As an American, seconded.

I'm trapped here, don't YOU risk being kidnapped and trapped here or sent somewhere worse just because you wanted to see the Grand Canyon.

Personally, I think suppressor should be the least of illegal things about firearms.

The majority of the people I know with one have it so they don't bother their neighbors as much and they have a little extra buffer zone for their earpro.

I'd much rather it sound like my neighbor is using a large sledgehammer all day than gunshots.

The masks, lack of clear identification (not "I'm a cop" but actual identifying information), and what looks like 270 rounds of ammo waiting to go for a supposed ~~kidnapping~~ deportation are of FAR greater concern.

Toss a rock at a shitty car? Terrorist

Shoot a thief that stole part of your life by denying you Healthcare? Terrorist

Plot and carry out a plan to kill people due to their political beliefs during a time you know you could have reason to be around them and use shady online services to help plan things in order to coerce political change?

.......... checks every possible definition to find a loophole

Not terrorism? poker face

10/10 government we have, just the best people, I'm super duper thrilled to be trapped in this shit hole country

In those days, in those distant days, in those nights, in those remote nights, in those years, in those distant years; in days of yore...

They really wanted to drive home just how old the tale is...

My brother in law, without skipping a beat: "obviously he meant Micronesia"

My reply, apparently not enough to get a response: "So you're okay with a president who's so cognitively vacant he can't tell the difference between two very different sounding words?"

I can actually picture someone making this argument in earnest.

He's something of a messiah, himself.

Ah yes, that pursuit and sharing of knowledge known as "paying a shitload of money for the privilege of making a company that ultimately provides nothing of value some extra cash"

I didn't know ml is cool with ultracapitalism as long as it's under the veneer of knawlege.

If it weren't so sad, it would be almost funny.

So many people are waking up to the fact that... Most people are functionally illiterate children with no understanding of the world they live in.

The easiest way I have to explain it:

You use your phone every day. You know how to use it, menus in and out, all the different programs and their uses. But if I were to pop open the cover and take one single piece out, you would never know, and you would never be able to use it again. Without someone else, you have absolutely no clue how to go about fixing it. You can push it's buttons all day, but when it comes down to how it functions at the basic levels, you are clueless.

So am I, by the way. I don't have any reason to know how to build or program a phone. Or computer. I can push their buttons all day though! Even hidden buttons. But if everyone else on the planet disappeared tonight, I would effectively be living in the 1500s, as that's about where my technical understanding of things ends. (scavenging for replacement electronics notwithstanding, once something electronic breaks, it's gone since I can't exactly run a semiconductor factory by myself, or the mines to get the materials)

My point is, most people only know how to "push the buttons" of the world. They have very surface-level understandingsof it. But when it comes down to it, they don't understand how the internals actually function.

Sorry if this rambled a bit, I hit the bowl as soon as I got home from work.

I'm not a monkey that dances for coins, if you want to see art go to a museum.

I may have some lasting issues stemming from uncomfortable situations like this that have made me no longer care if people are put off by my reaction when I'm put on the spot. You want to see it? Ask me privately, and I'll show you one on one if you actually care.

No, I'm not bitter about things from my childhood, why do you ask...

"Yay, I get to legally murder someone today! This'll shut up my hippy liberal relatives" -Metz, shortly before pulling up to the teen's car

"problem with authority" is just What authorities say when what they mean is "constantly questions our reasons and doesn't just immediately do what we SAY exactly as we MEAN it like a ~~good little puppet~~ beloved citizen"