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  • Learning first aid isn’t a “sexy” part of this stuff but is so necessary. Learning how to use a tourniquet could save someone’s life.

    Then cleaning a gun, oiling it, fixing a jam without pointing a loaded weapon at everyone around you.

    I took a couple comrades shooting and it was one of the most stressful days of the year. The amount of times I’ve had to run over and point the gun down range before they turned around with a loaded weapon, finger on the trigger, to ask a question was way too much for me to handle. I even had another friend come with me to help them get acquainted to shooting and it was still a lot of work making sure people didn’t injure themselves or put lives in danger.

    Even loading the gun takes work. Putting bullets inside of the magazines is hard work if you’re not used to it, then cocking the gun back to fire without pointing it at your own feet? Getting upper body strength is also majorly important when handling a gun.














  • You know, I was going to disagree with you because of the consistent cuts to public education funding, but I could also see a reality where the lack of government-provided propaganda in classrooms could significantly reduce the Red Scare influence in the youth.

    When I was a kid I was told communism was bad, learning about it in school we were taught the red scare was bad because they became witch trials, not because of any of the other rational reasons.

    It still holds today though, the first time a friend of mine told me he was a communist I laughed at him, it seemed so absurd to hear at the time. Then a month ago I told a new friend of mine I was a communist and he also gave the same reaction. It’s interesting to see how a few conversations can open you up to an entirely different ideology. Before I was introduced to communism, it felt taboo. I thought it was a cult of ideology from a not-so-distant past, ending with the USSR as an example on how it would never work.


  • I agree. Older generations were fooled by the propaganda because they had it “good” (in some ways, not all). When it comes to labor rights and wages, those benefits were handed down from communists and socialists who fought for them after the great depression.

    After they benefited from the high quality of life these concessions gave, they received enough propaganda to pick away at the benefits they received, since they didn’t need them anymore!

    And no, I’m not saying America was ever “good”, either. Settlers has a good example early on in the book about this. Early in US history, they massacred native populations and plundered their homes for animal furs. Colonizers don’t care about harming others as long as they feel they receive proper compensation from the exploitation at home or abroad. I believe these same colonialist views still have a chokehold around the US population, but the same criticisms also apply to most of Europe as well.