CatCannons posted:

New census calculation finds higher rate of poverty in U.S.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57549919/new-census-calculation-finds-higher-rate-of-poverty-in-u.s/

You have three months if you are fired to become a homeless person in america. 6 months, if you cut off cable, phone, and start walking. Assuming you do not have a credit card debt, which the average american has $27,000 in.

N. Senada posted:

I really like this one.

scary ghost dog posted:

The Tavor, standard infantry weapon of the IDF


The M16A2 Rifle, standard infantry weapon of the US army

scary ghost dog posted:

The Tavor, standard infantry weapon of the IDF


The M16A2 Rifle, standard infantry weapon of the US army

Purgey posted:

Not sure what exactly what you're trying to say here, but I'm guessing its "The IDF are fighting with weapons from Outer Space!"

Tavors, like all bullpups, are largely gimmicks. The Galil, the previous Israeli standard issue weapon, is still issued to the IDF and I would argue that it is a superior weapon in most regards to the Tavor.



Of course, optimal small arm weaponry is largely irrelevant if your army solely exists to suppress unarmed civilians.

Purgey posted:

Not sure what exactly what you're trying to say here, but I'm guessing its "The IDF are fighting with weapons from Outer Space!"

Tavors, like all bullpups, are largely gimmicks. The Galil, the previous Israeli standard issue weapon, is still issued to the IDF and I would argue that it is a superior weapon in most regards to the Tavor.



Of course, optimal small arm weaponry is largely irrelevant if your army solely exists to suppress unarmed civilians.

Chantilly Say posted:

What exactly is this attempting to demonstrate, though? That the IDF is using more futuristic-looking equipment than the American military?

Purgey posted:

Not sure what exactly what you're trying to say here, but I'm guessing its "The IDF are fighting with weapons from Outer Space!"

Fried Chicken posted:

I assume the point is that the IDF uses bullpups and carbines while the US uses rifles. The reason for that is because shorter weapons are better for stopping civilian revolt - better to clear tight restrictions that come with indoors/city fighting, less penetration means it is fine if you are against people without body armor and don't want to trash the surroundings. Whereas rifles are better for greater distance and penetration, but are more cumbersome if you are out to suppress a population. In other words, the IDF is supplied around the mission of curbstomping civilians, where as the US is still focused around fighting other armies.

Since I need a picture, nerd chat time: this is one of the few things George Lucas did showing he still had some semblance of subtlety. The Clones, fighting a war, use rifles


The later stormtroopers, suppressing and terrorizing people, use carbines


And the shocktroopers inbetween the two use both

Using the rifles in scenes where they are fighting the war, and carbines as soon as they shift to being the fascist occupation force.

Fried Chicken posted:

I assume the point is that the IDF uses bullpups and carbines while the US uses rifles. The reason for that is because shorter weapons are better for stopping civilian revolt - better to clear tight restrictions that come with indoors/city fighting, less penetration means it is fine if you are against people without body armor and don't want to trash the surroundings. Whereas rifles are better for greater distance and penetration, but are more cumbersome if you are out to suppress a population. In other words, the IDF is supplied around the mission of curbstomping civilians, where as the US is still focused around fighting other armies.

TinTower posted:

I'm pretty sure that Half-Life 2 subtly does this too. In the early game, your major opposition is the Civil Protection, who are glorified school bullies, and their weapons include suppressionary weapons such as stunsticks, manhacks (drones with spinning blades), and the real life MP7.



As you progress through the game, the enemies change into the infantry, the Combine Overwatch, who are equipped with an energy pulse rifle.



By the end of the game, you're constantly fighting against the Combine's invasion force onto each world. Each episode so far has had the Strider, basically Tripod-style things with disintegration lasers, as an end-game quasi-boss.

Jerry SanDisky posted:

Hitler had a rad mountain house, loved dogs, and had a hookup for cocaine. Seems like a good friend.

TinTower posted:

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Literally everything in that paragraph is wrong.

Senor Gato posted:

LP97S posted:

Holy gently caress you guys are nerds, can't even do gun-chat right.

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

This Thanksgiving, be sure to enjoy everyone's favorite vegetable

Armyman25 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHY14OVk7r0

I think the Palestinians would do better if they could come up with folks songs that are fun to drink and sing to.

gowb posted:

quote:

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!. It tells the story of a gold miner-turned-oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Fluoride Jones posted:

Stew Man Chew posted:

gently caress the both of you, go back to jerking it in TFR jesus christ.



Hayek and Mises, look at these fuckin shrivs.

CatCannons posted:

ptk posted:

Hmm..



The black dot in Colorado is a county in which there is a state prison and not much else.

budgieinspector posted:

Wait -- there's an "American" ancestry other than Native American? And these non-Native natives settled almost entirely in the Bible Belt?

Methinks a shitload of people can't grasp even the most basic notions of genealogy.

for animal cruelty: http://i.imgur.com/3UsD6.jpg

http://www.change.org/petitions/criminal-prosecuters-in-santiago-de-chile-give-patricio-millar-the-maximum-punishment-for-his-abuse-of-dogs

http://pachnews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/aspirante-que-ahorco-y-enterro-su-perro.html

Mo Tzu posted:

That part of the country, it's not that uncommon for people to not know what their family's country of origin is. My family's from north-eastern Kentucky, and we have no clue what country we came from. Germany? Ireland? Scotland? Switzerland? It could be all of them or none of them. After being in the country for almost 300 years it's hard to know for sure, and quite honestly "American" is about all we really need to know.

Mo Tzu posted:

That part of the country, it's not that uncommon for people to not know what their family's country of origin is. My family's from north-eastern Kentucky, and we have no clue what country we came from. Germany? Ireland? Scotland? Switzerland? It could be all of them or none of them. After being in the country for almost 300 years it's hard to know for sure, and quite honestly "American" is about all we really need to know.

The Guardian posted:

The Golden Poo, a Japanese good luck charm (playing on the similarity between the words for 'luck' and 'poo' in Japanese) was an eye-catching exhibit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine last month in an exhibition drawing attention to sanitation, a major killer of children in developing countries

ekuNNN posted:

Sadly this is a series:


"Ghada Karmi and Ellen Siegel, in 1973, 1992 and 2001. Photos by Francis Khoo (1, 2) and Jean-Pascal Deillon (3)"

Donkwich posted:

Hans Hermann-Hoppe (right), Austrian School theorist and smugbertarian extraordinaire, who made his own conception of ethics to argue that every political viewpoint other than anarcho-capitalism was inherently immoral.