The "people" who are incapable of recognizing the vibe shift are politically engaged in the same spirit as a high school hipster music fan who can't stand to see their favorite band become popular
My personal favorite was a guy I ran into getting arrested for miscegenation in Laos because he didn't check the laws of the country. He bought a house in his gf's name, and as soon as he had a chunk of money in a local bank for "investments" they locked him up and seized it. He complained to the embassy, then tried to get local Americans to advocate for him. "Oh, you fell for that? LOL" was the typical response
No foreign dick allowed in the local vaginas, sir. I think he ended up doing 3 years or so, and his reward was a free flight home from the embassy. Dumbass
Our company had a multi-day "local laws and cultural practices" orientation along with examples of what happened to people who violated them. Most were simply funny, several were grim
@pepsi_man@BattleDwarfGimli@GoyGirl@Humpleupagus@LatigoMorgan I heard grim stories from the Marines and State employees at the embassy. I spent less than a year there because the romance of what I was doing (very low level NGO shit, not very interesting. I was young) wore off pretty quickly
Here's a silly one. People who left the country and lived in the west would go back to visit and wear every piece of jewelry they owned to show off their relative wealth with their impoverished subsistence farmer relatives. They'd then call the embassy and ask to be rescued because they were "scared"
Kids doing drug shit, getting ripped off, getting in a tussle and then arrested by local cops complaining to the embassy. Fuck you
Grim - old local men who went overseas for 20 years, then either divorced their wife or she passed away, and then they are told by someone in their network who informs them of a young marriage-aged girl. They go back, she's older than they thought, they get their dick wet and lose all of their savings if they're lucky. If they're unlucky their Social Security check is sent to the country in perpetuity and they are in a shallow grave in the jungle
Western men, particularly the defectives, go there to live on SSI or disability because it's cheap. You can't just be a permanent resident without forking out a lot of money. They disappear a lot, and the neighboring countries will often trade off these defectives to spread the milking of their families around - jail, fines, etc.
They don't know how bakshish works, don't speak the language, and don't realize that they are, to the locals, not a person but a walking meal ticket
My theory is that the primary purpose of military pensions is the importation of foreign women, followed by the enabling of men who are basically empty husks drinking on the cheap in a Las Vegas area apartment while they drive a tricked out 4x4 or BMW
@samjayganges@CliffSecord@Humpleupagus@BattleDwarfGimli@GoyGirl@LatigoMorgan@pepsi_man I was maybe 20 or 21 years old when I saw a "serviceman rape in Okinawa" where I saw that the accused was black. A light bulb went off in my head, so I went to the campus library and looked up every case I could find in the past. They were always black. Oliver Stone made the rapists in Platoon White but even in Vietnam it was always blacks doing that
@TrevorGoodchild Before I became so based that I forgot what tha TeeVee was, my now wife was watching a show Nugent did on VH1 where he took aspiring reality TV kids and made them butcher animals while he lectured them about the pitfalls of whatever their interests were
He told a striver, suit-wearing black kid to basically stop being a nigger with a nigger mentality. The kid earnestly lapped it up. "He's right!"
The moon-faced Vietnamese Playboy chick that was at Richard Spencer's DC event throwing Romans was on it, and Nugent was interrogating her about her life plans. He closed the rant, his face about six inches from hers, with, I'll never forget it, "Beauty fades. Life is cruel, and there is nothing crueler than the life of a dried-up old cock-tease"
@judgedread@Marshall1Banana Very interesting info I've recently come across indicates that Powell is at war with foreign banks who have been saddling us with inflation due to lending in dollars
@QuisSicutDeus@EvilSandmich Yeah. I've spent several years encouraging people in danger of redpill overdoses to slow their roll, but it's almost impossible right now
@CaptainFuggetaboutit@_Seraphim_@matty@PatrickCooper This is the device you think is as good as a suppressor yet magically isn't one. Notice the big opening on the end? That's where all of the gas goes. Do you think a few inches of tube is going to make a gun as quiet as a device with an enclosed front end and internal geometry to slow those games?
Ever fired a 12" barreled shotgun, then a 28" barreled shotgun? You can shoot the 28" barreled shotgun a little in the field and only do a little damage, because it's a low pressure cartridge type and the long barrel means the noise is farther away from your ears. If you shoot skeet, or trap, without hearing protection for any length of time, soon your vocabulary will consist primarily of, "WHAT?"
Shoot a single shot from a 12" barreled shotgun without hearing protection and your ears will ring for a good long time - because it's close to your ears, and thus the concussive blast us nearer to your eats, and head in general. It will fuck you up badly very quickly. It won't be a radically louder weapon from a decibel messurement, overall, but the perceived blast will be far worse
A 20" barreled AR-15 will fuck your hearing up like the 12" barreled shotgun because it's a high pressure cartridge, but with hearing protection it's a delight, because the concussion is far enough away. The same weapon with a 10" barrel will rattle your teeth even with earpro on. The device that pushes the blast a little farther away from you, and projected more forward because of its geometry, will reduce the teeth-rattle, but will still deafen you quickly without hearing protection - because it's still a fucking rifle shot with real rifle shot decibels - and be just as loud to anyone forward of the muzzle
If you don't want to fuck with NFA devices, the old school way is to shoot a low powered subsonic cartridge through a long barrel - .22 CB, .32 Long, etc. - so that the powder is all burned up long before it exits the 22" or longer barrel. But put a device on it that reduces the decibel level further, that device is a suppressor, period
@CaptainFuggetaboutit@_Seraphim_@matty@PatrickCooper Here's an illustration of how seriously the ATF pole smokers take sound suppression. This is the muzzle device from a Colt XM177E1 carbine, which came with either a 10" or 11.5" barrel. The gas port is in the front sight assembly as seen on M-16s, etc. and there wasn't enough backpressure for the bolt to consistently cycle. So, Colt developed a muzzle device that trapped gas long enough for the weapon to cycle consistently. It was as loud as a 20" M-16. The military used them, whee. In the 70s, some ended up on the commercial market. The ATF tested them and found that, while the carbine was as loud as an M-16, without a muzzle device on, they were even louder. The sound signature was reduced by about 2 db, therefore they were restricted NFA devices. This is still the case. It wasn't because they used teeny tiny baffles - there were plenty of suppressors in the old days that didn't have baffles, but consisted of a barrel or tube drilled with ports, wrapped in various materials to slow the gases, then enclosed with a tube. NFA item. No baffles. It's because any device that reduces the sound signature AT ALL is a considered a suppressor
There is an entire industry for retro guns, and the guys who make these will usually send them in to the ATF to get tested so that they can show that it's not an NFA device... because it doesn't reduce the sound signature