to take away all the freedoms and inefficiencies of liberal democracy, for the duration of the emergency" sounds a /bit/ familiar no</span></p>The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-10108852903661159592020-08-07T09:40:00.005-04:002020-08-07T10:07:21.011-04:00Cracked on the NY AG suit on the NRAA..... <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_28358_the-nras-latest-scandal-needs-its-own-documentary-series.html">shockingly non vitriolic </a>(other than the standard boilerplate) article from, even more shockingly, the very angry Dan Duddly.<br /><br /><div><br /></div><div>And isn't wrong about the worries of corruption. If anything the article understates the severity and amount of it.<br /><br />Though it wouldn't be an anti-gun bent if there wasn't the standard disconnect.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximannova;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximannova;"> I mean, this is an organization that was so fervently pro-gun that they </span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/nra-to-parkland-teens-youre-only-relevant-because-your-classmates-died" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; font-family: proximannova; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a6ee0;">lobbed insults at survivors of a school shooting</span></a><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximannova;">. Could it be that the NRA's true motivations were not necessarily protecting gun-rights, so much as they were to stoke the flames of the gun-rights debate to drive donations to line their pockets and take trips to the Bahamas? It's just a theory, but I don't think it's a bad one.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximannova;"><br /><br />Sure sure. The whole Ack-Mac advertising firm is a big example of advertising that is confrontational and tribal and more about "Go Team Red! Hate Team Blue!" than anything gun rights related.<br /><br />But then you get the next sentences:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximannova;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximannova;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximannova;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> After all, </span><a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_25195_how-nra-lost-its-mind.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a6ee0;">there was a time where the NRA supported sensible gun legislation</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and even drafted the legislation requiring permits for concealed weapons. Perhaps people on both sides of the aisle would be a lot closer together on gun control if guys like Wayne LaPierre didn't have a direct financial incentive to </span><a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_25502_6-underreported-reasons-why-nra-are-just-worst.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a6ee0;">drive them apart</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. </span></span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e101a; font-family: proximannova;"><br /></span></div><div><font color="#0e101a" face="proximanNova"><span style="background-color: white;">Ah. And yes both those articles are of the bent of "Why doesn't the NRA just support gun control!" <br /><br />So the important goal that the article ends on is... the NRA needs to protect gun rights by.... supporting gun control.<br /><br /></span></font><p class="MsoNormal">It is a tell when a guy who would write daily articles (or
did before Cracked may have put the editorial boot on him) about how awful
Trump and everyone not a Progressive is (this is just to point out that the man
is quite happy to write vitriolic screeds)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And cheered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>any gun
control, and mocked the NRA.... and /his/ reaction to a state AG moving to
dissolve the NRA is to the effect of "Well, guess we'll have to wait for the netflix
documentary to see the real story?"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not cheering or high fives? <br />
Interesting.<br /><br />Then again when the top voted comment, on the article itself, is this:<br /><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">the NRA is a bloated organization that has bent the
knee & outright supported every major gun legislation made in the US. they
care more about getting donations & corporate sponsorships than they do
about the 2nd.</p><p class="MsoNormal">you wanna take them down, & leave a giant NRA sized hole
for competent 2A organizations to step into?</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">DO IT. FUCKING DO IT.</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p><font color="#0e101a" face="proximanNova"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></font></div>The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-22819773924445093582020-06-16T18:39:00.002-04:002020-06-16T18:39:41.865-04:00Cracked: Police, Guns, and the Dog that didnt' BarkAfter a few months, Cracked finally has an article about guns and the police.<br /><br />Specifically about how <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27995_heres-how-police-in-other-countries-treat-firearms.html">Police in Other Countries Treat Firearms.</a><br />
<br />
Shocking from Cracked it's not how police treat armed citizens... it's how police treat their own guns.<br />
<br />
There's not even a mention int he article about gun laws in the use for the public.<br />
<br />
And this is from Dan Duddly, one of Cracked's more angry writers.<br />
<br />
The most gun controlish is when he cites The Trace....<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
George Floyd did not die by a bullet. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-autopsy-michael-baden.html">His cause of death</a>
was asphyxiation brought about by compression of the neck. Still, it
could easily be argued that the officer who killed him, and the three
other officers who prevented bystander intervention were <a href="https://www.thetrace.org/2020/06/police-power-guns-george-floyd/" rel="noopener noreferrer">empowered to do so because they were armed.</a></blockquote>
<br />
And this end may hint....<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I don't know whether the solution is to <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27957_a-quick-guide-to-what-defunding-police-means.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">defund the police</a>,
disarm the police, abolish the police, or something else entirely. But
we're clearly doing something wrong here, and it's all the more
frustrating because everyone else seems to have figured it out already.</blockquote>
<br />
Though I suppose he avoids a reflexive demand for gun control because<br />
<br />
1) the two examples he cites neither person killed was armed<br />
<br />
2) any gun control would be enforced by the police. So could be like Stop and Frisk or like the War on Drugs in general, where the police would be even further empowered to go after people,<br />
<br />
3) the argument of "cops are trigger-happy racists who will kill unarmed minorities. Clearly they need to go around disarming minorities," is a bit.... tough.<br />
<br />
and<br />
<br />
4) This doesn't even get into how police departments are except from gun laws. They can have high capacity magazines, assault weapons, even full on machine guns. And officers are except from many laws for their personal weapons (safe handgun rosters, carry permits) which carries on after they retire from the force.<br />
<br />
So when one of Craked's most prolific angry culture warrior writers can't bring himself to go after gun rights....The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-889992170028059072020-05-15T17:32:00.000-04:002020-05-15T17:32:10.132-04:00Cracked: Bored with Gun Control?<div class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1qd0xha r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" dir="auto" lang="en">
Well.... maybe.<br />
<br />
Take this rather expected article about <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27665_everyday-stuff-america-sucks-at-compared-to-everybody-else.html">"Everyday Stuff America Sucks at Compared to Everybody else"</a><br /></div>
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There are a lot of not-great things about the great U.S. of A. But we're not talking about the big stuff like healthcare or gun control or deciding which handsy uncle gets to become the next de facto Emperor of Planet Earth.</blockquote>
<br />
That's an amusing opening. Both for the two bugaboos that the writers just give up on, and for admitting that Biden is equivalent to Trump.<br /><br />I mean... not arguing here.<br />
<br />
And the list itself is, pardon the pun, a pretty pedestrian bucket of gripes.<br />
<br />
Couple this with that Cracked's only mention of their recent mass killing and sweeping (if... clumsy) gun control up in Canada. <a href="https://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-1707-important-news-that-got-overshadowed-this-week/">Which was #9 our of 12, so near the very bottom</a><br /><br />
And there's no mention at all of the killing, just the ban, which even they admit has the whole 2 year amnesty...<br />
<br />
And then today... no gun control mentioned... <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27740_the-senates-two-biggest-trash-boys-could-lose-this-november.html">but they <i>do</i> use a picture of a senator they don't like holding a gun while calling him a "trash boy".</a><br /><br />The article that also came out today, see the previous post shows Cracked still has a hostility to gun owners, but for now they're not putting much effort into articulating it.<br />
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The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-3146889881486799352020-05-15T16:30:00.000-04:002020-05-15T16:30:03.852-04:00Cracked: Self awareness what's that?<a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27721_our-brains-cant-handle-this-without-villain.html">Our Brains Can't Handle This Without a Villain.</a><br /><br />Craked... isn't wrong.<br /><br />Amazingly.... no mention of President Trump. And only a veiled reference to "political leaders". And wow... no mention of China at all. Not even to mock Anti-Asian racists or conspiracy theorists who thought it escaped a lab.<br /><br />That's right. In an article about people needing a villain in the Pandemic they won't even touch the two big villains in popular culture. (And it's not like they won't mock conspiracy theories, they'll mocked people blaming it on 5G).<br /><br />That's a real "dog who didn't bark" right there.<br /><br /><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The history of anti-government attitudes in America needs about 500,000
more words to go over than we have space for, but equating "We're
technically ordering you to stay at home so people don't die, but
ultimately we're just working on the honor system here because some of
you are fucking nuts" with Orwellian tyranny is the culmination of
treating every issue as having two equally viable and diametrically
opposed viewpoints. At a time when the deletion of a horny tweet
promoting a video game can be decried as <a href="https://kotaku.com/samurai-shodown-twitter-account-walks-back-overly-horny-1843400788" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"cultural Marxism,"</a> there <i>has</i>
to be a pro-virus side. If there are heroes tolerating the death of
loved ones, financial ruin or, most horrifying of all, hair that looks a
little shaggy, some villain, however improbably, has to be benefitting
from, and encouraging more of, all this human misery.</blockquote>
<br />What's interesting is Cracked has a looong history of documenting horrific abuses of the US goverment has done to it's own citizens and other countries. And as for there having to be a villain... recall the whole "oh so you want Grandma to die" thing or the "Georgia genocide" or "grim reaper at the beaches". And that doesn't even get into the whole cancel culture around video games. Again... something Cracked has a long history of detailing.<br /><br />And there's a few oblique gun references.<br /><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Maybe the people currently pushing American gun sales to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pandemic-pushes-u-s-gun-sales-all-time-high-n1176451" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">record highs</a>
aren't major cinephiles, but their apocalypse cosplay certainly puts
them in the center of a reality where their violence is conveniently
righteous. </blockquote>
Less gun control and more.... well the standard classist "gun owners are stupid".<br /><br />The article itself is... well it raises some good points on people using simple narratives and how pop culture depicts pandemics. And how it all has heroes versus villains versus sheep. And the privileged versus the meek<br /><br />But when you take a meta standpoint... it's clear that the article itself has a group of villains who for various selfish, paranoid, or greed reasons are not "doing their part". <br />
<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Of course, the obsession with giving every story heroes and villains has
also given the handfuls of people waving signs about how 5G will melt
your brain into goo outsized attention, because no one wants to read
profiles of the people<b> who did their part by staying home and
re-enacting the entirety of <i>Point Break</i> in <i>Animal Crossing</i>.
</b> The escapism of post-apocalyptic stories is that the hero only has to
be a little more ethical in their mass slaughter than the villains to be
worth rooting for, that <b>the societies we've spent millennia
establishing</b> will just melt away and never be thought of again. </blockquote>
Emphasis added.<br /><br />It is... interesting that the article is valorizing... lazing on the couch. Which.... well being able to do that, for MONTHS at a time is pretty damn privileged.<br /><br />For all the talk about "global empathy" there is little attempt to understand why some people... can't just play video-games on their couch.<br /><br />And it was only.... about ten days ago that <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27643_like-us-celebs-are-losing-it-because-everything-sucks-right-now.html">Cracked mocked the privilege of Celebrities.</a>.. for being able to stay home and make vlogs...<br /><br />And this whole... wow, look at all these people making enemies.... has a meta component as also published today on <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27741_so-now-local-news-guys-are-enemy-people.html">Cracked is a piece about a nasty protest </a> And while it raises good points about the mobs and ill-conceived protests the whole thing has a very "only these garbage people protest the state, you don't want to be one of them do you?"<br /><br />And no... that's not reading too much into it as also today Cracked posted.... <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27740_the-senates-two-biggest-trash-boys-could-lose-this-november.html">The Senate's Two Biggest Trash Boys Could Lose This November</a>. Which is itself not too far out of Cracked's wheelhouse and tone. But when combined with the daily short articles that seem nothing more of agitating about the wrongs of the Trump Administration...<br /><br />Well, it's kind of funny given today's article about the "need to make villains." I'm sure it's a coincidence that during the 2nd month of the pandemic lockdown Cracked decided to go even further on articles against the enemy they see in all of this.<br />
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<br />
So... the article is right.<br /><br />And they were right to go "our brains", because clearly the Cracked writing staff needs a villain in all this as well. They just can't connect the dots, or openly admit that they're just as human as the rest of us.<br /><br /><br />
The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-65139244168647875902020-04-20T17:30:00.000-04:002020-04-20T17:30:08.635-04:00Cracked: The Media doesn't cover school massacres enoughHow can cracked take a <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27458_6-big-moments-in-history-people-forgot-about-immediately.html">school massacre where no one was shot</a> and turn it into a dog whistle for gun control?<br />
<br /><br />This:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"4 Reporters Skipped America's Deadliest School Massacre To
Witness Charles Lindbergh's Transatlantic Flight"<br /><br />"As opposed to facing the gruesome realities of a school massacre, the
return of the Lone Eagle was exactly the uplifting story needed during
the Great Depression. News organizations pulled journalists covering the
Bath disaster and reassigned them to report on Charles Lindbergh's
heroic exploits, and the story of 38 murdered students was forgotten
within the year. We're sure there's a lesson in there about America
needing to take school tragedies more seriously and not get distracted
by attention-seeking fascists, but how would that still be relevant
today?"</blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
Because school shootings don't get much media coverage in the US? Note that it's not a plea for gun control, directly. Just bemoaning how the US doesn't learn and the media isn't... pushing for it enough?<br />
<br />
Huh?<br /><br />And does Cracked really want to get in with Nazis and Gun Control?<br /><br />Because the<a href="https://fivetensfourtens.blogspot.com/2018/08/so-cracked-doesnt-think-nazi-gun.html"> last time they tackled</a> that it sounded a bit like an apologia. Including insinuating that Nazi gun control did not go far enough, victim-blaming the Warsaw Uprising, and other creepy pro-fascist statements.<br /><br /><br /> Such as how it's not "gun policy" when a gun law "strip[s]
Jews, communists, union leaders, and other enemies of their guns with the help
of the registry" but it is pro-gun
when the law "exempt[s] Nazi Party members from most regulations".<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />
And it's not like Cracked hasn't <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_24441_5-creepy-true-stories-that-put-horror-movies-to-shame.html">covered Bath before.</a><br />
<br />
Where they also get in a jab at gun control by ending the other entry on Bath this way.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<br />
So, why did he do it? Apparently, he was upset about <a href="http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bauerle/nyt520.txt" target="a">high taxes</a>,
losing the town clerk election, and, oh yeah, he was fucking nuts.
Obviously, the U.S. invested heavily in mental health after the
disaster, and nothing like this ever happened again.<br />
Related:<br />
<a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_25195_how-nra-lost-its-mind.html">How The NRA Lost Its Mind</a></blockquote>
<br />
Gee....<br />
<br />
And yest that link does go to an Adam Wears article where he and another person basically rail against the NRA's Cincinnati Revolt. Basically getting angry that the NRA started to actually lobby and organize against gun control.<br /><br /><br />
<br />The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-7414832802845523842020-03-06T21:28:00.000-05:002020-03-06T21:28:07.209-05:00Gunshows didn't exist before the mid 90's?<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="5q2pa" data-offset-key="9f28p-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span data-offset-key="fnj4v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">In another false claim, Bloomberg went on during Monday's town hall </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="fnj4v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">to say federal law doesn't apply to internet and gun show sales because </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="fnj4v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">the internet and gun shows did not exist when the federal background </span><br />
<span data-offset-key="fnj4v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">check law was passed in 1993.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></blockquote>
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"Why? Because those two things came after the law that applies to gun
stores was passed," Bloomberg said. "And what I tried to do is just to
get every state, because the federal government doesn't seem to want to
do it, to just check before they sell anybody a gun to make sure they
are not in one of those categories where people really—I think most
people would agree—should not have guns."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span data-offset-key="envt4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Or... it could be that Bloomberg has no idea what the basic federal laws are about a subject he has spend hundreds of of millions of dollars lobbying.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="canfm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Or he knows the actual laws, but is happy to lie to get his way.
Which is more comforting?
It's lying.<a href="https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1234660690452893705"> It's definitely lying.</a></span></div>
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The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-31264705104619940352020-03-04T19:08:00.002-05:002020-03-04T19:08:30.791-05:00Bloomberg: Out.<div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
So... to all of you worried that the racist-republican wall street billionaire will buy his way into the Oval office can rest easy.<br /></div>
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He's dropped out of the race.</div>
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<br />And... endorsed Biden... with a pledge to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help him win.</div>
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<br />Gee, I wonder if that munificence comes with any strings attached.</div>
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The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-45434675006488760422020-03-02T21:16:00.000-05:002020-03-02T21:16:01.644-05:00Cracked: Restore Felon's rights! No not those rights!<br />
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It's not gun related but...</div>
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<a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_27178_4-radical-political-positions-that-really-arent.html">'Extreme' Political Viewpoints (That Really Aren't)</a></div>
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<br />
So you have "higher taxes for the rich!" (even though the US has a
more progerssive tax code than Scandinavian countries, fee money (IE basic
income), free college, which aren't exactly "extreme", given
how popular "Free stuff" and "Someone else pays for my
stuff" are...<br />
<br />
The 4th one is interesting it's felon voting. And not for why you think...<br />
<br />
See this was written by <a href="https://www.cracked.com/members/Archaeology+Dalek" title="Adam Wears">Adam
Wears, </a>yes <b>that </b>Adam Wears.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who writes. "Basically, if there's anything
that's even slightly reminiscent of Jim Crow, that shit needs to die <i>pronto</i>."
So... does Wears advocate the restoration of ALL of a felon's rights upon
release?<o:p></o:p></div>
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And if not why not? If he thinks a felon shouldn't get all the rights
back is that saying some Jim Crow is okay?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-29109809219088344152019-11-13T18:24:00.002-05:002019-11-13T18:24:35.234-05:00Cracked *almost* gets the point.Cracked has a pretty good piece on things Hollywood <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_26790_7-things-hollywood-gets-wrong-about-legal-system.html">gets wrong about the US legal system.</a><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Crime show fans think there are <a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/11/15/8_ways_shows_like_law_order_svu_mess_with_your_head_partner/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2 1/2 times as many murders happening than there really are</a>,
and there are also concerns that voters are pushing for overspending on
prisons to protect people from violent crime that doesn't actually
exist.</blockquote>
<br />
Gee, I wonder if there are any other things where voters overestimating a type of crime might cause a negative, distorted legislation.<br />
<br />
Why take this recent pol which found that 20% of voters t<a href="https://wamu.org/story/19/10/02/the-majority-of-u-s-gun-deaths-are-suicides-but-a-new-poll-suggests-few-americans-know-it/">hink Mass Shootings are the most common </a>cause of gun deaths in the US.<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Horrific as they are, mass shootings represent a tiny fraction of gun deaths in America. They account for a <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports" target="_blank">few hundred </a>deaths every year, as compared to an average of roughly <a href="https://webappa.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker.exe?_service=v8prod&_server=aspv-wisq-1.cdc.gov&_port=5099&_sessionid=rtvtRBc3Q52&_program=wisqars.dd_details10.sas&_service=&type=S&prtfmt=STANDARD&age1=.&age2=.&agegp=AllAges&deaths=667817&_debug=0&lcdfmt=lcd1age&ethnicty=0&ranking=10&deathtle=Death" target="_blank">19,000 gun</a> suicide deaths. There were 23,854 suicides by firearm in 2017, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm" target="_blank">according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>.</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
And even with a murder rate well above other developed nations, gun
homicides, which account for roughly 12,000 deaths per year in the U.S,
are a distant second compared to suicides.</blockquote>
<br />
And no the Cracked article actually takes a mild anti-gun swipe where two paragraphs before the quoted section they say<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
TV has no shortage of violent robberies, vicious murders, and brutal
rapes. It's a madhouse out there. We should teach our dogs to use guns.
We should teach our <i>guns</i> to use guns. </blockquote>
<br />
So.<br />
The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-43485477410367827432019-08-09T16:49:00.003-04:002019-08-09T19:55:09.140-04:00It's too late to ban Assault Weapons says... the NYT?From <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/opinion/ar15-assault-weapon-ban.html">Alex Kingsbury who in his own admission has lobbied for years to ban them.</a><br />
<br />
And from the article is is clearly no friend of these weapons. And in general fairly hostile to guns and attributes some... odd qualities to them.<br />
<br />
But he is right that firearms can last a long time (pointing out that an AR now could work in 2119 easily). And he rightly points to the extremely low compliance rates whenever "assault weapons" are banned.<br />
<br />
And even when drastically low balling the number of these guns in the country (he says 15 million) he points out that appreciably removing them from the country would be nigh impossible.<br />(The issue of criminal importation and manufacture isn't even mentioned...)<br />
<br />
This does not mean he is friendly to gun rights folks or against any real gun control laws. Merely that Kingsbury is looking at the logistics and effect of such a ban.<br />
<br />
However, he misses one thing.<br />
<br />
<br />
A massive side (or perhaps primary) goal of an AWB is not to get rid of said guns, but to stigmatize the public usage of them. If they are reduced to being hidden safe queens then "gun culture" will greatly diminish.<br />
<br />
Which makes subsequent bans even easier.<br />
<br />
<br />
As a bonus with millions of now illegal (and thus more scary) guns all over the country. They make handy boogieman on the scale of Emmanuel Goldstein that can justify all sorts of confiscations and registrations.<br />
<br />The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-11295587104301653272019-08-06T17:37:00.002-04:002019-08-06T17:37:38.618-04:00At least it's not the NRA stepping in it...Yet...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_26607_republicans-are-blaming-gun-violence-video-games-again.html">Cracked has a quick (and non list article!).</a> Decrying some republicans (including the President) who decided to make noises about violence in video-games.<br />
<br />
If you ignore the reflexive, and brief, anti gun screed, it's not a terrible post.<br />
<br />
By Cracked standards it's fairly sedate. I guess we'll see what they post next.<br />
(It's kinda... odd that they haven't reported at all on the NRA's massive internal problems).The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-34092538652679093812019-08-05T21:28:00.001-04:002019-08-05T21:28:56.177-04:00What Politico Gets right about gun culture. What they get wrogn.<br />
This<a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/04/mass-shooting-gun-culture-227502"> article isn't... bad </a> as it gets how gun owners group together and among each other gun ownership is normal and something to talk about.<br />
<br />
The first warning signs come early...<br /><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The view of guns as neutral tools, a view shared by
conservative defenders of gun rights as well as liberal advocates of gun
regulation, misses a crucial fact about guns and gun ownership. It wrongly
assumes that the distribution of guns and their presence in their owners' lives
are totally independent facts that don't shape the opportunities and choices of
the people who use them.</blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
Right, because gun control advocates aren't about deodand thinking and "the trigger pulls the finger."<br />
<br />
The article does seem to, at some level, get things.<br /><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In part because of their danger and allure and in part
because they're the center of a sporting culture with deep American roots, guns
draw adherents together in contexts like expos, gun ranges, and online
chatrooms. At the recreational level, participants can indulge in hobbyist
debate and discussion; on a political and cultural level, they can also forge a
shared commitment to armed citizenship.<br /><o:p> </o:p>Gun owners bond over their shared fear of diffuse and
unpredictable threats of contemporary life. The Pew survey concluded: “Many,
but not all, gun owners exist in a social context where gun ownership is the
norm. Roughly half of all gun owners say that all or most of their friends own
guns. … In stark contrast, among the non-gun owning public, only one-in-ten say
all or most of their friends own guns.”</blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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But the it goes off the rails at the end. Here's the second to last paragraph.<br />
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Any real gun law reform is going to need to take this
community and value system into account. Liberals need gun owners as allies. Today,
in the wake of more mass shootings, good citizenship requires that the millions
of gun owners who say they support gun regulation do more than think about their
own way of life. They need to turn that support into vocal activism. In so
doing, they may help bring about changes necessary to protect the communities
that we all share.</blockquote>
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Funny how after all the talk about how despite that gun owners "neither trust the government nor believe that it will
protect them" now suddenly, "good citizenship" requires them to do... exactly what gun control advocates want.<br /><br />Namely back gun control. Not just back but become activists in support in.<br /><br />Funny how that works.<br />
<br />Okay... so what will gun owners get in return? Well here's the last paragraph.<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In order for them to be willing to do so, gun owners need assurance that liberal gun reform advocates will not march down a slippery slope from red-flag laws, regulating semi-automatic weapons and large capacity magazines and closing the gun-show loophole to intrusive regulations that start to break down a culture that millions of people value greatly—one that enriches their lives and whose roots go back before America's founding.</blockquote>
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So... gun control advocates get... just about everything they want. <br />And gun owners get "assurances" that gun control advocates won't ask for more.<br />
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Except banning the most common guns and IS breaking down the culture. <br />
(Also... Assault Weapon Bans are now semi-auto "regulation"? Which is all pistols and the majority of rifles...)<br />
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And if the writer doesn't think destroying the culture isn't the <i>goal</i> of gun control advocates then he's more of a sucker than those gun owners who bought into those "assurances" of those "gun reform advocates".<br /><br />Look at the states that have passed the laws the writer so clearly wants. What's the worth of any "assurances" to gun owners living in California or New Jersey?<br />
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The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-2178074181645091422019-07-06T10:22:00.001-04:002019-07-06T10:22:39.618-04:00Cracked may be ignoring the NRA Meltdown...Which is... odd given their writer's past history with anger at the organization.<br /><br />And one would think a very visible and mud-slinging breakup with their long term PR firm, the closing of their crazy off-mission "TV" branch (run by said PR firm), the paranoid accusations of a "coup", the forced resignation of the head of their legislative lobbying group, the removal of many board members from their committee assignments...<br /><br />One would think there would be plenty to go after.<br /><br />And yet...<br /><br />Instead Cracked (and Adam Wears!) has a fairly good article pointing out some of the legit crazy of <a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_26492_wtf-primary-candidate-stories.html">the Democratic Primary field. </a><br /><br />Given the size of the article they only cover... 1/4 to 1/3 of the field but it's something.The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-26910446134757118812019-05-14T17:37:00.000-04:002019-05-14T17:52:14.966-04:00Cracked: 5 More reasons the NRA is the worstSo... Adam Wears has a list of more<a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_26356_5-more-underreported-reasons-why-nra-just-worst.html"> "under reported' reasons why "the NRA is the worst"</a><br />
(And true to his... tone there's plenty of scatological and juvenile humor)<br />
<br />
Now given the NRA just recently <a href="https://www.pagunblog.com/2019/04/29/who-are-the-good-guys-in-all-this/">kicked out their president Oliver North </a>out of office in an internal mess that included them using their massively dysfunctional ad agency, and said ad agency that <a href="https://www.pagunblog.com/2019/05/03/this-is-probably-the-ack-mac-contingent-following-up-on-their-threat/">threatened to blackmail </a>long time power behind the throne Wayne LaPierre exposing his flagrant spending on wardrobe and <a href="http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2019/05/ack-mac-letter-regarding-lapierre.html">other luxuries on the NRA's dime</a> or that the New York AG is investigating their non-profit status.<br />
<br />
So there is a lot of dirty laundry that Wears could talk about.<br />
<br />
Instead we get the expected the NRA are conspiracy theorists, racists, domestic abuser supporting paranoids who know good guys can't stop shootings*, and deludingly want to harden schools.<br />
*But Wears brags about how guys with fists are supper effective.<br />
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It's not quite a repeat of the last time Wears <a href="https://fivetensfourtens.blogspot.com/2018/04/it-took-them-almost-couple-months.html">wrote this article</a>, but these are all things he's written before. It's his flat out boilerplate.<br />
<br />
And he posts yet another rage filled screed when... as mentioned the start, there's plenty of bad stuff that is openly being reported in major publications.<br />
<br />
So he may be angry about hating the NRA, but he's also lazy about it.<br />
<br />
Maybe in a few months Cracked will pick up on it.The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-1704654101151464462019-05-08T17:35:00.002-04:002019-05-08T17:35:56.904-04:00Cracked: Non-stupid self defense advice.So two days after whining about a jurisdiction <a href="https://fivetensfourtens.blogspot.com/2019/05/cracked-banning-weapons-due-to-moral.html">where nunchucks might be legalized.</a> (Seriously, this is a thing they <a href="https://fivetensfourtens.blogspot.com/2018/12/guess-who-is-unhappy-that-nys-nunchuck.html">have a habit </a>of doing).<br /><br />Cracked now has an<a href="https://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-1355-14-dangerous-lies-about-self-defense-corrected/"> "article" of... rather okay self defense advice.</a> Specifically mocking "self defense myths" That is not even token-anti gun or anti-self defense. Now article is in quotes because it's not written by their staff or really written at all, instead it's a user submitted meme-list.<br /><br />So maybe that's it.<br />
<br />
And the "self defense myths" are legit (as far as I can tell). Such as <br />
<ul>
<li>cautions that pepper-spray can blow back</li>
<li> size is a factor and attackers tend to target those they perceive are smaller and weaker</li>
<li> the importance of deescalation techniques</li>
<li> that you are very likely to know your attacker</li>
<li> that if someone wants to kidnap you then your "unlikely to come back" and should get out.</li>
</ul>
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When they talk about guns it's literally guns require training and "whichever gun you chose, you have to learn how to handle one."<br /><br />Which is... quite good advice. </div>
The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-30503301627400085752019-05-06T17:53:00.001-04:002019-05-06T17:53:36.200-04:00Cracked: Banning weapons due to a moral panic is stupid...Unless it's guns!<br /><br />So, Arizona might repeal their nunchuck ban. And Cracked is<a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_26370_citizens-arizona-might-finally-get-to-own-nunchucks.html"> there to fret about it.</a><br /><br />Now unlike an <a href="https://fivetensfourtens.blogspot.com/2018/12/guess-who-is-unhappy-that-nys-nunchuck.html">earlier article where they fretted </a>about at Judge in New York daring to cite McDonald vs Chicago to overturn a weapon ban.<br />
<br />
This time they complain that prole are <i>less</i> influenced by movies and moral panics saying "Huh, weird to think there was once a time in this country when movies could get a weapon banned, but now <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46507514" target="_blank">multiple school shootings</a> every year somehow don't."<br /><br />But nobody wants to ban guns.<br /><br />This also shows that Cracked can't even write an article laughing about the banning of literal sticks with a chain, without having to go on about gun control.<br /><br />And for more amusement, the article asserts "nunchucks have been on the same ban list as sawed-off shotguns and silencers,"... <a href="https://www.guntrustlawyer.com/arizona-az-what-nfa-firearms-c/">except those <i>are </i>legal to own in Arizona.</a><br />
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Whoops.The Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173903164209256926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044589671326360740.post-18553811933272541652019-04-29T21:04:00.000-04:002019-04-29T21:04:00.551-04:00Indy Councilman accuses Jewish deli owner of supporting Nazis<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4a5pa" data-offset-key="eoldj-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="eoldj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">By unwelcoming <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/29/indy-deli-owner-welcomes-nra-guests-councilman-says-hes-feeding-nazis/">NRA attendees during a convention.</a>
For reference this is the same Councileman Zach Adamson (D-17) who last year was part of a push to get the city-council to pass a law that amounted to demanding the state legislature ban all sorts of guns in Indianapolis.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bulj7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">It started with Zach Adamson (D-17) a grandstanding fellow who read his resolution and bragged about being in DC for a "die-in"</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="eaisb-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">He did the standard litany of "weapons of war" and "designed to kill" and went with how assault weapons are specifically to mow down lots of people. But would not define /what/ caused it.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9oth0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">It turns out that Zach <i>hates</i> preemption. He railed against the statehouse taking power for itself and limited what the municipality could do.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f0os7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">He also went on about how congress made it legal to own "tools that can only kill mass amounts of people"</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="11cib-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">And on the "fetish with guns is out of control"</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ff8vq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Now last year this did not even get out of committee (because 2 committee members of Zach's party did not bother to show up and thus when it went to a party-line vote it failed.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8qa8p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Still... the guy is <i>very</i> angry about Hoosiers having guns so this is not surprising at all.</span></div>
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