Carmakazi

I get this is a pitch for forced veganism, but this is basically only a few degrees off of "if we let a bunch of humans die we would solve the climate crisis."

Pest blights can wipe out entire harvests, not just a clean, manageable percentage of yields. People would go hungry and die. Our current population levels depend on pesticides and fertilizers in industrial quantities, and that surplus of food you mention would quickly deplete without them.

Vaccines will get the most attention...but even though our use of pesticides is damaging to say the least, I'm pretty sure our agricultural base would collapse without them.

I don't want politics to be a 4chan-esque game of trolling. "Orange man bad" "lolcow" Are you even old enough to vote?

While blaming cops is an attractive conclusion, I wouldn't straight away give SIG the benefit of the doubt when they are basically saying "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing." They have been very cagey about the whole affair from the beginning, which should be expected from a corporation on the brink of being liable of a catastrophic fuckup.

Not only have they have sold hundreds of thousands if not millions of these pistols to the public, it has been adopted as the service pistol of every US military branch. If they lose a suit and are forced to start a recall, it could very possibly sink them as a company.

This is a foot in the door for using the mechanisms of criminal psychiatry to brutalize opposition, not a joke.

In what country is fucking de-mining "community service?"

I'm no fan of 2A at this point but I will say opinions on this are more mixed among gun owners than you might think. A lot of people fucking dragged the NRA for not backing gun owners murdered by cops like Castile.

Lack of positive structure and nihilism

There is no maybe about it. That's the only recourse we have when the system actively works against the people on matters of violence.

Shield its population from foreign influence

Yeah, they would know the damage that could cause wouldn't they?

If you're willing to forego both the law and basic ethics because he's a traitor, again, you should just be happy with the extrajudicial kill squad.

At least in the case of POWs, forcing captives to do life-threatening work is a specifically defined warcrime. De-mining is Example A for this.