Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 158
Holy crap, there's one here from Twitter. Burn him!
Holy crap, there's one here from Twitter. Burn him!
and how did that work out for McVeigh?
'Done easily'? Well sure, as soon as the GPU's that can run that sort of resolution with the settings maxed out at a constant 60fps get released and become affordable. I imagine you could do it now but it'd require some expensive SLI / Crossfire configuation.
It's a pointless fantasy not even worth considering. It wouldn't even get that far because any insurgency would be stopped before it got off the ground and those people detained as terrorists and inarcerated forever. The media would 'inform' the populace about the threat of domestic terrorism and scare the shit out of them as usual and the populace would simply dismiss the insurgents as nutjob lunatics.
McVeigh is a perfect example of this. This was his exact motivation, a tyrannical government, but do you see any huge support for his actions? Of course not.
McVeigh was also motivated by his fear that an oppresive government was going to take away his firearms. So he stood up to what he believed was an oppresive government and took them head on. He was incarcerated and killed for his beliefs. Funny how all those pro-gun people who trot out the "we need to defend ourselves agaisnt the government" revile Mcveigh rather than actually look up to him for doing exactly what they claim they need their guns for!
And what do Red and White sound like?
Are you saying she didn't die a 'real heroine' trying to take on the guy unarmed? are you fucking retarded?
But it's okay, cos you still got your 2nd amendment and guns to stop them doing this shit! Oh, wait..
The ones where the freedom fighters had backing from other nations? How's that working out in, say, Egypt, for example?
Timothy McVeigh was merely rising up against what he thought was a tyrannical government. He was declared sound of mind. He wasn't mental, he believed in his cause. Kind of ironic considering one of the arguments from the pro-gun side is the ability to overthrow a tyrannical government.
Given Mcveighs success with that, how do the rest of you think this is a scenario that will ever happen?
My understanding of the 2nd amendment is that it was so you could repel invaders (ie, the British) during a time you didn't have a standing army. It would allow the President to call up the population to bear arms and fight back.
Because honestly, how much shit will you let your government do before you rise up against them like you genuinely believe you will? Do you think for even a second you would be able to start the movement for such a revolution without the government snatching you up as a 'terroris't and throwing you in a dark hole?
There were at least two Facebook pages calling for the murder of Mark Bridger. This was one of the comments;
"Jessica Morris Keep it open- we need somewhere to convene if he gets released- we will need to arrange a march to his house for welsh justice if he gets released!!! X"
The Nokia Lumia 900 already had a purple hue bug! Is there nothing Apple won't copy?
"if you have nothing better to do in life than sit around and inhale a drug to "get high" and have psychodelic hallucinations then you're probably not destined for greatness"
Both Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman used marijuana
And yet the UK gov allowed Libyan diplomats to just walk out the country after they gunned down a female police officer.
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