And that’s an overwhelmingly good thing. The nut jobs and extremists are looking for an excuse to start shit but (as you correctly stated) lack the resolve to finish shit. They want to do a little political violence to feel enfranchised and like they have some control, but they’re not ready to give up everything for a cause. This makes them particularly dangerous.

The real bulwark against government fuckery is the people you don’t hear about: normal folks who happen to have guns. It would take actual, serious grievances against large swathes of the population to make them do something. Because that much larger (and more ideologically diverse) cohort isn’t champing at the but for a fight they haven’t lied to themselves about being able to maintain a normal life and therefore wouldn’t start one lightly. That’s pretty boring, so you only hear about the weirdos.

No, only in elementary schools.

What they’re getting confused about is that a lot of architecture firms that design prisons also design high schools because - shockingly - both of those institutions are designed around moving large numbers of people to different areas throughout the day.

My high school was designed by one of those firms and it wasn’t weird. You could see it in the little details, though. There were exactly two places in any of the hallways where you couldn’t see a clock, so nobody could say they ran late because they didn’t know what time it was. The architects just decided where they would place cameras in a prison and swapped them out for digital clocks.

Sure, but I’d rather have it relocated to a landfill where it’ll be kept out of the water supply and will eventually get covered with dirt and turned into a park or forest preserve.

Landfills aren’t just a hole in the ground people throw shit into. They’re complex, managed systems that efficiently store garbage and keep it sequestered while it breaks down over long periods of time.

No, fuck that! We spent twenty years nation building there and the first time they needed to stand up on their own the ANA folded up and ran.

They weren’t willing to do the bare minimum to avoid Taliban rule. It’s not our fault they were too stupid to see the consequences when they rolled over and let the fucking cavemen take over.

Standing at attention is supposed to keep you a little off balance - not that much, but a little. Some people lock their knees when they stand, which will ultimately make you faint. Standing “gut in, chest out” makes you to lean forward slightly, forcing your knees unlock.

Because these guys are ceremonial guards they crank the whole thing up to eleven and it tends to look ridiculous at times.

The position of attention is usually heels together, gut in, chest out, etc.

The raised chin is kind of old fashioned and only used for ceremonial purposes by some countries. Russia is one of those countries.

That being said, dude on the left looks like he put a little meth in his cereal that morning.

What a relief! For a minute there I thought there was going to be a post where someone didn’t drag politics into it.

/s

Perhaps the Pope should decree that drones can’t be used to fight Christians.

I mean, it didn’t really work for crossbows but you never know.

Get the (werewolf in) London look.

Also speaks to their average reading comprehension and ability to follow basic instructions.

ITT: I’m not a part of the two generations you specifically asked for, but here’s my life story anyway.

Hot on the heels of this one, I’d imagine.

I was told that ooh heaven is a place on Earth.

Patents expire. In the long run your inventions would be used for evil.

Holy shit, is that the guy from the ice cream episode of Modern Marvels?

Doomerism. Not even once.

That’s a funny way to spell “watch dipshits take a joke seriously”.

Why not? Because this is a shitpost community.

Inb4 people start taking a Lemmy shitpost seriously and argue with it.

Good luck and Godspeed.