You can’t get more Asheville than a random guy standing on a street corner on a Saturday afternoon holding a “Scott Bessent — Yield Curve Control Will Never Work You Gay Pedo” sign.
That year, opium production rose to a staggering 6,400 tons. A record 210,000 hectares were under opium poppy cultivation and Afghanistan supplied 95% of the world's heroin. In the US, the number of heroin users for the first time hit 1M, with 10,000 fatal heroin overdoses.
Gun Culture 3.0 has such a beautifully complicated relationship with photos like this.
First everyone stares at the gear. Then someone reminds you, “Gear doesn’t matter, training matters.” Then everyone immediately asks what plate carrier, rifle, optic and NODs they’re using.
The gear companies themselves will post about resisting government tyranny while their marketing proudly announces that they sell directly to government agencies. The customer who bought the kit to defend himself from the government will then explain that he chose it specifically because the government uses it. Ideally it also needs Berry compliance, an NSN, or some other government stamp of approval before he trusts it for his hypothetical fight against said government. Hilariously enough this type of person usually also works for them as well.
And police occupy an equally bizarre position in the culture. Militarized police are jackbooted thugs preparing to confiscate your guns, right up until there’s a shooting and police don’t immediately assault the building, at which point they’re useless pussies restrained by liberal politicians.
Then we return to “training matters,” which usually means buying the exact equipment worn by the people we’re simultaneously idolizing, criticizing, preparing to fight, demanding protect us, and accusing of being over-equipped.
Very strange
“they hold bible studies, offer raw milk, love fast cars + have a cigar lounge”
SHUT DOWN THE REACTOR, THE LARP READINGS ARE TOO HIGH, ITS GOING TO GO SUPERCRITICAL
actually most americans aren’t gonna realize this at all. they’re gonna hear it and go “huh” and go back to watching trash tv or scrolling racist instagram reels, never to think of it again
"here's an AI generated slopaganda picture of a US soldier about to be slimed the fuck out by a Jihadist alien samurai, give us one point five trillion dollars"
A fresh CENTCOM video appears to show a U.S. strike hitting what looks like empty aerial-bomb casings or similar scrap.
Analysts geolocated the impact site to the military section of Bushehr airport in Iran.
Satellite imagery shows the empty casings have been sitting in that exact spot for about 15 years.
Source: @zarGEOINT
The idea that the US did it on purpose to kill the kids of IRGC soldiers would be less conspiratorial if Pete Hegseth and all his top guys hadn't made literally their entire careers on arguing that war crimes are cool and there should be no limits at all on American violence.