None of these folks are capable of manufacturing modern nitrocellulose gun powder or primer caps necessary to reload their fancy rifles and handguns.

This gave me a thought, would having equipment for ammonia and other chemicals (for fertiliser as well as explosives) be useful for preppers?

That can be delayed for a long time by stockpiling spare parts.

As well as spreading and planting seeds, clearing competing plants, and providing water and nutrients.

Chickens are the most numerous bird on the planet, wheat covers more land area than any other plant.

They’re also saying it’s a limited-stock item with only 150 ever made. Sure, buddy.

Sell 150 each of 100 very slightly different designs, claim they’re all limited edition.

(Or, this being Trump, just outright lie and call it political interference when someone points it out)

I evolutionary terms being edible to humans is quite useful.

Couldn’t find it

Relevant smbc

Is there any country that doesn’t suck?

AES?

Edit: Found it, “Actually existing socialism”

A grad is being sent to your location

I’m not sure how you plan to do that in a way that can’t be defeated by an angle grinder.

It’s been well reported on that Russia doesn’t work like that, with junior officers unable to use initiative and the whole system being very slow to respond to changing events. The reason it operates like this was shown when they did try having a more independent unit, which resulted in the Wagner Group mutinying.

That’s standard in Western militaries. It means units aren’t paralyzed by unexpected circumstances while they wait for communication to go up and down the chain of command, and it improves resilience if communications or senior officers are incapacitated.

The classic “Buy a reputable brand, cut costs and coast along on the reputation until you can sell off all your shares and move on to another company”. Bonus points for using legalised embezzlement share buyback.

More often dictators take control of the church and use it for propaganda.

Nah he’ll declare that the United States has become a fascist dictatorship and probably spout some lies about election rigging.

Remember when Twitter (pre-Musk) said it couldn’t ban Nazis because it would hit Republican politicians?

People talk a lot about the genericisation of brand names, but the branding of generic terms like this really annoys me.

I’ll use the example I first noticed. A few years ago, the Conservative government was under criticism for the minimum wage being well under a living wage. In response, they brought in the National Living Wage, which was an increase to the minimum wage, but still under the actual living wage. However, because of the branding, it makes criticising it for not meeting the actual living wage more difficult, as you have to explain the difference between the two, and as the saying goes, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing”.

I can’t wrap my head around how people can ignore all those red flags

They use threats and urgency to pressure people into paying faster that they realise it’s a scam.