you are so correct. We call them useful idiots...sometimes I wonder whether it should be useless idiots, but then I remember all the damage they have done to our society. And worse yet, the damage they will do if they ever get back in power. Ugh!
I think the current hysteria over 3D printed "ghost guns" is rooted in this fear of America - not American government or military might - but the power of the American can-do spirit. Early home 3D printing meant $500 for a box of parts, and the main source of help was other guys working on their printers, some with previous CNC experience. People freely post designs that others are encouraged to improve upon (see the history of 3D hook-and-loop fasteners - velcro- for an example). Many created You Tube channels to share their experience and other useful information. This community has been building for years.
If the fear was really about unlicensed home manufactured guns, why ignore people with metal-working shops? I think it's the fear of the community and the community being built around cooperative and inventive activity. It's also another way to diminish the regular guy/gal You Tube community building capability. You Tube has been trying to crush this for years, trying to be Netflix (Remember You Tube Red?), trying to be Tik Tok (You Tube shorts) and the adpocalypses - telling advertisers that their products are appearing near politically questionable (too conservative) content, starving many creators and hurting YT's bottom line.
My husband & I did a thought experiment of a criminal trying to 3D print a gun. Criminal experiences typical frustrations of 3D printing: filament jams, clogged nozzles, stringing, layer breaks - remember criminals aren't known for their patience. Then they'd still have to acquire metal parts and create a functional print, which might fire one bullet. (It's fun to imagine the gun painfully melting on the criminal's hand).
The fear you speak of and the Marxist ideology adopted by the lunatic hippies of the left has weakened to country almost to the point of no return. Born in 1957 and raised through the march of Marxist propaganda and ideology I can see it clearly. The break down of the Vietnam fear factor as the lead in government makes perfect sense. You nailed it.
Thank you, the march of Liberalism thru the American Psyche has been pretty well overwhelming. I have felt for years now that if the Dems were still in charge now...well, we would be truly screwed. I worry about what happens after Trump leaves office.
They would rather die than give up power. They were in power through all the republican presidents, because they control the narrative through the propaganda media machine. And the masses just don’t get it.
See now, you should have told me that before I published the piece! LOL
The Question is, are there enough intelligent people left in America to see the difference between this war and how it's being fought and everything else we've seen since WW2?
Since I'm a firm believer in "hope is just a strategy," I do have my doubts. What do you think Laura?
Hitler would never have started WWII if England had stood firmly against him. Instead, England made all the excuses about Hitler that progressives are now making about Iran.
Interesting coincidences? Remember, Hitler was also a progressive. And Iran also hates Jews and Israel. No, not coincidences. It's all the same people now as they were then.
sadly you are correct....people are still the same as we were back when we were cavemen. The world would be a better place if our leaders knew that and based policy and actions on that one little fact.
The progressives became the useful idiots of the Chinese and Soviets in 1968, and have been ever since. A much simpler explanation.
you are so correct. We call them useful idiots...sometimes I wonder whether it should be useless idiots, but then I remember all the damage they have done to our society. And worse yet, the damage they will do if they ever get back in power. Ugh!
The idiots are useful to those who control them.
True that...
I think the current hysteria over 3D printed "ghost guns" is rooted in this fear of America - not American government or military might - but the power of the American can-do spirit. Early home 3D printing meant $500 for a box of parts, and the main source of help was other guys working on their printers, some with previous CNC experience. People freely post designs that others are encouraged to improve upon (see the history of 3D hook-and-loop fasteners - velcro- for an example). Many created You Tube channels to share their experience and other useful information. This community has been building for years.
If the fear was really about unlicensed home manufactured guns, why ignore people with metal-working shops? I think it's the fear of the community and the community being built around cooperative and inventive activity. It's also another way to diminish the regular guy/gal You Tube community building capability. You Tube has been trying to crush this for years, trying to be Netflix (Remember You Tube Red?), trying to be Tik Tok (You Tube shorts) and the adpocalypses - telling advertisers that their products are appearing near politically questionable (too conservative) content, starving many creators and hurting YT's bottom line.
My husband & I did a thought experiment of a criminal trying to 3D print a gun. Criminal experiences typical frustrations of 3D printing: filament jams, clogged nozzles, stringing, layer breaks - remember criminals aren't known for their patience. Then they'd still have to acquire metal parts and create a functional print, which might fire one bullet. (It's fun to imagine the gun painfully melting on the criminal's hand).
The fear you speak of and the Marxist ideology adopted by the lunatic hippies of the left has weakened to country almost to the point of no return. Born in 1957 and raised through the march of Marxist propaganda and ideology I can see it clearly. The break down of the Vietnam fear factor as the lead in government makes perfect sense. You nailed it.
Thank you, the march of Liberalism thru the American Psyche has been pretty well overwhelming. I have felt for years now that if the Dems were still in charge now...well, we would be truly screwed. I worry about what happens after Trump leaves office.
They would rather die than give up power. They were in power through all the republican presidents, because they control the narrative through the propaganda media machine. And the masses just don’t get it.
I would add that it hardened the anti-intervention wing inside the GOP as well.
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"And Iraq became the political scar tissue that hardened the anti intervention instinct inside the Democratic Party".
See now, you should have told me that before I published the piece! LOL
The Question is, are there enough intelligent people left in America to see the difference between this war and how it's being fought and everything else we've seen since WW2?
Since I'm a firm believer in "hope is just a strategy," I do have my doubts. What do you think Laura?
Hitler would never have started WWII if England had stood firmly against him. Instead, England made all the excuses about Hitler that progressives are now making about Iran.
Interesting coincidences? Remember, Hitler was also a progressive. And Iran also hates Jews and Israel. No, not coincidences. It's all the same people now as they were then.
sadly you are correct....people are still the same as we were back when we were cavemen. The world would be a better place if our leaders knew that and based policy and actions on that one little fact.