An additional benefit is the bulletproof glass, in case the IDF mistakes it for an ambulance.

Why do I hear so much bitching about wokeness from the silent ones? If they want to call themselves the silent ones they should shut the fuck up. I might be interested if they had anything to say beyond the vague 'we're getting behind' and 'everything is confusing' which gives old-man-yells-at-cloud energy.

Your criticism is just sour grapes

Just today I was listening to Peter F. Hamilton's "Exodus: The Archimedes Engine" and the mention of attack dogs with diamond-tipped teeth sounded a little wacky for sci-fi. Sometimes life can be stranger than fiction.

This is more of a general answer as fascism seems to be gaining more ground globally. A book published in 1997 "The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy" theorized roughly every 80 years (or about a human life span) we face a crisis related to a critical mass of people losing the knowledge and shared values from the previous generations. Imagine the perspective of a Revolutionary War veteran who fought under General Washington to help forge the United States, who would be understandably upset to hear any mention of a Civil War between states, which didn't start until 82 years later.

We are losing that collective memory now both in the U.S. and abroad; the remaining World War II veterans are in no position to punch these fascists when they see a swastika flown at a rally. Unless we vote in numbers large enough to throw the MAGA movement into the dustbin of history, in the future we can expect younger Trump acolytes to take root in the same vacuum of thought.

From a recent article

”With these words Biden addressed the bitter irony that haunted the commemoration ceremonies. While D-Day occurred eight decades ago, America is now just five months from an election that could bring to power a man and a movement who embody and celebrate the twisted authoritarian values of the enemies we sought to defeat so long ago. Fascism has not gone away. The tactics of the Nazis to employ racism and demagoguery to divide society and enable their seizure of power and their gutting of democratic institutions currently are the playbook of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.”

You have to take them off, if you want to sit backwards and rest your phone on the tank

Which of these are used to make printer ink?

With a PA message that there is a free meal in the aisle for whoever wants it