The sound of freedom

[Doc]

"When I lived outside Washington DC when I heard a gun going off I always thought to call the police. Now that I have moved to West Virginia when I hear guns going off I think "That sounds like freedom to me"" Cassandra Fairbanks 3/29/2021 Timcast IRL

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

Eh, when it translates to

"When I lived in a dense suburb and someone was firing a gun, it alarmed me 'cause that's an immediate sign of trouble. Now that I live in a less populated area, it's more likely someone is hunting or fooling around with target practice as it is something I should be concerned about.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

Or maybe it translates to:

"Now that I'm an in an area that is neither infested with young men in gangs or not attractive to young nutballs with death wishes, I don't have to worry about it."

[Simple Minded]

or both!

Maybe even now I live somewhere where people look each other in the eye, don't judge them by skin tone, consider personal opinions to be just that, and hold doors for strangers even if they are 6 paces behind them.

Great to have options when it comes to culture.

[noddy]

i dislike people holding doors open for me, makes me feel like i need to move at their pace.

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

The expected cut-time shuffle with the holding of a door can get awkward.

But so can the approach where you get caught at a pace where you are not going fast enough to catch the door but are still too close not to meet a closing door. Then the movement and pacing gets all wonky.

[Simple Minded]

i dislike people holding doors open for me, makes me feel like i need to move at their pace.

not to mention the obvious virtue signaling that "I view you as a fellow human being worthy of me being courteous!"

Even worse is the obvious plot to make the other feel inferior by saying "Thank you!"

Oppresors are everywhere!

A nice, punishing touch would be to video the person you are waiting for while you hold the door.......... is a triple micro-aggression considered a macro-aggression or an actual Hate Crime?

[Simple Minded]

"When I lived outside Washington DC when I heard a gun going off I always thought to call the police. Now that I have moved to West Virginia when I hear guns going off I think "That sounds like freedom to me"" Cassandra Fairbanks 3/29/2021 Timcast IRL

A few weeks back, a whiner I used to work with expressed his dismay that people in a couple adjacent formed militias and the Board of Supervisors in both counties said "Yeah sure! Why not? Go ahead!"

My reply to the whiner was "So what?" He couldn't understand my obvious hatred of his paranoid mentality.

Mentioning this conversation to a friend who is a Sheriff, the Sheriff replied "It's called Freedom!"

[NapLajoieonSteroids]

"When I lived outside Washington DC when I heard a gun going off I always thought to call the police. Now that I have moved to West Virginia when I hear guns going off I think "That sounds like freedom to me"" Cassandra Fairbanks 3/29/2021 Timcast IRL

A few weeks back, a whiner I used to work with expressed his dismay that people in a couple adjacent formed militias and the Board of Supervisors in both counties said "Yeah sure! Why not? Go ahead!"

My reply to the whiner was "So what?" He couldn't understand my obvious hatred of his paranoid mentality.

Mentioning this conversation to a friend who is a Sheriff, the Sheriff replied "It's called Freedom!"

How much of it is discomfort in people forming social groups?

[noddy]

i dislike people holding doors open for me, makes me feel like i need to move at their pace.

not to mention the obvious virtue signaling that "I view you as a fellow human being worthy of me being courteous!"

Even worse is the obvious plot to make the other feel inferior by saying "Thank you!"

Oppresors are everywhere!

A nice, punishing touch would be to video the person you are waiting for while you hold the door.......... is a triple micro-aggression considered a macro-aggression or an actual Hate Crime?

I dash ahead of women and hold the door closed from the other side so they have to fight me for it. This way she knows she defeated the patriarchy fair and square to open her own door.

[noddy]

"When I lived outside Washington DC when I heard a gun going off I always thought to call the police. Now that I have moved to West Virginia when I hear guns going off I think "That sounds like freedom to me"" Cassandra Fairbanks 3/29/2021 Timcast IRL

A few weeks back, a whiner I used to work with expressed his dismay that people in a couple adjacent formed militias and the Board of Supervisors in both counties said "Yeah sure! Why not? Go ahead!"

My reply to the whiner was "So what?" He couldn't understand my obvious hatred of his paranoid mentality.

Mentioning this conversation to a friend who is a Sheriff, the Sheriff replied "It's called Freedom!"

How much of it is discomfort in people forming social groups?

lots i suspect.

[Doc]

i dislike people holding doors open for me, makes me feel like i need to move at their pace.

Since 911 it has become a thing in the US to hold the door for the next person coming through. It almost always happens At least around here.

[Doc]

https://www.minds.com/samunger/blog/wag ... 4960570368

Waging Guerilla Warfare Against Big Tech

[Miss_Faucie_Fishtits]

just to remind you that gun culture isn't necessarily a red neck, red state rural American phenomenon.....

Inside the Deep Gun Culture of Gwalior, India
Relics of outlaws, markers of status, and enforcers of social hierarchy, firearms are woven into rural life.

“Every villager has a Scorpio [a locally made 7-seater SUV], a buffalo, and a gun. They will use their Scorpio to tie their buffalo, and they’ll guard both with their gun,” says Gwalior resident Bahadur Khushwa, jokingly. More than 60 percent of gun owners in the region are rural farmers. They usually cite security concerns for gun ownership, but when probed further, most admit that guns are status symbols in a rural society where the power of a household is measured by its firepower.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/g ... in-gwalior

[Simple Minded]

just to remind you that gun culture isn't necessarily a red neck, red state rural American phenomenon.....

Inside the Deep Gun Culture of Gwalior, India
Relics of outlaws, markers of status, and enforcers of social hierarchy, firearms are woven into rural life.

“Every villager has a Scorpio [a locally made 7-seater SUV], a buffalo, and a gun. They will use their Scorpio to tie their buffalo, and they’ll guard both with their gun,” says Gwalior resident Bahadur Khushwa, jokingly. More than 60 percent of gun owners in the region are rural farmers. They usually cite security concerns for gun ownership, but when probed further, most admit that guns are status symbols in a rural society where the power of a household is measured by its firepower.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/g ... in-gwalior

Good people. Very similar to America, the elite classes are trying to keep the untouchables from being able to defend themselves....

[noddy]

i think you will find all of northern india and the surrounding 'stan countries are chock full of deplorables with guns.

they have been doing that since forever.